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...f the leading merchants and their clerks, had a game of good old-fashioned base ball on Sheriff Brown's premises, makai..."</p> ...(Castle) introduced the new baseball game to Hawaii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".</p>

|Headline=Chadwick Agrees: The Parent of Base Ball is Two-Old-Cat . . . Not English Rounders, After All? |Game=Base Ball,Two-Old-Cat,Cricket

...e pic-nic ground, makai of the Stone Church, where, after a few appetizing games of ball, they sat down to a sumptuous repast..."</p> ...xander Cartwright. It is likely, but not certain, that the game played was base-ball and not some predecessor game such as wicket, which was known in the I

...description&nbsp;closest to base ball and cricket -- resembling the o'cat games with two or four or six players -- but it employs a&nbsp;section of animal ...illughby</span>'s Book of Games: A Seventeenth Century Treatise on Sports, Games, and Pastimes</span> [Ashgate Publishing, 2003], p. 182; see item [[1672c.2

|Description=<p>From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat"</p> ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

...will have to get along without the services of O'Rourke for three or four games. The great catcher will have more important business on hand than ball pla ...Bridgeport as soon as the season closes next Fall, but he will not give up base ball for a year or two yet. When he does he expects to go into politics.</

...ith the ball he was crossed out, the ball being thrown between him and the base. In other respects it was similar to the present popular and national game.

|Sources=<p><span>Stewart Culin, "Street Games of Boys in&nbsp;</span>Brooklyn,&nbsp;N.Y.<span>,"&nbsp;</span><em>Journal ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

...o last season beat all records by making fifteen home runs in championship games... The Philadelphia Evening Item March 29, 1884</p> ...ere are several of them that are excellent. The one giving the batter his base when hit by the pitcher is a good one I suppose I suffered more in this re

...the grand stand, and boys in unfiroms will sell the sweetmeats during the games. The Sporting Life February 16, 1887</p> ...Mr. Caylor. O. P. Continues to be a member of the staff and will dispense base ball comfort from New York as the season wears on. The Sporting Life Febru

|Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 1867 volume,&nbsp;a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel

|Game=Base Ball |Text=<p>[A] "BASE BALL. A closely contested game of base ball was played in Grafton on Friday afternoon last, between the Hassanamis

...n the children sat down to tea on the lawn. The repast being finished, the games resumed."</p>

...idge House in Hertfordshire: "After tea, various games, including croquet, base-ball, &c., were indulged in, and the excursionists left Aubray for their re

|Headline=Halliwell&#39;s 960-Page Dictionary Cites Base-ball, Rounders, Tut-ball ...ll was not a fan of sport. <b>Note:</b> can a list of the other safe-haven games be made?</p>

...ll also be canoe and boat races, Quoits and base ball, foot ball and other games and amusements too numerous to mention."</p>

...rting the various out-door games usual on such occasions, such as cricket, base-ball, swinging, jumping, &c., which were kept up with great spirit till abo

...ned to the field, where they again joined in the games, including cricket, base-ball, swings, &c., until eight o'clock.”</p>

|Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 10 November 1854 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Description=<p>"Base Ball Club-The Second Nine of the 'Fair Play Club,' of Easton has challenged ...lub.-Lovers of health-giving exercise have now an opportunity of joining a Base Ball Club, proposed to be formed in this town. A meeting will be held this

|Title=a passed ball less discreditable than a stolen base for the catcher ...er has no choice in the matter. Such drops are passed balls, and a stolen base cannot be scored on such a battery error.</p>

...ced here that the franchise would be sold and the players as well, and the base ball business, so far as Cleveland is concerned, closed out. Baltimore dec

...hird when he saw his mistake. The big hit, therefore, availed Orr only one base.</p>

|Name=Stonewall Base Ball Club of Edgefield ...dealer, on Church street. This promises to be one of the most interesting games of the season."</p>

...up as such against a pitcher. In one of the recent Cleveland or Brooklyn games this very play came up. O'Neill and White allowed a ball to come down betw

...the name of common sense the public should be bored with long accounts of games between companies of boys I can't imagine. The mass of the people care jus

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 ...of Whitehall, N.Y., who do not consider a prize match as tending to reduce base ball to &ldquo;the level of the prize ring,&rdquo; me to play for a prize b

...at “arrived at the meadow, various games such as archery, cricket, racing, base ball, &c. were freely indulged in, and at four o'clock the children were re

|Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 17 November 1854 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Field=Medway, Mass. (other four games)

