Early baseball in Massachusetts/Predecessor Game 37
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Spread of baseball: Home -> Massachusetts -> Early baseball in Massachusetts/Predecessor Game 37 |
Location | Massachusetts |
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Year | 1836 |
City | Concord |
State | MA |
Country | US |
Name of game | base, o'cat |
[Continuing a list of games that boys played:] " . . . various games of ball. These games of ball were much less scientific and difficult than the modern games. Chief were four old-cat, three old-cat, two old-cat, and base."
Hoar, George F., Autobiography of Seventy Years Volume 1 (Chaarles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905), page 52. Hoar was ten years old in 1836. Per Seymour, Harold – Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809.