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Harvard Man George Hoar Writes of Playing "Simple Game We Called Base"

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Tags	College, Harvard CollegeCollege, Harvard College
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City/State/Country:	Cambridge, MA, United States
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Game	CricketCricket
Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
Age of Players	YouthYouth
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Text	George F. Hoar, a student at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, writes: "The only game which was much in vogue was foot-ball. There was a little attempt to start the English game of cricket and occasionally, in the spring, an old-fashioned simple game which we called base was played."
Sources	Hoar, George F. Autobiography of Seventy Years [Pubr?, 1903], page 120. Per Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809.
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