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- 1863.19 + (<p>“[W]hile I played barn ball, one … <p>“[W]hile I played barn ball, one old cat and two old cat in early boyhood days, Cricket was my favorite game, and up to the time I enlisted in the army I never played a regular game of base ball or the New York game as it was then called. In my regiment we had eleven cricketers that had all played together at home and I was the leading spirit in getting up matches. We played a number of good matches but we were too strong for any combination that we could get to play against us, and we finally had to abandon cricket and + take up this so called New York game. I remember well the first game that I played. It was against the 27<sup>th</sup> NY Inf. at White Oak Church near Fredericksburg Va. In the Spring of 1863. I played occasionally during the remainder of the war, but after my discharge in 1865 I came to Washington and joined the American Cricket Club of this city. But I soon turned my attention to base ball + played with the Olympic Club of this city from 1866 to 1870.”</p></br><p>Nicholas Young was born in Amsterdam NY in 1840, and thus was playing the named games in the 1850s. He was a member of the 32<sup>nd</sup> NY Infantry, which was at Falmouth VA in spring 1863. He led the NL from 1881 to 1903.</p></br><p> </p></br><p> </p></br><p> </p>om 1881 to 1903.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>)