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"Massachusetts Balls" on Sale in Rochester NY

Salience Noteworthy
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City/State/Country: Rochester, NY, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Text

An advertisement in a Rochester paper offered "New York Regulation Size Ball, Massachusetts Balls, Children's Rubber and Fancy Balls, Wholesale and Retail."

 

Sources

Rochester[NY] Union and Advertiser, April 28, 1862. Posted to the 19CBB listserve by Priscilla Astifan on May 14, 2005. 

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We know that an "old-fashioned base ball" was being played in Central New York prior to the Civil War: see #1858.48 and #1860.45 above.

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