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|Title=1859 -- State Championship Wicket Game in Connecticut: A Hearty Hurrah for a Doomed Pastime

|Title=Litchfield and the Old Connecticut Game of Wicket

|Book=Papers and Addresses of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut

<p><i>Connecticut Courant</i>, volume 70, Issue 3618, page 3 (probably reprinted from the <i>

...the League has none, but Harry Wright will this year trot out a colt from Connecticut, named Warring, who, it is claimed, can pitch equally well with either hand

|Title=Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut

...he nature of this game is unknown. It is found an 1849 chapbook printed in Connecticut: “there are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball

...eason now if they choose–that city being bound to have a champion team for Connecticut next season if money can get it.</p>

|Title=the Mansfield, Connecticut grounds

...is exception -- we skinned the coons from top to stem.&nbsp; So, hurra for Connecticut!</p> |Query=<p>Can anyone make a guess at the meaning of "hurra for Connecticut" for a game played in the far north of NYS?&nbsp; Was the area known for it

...ey 1800 - 1840 from the Recollections of John Howard Redfield</span>&nbsp;(Connecticut River Museum, Essex CT, 1988), p. 35. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leave

|Text=<p>In Oct. 1862, while in camp near Lovettsville, the Twenty-First Connecticut "boys enjoyed a game of baseball.."</p>

...voted to the professional interest. Missouri, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, numbering ten votes, advocated ...l from Illinois, Pennsylvania and Indiana, five from new York and one from Connecticut.</p>

|Sources=<p>Connecticut Courant: 10/21</p>

|Location=Connecticut,

...absolutely do not assume that it was the same as the game associated with Connecticut."</p>

|Sources=<p>Connecticut Courant: 8/20</p>

|Sources=<p>Connecticut Courant: 8/3</p>

...play a Game of BOWL for a Dinner and Trimmings . . . on Friday next." <i>Connecticut Courant</i> , May 5, 1766, as cited in John A. Lester, <u>A Century of Phil

...te Association, five; Iron and Oil League, six; Keystone Association, six; Connecticut State League, six. Total clubs, seventy-one. By the terms of this agreeme