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|Name=Ballgame in Modlin on 30 May 1919 |Country=Poland

|Title=a catcher's glove manufacturer ...so that in the years which have followed the German and his wife have made a small fortune. Snyder's visit to that little room on that spring morning n

...g by a quarter of a mile broad–is to be placed in fielding condition early in April for the use of the school and academy clubs of Brooklyn, and amateur ...and will not only be the largest, but one of the best-kept grounds in the country. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch March 17, 1872</p>

|Country=United States ...rted fellows roll, one over another, in a wrestling match, a foot race, or a party at base ball are the leading variations on the more formal duties of

|Title=a German language baseball column ...s. It is done because a great many German citizens are taking an interest in the new Club.</p>

|Title=a description of the Cuban Giants ...playing, and, from a spectative point of view, it is one of the best teams in the city to see., quoting the New York Sun</p>

|Title=a proposed round robin tournament for the championship ...lity each year. National Chronicle March 12, 1870 [see also NC 4/2/70 for a refinement to this proposal.]</p>

...season) he was transformed while in the box from a cool-headed general to a nervous and excited amateur. He was afraid to use his deceptive inshoot fo

|Country=United States ...om Childress ...Less than a month later, in July, the Amarillo team hosted a series of games against Roswell [NM]."</span></p>

...e the nerve to keep it up all the season round. Een the Phillies weakened in sliding as the season advanced last year.</p>

|Name=Ball in Fort Smith in January 1864 |Country=United States

|Name=in Broadview in 1883 |Country=Canada

...e end of the season. Cincinnati Enquirer July 4, 1882 [N.B. The purpose in cutting the ball was to force its being replaced.]</p> ...000. The managers propose to double this next season in order to secure a first-class nine. Philadelphia Times July 9, 1882</p>

...of misfortune was one of the most esteemed and worthy ball-players in the country.</p>

|Headline=Stoolball Played, in Co-ed Form |Country=England

|Title=Tut Ball in Staffordshire on January 4 1924 ...precluded the possibility of providing other apparatus than a penny ball.” A description of the game then followed.</p>

|Name=Ballgame in Hualien in 1921 |Country=Taiwan

|Title=dissension in the Baltimore Club ...next, it is to be hoped that the Boston club will be sent home with a flea in its ear.</p>

|Headline="A Balk Is A Base" |Country=United States

|Name=Amarillo team v Childress team in 1899 |Country=United States

|Name=Midland v Colorado in Midland on 22 July 1890 |Country=United States

...1859 -- State Championship Wicket Game in Connecticut: A Hearty Hurrah for a Doomed Pastime |Is in library=Yes

|Title=a proposal to give a base hit on a sacrifice ...sacrifice hitting credits, would met the approval of every manager in the country.</p>

|Headline=Hawkeyes beat Suckers in Corinth, MS |Country=United States

|Title=Ted Sullivan a League scout ...ball organizations. He is probably the best judge of a ball player in the country...</p>

|Name=in Seoul on 23 October 1894 |Country=Korea

...on its outskirts runs a small stream which finds it way from the mountains in the distance. The Sporting Life November 3, 1886 [N.B. This appears to b

...hey would not support a picayunish management. We are free to say this is a mistake, and believe it will be corrected. Cincinnati Enquirer May 15, 187 ...simply carrying out a policy practiced in every other city where there is a Club. Cincinnati Enquirer May 16, 1877</p>

|Title=a country catcher and the chest protector ...ith a sharp foul tip. Once more he took a drop and has been catching with a mask ever since. St.</p>

|Country=United States ...s think it no harm to play Ball, Draughts, or play the Fiddle and dance of a Sunday . . . "</p>

|Title=a proposal for a minor league convention to reduce salaries ...hand at once, they will vote themselves the most royal band of “producers” in the land. The Sporting Life August 22, 1888</p>

