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|Headline=First New England Team, the Boston Olympics, Forms to Play Massachusetts Game
|Headline=First New England Team, the Boston Olympics, Forms to Play Massachusetts Game
|Year=1854
|Year=1854
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|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>
<p>Seymour, Harold, <u>Baseball: the Early Years</u> [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.  There is also similar treatment in Lovett, <u>Old Boston Boys</u>, p. 129.</p>
<p>Seymour, Harold, <u>Baseball: the Early Years</u> [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.  There is also similar treatment in Lovett, <u>Old Boston Boys</u>, p. 129.</p>
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"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."

Seymour, Harold, Baseball: the Early Years [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. There is also similar treatment in Lovett, Old Boston Boys, p. 129.

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