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|Year=1854 | |Year=1854 | ||
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|Headline=First New England Team, the | |Headline=First New England Team, the Olympics, Forms to Play Massachusetts Game | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Country=US | |||
|State=MA | |||
|City=Boston | |||
|Game=Massachusetts Game, | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>"The first regularly organized team in New England was the Boston Olympics of 1854. The Elm Trees followed in 1855 and the Green Mountains two years later."</p> | |Text=<p>"The first regularly organized team in New England was the Boston Olympics of 1854. The Elm Trees followed in 1855 and the Green Mountains two years later."</p> | ||
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|Sources=<p>Seymour, Harold, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball: the Early Years</span> [Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 27. [No ref given.] It seems plausible, given similarity of phrasing, that this comes from George Wright's November 1904 review of baseball history. See#[[1854.3]] below.</p> | |Sources=<p>Seymour, Harold, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball: the Early Years</span> [Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 27. [No ref given.]</p> | ||
<p>It seems plausible, given similarity of phrasing, that this finding comes from George Wright's November 1904 review of baseball history. See#[[1854.3]] below.</p> | |||
<p>There is also similar treatment in Lovett, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Old Boston Boys</span>, (Riverside Press, 1907), page 129.</p> | <p>There is also similar treatment in Lovett, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Old Boston Boys</span>, (Riverside Press, 1907), page 129.</p> | ||
|Query=<p>Is there any indication, or educated guess, as to what rules the Olympics uses in 1854?</p> | |Query=<p>Is there any detailed indication, or educated guess, as to what rules the Olympics uses in 1854?</p> | ||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | "The first regularly organized team in New England was the Boston Olympics of 1854. The Elm Trees followed in 1855 and the Green Mountains two years later."
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| Sources | Seymour, Harold, Baseball: the Early Years [Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 27. [No ref given.] It seems plausible, given similarity of phrasing, that this finding comes from George Wright's November 1904 review of baseball history. See#1854.3 below. There is also similar treatment in Lovett, Old Boston Boys, (Riverside Press, 1907), page 129. |
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