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...-headed age into a luminous legal light of the Park City [i.e. Bridgeport, Connecticut]. You needn't say this, however, for perhaps I may be a dismal failure. I

...game superseded handball in student favor - it was 'town ball' or the old Connecticut game."</p>

|Text=<p>[Unions of Morrisania at Hartford, Connecticut 7/26/1866] ...they found a numerous assemblage of spectators occupying the

|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Connecticut#date1859-8-2 |Sources=<p>(1) Fernando, &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Base Ball in Connecticut,&rdquo; <em>Porter&rsquo;s Spirit of the Times,</em> vol. 6, no. 24 (13 Aug

...there. Sheffield is in the SW corner of MA, about 45 miles NE of Hartford Connecticut. Note: [1] the "game of ball" may have been wicket. [2] More holidays in

|Location=Connecticut

|Location=Connecticut

|Text=<p>[from the Baltimore correspondent] A case in a court in Connecticut was lately decided which has an important bearing on base ball. The plaint

...n=<p>The game of wicket was evidently the dominant game played in parts of Connecticut, western MA, and perhaps areas of Western New York State, prior to the spre

|Text=<p>The Atlantics, of Brooklyn, defeated the Mansfield, of Connecticut, on Monday last, by a score of 16 to 15. The only noticeable incident abou

...en Katz (email of 2/5/2021) notes that, according to an article in the <em>Connecticut Courant,&nbsp;</em>April 23, 1853, it was locally the name of something lik

<p>The writer, Benjamin Silliman, thus implies that an American [or at least Connecticut] analog to trap ball was played, using fungo-style batting [trap ball was n

...played in the 1800s.&nbsp; Wicket is reported in many U.S. states, led by Connecticut and Massachusetts.&nbsp; It seems to have crested in the post Civil War era

'''''The Project: ''''' SABR's five New England chapters (covering Boston, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and western Massachusetts) have undertaken a joint

...where baseball began. I’m finishing up a book on minor league football in Connecticut during the 1960s and early ‘70s, which is due at the publisher next May.

|Champs of Connecticut

...played <em>all day</em>. Similarly, Joseph Joslin, Jr., a South Killingly, Connecticut teamster, observed ball playing, on April 21, 1778, while carrying out his ...ep us from things that are worse.”<ref name="ref35" /> Jonathan Haskins, a Connecticut surgeon who was also in an English prison, witnessed one of the odder occur

Connecticut in 1841 and he stated that:

| <p>(1) “Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: New York Base Ball Players in Connecticut and Massachusetts: Marion, of New York, vs. Hancock, of Boston,” <i>Wilke