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|Headline="The Game of Ball" Banned in Area of Belfast ME ...e:</b> Williamson does not provide original sources for the 1820 ordinance or for the 1805 claim.</p>

|Name=Arcadian Club of Portland v Collegiate Club of Salem on 23 October 1874 |State=OR

|Name=Portland Base Ball Club v Tri-Mountain Club of Boston on 9 September 1858 |Home Team=Portland Base Ball Club

|Headline=Fast Day Choice in ME: Hear a "Fact Sermon" or Play Ball? .... Turner is now a town of about 5000 souls and is about 60 miles north of Portland and 30 miles west of Augusta. <b>Note:</b> Is the "fact sermon" simply

|Headline=Roundball Recalled in Maine |Text=<p>Before modern base ball arrived around 1865, local boys played (in addition to "three-year-old cat" and barnball, the game of Roundball):</p>

...e &lsquo;tournament&rsquo;, which has awakened such a wide-spread interest in all parts of the country...&rdquo;&nbsp;</p> ...<p>Few and far between in prior years, festivals or tournaments mushroomed in 1865, for example:</p>

...uisville, and Chicago clubs (as reported in our columns from time to time) in convincing proof of the interest which is realized by their respective play ...k hold of base ball in its infancy, when there were but two or three clubs in existence, and we shall yet see the day when they will number as many thous

...and at one time the novel sight was presented of the waving of some three or four thousand of these flags of truce, the appearance being that of a gathe ...ncluding W. H Farrar, A. G. Safford, and Captain Lewis, who, after playing in a match on Saturday, left home to see the model-players.</p>

|State=OR ...pose of perfecting the organization.&nbsp; All those desiring to take part in this interesting amusement are requested to be present at the appointed hou

|First Name=Jacob 'Jack' ...t appeared in Distant Replay! Washington's Jewish Sports Heroes, published in 2014 by the Washington State Jewish Historical Society.</p>

...t. In the newly collected data on the SABR "Spread of Base Ball" site, and in Protoball, a surprising number and variety of claims of area championships |beat Lowell BBC of Boston 28-17. In Oct. Lowell beat Harvard 40-37 and claimed the state championship.

| <p>Green Mountain Boys (W)</p> <p>Olympic (L)</p> <p>(first match)</p> ...mpic president Albert S. Flye, regarding dispute over rules to be followed in these two games])</p>

...on research that I have been conducting on the development of the baseball in the 19^th Century over the last 6 years. Any additional informati Baseballs are constructed of cores consisting of nuts, bullets, rocks or shoe rubber gum and even sturgeon eyes <ref>Woodbury Reporter, March 6, 192

Version 1.0, posted 9/19/2014 -- ''Local-Origins Issue #1 – Uniforms in Early Base Ball'' ...ouis IL . . . I wonder if they ever played the Dirty Feet BBC of Rushville IN?) Craig’s group will be sorting through these bits, and producing images

...fore another military man, one Abner Doubleday allegedly invented the game in the sleepy east central New York village of Cooperstown.</p> ...s march might have been fifteen miles, to locate a spot flat enough to get in the game. Clearly this game meant something more to Henry Dearborn and his