Early baseball in Massachusetts/Predecessor Game 4
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+ | {{Origins-pregame | ||
+ | |Location=Massachusetts | ||
+ | |Year=1760 | ||
+ | |State=MA | ||
+ | |Country=US | ||
+ | |Site=Cambridge | ||
+ | |Game name=Games of bat and ball | ||
+ | |Approved=No | ||
+ | |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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Spread of baseball: Home -> Massachusetts -> Early baseball in Massachusetts/Predecessor Game 4 |
Location | Massachusetts |
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Year | 1760 |
State | MA |
Country | US |
Name of game | Games of bat and ball |
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.”
Sidney Willard, Memories of Youth and Manhood [John Bartlett, Cambridge, 1855], volume 1, pp 31 and 316. Per Altherr ref # 44.