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New Bedford Bans "Playing at Ball"
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Tags | BansBans |
Location | |
City/State/Country: | New Bedford, MA, United States |
Modern Address | |
Game | BallBall |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | UnknownUnknown |
Holiday | |
Notables | |
Text | An 1822 bylaw levied a fine to anyone who would “play at ball, fly a kite or run down hill upon a sled… in any street of that part of the town commonly called the Village of New-Bedford”. Thomas Rodman wrote about being “initiated into the mysteries of Foot-ball, Base and every game boys pursue” when he was a student at Friends Academy in the mid-1830s. |
Sources | https://scvbb.org/2008/04/01/new-bedford-high-school-baseball-150-years-ago/ |
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Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
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1822.7 New Bedford Bans "Playing at Ball""
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