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|Headline=Tolland CT 265, Otis-Sandisfield MA 189 In Wicket Match |State=MA

|Headline="A rare Sight I judge in North Carolina" |City=New Bern

|State=MA |City=Spencer

|Headline=Base Ball Would be Welcome in Lowell MA, Town of Factories |State=MA

|Name=in Falmouth on 4 July 1857 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=New Marlborough

|State=MA |City=South Danvers

|State=MA |City=Taunton

|Name=Predecessor Game in Lowell in 1859 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Barre

|State=MA |City=Easton

|Title=A History of the Boston Baseball Club |Is in library=Yes

|Name=In New Marlborough in 1859 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=North Brookfield

|Headline=11th MA and 26th PA Play by Mass Game Rules for $50 a Side. |City=Falmouth

|Headline=21st MA "played ball a good deal..." |City=Newport News

|Name=Peabody Club of Danvers v Club of Rockville, MA on 27 August 1859 |State=MA

|Name=Base in Cambridge in 1858 - 2 |State=MA

|Headline=Ballplaying Interest Hits New Bedford MA |State=MA

|Headline=MA Gents Recall Boyhood Games in 1830s: Cat, Wicket, OFBB ...nd reflected on their youthful play. The account, which first appeared in a CT paper, <i>The Winsted Herald</i>, noted:</p>

|Headline=Ballgame Marks Anniversary in MA |State=MA

|Name=Base in Cambridge in 1842 |State=MA

|City=Enfield ...feated by the Comet club of Thompsonville in a match game, on Saturday, by a score of 85 to 24."</p>

|Name=Club of Greenfield, MA |State=MA

|Location=Fall River, MA ...pinky" drugstore ball.&nbsp; Batters defend the teetering cans, and run to a second base to score runs.</p>

|Headline=A Three-Inning Game of Wicket at Great Barrington |State=MA

|Headline=Base Ball as Therapy in MA? |Tags=Ball in the Culture,

|State=MA |City=Medway

|Name=in Williamstown in 1858 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Dorchester

|Headline=MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood |State=MA

|Headline=Worcester MA Ordinance Bans "Frequent and Dangerous" Ball Playing and Hoops" |State=MA

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Headline=Westfield Upsets Granville in Wicket |State=MA

|Name=play ball in Greenfield in 1844 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Sturbridge

{{Other First |Name=First Interscholastic Ball Game

|Name=In Newtonville in 1823 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Boston

|State=MA |City=Roxbury

|Headline=22^nd MA beats 13^th NY in the Massachusetts Game |City=Falmouth

|State=MA |City=New Bedford

|State=MA |City=Lynn

|Name=in MA in 1800undefined |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Ashland

|State=MA |City=New Marlborough

|Headline=Union General Joseph Hooker Plays Baseball as a Boy |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Williamstown

|Name=Club of Prescott, MA |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Woburn

|Headline=Cricket and Bass Long Played in Pittsfield MA |State=MA

|Name=in New Bern on 27 June 1865 |City=New Bern

|Name=Tufts College Club of Medford v Tufts College Club of Medford in October 1865 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Stoneham

|State=MA |City=Upton

|Name=In MA in 1800 |State=MA

|Location=MA, |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Easton

|Headline=1st MA versus 16th MA |City=Falmouth

|Headline=Newburyport MA Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games |State=MA

|Name=in Nantucket in 1867 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Milford

|Headline=Sharon MA Victory in Boston Seen As State Championship |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Cambridge

|State=MA |City=Worcester

|Title=Baseball in the Berkshires: A County's Common Bond |Is in library=No

|Name=Game at Ball in Cambridge in 1781 |State=MA

|Headline=Salem MA Ordinance Outlaws Bat-and-Ball, Cricket |State=MA

|Name=In Exeter in 1853 |State=MA

|Headline=33rd Massachusetts plays in camp |State=MA

|Headline=Hartford Players Best Granville MA Players at Wicket |City=Salmon Brook

|Headline=Adult Play [Finally!] Signaled in New Manual for Cricket and Base Ball |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Athol

|State=MA |City=New Bedford

|State=MA |City=Clinton

|State=MA |City=Somerville

|State=MA |City=Northampton

|City=Annapolis ...x score. "The game was a hard fought one, lasting three hours, and engaged in by the best players of both companies."</p>

|Name=American Band nine v Chatham nine in 1876 |State=MA

|Headline=Natick MA Company Introduces the "Figure 8" Base Ball Stitching |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Stoneham

|State=MA |City=Newton

|Name=in Waltham in August 1857 |State=MA

|Headline=Williams College Student Notes Ballplaying in Winter Months |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Stockbridge

|Headline=1000 Watch November Base Ball in New Bedford MA. Brr. |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Salem

|Name=In Kingston on 4 April 1817 |State=MA

|Name=In Westfield in 1844 |State=MA

|Name=F.A.J. Ball Club |Club Name=F.A.J.

