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|Headline=When Boys Collect Outside in NYC, A Spontaneous Game of Ball is Possible
|Headline=When Boys Collect Outside in NYC, A Spontaneous Game of Ball is Possible
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=New York City,  
|Location=New York City,
|Age of Players=Youth
|Age of Players=Youth
|Text=<p>"[T]he boys' town-meeting is out [outdoors?] where you can buy peanuts and gingercake, and see all your cousins from almost everywhere, and stand around and find out what is going on, and play a game of ball with the boy from Oysterponds, and another from Mattitue, on the same side."</p>
|Text=<p>"[T]he boys' town-meeting is out [outdoors?] where you can buy peanuts and gingercake, and see all your cousins from almost everywhere, and stand around and find out what is going on, and play a game of ball with the boy from Oysterponds, and another from Mattitue, on the same side."</p>
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|Sources=<p><em>New York Times,</em> April 26, 1853.</p>
|Sources=<p><em>New York Times,</em> April 26, 1853.</p>
|Query=<p>"Boys' town-meeting?"&nbsp; "Mattitue"</p>
|Query=<p>"Boys' town-meeting?"&nbsp; "Mattitue?"</p>
|Submitted by=David Ball, email of 6/4/2006
|Submitted by=David Ball, email of 6/4/2006
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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When Boys Collect Outside in NYC, A Spontaneous Game of Ball is Possible

Salience Noteworthy
Location New York City
Age of Players Youth
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"[T]he boys' town-meeting is out [outdoors?] where you can buy peanuts and gingercake, and see all your cousins from almost everywhere, and stand around and find out what is going on, and play a game of ball with the boy from Oysterponds, and another from Mattitue, on the same side."

 

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New York Times, April 26, 1853.

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"Boys' town-meeting?"  "Mattitue?"

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Submitted by David Ball, email of 6/4/2006



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