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Posted By: Jason

This may just be a case of the winner writing the history. By the 1860's the New york game had pretty much won out and the Town Ball and the Massachusettes game were reduced back towards the children's games that they had spring from. Therefore by the time we really get proffesional reporting of the games in the late 1850' early 60's the older games are no longer important enough to warrent much of a write up and therefore we have no realy record of the games or teams that played them