Early baseball in Massachusetts/Predecessor Game 26
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Location | Massachusetts |
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Year | 1823 |
City | Newtonville |
State | MA |
Country | US |
Name of game | playing ball or goal |
"Really time flies fast. Tis but a day it seems since we three were boys . . . . But a day seems to have elapsed since meeting with our neighboring boys, we . . . engaged ourselves in the more active sorts of "playing ball" or "goal."
Carter, L. A., The Discovery of a Grandmother [H. H. Carter, Newtonville MA, 1920]], pp 239-240. Per Seymour, Harold – Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809. From this note, the excerpts appear to be from a journal kept in 1835-1836 by Albert Ware Paine, born 1813. Note: This item needs t be reconciled with #1820S.12 above.