Early baseball in Massachusetts/Predecessor Game 46
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| Location | Massachusetts |
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| Year | 1846 |
| City | Cambridge |
| State | MA |
| Country | US |
| Name of game | Bat-and-Ball |
"In the spring there is no playing of football, but "bat & ball" & cricket."
From "Sibley's Private Journal," entry for August 31, 1846, as supplied to David Block by letter of 4/18/2005 from Prof. Harry R. Lewis at Harvard, Cambridge MA. Lewis notes that the Journal is "a running account of Harvard daily life in the mid nineteenth century."
