In Stockbridge in 1821

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Date of Game 1821
Game Drive Ball
Location Stockbridge, MA, United States
Has Source On Hand No
NY Rules No - Predecessor
Description From Saratoga, at the age of twelve, I was transferred to a school at Stockbridge, Mass., under the direction of a very capable 
instructor, Mr. Jared Curtis, or, as he was always called, Major Curtis. In what service he had won his military rank I never knew. 
In this school the scholastic influences were, I think, less potent with me than at Saratoga; but those which proceeded from contact 
with “the other fellows” were exceedingly energetic. We certainly found a great deal of time for out-door sports, and this was divided 
between base-ball, driveball, one, two, and three hole-cat, hop-scotch, and marbles.
Sources F. A. P. Barnard, "How I was Educated," The Forum (1886) p. 223
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