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• A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.
  |Title=A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.
  314 bytes (47 words) - 18:39, 28 July 2019

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• BC2000 to 1000ADc.1
  |Headline=The Ball in Ancient Play ...Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians&mdash;play primitive ball games for recreation, as fertility rites and in religious rituals.</p>
  704 bytes (106 words) - 07:37, 27 June 2013
• 1450.1
  ...Myrc Repeats Warning Against Ball Play in the Churchyard, Including "Stoil Ball" ...her author" wrote in "stoil ball? This may count as the first time "stool ball" [virtually] appeared.</p>
  749 bytes (117 words) - 17:25, 6 September 2012
• 1846.5
  |Headline=Knicks Play Only Intramural Games Through 1850. ...Knickerbockers continue to play intramural matches at Elysian Fields, but play no further interclub matches until 1851.</p>
  584 bytes (83 words) - 14:23, 3 March 2014
• 1669.1
  |Headline=Shadwell Play Said to List Rural Games, including Stool-ball. ...e English rural games, such as trap, keels, barley-break, golf [and] stool-ball . . . ."</p>
  1,023 bytes (154 words) - 05:36, 29 June 2023
• Clipping:A condemnation of trickery and deception; hidden ball trick
  |Title=a condemnation of trickery and deception; hidden ball trick ...hese so-called “points” in base ball are beyond the pale of fair and manly play, and rank only as among the abuses of the game. St., quoting Henry Chadwic
  2 KB (306 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
• Hook-em-snivy (Family of Games)
  {{Family of Games ...chers but that are not safe-haven games (including shinty, bandy, and stow-ball).
  257 bytes (39 words) - 06:55, 2 June 2012
• Clipping:Negotiating the rules
  ...to be played by the rules of Rough-and-Ready club, after which we were to play their game.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p>
  1 KB (207 words) - 08:04, 23 June 2019
• 1810.3
  |Headline=Children's Book Recommends Regular Play with "Trap, Bat, Ball," etc. ...o have an hour of recreation each day with sports, among bat and ball-type games."&nbsp; -- Tom Altherr</p>
  811 bytes (116 words) - 07:01, 28 January 2020
• Clipping:A barnstorming team to play exhibitions with the PL
  |Title=a barnstorming team to play exhibitions with the PL ...ased to say that I have this day completed the entire circuit, playing two games in each city with each club as follows...</p>
  1 KB (235 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
• 1858.51
  |Headline=At Harvard, Two Clubs Play Series of Games by New York Rules |Game=Base Ball,
  1 KB (163 words) - 18:32, 14 October 2015
• 1797.2
  |Headline=Newburyport MA Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games ...y person shall play at foot-ball, cricket,or any other play or game with a ball or balls in any of the streets, lanes, or alleys of this town, . . ." a fin
  1 KB (165 words) - 10:59, 28 January 2020
• 1851.9
  |Headline=The Beginning of Match Play Between Organized Clubs |Game=Base Ball,
  1 KB (202 words) - 18:19, 14 October 2015
• Clipping:A forfeit and a 'social game'
  ...consenting to play with him, the Keystones presented the Haymakers with a ball, which gives them the second game of the series.</p>
  852 bytes (134 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
• Clipping:Gamesmanship about switching in a new ball
  |Title=gamesmanship about switching in a new ball ...ratch his leg, picked up the ball and put in his pocket. The ball then in play was knocked out of the lot, and a call for a new one was made. The New Yor
  1,018 bytes (188 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
• Block:Ball Bias in Kent on August 23 1859
  |Title=Ball Bias in Kent on August 23 1859 |Block Game=Ball Bias
  769 bytes (118 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
• Clipping:Ground proprietors arranging games with out of town club
  |Title=ground proprietors arranging games with out of town club ...uals during their stay; so next week promises to be a lively one for base ball.</p>
  766 bytes (124 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
• 1709.3
  |Headline=Cat and Trap-ball Seen as Boys&#39; Games [The Men Play Foot-ball] ...:/ Here men at foot-ball they do fall;/ There boys at <i>cat</i> and trap-ball."</p>
  496 bytes (80 words) - 17:29, 6 September 2012
• 1850s.42
  |Headline=Indianans Play Town Ball, Two Old Cat |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games
  1 KB (234 words) - 19:54, 16 April 2018
• Clipping:The status of the AA New York franchise; Kansas City
  ...during the season of 1888, they have been compelled to temporarily suspend play, and whereas there is much surmise and speculation in the community as to t ...lub shall be and is allowed further time to procure grounds and arrange to play, when a schedule will be so arranged as to allow them to take part in the c
  2 KB (296 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
• Clipping:Crackdown on Sunday baseball in Cincinnati
  ...ati club has two games for Sunday. President Stern of the Cincinnati Base Ball club said to-day, when asked what he proposed to do to-morrow if his player ...nnot attend on any other day.” St. Louis Republic May 26, 1889 [N.B. The games were played.]</p>
  1 KB (189 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020