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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1846
|Year Number=16
|Headline=Base Ball as Therapy in MA?
|Headline=Base Ball as Therapy in MA?
|Year=1846
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Ball in the Culture,
|Location=Massachusetts,
|Country=USA
|State=MA
|City=Worcester
|Game=Base Ball
|Game=Base Ball
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>According to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, when "useful labor" wasn't possible for inmates, the remedies list: "chess, cards, backgammon, rolling balls, jumping the rope, etc., are in-door games; and base-ball, pitching quoits, walking and riding, are out-door amusements."</p>
|Text=<p>According to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, when "useful labor" wasn't possible for inmates, the remedies list: "chess, cards, backgammon, rolling balls, jumping the rope, etc., are in-door games; and base-ball, pitching quoits, walking and riding, are out-door amusements."</p>
<p><u>Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester</u>, December 1846. Posted to 19CBB on 11/1/2007 by Richard Hershberger. <b>Note:</b> was "base-ball" a common term in MA then?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p><span>Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester</span>, December 1846. Posted to 19CBB on 11/1/2007 by Richard Hershberger.&nbsp;</p>
|Query=<p>Was "base-ball" a common term in MA then?</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=16
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Base Ball as Therapy in MA?

Salience Noteworthy
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Location Massachusetts
City/State/Country: Worcester, MA, USA
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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According to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, when "useful labor" wasn't possible for inmates, the remedies list: "chess, cards, backgammon, rolling balls, jumping the rope, etc., are in-door games; and base-ball, pitching quoits, walking and riding, are out-door amusements."

 

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Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, December 1846. Posted to 19CBB on 11/1/2007 by Richard Hershberger. 

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