1854.2

First New England Team, the Olympics, Forms to Play Round Ball

Salience	Noteworthy
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Location	New EnglandNew England
City/State/Country:	Boston, MA, US
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Game	Round BallRound Ball
Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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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."
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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