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• Brown Square  + (<p>Astifan, "Baseball in the 19th Ce … <p>Astifan, "Baseball in the 19th Century" says Brown Square was the site of Rochester's first match game.</p></br><p>Other early games were played at Jones Square, Franklin Square, and the Babbitt Tract. In 1858 the city council allowed Brown and Franklin Squares to be used for baseball. Rochester Union and Advertiser, Aug. 11, 1858.</p></br><p>The 1860 Rochester map shows Jones Square bounded by Jones Avenue on the south, bounded by Schuyler on the east, about where the modern Jones Square is.</p></br><p>Franklin Square in 1860 was on the east side of the river, bounded by Andrews on the south, Bowery on the north, and bisected by Chatham (north/south running street).</p></br><p>The Babbitt Tract was at the corner of High (today, Clarissa) and Troup Sts.</p></br><p>"Mumford's meadow" was the site of a (predecessor?) baseball game c. 1825. See chronologies. The site of this meadow is shown in the linked-to pdf.</p>r?) baseball game c. 1825. See chronologies. The site of this meadow is shown in the linked-to pdf.</p>)

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