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- |Title=Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played |Place Published=Boston414 bytes (61 words) - 18:45, 28 July 2019
- |Title=Fast Day: Boston's Original Opening Day |Country=US291 bytes (40 words) - 13:20, 28 July 2019
- |Location=Lexington, MA |Regional Focus=Boston, MA; Syracuse, NY353 bytes (49 words) - 13:05, 2 March 2014
- |State=MA |Description=<p>The <em>Boston Journal</em>, April 18, 1867: headline "Roxbury Base Ball." Announces the a699 bytes (105 words) - 15:40, 1 December 2015
- |State=MA |Description=<p>The <em>Boston Journal</em>, June 12, 1867: "Dorchester. Base Ball. A match game of base b820 bytes (123 words) - 15:49, 1 December 2015
- |State=MA |Description=<p>The Boston Daily Advertiser, July 28, 1866, reports on a game in Worcester July 27th b966 bytes (142 words) - 07:35, 2 April 2024
- |State=MA ...860 pop. about 18,000 -- 51st largest US city then) is about 25 miles N of Boston and near the NH state line.690 bytes (105 words) - 18:24, 6 June 2020
- |Headline=Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast" |State=MA1 KB (166 words) - 06:55, 29 January 2020
- |State=MA |Description=<p>The Boston Journal Sept. 19, 1867, mentions the Metacomet BBC of Taunton playing the A872 bytes (129 words) - 13:11, 7 November 2023
- ...city then) is about 120 miles NE of Portland ME and 220 miles NE of Boston MA.605 bytes (90 words) - 08:29, 8 July 2020
- |State=MA |Description=<p>The Boston Post Sept. 19, 1867 mentions the Hawkswood BBC of Newburyport playing the I1 KB (181 words) - 09:54, 27 September 2020
- |State=MA |City=Boston1 KB (159 words) - 17:45, 30 April 2022
- |State=MA, PA |City=Boston, Philadelphia1 KB (203 words) - 08:31, 2 November 2022
- |Location=MA, |State=MA2 KB (308 words) - 19:15, 14 October 2015
- |Game Regions=US ...lemental Text, below. It was written by Joanne Hulbert, who runs the Boston SABR Chaptre. </p>2 KB (417 words) - 09:45, 8 July 2017
- |State=MA ..., due to lack of local interest. Gloucester is a fishing town northeast of Boston. I can only speculate that baseball interest was minimal here since most of2 KB (345 words) - 07:38, 21 December 2021
- ...s north of Boston and near the NH border. A serious recession gripped the US economy in 1837.</p>1 KB (176 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
- |State=MA |City=Stoneham, Boston3 KB (493 words) - 15:52, 17 March 2016
- ...e=Oliver Wendell Holmes Recalls Schoolboy Baseball and Phillips Academy in MA |State=MA2 KB (237 words) - 17:17, 4 November 2016
- |State=MA ...tions of John Murray Forbes, Sara Forbes Hughes, editor [Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1899], vol. 1, page 43. Shattuck is quoted in Edward M. Hartwell, Physical1 KB (211 words) - 14:43, 27 February 2024
- |Game Regions=US ...sp;-- were to round ball, goal ball, and/or base games played in MA for the previous 50-75 years.</p>1 KB (224 words) - 05:47, 27 May 2022
- |Game Regions=US ...et was evidently the dominant game played in parts of Connecticut, western MA, and perhaps areas of Western New York State, prior to the spread of the Ne2 KB (404 words) - 15:06, 15 September 2022
- ...at the college. Penrose, op cit., p. 157, says that in 1914-15 sailors of US warships, docking in Beirut, played baseball.</p>1 KB (207 words) - 06:21, 27 June 2020
- |State=MA ...there, for the first time, the President of the Naquag Club informed us that the prize could not be awarded to the victors unless the game was play4 KB (641 words) - 18:34, 14 October 2015
- ...o;the 24<sup>th</sup>,” which seems to have been the 24<sup>th</sup> MA, where a cousin James was to be found.</p> ...from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War</span> (W. B. Clarke, Boston, 1906), page 162. Accessed 6/7/09 on Google Books via “from port roya1 KB (248 words) - 14:17, 10 July 2018
- |Headline=Officers in 30th MA Play Base Ball In February 1864 <p>Are there any indications as to whether NY or MA or other game rules were employed?</p>4 KB (729 words) - 10:19, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Students Play Ball Game at Progressive School in Northampton MA |State=MA3 KB (517 words) - 18:55, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Barre Club Challenge to Six Nearby MA Towns -- $100 Grand Prize Planned |State=MA5 KB (845 words) - 18:28, 14 October 2015
- |State=MA ...f base ball, he recalls adjustment to the harder ball ("it seemed to us like playing with a croquet ball"), gloves only worn by the catchers, an um9 KB (1,730 words) - 10:06, 28 February 2018
- ...off his horse and requested permission to catch behind the bat, informing us there was nothing he enjoyed so much. He gave it up after a few minutes and ...Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers</span> (Estes and Lauriat, Boston MA, 1894), page 56. The full text was accessed on 6/1/09 on Google books3 KB (445 words) - 05:23, 2 July 2018
- |Headline=US Prisoners of War in England Play Ball - at Great Peril, It Turned Out <p>A ball game reportedly led to the killing and wounding of many US prisoners in England's Dartmoor prison in April 1815:</p>5 KB (757 words) - 08:56, 29 January 2020
- ...giment threw down the glove with a like result. The champion Sharon [MA] boys knew a thing or two about base ball, which they had learned in c ...ty-Third Mass. Infantry Regiment, 1862 - 1865</span> (A. Williams and Co., Boston, 1881, page 199. Search string: <kershaw had a smart>. </p7 KB (1,180 words) - 03:50, 19 April 2024
- |Game Regions=US ...al, Aug. 30, 1869; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 31, 1862; John M. Ward in the Boston Globe, Sept. 30, 1888.</p>7 KB (1,149 words) - 07:35, 15 June 2023
- '''Note: this an initial December 2012 draft. Send us information on omissions and errors for a second draft.''' ...tten by the Knickerbockers in New York for base ball in 1845 and in Dedham MA for the Massachusetts Game in 1858. It was not until 1884 that an official27 KB (4,171 words) - 17:40, 8 October 2014
- ...The Eagle had stories about a Massachusetts Senate bill to incorporate the Boston Base Ball Club and the Old Elm Base Ball Club's annual meeting.7 The Eagle ..., Texas developed as the southernmost port in Texas, a supply base for the US army garrisons at nearby Fort Brown and along the border with Mexico. The c37 KB (6,000 words) - 08:36, 24 February 2022