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|Headline=First Tour of English Eleven to US and Canada |Country=United States

|Name=Oriental Club of the 5th US Artillery v Oriental Club of the 5th US Artillery on 18 June 1867 |Country=United States

|Name=7th US Cavalry v 19th Kansas in 1869 |Country=United States

|Name=in New Delhi in 1942 ...ide <em>Daily Press</em>, Aug. 24, 1942, states that US soldiers stationed in New Delhi have at their base "an alley which serves as a baseball field."</

|Country=United States <p>The 7th US Infantry was part of the postwar occupation force in Florida.</p>

|Headline=Early Cricket Clubs in the South |Tags=US cricket clubs,

...irst baseball game/club" in 3,863 different US towns, and "first baseball" in 215 different countries and geographic entities.</p> {{#arraydefine:states|{{#ask:[[Category:States in United States]] | limit = 10000 | link=none }}}}

|Name=in Fort de France in 1919 ...hips calling at Fort-de-France gave a few exhibition games on the "savane" in 1919."</p>

|Headline=1828 Advertisement for the Cricket Club in New Orleans |Tags=US cricket clubs,

|Name=Try Us Club of Muskegon |Club Name=Try Us

|Name=First team of Japanese Immigrants to US |Country=United States

|Headline=Officers of US Chasseurs Play Base Ball |Country=United States

|Name=Try Us Club of Dundee |Club Name=Try Us

|Headline="Base" and Cricket Listed in Book of US Pastimes .... . ," is the first known book reference to the play of "base" ball in the US. [David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We

|Tags=Ball in the Culture, Newspaper Coverage, |Country=United States

|Name=in Brooklyn in July 1846 |Country=United States

|Name=Picked ballplayers from Sidney v Ball club of Co. G, 3rd US Cavalry on 22 August 1875 |Country=United States

|Name=Corinthians Club of Corinne v Club of the 13th US Infantry on 13 July 1870 |Country=United States

|Headline=Cricket Becoming "The National Game" in US: "Considerable Progress" Seen |Country=United States

|Name=In Washington in 1862 |Country=United States

|Date Note=Newcastle issued an open challenge in 1876 to all teams from King County |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...found several dollars in silver . . .&nbsp; We were small boys then all of us, and I was the youngest."&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-- Jonathan Mason</p>

|Country=United States ...played the Hancock BBC of the 1st US Artillery. Says the Hancock organized in 1866 as the Gulf BBC.</p>

|Name=Alamo Club of San Antonio v US Army garrison club on 2 November 1867 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...is ends the first match played in the United States between Americans. Let us hope it will not be the last."&nbsp; The New York club won this match, and

|Headline=Union Prisoners in Texas Given a Ball Ground – For a While ...mmandant allowed him to carry out, and relieved us ever afterward. He gave us a fine ball ground which was well occupied and proved a blessing.&rdquo;</p

|Headline=Finally, Cricket Played in America Without Mostly English Immigrants! ...posed mostly of American natives was the Philadelphia Cricket Club, formed in 1854."</p>

...and that they could not play us. I want all base ball clubs in the United States to know such thieves. They have stuck me ten or fifteen dollars for telegr

|Headline=NY Man: "We Used to Say Come Let Us Play Ball or Base Ball" |Country=United States

|Headline=Walt Whitman Sees Boys Playing "Base" in Brooklyn: "Glorious" |Country=United States

|Name=in Nashville in 1866 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...Inauguration of this Noble and Manly Game Among us. The Spread of Baseball in the South Prior to 1870," Base Ball, Fall 2012.</p>

...ic?]. We all hope to be at home one year hence to dine with those who love us. God grant it!&rdquo;</p> <p>One may infer that the 2^nd NJ remained at winter quarters in Alexandria VA at this time, providing protection to Washington. Facsimile s

|Headline=Chicago Marine Plays Base Ball in Louisiana <p>[March 10] &ldquo;Went out in the afternoon and exercised my men in company drill. Played a game of ball.&rdquo;</p>

|Country=United States ...>"There were sixty members of the first base ball club which was organized in 1867."

