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Watching Wicket Ball in Buffalo NY

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Equipment
Location Western New York
City/State/Country: Buffalo, NY, United States
Game Wicket
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
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"[The Indians] would lounge on the steps of the 'Old First Church,' where they could look at our young men playing wicket ball in front of the church (no fences there then):, and this was a favorite ball ground."

Samuel M. Welch, Home History: Recollections of Buffalo During the Decade from 1830 to 1840, or Fifty Years Since [P. Paul and bro., Buffalo, 1890], page 112. Submitted by John Thorn 9/13/2006.

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