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|Title=Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played |Place Published=Boston

|Title=Fast Day: Boston's Original Opening Day |Country=US

|Location=Lexington, MA |Regional Focus=Boston, MA; Syracuse, NY

|State=MA |Description=<p>The <em>Boston Journal</em>, April 18, 1867: headline "Roxbury Base Ball." Announces the a

|State=MA |Description=<p>The&nbsp;<em>Boston Journal</em>, June 12, 1867: "Dorchester. Base Ball. A match game of base b

|State=MA |Description=<p>The Boston Daily Advertiser, July 28, 1866, reports on a game in Worcester July 27th b

|State=MA ...860 pop. about 18,000 -- 51st largest US city then) is about 25 miles N of Boston and near the NH state line.

|Headline=Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast" |State=MA

|State=MA |Description=<p>The Boston Journal Sept. 19, 1867, mentions the Metacomet BBC of Taunton playing the A

...city then) is about 120 miles NE of Portland ME and 220 miles NE of Boston MA.

|State=MA |Description=<p>The Boston Post Sept. 19, 1867 mentions the Hawkswood BBC of Newburyport playing the I

|State=MA |City=Boston

|State=MA, PA |City=Boston, Philadelphia

|Location=MA, |State=MA

|Game Regions=US ...lemental Text, below. &nbsp;It was written by Joanne Hulbert, who runs the Boston SABR Chaptre.&nbsp;</p>

|State=MA ..., due to lack of local interest. Gloucester is a fishing town northeast of Boston. I can only speculate that baseball interest was minimal here since most of

...s north of Boston and near the NH border. A serious recession gripped the US economy in 1837.</p>

|State=MA |City=Stoneham, Boston

...e=Oliver Wendell Holmes Recalls Schoolboy Baseball and Phillips Academy in MA |State=MA

|State=MA ...tions of John Murray Forbes, Sara Forbes Hughes, editor [Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1899], vol. 1, page 43. Shattuck is quoted in Edward M. Hartwell, Physical