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...dline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...3. "Games with a Ball" treats stool-ball, trap-ball, tip-cat, among other games, and owes much to Strutt (see 1801 entry, above). The writer advises, "[St

|Headline=Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described |Game=Stoolball,Horne-Billets,Kit-Cat,Tutball

...en. It is illustrated as “La Batonet” in the charming series of children’s games designed by Stella and published in Paris, 1657, as “Les Jeux et Plaisiri

|Term=Cat i’ The Hole ...son. All but one player stands by a hole, holding a stick [called a “cat.”] The last player, holding a ball, gives a signal, and the others ru

|Headline=Throwback Game of Cat-and-Dog Seen in Pittsburgh |Game=Cat-and-Dog

|Term=Cat's Pallet ...for the space of two hours . . . . Thus, Gidigadie may be another name for Cat’s Pallet. The rules of this game are as yet unknown.</p>

|Term=Tip-Cat ...ok</em>, but adds the feature that the fielding player tries to return the cat to the hitter&rsquo;s circle such that the hitter does not hit it away agai

|Term=Cat-and-Dog ...ers the hole, defender and thrower switch places. Gomme, who uses the name Cat and Dog Hole, describes a game using a ball in which a stone replaces the h

|Headline=Indianans Play Town Ball, Two Old Cat |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games

|Game=Old Cat |Description=Students at Harvard playing old cat games?

|Term=Hornie-Holes (also Kittie-Cat) ...d their holes with a sticks, described as like a walking sticks, against a cat (&ldquo;a piece of stick, and frequently a sheep&rsquo;s horn&rdquo;) throw

...Base Ball now. The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod

|Headline=Alabama soldiers play bull-pen, cat and town ball |Game=Town Ball, Two Old Cat

|Game=Barn Ball, Old-Cat Games, American Cricket, ...iful Mohawk Valley, and while I played barn ball, one old cat, and two old cat in my&nbsp; early boyhood days, cricket was my favorite game, and until I e

|Headline=MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood |Game=Base Ball, One Old Cat

|Headline=Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands? ...mes, choices for males [in NC] appear to have been 'town-ball, bull-pen,' 'cat,' and 'prisoner's base,' whatever exhibitions of dexterity they may have in

...ointed on each end, were used in an ancient form of the game later know as Cat.</p> |Sources=<p>Culin, Stewart, &ldquo;Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.,&rdquo; <em>Journal of American Folklore,</em> Vo

|Headline=U. of Michigan Alum Recalls Baseball, Wicket, Old-Cat Games |Game=Wicket, Base Ball, American Cricket, Old-Cat Games

|Headline=Near Richmond VA, Games of Round Cat and Chermany ...old home where he and the other boys, black and white, had played "[[round cat]]" and "[[chermany]]" in the summers before the war and had set their rabbi

...: he will try to understand, and explain, what those &ldquo;old-cat&rdquo; games were all about.</p>