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Early Town-Ball Mention

Salience Peripheral
Tags Newspaper Coverage
City/State/Country: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Game Town-Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

""Instead of the former amusements, which gave so much activity and health to those who partook of them, and gave so much offense to those who pretend to be the engineer of our morals, we have Billiards, Cricket matches, Town-Ball, Bowling-alleys, &c., for those who can spare the time to partake of the amusement…."

Sources

Spirit of the Times, May 3, 1845, p.106, letter from a Philadelphia correspondent. Posted on 19cbb by David Ball, Aug. 27, 2007

Comment

 This isn't the first attestation of the term "town ball" but it's very early.

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