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Outside Pittsfield's town hall, a huge bulletin board is filled with 8 x 11 paper sign-up sheets.
With Help, Towns Rebuild Jennifer Levitz 2011
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Democratic Rep. John Olver of Massachusetts, the bill's author, rose to stake Pittsfield's claim, based on the recent discovery of a 1791 Pittsfield law banning "Wicket, Cricket, Baseball, Football, Cat, Fives or any other game or games with balls" near the town's new meetinghouse.
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Historian John Thorn was doing research on the origins of baseball when he found a reference to the bylaw in an 1869 book on Pittsfield's history.
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Incidentally, the Smith book is the source of the recent fuss about Pittsfield having the first recorded reference to baseball in America; as the SportsLine story says: The evidence comes in a 1791 bylaw that aims to protect the windows in Pittsfield's new meeting house by prohibiting anyone from playing baseball within 80 yards of the building...
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A town meeting was called by word of mouth, and held in Pittsfield's single church
CNN.com 2011
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A town meeting was called by word of mouth, and held in Pittsfield's single church
CNN.com 2011
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Pittsfield's Waconah Park is, by all accounts, nowhere near the facility Holman Stadium is.
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Pittsfield's Waconah Park is, by all accounts, nowhere near the facility Holman Stadium is.
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Pittsfield Cafe while gawking at the magnificent Gothic ostentatiousness of the Pittsfield's five-story atrium?
unknown title 2009
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Pittsfield Cafe while gawking at the magnificent Gothic ostentatiousness of the Pittsfield's five-story atrium?
unknown title 2009
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