In Charlestown in 1836

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Date of Game 1838
Location Charlestown, MA, United States
Field  Add Field Page McLean Asylum
NY Rules Unknown
Description

The Auburn NY Journal and Advertiser, Jan. 17, 1838 prints a letter from a traveler to Boston, who says that at the McLean Asylum in Charlestown, "the males are engaged in playing at bowls, quoits, base ball, ..."

This asylum for the insane was well known.

Sources

The Auburn NY Journal and Advertiser, Jan. 17, 1838

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Found by Bruce Allardice
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