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|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>