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| | SABR :|| SABR-Zine | 1791 Baseball in Pittsfield, Mass. |
 | | SABR member John Thorn's discovery of a 213-year-old document believed to be the earliest written reference to baseball has got people talking. |
| | In an announcement that has been widely reported in the media, Pittsfield, Massachusetts city officials released an authenticated document revealing that a 1791 bylaw was created there to protect the windows of a new meeting house by prohibiting anyone from playing baseball within 80 yards of the building. |
| | 1791 In Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to promote the safety of the exterior of the newly built meeting house, particularly the windows, a by-law is enacted to bar “any game of wicket, cricket, baseball, batball, football, cats, fives, or any other game played with ball,” within eighty yards of the structure. |
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