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|Headline=Early Use of the Term "Town Ball" in <i>NY Clipper</i>
|Headline=Early Use of the Term "Town Ball" in <i>NY Clipper</i>
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Newspaper Coverage,
|Location=Pennsylvania,
|Country=USA
|State=PA
|City=Germantown
|Game=Town Ball
|Game=Town Ball
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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Early Use of the Term "Town Ball" in NY Clipper

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Newspaper Coverage
Location Pennsylvania
City/State/Country: Germantown, PA, USA
Game Town Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

The article reported a "Game of Town Ball" in Germantown PA.

 

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New YorkClipper, September 19, 1857. 

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Information posted by David Block to 19CBB 11/1/2002. David writes that this is the earliest "town ball" game account he knows of.

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