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|Term=Massachusetts Game | |Term=Massachusetts Game | ||
|Game Family=Baseball | |Game Family=Baseball | ||
|Location= | |Location=New England, WNY, Upper Midwest | ||
|Description=<p>This is the game played according to rules that were codified in May 1858 in Dedham Massachusetts | |Game Tags=1800s, US, | ||
|Description=<p>This is the game played according to rules that were codified in May 1858 in Dedham Massachusetts. It featured short basepaths, an absence of foul ground, plugging of runners, a smaller and softer and lighter ball, wooden stakes in place of sascks as bases,winners definied as the first team to reach 100 “tallies,” and a one-out-side-out rule. It remains unclear how close these rules -- written 13 years after the Knickerbocker rules were codified -- were to round ball, goal ball, and/or base games played in MA for the previous 50-75 years.</p> | |||
<p>The Massachusetts Game declined fairly rapidly after 1860.</p> | |||
|Sources=<p>The Mass game rules appeared in Mayhew and Baker, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Base Ball.</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A <br />Manual of Cricket and Base Ball, With Rules and Regulations Illustrated</span>. <br />(Boston, Mayhew and Baker, 1858), pages20 - 24.</p> | |||
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Revision as of 08:46, 24 June 2012
| Game | Massachusetts Game |
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| Game Family | Baseball |
| Location | New England, WNY, Upper Midwest |
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| Invented | |
| Tags | 1800s, US |
| Description | This is the game played according to rules that were codified in May 1858 in Dedham Massachusetts. It featured short basepaths, an absence of foul ground, plugging of runners, a smaller and softer and lighter ball, wooden stakes in place of sascks as bases,winners definied as the first team to reach 100 “tallies,” and a one-out-side-out rule. It remains unclear how close these rules -- written 13 years after the Knickerbocker rules were codified -- were to round ball, goal ball, and/or base games played in MA for the previous 50-75 years. The Massachusetts Game declined fairly rapidly after 1860. |
| Sources | The Mass game rules appeared in Mayhew and Baker, Base Ball. A |
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