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball,&rdquo; PSOT, vol. 1, no. 10 (8 Nov 1856), p. 165, col. 2</p>

|Title=Mullane charged with throwing games; the status of the Cincinnati Enquirer; Mullane's unpopularity ...cle charging five players of the Cincinnati Base Ball Club with “throwing” games. The only player against whom direct evidence is offered is “Tony” Mul

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball,&rdquo; SOT, vol. 25, no. 43 (8 Dec 1855), p. 511, col. 3</p>

|Title=Cincinnati Club ownership; reasons for selling; Caylor, Sunday games |Text=<p>The Cincinnati Base-Ball Club has been sold to Aaron Stern, a wealthy merchant in this city, wh

...the Jenny Lind, “the grounds being reached, cricket, base ball, and other games were engaged in until five o'clock, when the ample tea provided was found b

|Game=Base Ball, ...DWAY. . . . The game commenced at 1 o'clock, and was to be the best 3 in 5 games, of 25 tallies each. A large crowd collected to witness the game, among who

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball at Oberlin, O.,&rdquo; NYC, [?] July 1860.&nbsp;Tholkes RIM</p>

...gs. The game is played without gloves and, perhaps unique among safe-haven games, batted balls caught in the air are not outs.</p> ...stic sheaths, the layout of the pitch, especially the location of the last base; and the bowler's arm motion, which is an underarm pendulum action, as in s

...flap worthy of a gymnast, and when he got his breath he saw Foutz on third base and the ball at his side. Welch performed the third act. He was heading a

...anagement produces. There is seldom less than 2500 people at these Sunday games, and generally more. President Wallace is a hard working compositor in the

|Name=Nashville Base Ball Club |Club Name=Nashville Base Ball Club

...ram, “toys were plentifully distributed, and cricket, base ball, and other games enjoyed, till between eight and nine o'clock when the fete terminated.”</

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball,&rdquo; SOT, vol. 25, no. 43 (8 Dec 1855), p. 511, col. 3</p>

...cky and Fifth Streets."</p><p>This is the same grounds that early baseball games were played on.</p> ...t=<p>The Courier of the 9th calls wicket "a far more interesting game than base ball"</p>

...lad event. The school children were engaged in games of cricket, rounders, base-ball, &c., with their teachers for the morning, and at 12 o'clock some very

|Headline=NY Atlas Advises: THE OLD GAME OF BASE REVIVED |Game=Base

...is ankles, and balls that should have been fielded had to be chronicled as base hits.</p> ...of playing condition. The infielders had plenty of fun skating around the base lines, but notwithstanding these disadvantages the fielding, as a whole, wa

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball,&rdquo; SOT, vol. 25, no. 43 (8 Dec 1855), p. 511, col. 3</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) O. P., &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Star vs. Sylvan,&rdquo; PSOT, vol. 5, no. 5 (2 Oct 1858), p. 68, col.

...eral instances of it during the last few weeks. … [examples of low-hitting games follow] So it goes. If any batter gets an average of 300 per cent. this y

<p>Second. For lease of grounds for Sunday games during the base-ball season of 1880.</p> <p>Bids must be sealed and addressed “Board of Directors Cincinnati Star Base-Ball Association,” care C. T. Blackburn, Secretary, City Auditor's Offic

|Headline=NY and MA Regiments Play Two Games Near the Civil War Front |Game=Base Ball,

..."The Aurora Ball Club and Olympic Ball Club will play best 3 in 5 games at Base ball on Tremont street mall on Friday next at half past 5 o'clock for 10 bo ...A and upstate NY; the "best-of" format may have been common in the game or games that evolved into the Mass Game.&nbsp;</p>

...n Chicago] this week in the shape of a system of reproducing here the ball games played by our team abroad. A couple of enterprising fellows from Nashville ...the name of Seery disappeared from the home plate and reappeared at first base, while that of Glasscock showed up at the home plate. “One strike,” tw

...it related, or relates, to base ball, long ball, or other early safe-haven games.</p> |Sources=<p>Ado<span>&nbsp;Gini, "Rural Ritual Games in&nbsp;</span>Libya<span>,"&nbsp;</span><em>Rural Sociology</em><span>&nbs

|Name=Star Club of Brooklyn v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 13 September 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Title=a prize fight under cover of being baseball games ...squads of about ten or twenty each, all of whom carried sticks resembling base ball bats, while one athletic individual displayed a ball of the latest and

