1864c.52

Former Mass-Game Champs Form Winning Wartime Team

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Championship Games, Civil War, MilitaryChampionship Games, Civil War, Military
Location	GAGA
City/State/Country:	Atlanta, TN, GA, United States
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Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
Age of Players	AdultAdult
Holiday
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Text	"A much more pleasing picture is the recreation enjoyed by the boys of the 33rd [MA] Regiment. There were thirteen Sharon boys in the regiment and most of them had been members of the Sharon Massapoags, the state baseball champions of 1857. . . . "They formed a nine of their own and soon defeated every team in the regiment. The New York boys of the 136th regiment next fell before them. At Atlanta their contest with a nine from the whole Cumberland army was crowned with success. Though unfortunately, but quite naturally the victors became insufferably conceited."
Sources	Amy Morgan Rafter Pratt, The History of Sharon, Massachusetts to 1865 (Boston U masters thesis, 1935), page 74. Search string: <morgan rafter pratt>.
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Submitted by	Paul S. Johnson
Submission Note	8/1/2015
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