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|Headline=Wicket Players in MA Found Liable
|Headline=Wicket Players in MA Found Liable
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=Massachusetts,
|Location=Massachusetts
|Country=US
|State=MA
|Game=Wicket
|Game=Wicket
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Youth
|Age of Players=Youth
|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>
|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 in 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>
|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>

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Wicket Players in MA Found Liable

Salience Noteworthy
Location Massachusetts
City/State/Country: MA, US
Game Wicket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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 in 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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