|Name=in Jayapura in 1944 |Country=Indonesia

|Name=in Madrid on 5 July 1918 |Country=Spain

|Headline=Sunday Ballplaying Eyed Everywhere: "Is This a Christian Country?" ...e upper end of Pearl-street; and a third in the Park. Is this a Christian country? Are there no laws, human or divine, to enforce the religious observance o

|Name=in Illiopolis in 1868 |Country=United States

|Title=organization and finances of a western tour ...en let the remainder of the nine travel around and have their fun with the country clubs.</p>

|Is in library=No |Is in main bibliography=No

|Title=a resume of Wright & Ditson ...d his firm has control of nearly all lawn tennis appurtenances of any note in the United States and Canada.</p>

|Name=in Djibouti in 2004 |Country=Djibouti

|Title=desparate for a catcher ...tinger says he will give any manager in the country a bonus of$1,000 for a first-class catcher, and will pay the catcher himself an increase on present sala

...anufacture a ball of the kind. We hope to learn that the name on the ball in question has been fraudulently used; if not, we shall feel called upon to e

|Headline=Scottish Dictionary Calls "Cat and Dog" a Game for Three |Country=Scotland

...s services. It is a great deal easier to win games in the fall and winter in the imagination and on paper than it is on the field during the next season

|Headline=First Known Picture of Cricket Appears ...2 feet wide and 1 foot tall, with two stumps and a single bail." Received in an email from John Thorn, 2/1/2008. Source:</p>

|Headline=Base Ball in Melbourne? |Country=Australia

|Title=the Mutuals can't buy a pennant; managing a professional nine ...he organization he plays with. Until this is done, no club may expect tow in with their nine, no matter who the players are or what their celebrity who

...am at home and abroad. They are in use in all the base-ball cities in the country.</p>

...ccordingly laid his wires to get even on the St. Louis gentleman. He kept a sharp lookout for his players while at home.</p> ...reatened with expulsion. He had been doing the town the night before with a young friend from Philadelphia and did not care to play any ball.</p>

..."indoor baseball." There is a single&nbsp;base to run to, scoring by runs, a three-out-side-out rule, and no foul ground. Plugging is allowed.</p> ...nd England, <em>Schlagball</em> in Germany and Silesia and <em>Palant</em> in Poland.</p>

|Title=A Century of Philadelphia Cricket |Author=Lester, J. A.

|Headline=11th MA and 26th PA Play by Mass Game Rules for $50 a Side. ...oted: &lsquo;we have four clubs in our brigade, and there are several more in the division.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>

...$1000 rule is abominable. For instance, a $2500 player an be reserved by a club for $1000, and if he is dissatisfied he has no redress whatever, and i

|Name=Old Cat?? in Milwaukee in 1836 |Country=United States

|Name=in Kenitra in 1943 |Country=Morocco

|Title=Pize Ball in West Yorkshire on August 9 1879 ...en played according to rule—and it is seldom played otherwise—it is a game in which spectators take almost an equal interest with the participants.”</p

|Name=in Tama on 4 July 1871 |Country=United States

|Name=Ballgame in Spain in 1889 |Country=Spain

|Title=a proposal to eliminate the recording of errors ...y beat the record of the best catcher in the country. The error column is a constant source of jealousy among players, and causes more internal dissens

|Country=United States ...on running must be put out by being hit with the ball when he is more than a pace from his pace, etc."</span></p>

{{Other First |Name=First Known Interstate Challenge of a Men's Team by a Female Team

...d a herculean game in which a cannonball was hurled into one of nine holes in the ground.&rdquo;</p> ...ment involved.<strong> Note:</strong> can we locate the article? There was a juvenile English game called None Holes.</p>

|Country=United States ...fair, provided full pitched balls be sent in, as it is neither a jerk nor a throw, and what is neither one nor the other is fair pitching, according to

|Country=United States ...l on the comon, their would be an other class piching quaits, an other set a wrestling."&nbsp;</p>

|Title=a proposal for a professional championship tournament ...The idea is to have a week’s play in which the four leading clubs of the country would meet each other, thereby playing six games, the winner of the greates

