Early baseball in Massachusetts/Predecessor Game 44
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Location | Massachusetts |
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Year | 1844 |
City | Greenfield |
State | MA |
Country | US |
Name of game | play ball |
“Thursday April 4th. A very warm day it is fast day* & I have played ball so much that I am to tired I can hardly set up I don’t think I shall want to have fast day come again for a year.” Diary of Edward Jenner Carpenter of Greenfield MA, available online at:
http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=126 as accessed November 17th 2008. Carpenter was an 18 year old apprentice to a Greenfield cabinet-maker. Greenfield is in NW MA, about 15 miles from the VT border and about 40 miles north of Northampton.