Early baseball in Massachusetts/Predecessor Game 52
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Location | Massachusetts |
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Year | 1849 |
City | Granville |
State | MA |
Country | US |
Name of game | Wicket |
“BALL PLAYING. A game of Wicket came off between the ball-players of Westfield and Granville MA on Thursday, at which the Westfield boys won the first three games by 10, 20, and 40 runs.”
The Vermont Gazette, vol. 70, number 13 (July 19, 1849), page 1, column 2. Provided by Craig Waff, email, 8/14/2007.
Genovese, citing the Westfield News Letter of July 11, 1849, also writes of this contest. [Genovese, Daniel L, The Old Ball Ground: The Chronological History of Westfield Baseball (2004), pages 17-18. He reports that over 1000 persons attended the match, that it was a best-of-five contest, and that Westfield did in fact have an easy time with the "science players” from Granville, which had played Hartford CT and Blandford MA [about 20 miles west of Springfield].