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Wicket Reported as Fashionable in Western MA

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"We are glad to see the games of foot-ball and wicket so fashionable this spring, . ."

"Athletic Sports," Westfield News Letter, April 5, 1848; cited by Genovese, Daniel L, The Old Ball Ground: The Chronological History of Westfield Baseball (2004), page 11; Genovese says that this article appears to be the News Letter's first reference to wicket.

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