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Game	Massachusetts Game
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	Dedham, Massachusetts
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Description	This is the game played according to rules that were codified in May 1858 in Dedham Massachusetts, and included short basepaths, an absence of foul ground, plugging, a smaller softer ball, games won by 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 to round ball games played in MA for the previous 50-75 years.
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