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|Headline=Plymouth MA Boys Play Round Ball, Other Ballgames: Ballmaking Described ...it with good, tightly spun twine. Attempts were occasionally made to play ball in the streets, but the by-laws of the town forbidding it were rigidly enfo

|Headline=Children's Book Describes Trap Ball and its Benefits |Game=Trap Ball,

|Headline=Princess Nausica and Maids Play Catch |Game=Hand-ball

|Game=Cricket, Trap Ball ...t who had been watching some children playing ball games approved of their play and promised 'to provide bats, balls, &amp;c' at his next visit."</p>

|Title=Pize Ball in South Yorkshire on August 20 1921 |Block Game=Pize Ball

|Title=early proposal for inter-league play; a championship of the country ...eventy games for the championship of its own organization and twenty-eight games for the championship of the country or both organization—ninety-eight in

|Text=<p>[from a letter from the Mutual Club:] 1st. All the games of the tournament to be played on the Union Grounds of Williamsburgh</p> <p>2d. The club winning two out of three games to be declared the “Champions.”</p>

...em>, and is also collecting data on female play of base ball's predecessor games.</p>

...neral resort for ball players. It is unquestionably a fine locality for a ball ground, and one that will afford a good opportunity for spectators, as 10,0 ...games in home and home contests. ... We commend these facilities for base ball matches to all parties who desire a good ground for a game. The liberality

|Title=the Knickerbockers at play ...le should be followed, and that is, that even in their practice-games they play according to the strict rules of the game, balls being called for unfair de

|Headline=Portsmouth NH Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games ...o $3.30 pus court costs for those who "play cricket or any game in which a ball is used."&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

|Headline=English Boys Play Ball "To the Grave Peril of Their Souls" ...as well as to the grave peril of their souls." And the sanction for such play? "We . . . proclaim solemnly that any malefactors whatever of this kind [i

|Headline=German Book of Games Copies Gutsmuths&#39; Base-ball Piece ...ment also derivative of the Gutsmuths text, or does it confirm "base-ball" play in England in the 1820s and 1830s?</p>

|Headline=Mayan Games Played at Chichen Itza, Mexico |Text=<p>Mayan Indians play stick and ball games in ceremonial courts in Chichen Itza, Mexico</p>

|Headline=NYC Group Begins Play, Later [1845] Will Form Knickerbocker Base Ball Club ...autumn of 1845 the group will organize formally as the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York City.</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...make us play another inning, we asked the umpire of the Metropolitan Base-Ball Club, which is composed of grown-up gentlemen, if he could do so, and he as

|Title=swapping players for exhibition games ...ects be as well-contested a game on the part of each Club as any they will play this season. We are told that all the railroads centering on Dayton will r

|Title=practice games are useless ...the way of prizes for good batting and fielding, then an effort is made to play well, and the game becomes a practice game in reality.</p>

..., but using a simple catapult to put into play a 3-inch stick instead of a ball. Fly outs retire the batsman. The bases are the four street-corners at an i |Sources=<p><span>Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn, N.Y.<span>", page 231.</span></p>

...trap ball . . . ," is the first known book reference to the play of "base" ball in the US. [David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball |Comment=<p>The cited lines were from an appendix to Smith's book on American games, written by Samuel Woodworth c. 1835. ][ba]</p>