Clipping:Spread of the game among boys

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Date Sunday, November 13, 1864
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We are glad also to record the fact, that among the marked features of the past season none has been more promising for the permanence of the game than the great increase of junior players and clubs. In no season since the game has been inaugurated have there been so many junior clubs organized or so much ball-playing among the juniors. It has become so prevalent, that of an afternoon one can scarcely go through any street in the city without seeing some kind of ball-playing going on among the boys. Even when no engaged in a game, they are practicing throwing a ball from one to the other; and after schoolhours, every vacant lot or suitable locality for a game is occupied either by an organized club of players or a party of chosen sides for a temporary game.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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