Pittsfield Massachusetts, the bithplace of baseball! Interesting video here: Turn Here Short Turns Cool Places http://www.turnhere.com/city/pittsfield/all/films/168.aspx
Park Square 1807 - site of the first documented baseball games in America - with 1791 Bullfinch Church on left. 1744 John Newbery's A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, published in England, contains a wood-cut illustration showing boys playing “baseball†with a rhymed description of the game: “The Ball once struck off/Away flies the Boy/To the next destined Post,/ And then Home with Joy.â€
1791 Pittsfield Byelaw enacted on September 5, banning the game by name from Park Square within 80 yards of the church and meeting house designed by up-and-coming Boston architect Charles Bulfinch. The original document was later located by Historian John Thorn and Pittsfield librarian Ann Marie Harris.
Gov Type: City Government Incorporated: 1761 as a Town, 1891 as a City
Aliases: Allendale, Arrowhead, Balance Rock, Barkerville, Bars, The, Beech Grove, Bel Air, Bobtown, Camp Merrill, Coltsville, Eveningside, Junction Station, Lower Bakersville, Morningside, Pittsfield, Pomeroy, Pontoosuc, Russell's, Shaker Village, Sternsville, Taconic, Tillotson's Neighbors: Cheshire, Dalton, Hancock, Lanesborough, Lee, Lenox, Richmond, Washington County: Berkshire County Congressman: John W. Oliver Senators: Edward M. Kennedy, John F. Kerry Land Size: 40.7 square miles Population: 45,793 people. (27th in Massachusetts.) Pop/Land: 1,125.14 people per square mile. (92nd in Massachusetts.) ZIP Codes: 01201, 01202, 01203
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