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| - | |Location=Massachusetts
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| - | |Year=1760
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| - | |State=MA
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| - | |Site=Cambridge
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| - | |Game name=Games of bat and ball
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| - | |Summary=played at Harvard
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| - | Writing of the Buttery on the Harvard campus in Cambridge MA, Sidney Willard later recalled that “[b]esides eatable, everything necessary for a student was there sold, and articles used in the play-grounds, as bats, balls, &c. . . . [w]e wrestled and ran, played at quoits, at cricket, and various games of bat and ball, whose names perhaps are obsolete.”
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| - | Sidney Willard, Memories of Youth and Manhood [John Bartlett, Cambridge, 1855], volume 1, pp 31 and 316. Per Altherr ref # 44.
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