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|Headline=MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood
|Year=1820
|Year=1820
|Year Suffix=s
|Year Suffix=s
|Year Number=22
|Headline=MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Game=Base Ball
|Country= United States
|Text=<p>"In my early boyhood I was permitted to run at large in the [Williamstown MA] street and over broad acres, playing 'one old cat,' and base ball (no scientific games or balls as hard as a white oak boulder in those days) excepted when pressed into service to ride the horse to plough out the corn and potatoes." </p>
|Coordinates=42.4072107, -71.3824374
<p>Keyes Danforth, <u>Boyhood Reminiscences: Pictures of New England in the Olden Times in Williamstown</u> (Gazlay Brothers, New York, 1895), page 12. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. The book was accessed 11/16/2008 via Google Books search "'pictures of new.'" Danforth, born in 1822, became a judge. Williamstown MA is in the NW corner of the commonwealth, and lies about 35 miles E of Albany NY.</p>
|State=MA
|City=Williamstown
|Game=Base Ball, One Old Cat
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
|Text=<p>"In my early boyhood I was permitted to run at large in the [Williamstown MA] street and over broad acres, playing 'one old cat,' and base ball (no scientific games or balls as hard as a white oak boulder in those days) excepted when pressed into service to ride the horse to plough out the corn and potatoes."</p>
<p>-- Keyes Danforth</p>
|Sources=<p>Keyes Danforth,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Boyhood Reminiscences: Pictures of New England in the Olden Times in Williamstown</span>&nbsp;(Gazlay Brothers, New York, 1895), page 12. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. The book was accessed 11/16/2008 via Google Books search &lt;pictures of new&gt;."&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>Danforth, born in 1822, became a judge. Williamstown MA is in the NW corner of the commonwealth, and lies about 35 miles E of Albany NY.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=22
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood

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City/State/Country: Williamstown, MA, United States
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"In my early boyhood I was permitted to run at large in the [Williamstown MA] street and over broad acres, playing 'one old cat,' and base ball (no scientific games or balls as hard as a white oak boulder in those days) excepted when pressed into service to ride the horse to plough out the corn and potatoes."

-- Keyes Danforth

Sources

Keyes Danforth, Boyhood Reminiscences: Pictures of New England in the Olden Times in Williamstown (Gazlay Brothers, New York, 1895), page 12. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. The book was accessed 11/16/2008 via Google Books search <pictures of new>." 

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Danforth, born in 1822, became a judge. Williamstown MA is in the NW corner of the commonwealth, and lies about 35 miles E of Albany NY.

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