|Country=United States ...Buckeye Base-Ball Club. This was the first Base-ball Club gotten together in Cincinnati. The players were selected from the Woodward and Hughes High Sch

|Headline=Strolling Past a Ballgame in Elysian Fields |Tags=Ball in the Culture,

|Headline=US Has Twenty Cricket Clubs ...ere were a half dozen clubs in New York and about twenty around the United States."</p>

|Headline=The First Uniforms in US Baserunning Games? |Country=United States

...M Troop 6th Cavalry v Friendship Base Ball Club of H Troop 6th US Cavalry in December 1873 |Country=United States

...nd expelled players for revenge, and thus get the press and public down on us. We will do nothing of the kind. We can get plenty of good players, and w

...of ball games states: "There are few of us of either sex but have engaged in base-ball since our majority."</p>

|Headline=First female baseball team outside the US? |Country=United States

...vil War.&nbsp; In contrast, there are nearly 30 cases of known female play in England for this period.&nbsp;</p> ...goal might be to fashion a Chronology on early women's ballplaying in the US.</p>

|Headline=Second NJ Regiment Forms BB Club in Virginia Camp |Country=United States

|Country=United States |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1858.19 -- First KY Box Score Appears in Louisville Newspaper</p>

|Country=United States ...ic?]. We all hope to be at home one year hence to dine with those who love us. God grant it!"</span></p>

...The entry for northern spell describes a game without running or fielding, in which the object is to hit the ball farthest - "this pastime possesses but ...rough the 1880s, and also identifies this book as Henderson's key evidence in his refutation of the Doubleday theory of baseball's origin 11 years later.

...p in numbers. The officers with one or two exceptions mingled with the men in fun and friendship. We played Base Ball, Foot Ball and Snow Ball when there ...kee Scout" p. 89. He was with the light division, 6th Corps, near Falmouth in 1863.</p>

|Country=United States ...rip by the Marion Club in April 1860 to Norfolk VA and other destinations. In Norfolk they played a local club, the Sumter Club, and this game finished u

...es to recognize us, for it has been a great source of revenue to its clubs in having the privilege of selling its best players wherever and whenever it l

|Location=Massachusetts, United States |Game Regions=US

|Name=In Providence Circa 1855 |Country=United States

...requiring manly pluck and endurance, and mental judgment and intelligence, in as many hours as cricket requires days.</p>

|Name=in Wake Island in 1940 |Country=United States

|Headline=Playing of Hole-less Two-Old-Cat in Providence RI |Country=United States

|Game Regions=US ...h County PA (about 50 miles NE of Philadelphia) recalls the game as played in the 1850s as having two bases about 25 paces apart, plugging, a fly rule, a

|Description=<p>From William Humber's "Early Baseball in Canada" manuscript, 9/14/12:</p> ...thusiast, who according to Bryan D. Palmer in Culture in Conflict had died in 1869 and was paraded to his grave site by his fellow shoemakers and other w

|Location=US, |Country=United States

|Headline=<u>Harper&#39;s</u> Suggests Plugging Still Used in Base-ball |Location=US,

|Name=in Nashville in July 1860 |Country=United States

|Headline=Cricket Club formed in Savannah, GA in 1859 |Tags=US cricket clubs,

|Headline=Survey Reports Cricket in New England, Playing at Ball in TN |Location=US South

|Country=United States ...The article notes that the game is seldom played in the US, but is popular in the Staffordshire (England) Potteries. It suggests that the players here we

|Country=United States ...the Wichita Beacon of that year as saying "The base ball mania has reached us." The book gives further 1874-75 newspaper excerpts commenting on the unifo

|Text=<p>[Thursday May 4, 1865] &ldquo;Not much to do in camp. Most of us playing ball.&rdquo;</p> ...ce on the next day, and three days later &ldquo;Ella and I married at 7:00 in the evening.&rdquo;</p>

