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...f the leading merchants and their clerks, had a game of good old-fashioned base ball on Sheriff Brown's premises, makai..."</p> ...(Castle) introduced the new baseball game to Hawaii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".</p>

|Headline=Chadwick Agrees: The Parent of Base Ball is Two-Old-Cat . . . Not English Rounders, After All? |Game=Base Ball,Two-Old-Cat,Cricket

...e pic-nic ground, makai of the Stone Church, where, after a few appetizing games of ball, they sat down to a sumptuous repast..."</p> ...xander Cartwright. It is likely, but not certain, that the game played was base-ball and not some predecessor game such as wicket, which was known in the I

...description&nbsp;closest to base ball and cricket -- resembling the o'cat games with two or four or six players -- but it employs a&nbsp;section of animal ...illughby</span>'s Book of Games: A Seventeenth Century Treatise on Sports, Games, and Pastimes</span> [Ashgate Publishing, 2003], p. 182; see item [[1672c.2

|Description=<p>From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat"</p> ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

...will have to get along without the services of O'Rourke for three or four games. The great catcher will have more important business on hand than ball pla ...Bridgeport as soon as the season closes next Fall, but he will not give up base ball for a year or two yet. When he does he expects to go into politics.</

...ith the ball he was crossed out, the ball being thrown between him and the base. In other respects it was similar to the present popular and national game.

|Sources=<p><span>Stewart Culin, "Street Games of Boys in&nbsp;</span>Brooklyn,&nbsp;N.Y.<span>,"&nbsp;</span><em>Journal ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

...o last season beat all records by making fifteen home runs in championship games... The Philadelphia Evening Item March 29, 1884</p> ...ere are several of them that are excellent. The one giving the batter his base when hit by the pitcher is a good one I suppose I suffered more in this re

...the grand stand, and boys in unfiroms will sell the sweetmeats during the games. The Sporting Life February 16, 1887</p> ...Mr. Caylor. O. P. Continues to be a member of the staff and will dispense base ball comfort from New York as the season wears on. The Sporting Life Febru

|Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 1867 volume,&nbsp;a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel

|Game=Base Ball |Text=<p>[A] "BASE BALL. A closely contested game of base ball was played in Grafton on Friday afternoon last, between the Hassanamis

...n the children sat down to tea on the lawn. The repast being finished, the games resumed."</p>

...idge House in Hertfordshire: "After tea, various games, including croquet, base-ball, &c., were indulged in, and the excursionists left Aubray for their re

|Headline=Halliwell&#39;s 960-Page Dictionary Cites Base-ball, Rounders, Tut-ball ...ll was not a fan of sport. <b>Note:</b> can a list of the other safe-haven games be made?</p>

...ll also be canoe and boat races, Quoits and base ball, foot ball and other games and amusements too numerous to mention."</p>

...rting the various out-door games usual on such occasions, such as cricket, base-ball, swinging, jumping, &c., which were kept up with great spirit till abo

...ned to the field, where they again joined in the games, including cricket, base-ball, swings, &c., until eight o'clock.”</p>

|Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 10 November 1854 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Description=<p>"Base Ball Club-The Second Nine of the 'Fair Play Club,' of Easton has challenged ...lub.-Lovers of health-giving exercise have now an opportunity of joining a Base Ball Club, proposed to be formed in this town. A meeting will be held this