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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1851
|Year Number=3
|Headline=Wicket Players in MA Found Liable
|Headline=Wicket Players in MA Found Liable
|Year=1851
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=Massachusetts,
|Game=Wicket
|Game=Wicket
|Text=<p>"In a recent case which occurred at Great Barrington, an action was brought against some 12 or 15 young men, by an old man, to recover damages for a spinal injury received by him and occasioned by a wicket ball, which frightened his horse and threw him from his wagon. The boys were playing tin the street. . . . . If this were fully understood, there would be less of the dangerous and annoying practice so common in our streets."</p>
|Age of Players=Youth
<p>"Caution to Ball Players in the Street," <u>The Pittsfield Sun</u>, Volume 51, Issue 2647 [June 12, 1851], page 2. Submitted by John Thorn, 6/10/2006.</p>
|Text=<p>"In a recent case which occurred at Great Barrington, an action was brought against some 12 or 15 young men, by an old man, to recover damages for a spinal injury received by him and occasioned by a wicket ball, which frightened his horse and threw him from his wagon. The boys were playing tin the street. . . . . If this were fully understood, there would be less of the dangerous and annoying practice so common in our streets."</p>
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|Sources=<p>"Caution to Ball Players n the Street," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Pittsfield Sun</span>, volume 51, issue 2647 (June 12, 1851), page 2.</p>
|Submitted by=John Thorn, 6/10/2006
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=3
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Wicket Players in MA Found Liable

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Location Massachusetts
Game Wicket
Age of Players Youth
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"In a recent case which occurred at Great Barrington, an action was brought against some 12 or 15 young men, by an old man, to recover damages for a spinal injury received by him and occasioned by a wicket ball, which frightened his horse and threw him from his wagon. The boys were playing tin the street. . . . . If this were fully understood, there would be less of the dangerous and annoying practice so common in our streets."

 

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"Caution to Ball Players n the Street," The Pittsfield Sun, volume 51, issue 2647 (June 12, 1851), page 2.

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Submitted by John Thorn, 6/10/2006



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