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

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Bans
Location New England
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"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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