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Base Ball as Therapy in MA?

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Ball in the Culture
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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Was "base-ball" a common term in MA then?

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