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|Year=1816
|Year Number=2
|Headline=Worcester MA Ordinance Bans "Frequent and Dangerous" Ball Playing and Hoops"
|Headline=Worcester MA Ordinance Bans "Frequent and Dangerous" Ball Playing and Hoops"
|Year=1816
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Bans,
|Location=New England
|Location=New England
|Tags=Bans
|Country=United States
|Text=<p>"Ball-playing" in the streets of Worcester, Massachusetts is forbidden by ordinance.</p>
|Coordinates=42.2625932, -71.8022934
<p>Worcester, MA Town Records, May 6, 1816; reprinted in Franklin P. Rice, ed., <u>Worcester Town Records, 1801 - 1816, volume X</u> [Worcester Society of Antiquity, 1891], p. 337. Also appears in Henderson, p. 150 [No ref given], and Holliman, per Guschov.</p>
|State=MA
|City=Worcester
|Text=<p>"[S]uch regulations as will prevent the playing Ball and Hoops in the public Streets&nbsp; . . . a practice so frequent and dangerous, that has occasioned many great and repeated complaints."</p>
|Sources=<p>Worcester, MA Town Records, May 6, 1816; reprinted in Franklin P. Rice, ed.,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Worcester Town Records, 1801 - 1816</span>, volume X&nbsp;(Worcester Society of Antiquity, 1891), p. 337. Also appears in Henderson, p. 150 [No ref given], and in&nbsp;Thomas L. Altherr, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." <em>Nine</em>, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49.&nbsp; Reprinted in David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span> &ndash; see page 244 and ref #72.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Worcester MA Ordinance Bans "Frequent and Dangerous" Ball Playing and Hoops"

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Bans
Location New England
City/State/Country: Worcester, MA, United States
Text

"[S]uch regulations as will prevent the playing Ball and Hoops in the public Streets  . . . a practice so frequent and dangerous, that has occasioned many great and repeated complaints."

Sources

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 in Thomas L. Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49.  Reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It – see page 244 and ref #72.

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