Early baseball in Massachusetts/Predecessor Game 22

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Location Massachusetts
Year 1816
City Worcester
State MA
Country US
Name of game ball-playing

"Ball-playing" in the streets of Worcester, Massachusetts is forbidden by ordinance.


Worcester, MA Town Records, May 6, 1816; reprinted in Franklin P. Rice, ed., Worcester Town Records, 1801 – 1816, volume X [Worcester Society of Antiquity, 1891], p. 337. Also appears in Henderson, p. 150 [No ref given], and Holliman, per Guschov.


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