Baseball in 1791?????

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:03 AM -0400 5/12/04, Sam Clements wrote:
>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-BBO-Baseballs-Birthplace.html
>
>Move over George Thompson.
>
--who is not mentioned by name in this piece, but only as a
(legendary?) "librarian at New York University".  You'd think the
Times article might have taken the trouble to actually quote the
ordinance mentioned in this Pittsfield document, rather than just
referring to it.

Larry