...A.M.&nbsp; Tickets one dollar.<br /> <br /> P.S. - An interesting game of base ball to be played on the occasion."</p> ...St. Louis]<em> Missouri Republican</em>, August 2, 1864. Cited in Games of Games website.</p>

|Headline=Vermonters Play Manly Sport of Football, (and Base Ball) in Virginia ...micry of actual warfare &ndash; were played. . . . Many joined in games of base ball; others formed rings and watched friendly contests of the champion wre

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Matches to Come,&rdquo; PSOT, vol. 4, no. 19 (10 Jul 1858), p. 293, c

|Headline=Base Ball Games Reach Really Modern Duration; Score is 52-38 |Game=Base Ball

|Game=Base-Ball ...e playing was as follows: [<em>Mirror </em>members won two of three 25-run games, 25-3 "points", 17-25, and 25- 3.]</p>

|Name=Mauch Chunk Base Ball Club v Athletic Club of Philadelphia on 14 November 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Headline=Pre-modern Base Ball in Michigan ...nbsp; Old time rules of course governed the game, one of them being that a base runner could be put out if hit by a thrown ball anywhere between the bases.

...am not willing to make. The League has lived twelves years without Sunday games, and it is in pretty good health now. And wherever there are two clubs rep ...his Sunday question, and that is this:--St Louis is obliged to have Sunday games or do without a crack club. The Sporting Life October 5, 1887</p>

|Headline="Old Game of Base" Planned -- New York vs. Brooklyn |Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, Throwback Games,

...anding in his position, that first touches the ground, first base or third base, any part of the person or a player, umpire or any other objects that is in ...n leatned of the mistake he had made, as Collins was, of course, given his base on the hit. The difference lies in a ball hit direct from the bat to the g

<p>The Enterprise will play no match games for thirty day. Members of the club will assemble at Montague Hall to-morr ...lls, occasioned, partly, by the shortness of the field in rear of the home base. Wilkes Spirit of the Times July 28, 1868</p>

|Game=Base Ball |Text=<p>"BASE BALL -- A match game of Base Ball was played between&nbsp;the St. John's and Union Clubs (colored) yeste

...le="">[1]</a></sup> The following week, the paper reported "The Janesville Base Ball Club is now fully organized and in good operations. The �boy's propo ...e_note-5" title="">[6]</a></sup>, and issued a challenge to the Bower City Base Ball Club &ndash; also of Janesville &ndash; for a July 4th match, which wa

|Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>CDJ Sept. 14, 1858: "Base Ball--the match between the Union and Excelsior Club comes off this (Monday

|Name=Washington Base Ball Club of Olympia v Olympics Club of Victoria on 3 July 1872 |Home Team=Washington Base Ball Club of Olympia

...irst appearance at Shalford, need we add she was warmly received—and other games were carried on with immense vivacity, till dinner was announced. . .”</p

|Name=Olympics Club of Victoria v Rainier Base Ball Club of Olympia on 25 May 1869 |Away Team=Rainier Base Ball Club of Olympia

...rs downwards became suddenly imbued with the taste for base ball and other games, keeping them alive till after 7 o'clock.”</p>

|Headline=NY <i>Herald</i> Previews Several June Games for Five Area Clubs |Game=Base Ball

...--The Aurora Ball Club and the Olympic Club will play best 3 in 5 games at Base Ball, on Tremont Street mall, on Friday morning next, at 1/2 past 5 o'clock ...10, 1853 reports that the Olympic won "45 to 35 rounds in three successive games" "witnessed by a great concourse of spectators." The cigar wager was prompt

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 <p><span>This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [MA table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was played by New York rul

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...or countenanced by any clubs in New York or Brooklyn; and we hope that all base ball organizations, wherever they may be located, who desire the prosperity

|Name=Olympics Club of Victoria v Rainier Base Ball Club of Olympia on 4 July 1869 |Field=Olympia Base Ball Grounds

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;City News and Gossip: Base Ball,&rdquo; BDE, vol. 18, no. 118 (19 May 1859), p. 3, col. 1</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Base-Ball at Buffalo,&rdquo; <em>Porter&rsquo;s Spirit of the Times,</em> vol. 5

...town is today a part of Philadelphia), see Richard Hershberger article in "Base Ball" and on ourgame.mlblogs.com. Hershberger adds the Balsch and Charter O ...rshberger article at ourgame.mlblogs.com</p><p>Iroquois, “Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: Town Ball at Germantown, Pa.,” Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times, vol.

