Glossary of Games
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A list of 329 baseball-like game
Terms by Family
- Baseball Family of Games
- 21st Century Townball, Aleut Baseball, American Cricket, Aqejolyedi, Ba'Baises, Bace, Backyard Cricket, Ball-Bias, Ball-Paces, Ball-Stock, Banana Ball, Bandy-Wicket, Base Ball, Baseball, Baseball on Ice, Baseball5, Baste Ball, Bat-and-Ball, Battle Board, Beep Baseball, Bete-Ombro, Billets, Bittle-Bat, Bo-Ball, Bowlywicket, Brannboll (Brennball), British Baseball (Welsh Baseball), Bunting, Burn Ball, California Base Ball Variant, Canadian Game, Cat-and-Bat, Cat-and-Dog, Cavalry Base Ball, Chapita, Chermany, Cluich an Tighe, Codlings, Coed Softball, Continuous Cricket, Cricket, Cricket -- US, Cuck-ball, Cudgel, Danish Longball, De Kat, Diamond Ball, Donkey Baseball, Dully, Dutch Long... further results
- Kickball Family of Games
- Ball and Bases, Balle au Camp, Balyagu, Beezy, Boston Ball, Cat i’ The Hole, Cerkelspelen (Circle-Game?), Cora, Diamond Discus, German Bat Ball, Hit the Stick, House Ball, Kersa, Kick the Ball, Kickball, Langball, Matball (Big Base), Off-the-Wall, Palm Ball (Slap Ball), Pie-Ball, Pize Ball, Punchball, Tut-Ball
- Scrub Family of Games
- Anauligatuk, Barn Ball (House Ball), Feeder, Ins and Withs, Kick the Can, Kick the Wicket, Move-Up, Munshets, One O’ Cat, One, Two, Three, Rotation, Rounds, Scrub, Slapball, Two Old Cat, Workup
- Fungo Family of Games
- Balloon, Bottle Caps, Box Baseball, Bunt, Cashhornie, Cat (Kat), Catch a Fly, Changers, Corkball, Curb Ball, Dab-an Thricker, Drive Ball, Evansville Townball, Five Hundred, Flip Up, Flys-Are-Up, Flies-Up, French Cricket, Fungo, Fuzz-Ball, Grutz, Gulli-Danda, Half-Rubber, Hit the Bat, Hoina, Hornie-Holes (also Kittie-Cat), Indian Ball, Kibel and Nerspel, Kichke-Pale, Knock-Out, Line Ball, Long Ball (US Batting Game), Norr and Spell, Northern Spell, Off The Point, Peanut Baseball, PeeGee Ball, Pepper, Pingball, Pitching-In, Porschek, Sky-Ball, Stoopball, Strike Up and Lay Down, Strike-Out, T-Ball For One Boy (and one other 'player'), Thin Mugoali, Three Man Ball -- Hit It Out, Tip-e-Up, Tire-Ball, Trap Ball... further results
- Hat ball Family of Games
- Aipuni, Call Ball, Catch-Ball, Corner Ball, Dodgeball, Doutee Stool, Egg-Hat, Hat Ball, Hole-Ball, Kappenspiel, Kekivar, King’s Play (Cluich an Righ), Monday, Tuesday, Nations, Nine Holes, Off The Wall, Off the Stoop, Petjeball, Retenido, Roley Poley, Running Base, Rushing Bases, Sockball, Wibble-Wobble
- Hook-em-snivy Family of Games
- Ball Stand, Balslaen, Bandy, Base (Prisoner's Base), Base Dodge Ball, Bat-Ball, Batton, Bittle-Battle, Buff-Ball, Bull Pen, Cat's Pallet, Club-ball, Crekettes, Gi-Gi Ball, Gidigadie, Hand-in-Hand-Out, Hittera Ball, Hook-em-Snivy, Hunyou-Shinyou, Knattleikar or Knattleikr, Kuningsapallo, Mickey, Norwegian Ball, Old Grope, Pitkapallo, Poltopallo, Prisoner's Base -- see 'Base', Rickets, Shinty, Square Ball, Swede Ball, Tabeh, Throw Ball, Touch-Ball, Touch-the-Base, Tripbal, Up-Ball, Whirl, Whoop
Those attempting to learn about the origins of baseball confront a large zoo of different games that are candidates as predecessor games. Even more complicated is the array of names for those games as they evolved over the years; some games appear to have sported different names, depending on the region and the era of play; and some names – including “baseball” -- have been used for rather different games.
This glossary is intended to provide a focus for our learning, as a group of researchers, about the full range of “safe-haven” games and their names. We hope that users will add other games, and tell us of mistakes in the current version. We chose to call this set of games “safe haven” games because what they seem to have in common: a set of bases where players gain immunity from being put out, and for which a round trip results in a run. (Some writers have called these games the “stick and ball” games, which would, if taken literally, embrace croquet and golf and tennis, etc., and would exclude kick-ball and punch-ball and all games played with cats instead of balls. Tom Altherr has used the term “baseball-like games,” and Richard Hershberger uses “the baseball family” to denote the class of games of interest. [Richard thus denotes a subset of the baseball kind of games, but omitting non-US games, two-base games, games arising after 1870, and the o’cat games]. Doubtless future usage will define agreeable generic terms to better convey say what we all mean.)
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