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|Name=Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 26 October 1859 |City=Albany

|City=Albany ...Commercial Register</em> (Sandusky, Ohio) April 27, 1854, quoting the <em>Albany Register.</em>&nbsp;</p>

|Text=<p>The Auburn N.Y. Journal in commenting upon the revolving system, says:–</p> ...ng money. It is not laudable, and as now conducted, cannot be made honest or respectable.</p>

|Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1860.43 &ndash;- Three Ball Clubs Form in VT Village</p> ...lubs were organized during the year or two preceding 1861. Perhaps no game or exercise, outside military drill, was ever practiced, so well calculated as

...the ball-players of one regiment or brigade to challenge another regiment or brigade.&rsquo; He added: &lsquo;These matches were watched by great crowds ...^th NY was in winter camp at White Oak Church, near Falmouth VA, in 1862-63. Stevens was a regimental surgeon.</p>

|Headline=Pupil in Class Seen to "Scamper like a Boy at Bass-ball" ...nswer.&nbsp; The teacher pressed him on his answer:&nbsp; "Did you say 'a' or 'e'?"</p>

|Headline=First Catcher's Glove? About 1870, Perhaps ...tocking catcher Doug Allison wearing gloves in 1870: 'Allison caught today in a pair of buckskin mittens to protect his hands.'<em>&nbsp;Cincinnati Comme

|Headline=MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood ...and base ball (no scientific games or balls as hard as a white oak boulder in those days) excepted when pressed into service to ride the horse to plough

|Text=<p>"Ball was a common diversion in Vermont while I lived there; yet I never became proficient at it, probably ...eley, born in New Hampshire in 1811, was apprenticed a Poultney VT printer in about 1825.</p>

...iladelphia, Pittsburg, Buffalo, and Detroit are expected to be represented in the new League. Wire your acceptance to Col. L. A. Harris,</p> ...ears the selfish policy of the League has held base-ball interest in check in these cities. With a chance given them to put teams into a new organizatio

|Text=<p>(summarizing rules of the Sabbath in the New Netherland colony)</p> ..., going boating, traveling with barges, carts, or wagons, before, between, or during the Holy worship."</p>

...to the number of players. Only one old cat continues to be commonly played in the 21st century.</p> ...ne against all&mdash;and not a team sport. Each base touched before 'out' (or just home) would score a point, although score was often not kept.</p>

|Description=Tips on Linking Ballgames to Clubs in the Pre-Pro Data Base ...mplicated the club exists and the names don't match; that is covered later in the article.

|Title=the AA's eighth club; tried to place a club in Chicago ...ican Association. The triumvirs feared to give the Association a foothold in a city where they are none too popular. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Janu

|Headline=Military Unit Plays "Bat and Ball" in Northern NYS |Text=<p>In 1758, Benjamin Glazier recorded in his diary that "Captain Garrish's company played 'bat and ball'" near Fort

...delegates voted with Wildey throughout—and the Pastimes, of Little Falls. In fact, a more complete farce was never exhibited than was presented by the s

{{Other First |Name=First Intercollegiate Game by Association Rules

|Title=the Brotherhood's first reaction to the Brush plan; retrospective on the $2,000 limit ...ot going to sit idly by and allow the League to deal as unfairly by us and in as bad faith as has been the case. They broke faith with us last year when

...d from the start, and in the sixth inning led by a score of 37 to 24. But in the seventh inning the Brooklyn party pulled up and were rapidly gaining gr ...udgment says dat am foul.” ... The game finally ended up about six o’clock in a regular row, the Umpire being carried off by the Quaker City “darkies,�

...] class teams were competing at Union, setting the stage for the College's first know extra-mural game.</p> ...pised."&nbsp;<em>Union College Magazine,&nbsp;</em><span>June 1860, quoted in Wayne Somers,</span><span>Encyclopedia of Union College History</span><span