...ed the latter. Mr. Wiman quoted statistics to show that the attendance at base ball matches in certain cities throughout the season approached 350,000 per ...attraction to the average public. A glance at the newspapers showed that base ball matters occupied the attention o the public to a greater extent than t

|Game=Base Ball,Old-Cat Games ...e changes they introduced. "We had to have a good outdoor game, and as the games then in vogue didn't suit us we decided to remodel <strong>three-cornered c

|Game=Base Ball, ...em> reported that prominent player George Wright had joined the Cincinnati base ball club as its highest-paid player.</p>

|Headline=In Milwaukee, Base Ball is [Cold-] Brewing |Game=Base Ball,

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...<p>(1) &ldquo;City News and Gossip: Match Game of Base Ball,&rdquo; &ldquo;Base Ball,&rdquo; BDE, vol. 17, no. 189 (11 Aug 1858), p. 3, col. 1</p>

...ame” indulged in. He then gives short accounts of the Athletic and Unions games, which clearly demonstrated the fact that they were lost and won solely on

...e Ball. &ndash; On Saturday last, the match between the Pulaski and Galaxy Base Ball Clubs, both of our city, was played at the Arsenal grounds. There were ...inly not the first in Arkansas, but was one of, if not the, first recorded games. The Arsenal Grounds are still around, though without a baseball diamond an

|Headline=Games Between NY and MA Regiments Punctuated by Artillery |Game=Base Ball,

|Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Gothams Club of New York on 8 September 1857 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Warren vs. Pentucket,&rdquo; <em>Porter&rsquo;s Spirit of the Times,<

|Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>(2) Treasurer, &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Manhattan vs. Metropolitan,&rdquo; PSOT, vol. 4, no. 23 (7 Aug 1858),

|Title=mimic games telegraphed to an auditorium ...tly wired, and the pin so moved as to indicate exactly what has happened. Base hits, errors, runs, fly catches, assists—everything, in short, is exactly

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...asion in which they defeated their rivals, the Olympics, in three straight games.&nbsp; They had borrowed red flannel shirts from the Stoughton Fire Departm

|Headline=Base-ball Cited as a Suitable "Nonsuch for Eyes and Arms" of Australian Ladies |Game=Base-ball

|Headline=Earliest Base Ball in Colorado Territory |Game=Base Ball

|Game=Base Ball,Town Ball ...he Unions and the Excelsiors to be playing on August 19.&nbsp; A few other games ere mentioned during the same year."</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>(2) &ldquo;Base Ball: Excelsior, of Brooklyn, vs. Empire, of New York,&rdquo; NYT, vol. 9,

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 ...ne or two of the H. Eckfords to wait at the bat until the player on the 3d base got in.&nbsp; Now this custom is not the most creditable one in the world,

...1866 is not stated. A number of references to young men playing a game of base ball are found in 1865, but no clue which game&ndash;old-fashioned or new&n ...themselves of the habit or resist the temptation to throw the ball at the base runner."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a title="" href="#cite_note

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...izen and News - </em>"MIDDLESEX AHEAD OF NORFOLK. The Holliston and Sharon base ball clubs, both of which have beaten the Boston club, played a game on Sat

...m>Tribune</em><span>, July 27, 1867, has an extensive article on the State base ball convention. Among the teams sending delegates were the Aurora and Blac ...n contains notices of very few match games by organized BBcs, but a lot of games by improvised company teams. Cf. Kemp's Harness Makers vs. Squires and Sons

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...livening appearance.&nbsp; The occasion was the commencement of a match of base ball between the Louisiana B. B. C., and the Empires, on a challenge of the

|Game=Base Ball ...unning the bases, and whoever was hit was out. if he could not jump to the base from where he was hit.&nbsp;</span><span>I would rather get hit by any memb

...ing game, or was it in the field-hockey, or handball, or golf, families of games?</p> ...ould it have influenced English ballplaying, including cricket and English base ball??</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Brooklyn Intelligence: Base Ball,&rdquo; NYT, vol. 8, no. 2429 (2 Jul 1859), p. 5, col. 2</p>

|Game=Base Ball ...n the National League adopted an official league ball for all championship games."</span></p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...see the chaps around keeping the account of the game. The weather was all base-ball players could desire, and with a good cool breeze to keep them in a &l

|Headline=NY and Brooklyn Sides Play Two-Game Series of "Time-Honored Game of Base:" Box Score Appears |Game=Base Ball

|Thematic Focus=19th century base ball rules ...an style="text-decoration: underline;">Forfeits and Successfully Protested Games in Major League Baseball: A Complete Record, 1871-2013</span> (2014, McFarl

|Headline=First Recorded Base Ball game in Canada [as reported in 1886]? |Game=Base Ball,

