In Concord in 1836

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Date of Game 1836
Game base, old cat
Location Concord, MA, United States
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[Continuing a list of games that boys played:] " . . . various games of ball. These games of ball were much less scientific and difficult than the modern games. Chief were four old-cat, three old-cat, two old-cat, and base."


Hoar, George F., Autobiography of Seventy Years Volume 1 (Chaarles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905), page 52. Hoar was ten years old in 1836. Per Seymour, Harold – Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809.

Sources Chronologies 1836c.4
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See also Hoar, "A Boy Sixty years ago"

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Submitted by Bruce Allardice
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