|State=MA |City=Haverhill

|Name=In Amherst in 1846 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Pittsfield

|State=MA |City=North Adams

|Headline=Trophy Ball Kept in 22nd MA Regiment |City=Brandy Station

|City=Thompsonville ...ase ball club of Thompsonville defeated the Eagle Club of Windsor Locks in a match game at Thompsonville, on Saturday, the score standing 31 to 30."</p>

|Name=In MA in 1780 |State=MA

|Name=In Charlestown in 1837 |State=MA

|Name=In Dorchester in 1775 |State=MA

|Title=1726 -- Ballplaying and Boston Common: A Town Playground for Boys . . . And Men |Is in library=Yes

|Headline=Otis MA Bests Lee MA at Wicket, 236 - 232 |State=MA

|Headline=Organized Round Ball in New England Morphs Toward the "MA Game" |State=MA

|City=Harrisonburg ...ill care to play a return match; we have some of the best players of quite a celebrated ball club from Medway &amp; some of the play was admirable.</p>

|State=MA |City=Gloucester

|Name=In New Bedford in 1858 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Springfield

|State=MA |City=Dorchester

|Headline=Sergeant from 15th MA Plays Round Ball with 34th NY |City=Falmouth

|Headline=New Orleans Leans Toward MA Game? |City=New Orleans

|State=MA |City=Brookline

|State=MA |City=Burlington

|Name=Atwater Club of Westfield, MA |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Waltham

|Headline=Editorial Rips Base Ball "Mania" as a "Public Nuisance" |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Charlestown

|State=MA |City=Cambridge

|Headline=Ballplaying Recurs in Abolitionist's Life -- From Age 10 to Harvard |State=MA

|Name=Ball in MA in 1780 |State=MA

|Name=Ball in MA in 1778 |State=MA

|Headline=Excelsiors and Union Club play for $500 and MA Championship |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Andover

|State=MA |City=Andover

|Headline="Cricket, Base, and Long Ball" Played in Worcester MA on Election Day |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Conway

|City=Albany ...l on the comon, their would be an other class piching quaits, an other set a wrestling."&nbsp;</p>

|State=MA |City=North Adams

{{Other First |Name=First Recorded College Game at Williams College

|Headline=Played ball "in a new way" |City=Falmouth

|State=MA |City=New Bedford

|State=MA |City=Brighton

|State=MA |City=Boston

|Headline=Small Cambridge MA Schoolground Crimps Base and Cricket Play |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Newburyport

|Name=Play ball, baseball (retro) in Cambridge in 1830 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Framingham

|Name=Predecessor Game in Cambridge in 1781 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Dorchester

|Name=In Roxbury Circa 1842 |State=MA

|Name=base-ball (retro) in MA in 1824 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Hopkinton

|State=MA |City=Boston

|State=MA |City=Marblehead

|Name=in Charlestown in 1836 |State=MA

|Name=round or base ball in Barre in 1848 |State=MA

|Headline=Bay Staters play ball in NC |City=New Bern

|State=MA |City=Hyannis

|Name=In Cambridge in 1760 |State=MA

|Name=In Cambridge in 1846 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Leicester

|Name=In MA in 1830 |State=MA

|Headline=Olympic Club&#39;s Version of MA Game Rules Published |State=MA

|Name=In Barre in 1855 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=South Adams

|State=MA |City=New Braintree

|Name=in Florence in September 1859 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Amherst

|State=MA |City=Braintree

|Headline="Bafeball" Among Games Banned in Pittsfield MA - also Cricket, Wicket |Location=New England, MA

|State=MA |City=Turners Falls

|Name=In Worcester in 1846 |State=MA

|Headline=Atlantics Are Challenged to Play MA Game for $1000 Stake, But Decline |Location=Greater New York City,

|Headline=New England Woman Sees Ballplaying in Virginia, Perhaps by "All Colors" |City=Norfolk

|State=MA |City=Boston

|Name=In Boston in 1854 |State=MA

|Name=In Salem in 1762 |State=MA

|Name=Olympic Club of Boston v Aurora Ball Club of Boston in September 1853 |State=MA

|Name=Predecessor Game in Worcester in 1859 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Boston

|State=MA |City=Boston

|Headline=First Recorded College Game at Williams College |State=MA

|Headline=On Boston Common, "Several Parties Engaged in Matches of Base Ball" on Fast Day |Location=MA,

