In West Newton

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Date of Game 1840s
Game Town Ball, Three Cornered Cat
Location West Newton, PA, United States
Has Source On Hand No
NY Rules No - Predecessor
Description Henry Wallace (b 1836) recalled that when growing up in West Newton Township, Westmoreland County, PA in the 1840s, "we played town-ball, baseball and three-cornered cat."
Sources Wallace "Uncle Henry's Own Story of His Life" (1917)
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Henry Wallace was the famed editor of a Farmer's Journal.

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