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|Title=Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played |Place Published=Boston

|Title=Fast Day: Boston's Original Opening Day |Country=US

|Location=Lexington, MA |Regional Focus=Boston, MA; Syracuse, NY

|State=MA |Description=<p>The <em>Boston Journal</em>, April 18, 1867: headline "Roxbury Base Ball." Announces the a

|State=MA |Description=<p>The&nbsp;<em>Boston Journal</em>, June 12, 1867: "Dorchester. Base Ball. A match game of base b

|State=MA |Description=<p>The Boston Daily Advertiser, July 28, 1866, reports on a game in Worcester July 27th b

|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.

|Headline=Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast" |State=MA

|State=MA |Description=<p>The Boston Journal Sept. 19, 1867, mentions the Metacomet BBC of Taunton playing the A

...city then) is about 120 miles NE of Portland ME and 220 miles NE of Boston MA.

|State=MA |Description=<p>The Boston Post Sept. 19, 1867 mentions the Hawkswood BBC of Newburyport playing the I

|State=MA |City=Boston

|State=MA, PA |City=Boston, Philadelphia

|Location=MA, |State=MA

|Game Regions=US ...lemental Text, below. &nbsp;It was written by Joanne Hulbert, who runs the Boston SABR Chaptre.&nbsp;</p>

|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 of

...s north of Boston and near the NH border. A serious recession gripped the US economy in 1837.</p>

|State=MA |City=Stoneham, Boston

...e=Oliver Wendell Holmes Recalls Schoolboy Baseball and Phillips Academy in MA |State=MA

|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, Physical

|Game Regions=US ...sp;-- were to round ball,&nbsp;goal ball, and/or base&nbsp;games played in MA for the previous 50-75 years.</p>

|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 Ne

...at the college. Penrose, op cit., p. 157, says that in 1914-15 sailors of US warships, docking in Beirut, played baseball.</p>

|State=MA ...there, for the first time, the President of the&nbsp;Naquag Club informed us that the prize could not be awarded to the victors unless the game was play

...o;the 24^th,&rdquo; which seems to have been the 24^th 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 &ldquo;from port roya

|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>

|Headline=Students Play Ball Game at Progressive School in Northampton MA |State=MA

|Headline=Barre Club Challenge to Six Nearby MA Towns -- $100 Grand Prize Planned |State=MA

|State=MA ...f&nbsp; 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 um

...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>&nbsp;(Estes and Lauriat, Boston MA, 1894), page 56.&nbsp;The full text was accessed on 6/1/09 on Google books

|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&nbsp; in April 1815:</p>

...giment threw down the glove with a like result.&nbsp; The champion Sharon [MA] boys knew a thing&nbsp;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.&nbsp; Search string: &lt;kershaw had a smart&gt;.&nbsp;</p

|Game Regions=US ...al, Aug. 30, 1869; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 31, 1862; John M. Ward in the Boston Globe, Sept. 30, 1888.</p>

'''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 official

...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 c