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|Name=In Worcester in 1816 |Date=1816/01/01

|Year=1816 |Headline=Worcester MA Ordinance Bans "Frequent and Dangerous" Ball Playing and Hoops"

...fore another military man, one Abner Doubleday allegedly invented the game in the sleepy east central New York village of Cooperstown.</p> ...s march might have been fifteen miles, to locate a spot flat enough to get in the game. Clearly this game meant something more to Henry Dearborn and his