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|Year=1863
|Year=1863
|Headline=Officers Play Base Ball on Some Parade Ground, Somewhere
|Year Number=2
|Text=<p>“Lieutenant Charles P. Klein documented an engagement between officers on January 10, 1863: ‘Saturday afternoon is allotted the men for necessary washing and cleansing, at which time the commissioned officers of the regiment indulge in a game of base ball on the parade ground.’ The score was 32-14 ‘up to the fifth innings, other duty then interfering.’”</p><p>Allison Barash, “Base Ball in the Civil War, <u>National Pastime</u>, January 2001, pp 18. Barash gives no citation for this item. A Lieut. Charles P. Klein, of Rochester NY, served in the 140<sup>th</sup> NY regiment, and died at Gettysburg in July 1863. <b>Note:</b> Can we locate this source? </p>
|Headline=New Marlboro Match Base Ball Co. Goes Hybrid
|Salience=3
|Salience=3
|Tags=Civil War
|Tags=Interscholastic
|External Number=35
|Location=Massachusetts,
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=42.1111825, -73.2529464
|State=MA
|City=New Marlborough
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Youth
|Text=<p>Apparently not liking either the New York Rules or Massachusetts Game Rules, the two formal sets available to them, the boys of the South Berkshire Institute, a prep school in New Marlborough, MA, drew up a hybrid game. Their version is rare in that its documentation has survived.</p>
|Sources=<p>Richard Hershberger, "The 'New Marlboro Match Base Ball Co.' of 1863", in&nbsp;<em>Base Ball&nbsp;</em>(McFarland, Spring 2010), p. 87. The documents, part of an autograph album, are part of a private collection.</p>
|Submitted by=Bob Tholkes
|Submission Note=3/11/2014
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=2
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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New Marlboro Match Base Ball Co. Goes Hybrid

Salience Peripheral
Tags Interscholastic
Location Massachusetts
City/State/Country: New Marlborough, MA, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Youth
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Apparently not liking either the New York Rules or Massachusetts Game Rules, the two formal sets available to them, the boys of the South Berkshire Institute, a prep school in New Marlborough, MA, drew up a hybrid game. Their version is rare in that its documentation has survived.

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Richard Hershberger, "The 'New Marlboro Match Base Ball Co.' of 1863", in Base Ball (McFarland, Spring 2010), p. 87. The documents, part of an autograph album, are part of a private collection.

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes
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