...Unlimited swings are permitted. Three-out-side-out innings and five-inning games are prescribed.&nbsp; The playing field is represented in a figure showing |Sources=<p><span>Brewster,&nbsp;</span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em> (U of Oklahoma Press, 1953) page 80.&nbsp;https://www.chrisoleary.com/

...hout giving in said scheme to the Metropolitan Club the full assignment of games with the other clubs in the Association.</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball: Atlantic vs. Harlem,&rdquo; BDE, vol. 19, no. 210 (4 Sep 1860), p. 2,

...d in the end your financial interest will suffer. The very best financial base ball investment you can make is to get as near a perfect corps of umpires a ...tested against certain umpires, and request that they never be assigned to games in which their respective clubs participate. … Mr. Young now proposes to

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball: Atlantic vs. Mutual,&rdquo; BDE, vol. 19, no. 180 (31 Jul 1860), p. 2

|Text=<p>The first annual meeting of the new Union Base Ball Association took place at the Bingham House, Philadelphia, Dec. 18 and ...compel Western clubs to pay visiting clubs 30 per cent. of the receipts of games played on Sunday, and one or two clubs favored the percentage plan. They f

...share of base ball stock, and he would expect to have the whole say of the games and dictate the appointment of all the players. I've been there and I know ...sons:--My desire is to give Milwaukee a team that will win a fair share of games, thereby being a credit to the city. To take a place in the Association si

|Description=<p>Andreas' Chicago, v.2&nbsp; p. 613, says that the Union Base Ball Club organized Aug. 12, 1856.</p> <p>"Union Base Ball Club.--A company of young men will meet this (Tuesday) evening at the

<blockquote>BASE BALL–This game, now so popular at the East, is about to be introduced in </p><p>These games took place at the State Fair Grounds, then located at North 13th and West W

...lic does not like the return of the League to the old pitching. No better games have been seen than those played under the new rule. They were full of lif ...trike-outs, fewer men on bases, fewer chances for brilliant plays and less base-running. I am of the opinion that a change will be made next season by whi

...st and most evenly balanced teams that were ever entered into a race for a base ball championship. On the other hand, this deal left the League with only ...future, which would mean a large increase in receipts for both; exchange games with each other in the fall and spring, etc.</p>

...es against Tony Mullane, the Cincinnati pitcher, who is accused of selling games in the East.</p> ...ived such a letter. He was guaranteed perfect immunity from arrest by the base ball people if he would come here, but he backed out. No George Clayton li

...ly filled the enclosure to within a few feet of the line between the third base and home. Dicky Pearce here refused to play until the crowd was driven bac <p>[Atlantics vs. Athletics 10/1/1866] The first of the games between these rival organizations was set down for Monday, October 1st, but

|Game=Base Ball, ...er 3 to play two grand matches with the Eastern and Western Districts, the games being announced to come off on the Satellite Grounds on October 3<sup>rd</s

|Game=Base Ball, ...n plates, placed at points fifteen and sixteen yards distant from the home-base, and for the striker...Section 7...whenever the pitcher draws back his hand

...ort promised---a game of cricket <br /> between the members of the club, a base ball game between the members of <br /> the Knickerbocker Club . . . , Shor ...he <br /> &nbsp;Elysian Fields for their exercise? In later years the Star Base Ball <br /> &nbsp;Club was usually the first to take the field in the sprin

|Game=Base Ball ...Compete for the 'Championship,'" <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span> Journal, volume 5, number 1 (Special Issue on Origins), pages 1

...al Baseball Library at the Hall of Fame, has speculated that baseball-type games at this stage were like pulling a hacky-sack out of a backpack and kicking ...“Baseball in the Stone Age,” Mehl located evidence of ancient bat and ball games not only in western Europe, but also in North Africa, Asia Minor, India, Af

...er;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">'''Characterizing Base Ball Games at Elysian Fields'''</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;">​''Base Ball'',&nbsp;volume 1, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp 78. - 102.</p>

| <p>Lightweights</p> <p>Heavyweights</p> <p>(Star Base Ball Club intra-club game)</p> | <p>(1) “Base Ball Season,” <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle,</i> vol. 20, no. 78 (3 Apr 1861),

...1</p> <p>Cartwright’s squad 8</p> <p>(3 innings)</p> <p>(1st Knickerbocker Base Ball Club intra-club game; 7 players on each side)</p> ...ecessarily untouched."</p> <p>(<i>NTMN</i> &amp; <i>The True Sun:</i> "The Base Ball match between eight Brooklyn
players, and eight players of New York,