Clipping:Acceptance of the New York game in Massachusetts:

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Date Tuesday, July 15, 1862
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The contests on the Common, between the Excelsiors and the players of the Boston clubs, cannot but have a beneficial effect on the interests of our National Game in Massachusetts. The prejudice against the New York game, as it is called, is fast disappearing, and the absurdity of calling it “child’s play” has been fully proved by the manly qualities it has been shown to require to excell [sic] in the game.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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