|Country=United States ...possibly the first club west of NYC/NJ was established in Detroit Michigan in the summer of 1857. The club, comprising mostly printers from the Detroit

|Location=US, |Country=United States

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Of the 4th US Cavalry</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Of the 10th US Infantry</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Of the 1st US Artillery</p>

|Country=United States ...Enterprise and Mohawk Base Ball Clubs, resulting in a defeat of the latter in a score of 15 to 10."</p>

|Name=In Newport Circa 1862 |Country=United States

|Tags=Bans, US cricket clubs, |Country=United States

|Headline=US Editor Promotes Cricket as the "National Game" |Country=United States

base ball, and many an hour was spent at Camp Schaffer in this "In the afternoon eight boys of the 24th Wisconsin played ball

|Headline=24,000 Attend US-England All-Star Cricket Match at Elysian Fields |Country=United States

...ng> Note: </strong>can we find the location of the 1^st Regiment in late 1861? Are there other accounts of this unit that may add details to th ...Blue and Gray</span>, page 33. Lewis makes no other mention of ballplaying in this history.</p>

|Headline=In NC, Negroes Face 15 Lashes for Ballplaying |Location=US South

|Headline=Seymour: Cricket Groups Meet to Try to Form US [National] Cricket Club |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...s a fine opportunity to the young men engaged in mercantile pursuits...Let us have Base Ball Clubs organized, then, and the fun commenced."</p>

|Name=in Pearl City in 1890 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...ription=<p>Warrington was just west of then Pensacola, and the site of the US naval yard</p>

|Headline=Eventual National League Prexy Sticks with Cricket in War Camp |Location=US,

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Carlisle Barracks was a US army training depot</p>

|Country=United States ...the Civil War started in April 1861.&nbsp; Twenty-seven of the thirty-four States had seen the game by then.</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Composed of members of Co. H, 6th US Cavalry</p>

...we hereby invite the following representative clubs to be the participants in the tournament:</p> ...give notice that we will be prepared to defend our title of Champion Club in the base ball season of 1871. New York Dispatch October 16, 1870</p>

|Country=United States ...inity and throughout the country, as have printed Rules of Play, will send us a copy of the same."</p>

|Country=United States ...ntry and the Shamrock club of the 5th Cavalry, won by the Light Foot 14-10 in a five inning game.

|Country=United States ...etween the 1st and 2nd nines of the baseball club, the former winning 15-6 in 5 innings. Charles Maurice is the captain of the 1st nine. Maurice was repo

|Headline=Ballplaying by Slaves is Part of a Normal Plantation Sunday in GA |Location=US South

|Country=United States ...isted of 12 acres in the southwest part of the city. The grounds were sold in October 1867. Charlotte Democrat, Oct. 15, 1867.</p>

|Country=United States ...lia of Norfolk and the Panama club of Gosport Naval Yard, the US navy base in Portsmouth.</p>

|Country=United States </p><p>Lawrence MA (1860 pop. about 18,000 -- 51st largest US city then) is about 25 miles N of Boston and near the NH state line.

|Game Regions=US, Britain |Description=<p>It appears that shinty was a bat-and-ball game known in Britain and Ireland and America before 1800 (Strutt, 1903 reprinting, page

|Country=United States ...rom any Base Ball Club in the state..." Challenges to be mailed to the 7th US Cavalry.</p>

|Name=in Lake City in December 1865 |Country=United States

...rly by us and in as bad faith as has been the case. They broke faith with us last year when they promised to abolish the $2,000 limit clause and did not ...could have got along with out. How Glasscock and Denny will kick. I see in the papers that there will be a great rush of players to sign before Dec. 1

|Country=United States ...; a certain game of ball.&nbsp; We wish such sights were more common among us. . . .&nbsp; &nbsp; The game of ball, especially its best game, cricket, is