...District - dating back centuries and, by the 1920s, the game of Palant had a popular following.”</p> ...t [Pilka Palantowa] as the Silesian game played in Jamestown VA in 1609 by a small group of Polish craftsmen.</p>

|Title=winter baseball in Florida ...fe of ease and comfort in a beautiful climate with expenses guaranteed and a good profit assured. Besides base ball, the park will be used for bicycle,

|Name=in Tbilisi in 1987 |Country=Georgia

...es as the older players grow rust and drop out, as they invariably must in a certain number of seasons. St.</p>

|Name=Athlete Club of Princeton, IN |Country=United States

|Title=a record crowd; clearing the field ...The excitement was intense throughout and it appeared to be bordering on a riot at one time.</p>

...hronicle of Sports and Pastimes March 12, 1868 (see issue of 3/19/1868 for a long description of the scoring method.)</p>

|Title=a pickpocket at the Fashion Course game ..., alias Jackson, alias “Squib Nickson,” was discovered on the ground, with a professional companion, and both were arrested on suspicion.</p>

|Name=In Boston in 1854 |Country=United States

...icap shall bring them on an equality. ... The League, as it now stands, is a powerful and self-asserting minority. The League should be an overwhelming

|Title=A Short History of Baseball in Miami and Miami Beach |Is in library=No

|Country=United States |State=IN

...dom carry with them the sympathy or good wishes of the lovers of base ball in any city which they may visit.</p>

|Title=the definition of a home run ...o the in field. We have thus explained this matter for the benefit of our country readers.</p>

|Headline=12th Kansas plays ball in Fort Smith ...trong writes about camp entertainment in his journal on January 14th, 1864 in Fort Smith, AR:</p>

...en let the remainder of the nine travel around and have their fun with the country-clubs.</p>

|Name=in Sulaymaniyah Circa 1970 |Country=Iraq

|Title=A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870 |Author=Adelman, M. A.

|Name=Predecessor Game in Lowell in 1859 |Country=United States

...be four cities in the country which can pay the salaries and retain a team in the League.</p>

|Headline=Town-ball in IN Later [and Vaguely?] Recalled |Country=United States

...some points. The Sporting Life October 22, 1884 [see also TSL 841029 for a response that the problem was Thompson’s mismanagement.]</p>

|Name=in Guyana in 2012 |Country=Guyana

|Headline=President's Peace Medal Depicts Baseball Game in Background |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Famous, Images,

|Country=England ...xt-decoration: underline;">The Children in the Wood</span>, wanndered into a Briotish town where children were playing at trap and ball.</p>

|Text=<p>"BASE BALLS. Manner and Extent of the Manufacture in this Country - How they were Made Fifty Years Ago - Gradual Progress of the Business," < ...s. A blow with the bat would not drive them so far as one of the balls now in use can be driven with the same force, but when they struck the ground they

|Headline=Indiana Regiment plays Town Ball in NC ...engaged in a game of town-ball, and exhibiting as much spirit and dash as a young blood of twenty five..."</p>

|Name=in Wrangell on 4 July 1915 |Country=United States

|Headline="Struck a Ball Over the (163-foot) Weather-cock" in New York |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1988/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|First Newspaper Mention=1860/04/02 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Headline=Soldier in TN asks sister to send him a baseball ...going to send the Ball." I have another letter to document this is clearly in regard to baseball!</p>

|Country=United States ...a gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied; a bar or rod, used in playing wicket."</p>

|Title=1755 -- 'The Bat and Ball;' A Distinct Game or a Generic Term? |Is in library=Yes

|Is in library=No |Is in main bibliography=No

|Title=a correction to Rule Ten ...adopted, the whole of Rule 10, as printed, being thrown out. The Doctor, in his communication, says:–“The rule, as adopted by the Convention, and w