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|Headline="Base" and Cricket Listed in Book of US Pastimes ...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

|Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...it-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes. <strong>Note:</strong>: But not trap-ball? Not rounders? Moor muses: "It is not unpleasing thus to see at a glance su

|Headline=Young Andrew Johnson Plays Cat and Bass Ball and Bandy in Raleigh NC |Game=Bass Ball

|Headline=MA Gents Recall Boyhood Games in 1830s: Cat, Wicket, OFBB ...he old fashioned kind of base ball when a foul was known as a tick; when a ball, which was not an instrument of torture as now, was thrown at a runner inst

|Headline=New England Lad Recalls Assorted Games, Illicit Fast Day Ballplaying |Game=Base Ball

|Headline=Schoolboy Game of "Three Base Ball" Recalled in Brooklyn |Game=Base Ball

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

|Term=Two Old Cat |Description=<p>From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat"</p>

...t Strutt views a game he calls "club ball" as the precursor to this set of games, but notes that modern scholars are skeptical about this proposition.</p>

...- but it employs a&nbsp;section of animal horn, or a sort stick, and not a ball.&nbsp;</p> ...an>(v. 1 p. 210) lists as the third meaning for "billet" the game of [[Tip-Cat]] and connects it to Derbyshire."</p>

|Headline=Games Recalled at Phillips Exeter Academy ...Col. George Kent wrote this verse in response to an inquiry about student games from 1807 at Exeter:</p>

|Game=Town Ball ...a three-cornered game and a paddle instead of a bat was used to strike the ball.</p>The author of this book was born in 1862. The date refereed to above is

|Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>CDJ Aug. 31, 1858: "Base Ball--It is gratifying to see this manly, healthful game, coming again into gene

...<i>Little Pretty Pocket-Book</i> Refers to "Base-Ball," "Stooleball, "Trap-Ball," Cricket |Game=Cricket, English Base Ball,

|Headline=Games of Foot and Base ball between drills ...t Capt. Reynolds' in afternoon." and on the 23rd, &ldquo;witnessed game of ball between 7th Independent NY Battery] and Battery L. Latter beaten 13 to 6. O

|Headline="Many Different Kinds of Ball" Remembered |Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball

|Term=Cat (Kat) |Description=<p>For a recent description of Cat/Old-Cat, see&nbsp;<strong>Supplemental Text below.</strong>&nbsp;</p>

...to be played in the streets of London in the 17th century. Billet, or tip cat, was also a favourite game for this day, and in some parts of the North of ...otes=<p>The suggestion of baseball in 17th-century London is an intriguing one, but there is no supporting evidence for the claim. The article was the sec

|Title=A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball ...60]), pp. 54-56), the father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more like

...base ball in 1860. See Chronology entry [[1831.1]] and [[Philadelphia Town Ball]] for additional historical context.</p> |Query=<p>Do we really only have three games for this historic clubs, which endured until 1887?</p>