Early baseball in Massachusetts/Predecessor Game 12
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Location | Massachusetts |
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Year | 1781 |
City | Cambridge |
State | MA |
Country | US |
Name of game | Game at Ball |
-- And that no other person was present in said area, except a boy who, they say was playing with a Ball -- From the testimony some of the persons in the kitchen it appeared that the company there assembled were very noisy --That some game at Ball was played --That some of the company called on the Boy to keep tally; which Boy was seen by the same person, repeated by running after the Ball, with a penknife & stick in his hand, on which stick notches were cut --That a Person who tarried at home at Dr. Appleton's was alarmed by an unusual noise about three o'clock, & on looking out the window, saw in the opening between Hollis & Stoughton, four or five persons, two of whom were stripped of their coats, running about, sometimes stooping down & apparently throwing something . . .โ Posted to 19CBB by Kyle DeCicco-Carey [date?] Source: Harvard College Faculty Records (Volume IV, 1775-1781), call number UAIII 5.5.2, page 220 (1781). Harvard is in Cambridge MA.