|State=MA |City=Barre

|Name=Wicket in Granville in 1840 |State=MA

{{Other First |Name=First Known Integrated (Adult) Club Takes the Field

|State=MA |City=Charlestown

|Headline=Officers in 30th MA Play Base Ball In February 1864 |City=Franklin

|Name=Wicket in Deerfield in 1825 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Haverhill

|State=MA |City=Methuen

|Name=in Great Barrington on 11 April 1856undefined |State=MA

|Name=In Boston Circa 1800 |State=MA

|Name=In Pittsfield in 1859 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Lowell

|State=MA |City=Lowell

|Name=In Waltham in 1857 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=

|Headline=In 19th MA Camp, “Base Ball Fever Broke Out” in 1863 |City=Falmouth

|Headline=First Integrated (Adult) Club Takes the Field? |State=MA

|Headline=Mass. Sailor Plays Ball in English Prison |City=Plymouth

|State=MA |City=Newton

|Name=In Westfield in 1831 |State=MA

|Name=In Worcester in 1849 |State=MA

|Location=MA, |State=MA

|Name=In MA in 1815 |State=MA

|Headline=CT and MA Teams Match Up for Five Games of Wicket ...t was to play nine games, but the Hartford players beating them five times in succession, the game was considered fairly decided, and the remaining four

|Headline=Newell Sees Baseball&#39;s Roots in MA |City=

|City=Windsor Locks ...1867, reports on the 2nd state baseball convention. Among the teams listed in the article were the Marion and Riverside of Norwich, the Hockanum of Manch

|State=MA |City=North Brookfield

|State=MA |City=New Bedford

{{Other First |Name=First Night Game Played Under Lights

|Name=In Worcester in 1822 |State=MA

|Headline=Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Plays Ball as a Harvard student. |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Pittsfield

|Headline=NY and MA Regiments Play Two Games Near the Civil War Front |City=Yorktown

|Headline=The Tide Starts Turning in New England - Trimountain Club Adopts NY Game |State=MA

|Name=in Jefferson in July 1859undefined |City=Jefferson

|Name=Orion Base Ball Club of Milford, MA v Hassanamisco Club of Grafton on 31 August 1860 |State=MA

|Headline=Four-day Attendance of 40,000 Souls Watch Famous Roundball Game in Worcester |State=MA

|Name=Predecessor Game in New Bedford in 1858 |State=MA

|Name=A. S. St. Eugene Club of Algiers |Club Name=A. S. St. Eugene

|State=MA |City=East Hampton

|State=MA |City=Boston

|Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME |City=Bangor

|State=MA |City=Brookline

|Headline="Greatest Game of Base Ball Ever Played in this Country" |State=MA

|Name=H.e H.s v Nantuckets in July 1875 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Lexington

|Name=In Northampton in 1823 |State=MA

|Headline=MA Regiment Organizes a Baseball Club |City=New Bern

|State=MA |City=Boston

|Headline=Ballplaying Remembered in Dedham Massachusetts |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Boston

|State=MA |City=Sharon

|State=MA |City=Andover

|State=MA |City=Cambridge

|Name=Captain Lawrence's Team v Captain Lovejoy's Team in April 1858 |State=MA

|Name=In Barre in 1848 |State=MA

|Headline=Military Unit Plays "Bat and Ball" in Northern NYS |City=Ticonderoga

|Name=Round Ball in MA in 1840 |State=MA

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

|State=MA |City=Cambridge

|Name=In Montague in 1840 |State=MA

|Name=play ball in Cambridge in 1829 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Cambridge

|State=MA |City=Cambridge

...orth African Baseball." In 1937 he invited the Pittsburgh Pirates to train in Tunis.</p> ...an tourists and ship crew, off a visiting ocean liner, played and defeated a picket local Tunis team 19 to 5. The African team obtained uniforms and bat

|State=MA |City=Medford

|Location=MA, |State=MA

|City=Derna ...(apparently) the first. In 1937 he invited the Pittsburgh Pirates to train in Tunis.</p>

|Name=In Great Barrington in 1851 |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Cambridge

|State=MA |City=Boston

|Headline=Boston Magistrate Finds Trap Ball Clogging a Gutter |State=MA

|State=MA |City=Boston

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

|City=Birmingham ...or at least, not fully NY rules. Plus the score (100) sounds more like the MA game than the NY game.</p>

|State=MA |City=Cambridge

|Headline=First Multi-Racial Baseball Team? |City=Honolulu

|Headline=In Boston, "Boys Played Ball in the Streets?" ...Writing 70 years later, the biographer here is painting a picture of the city when his father Josiah finished school and moved there at 18. He does not

|State=MA |City=Cambridge