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- {{All Predecessor Games|Country=China|City=Canton}}51 bytes (7 words) - 17:24, 28 July 2019
- {{All Predecessor Games|Country=China|City=Xiamen}}51 bytes (7 words) - 08:41, 21 February 2021
- |Name=Ballgame in China in 1874 |Country=China803 bytes (122 words) - 18:55, 6 June 2020
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- ...al Star by Bill Adams says "the first baseball club in Pekin was organized in September of 1860 and called the Celestial Base Ball Club of Pekin."<br />T <p>Pekin (1870 pop. 5696) was named after Pekin(g), China, then known as the Celestial Kingdom. Hence the team's nickname.</p>2 KB (241 words) - 13:13, 14 December 2021
- |Name=in Singapore in 1868 ...m> won a game probably played at Singapore against a team from the British China squadron." The Americans won 66-28. Seymour suggests that many of the Engli2 KB (263 words) - 12:19, 6 August 2020
- ...yed the Tokio [sic] BBC Oct. 14, 1876 on the grounds of the "Kaisei Gokko" in Tokio. Tokio won 27-19. A rematch was played Oct. 21st (box score given). A <p>See also North China Herald, Nov. 2, 1876.</p>1 KB (235 words) - 05:18, 9 June 2021
- ...nge sport is fond in the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh</em>, one of the first works of literature ever written. It was carved into cuneiform tablet ...d up with his ball (game), the young men of Uruk are continually disturbed in their bedrooms (with a summons to play)"]</p>2 KB (394 words) - 15:11, 25 November 2020
- <p>The game is (arguably) recorded in 1300 in England, and for sure in 1598. See Altham, "A History of Cricket" p. 18-19, and Green, "A History of ...ates, led by Connecticut and Massachusetts. It seems to have crested in the post Civil War era, and town vs. town matches, some using teams of as m3 KB (441 words) - 05:52, 11 April 2023
- |Title=The First Baseball Game In Mexico ...ssional baseball leagues began. The article below was originally published in John Thorne’s MLB history blog, “Our Game.”10 KB (1,624 words) - 14:27, 12 September 2021
- ...hich included the rules of rounders and also the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond. Alice Gomme, in her 1894 work on British games,1 writes that Rounders was generally played37 KB (6,000 words) - 08:36, 24 February 2022