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  • |Title=early slides in a country club ...bases when they were hopeless, by an ingenious mode of slipping into them, in the teeth of the base men.</p>
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  • |Title=accusation of hippodroming in a country club ...ed by the Empires the balance of the season, on a salary. He is evidently a good pitcher. Evening City Item August 3, 1871, quoting an unnamed newspap
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  • |Title=how to hire a ringer ...med Henry Smith, who is quite an effective twirler, and generally succeeds in puzzling the rural sluggers.</p>
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  • |Title=a 'club' nine vs. a 'picked' nine ...s the strong point several leading clubs of the country have lost sight of in the organization of their nines, and none more so than the Mutual Club.</p>
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Lithuania in 1922 |Country=Lithuania
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  • |Title=the advantages of a professional 'club' nine ...nine. It is this esprit de corps which is an essential element of success in club nines, and it is these which nearly every prominent club now lacks mor
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Livorno in 1884 |Country=Italy
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  • |Title=English Baseball in Norfolk on July 29 1871 ...a most agreeable day at cricket, base, and other sports, they say down to a well-spread table furnished by Mr. Welton.”</p>
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  • |Title=a mid-season tryout for the next season ...he Bostons from defeat, they winning by only one run, in a score of 4 to 3 in eleven innings.</p>
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  • {{Other First |Name=First Use of Two Catchers in on One Team?
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  • ...ap in the air, a whirr, a grating sound, and a white face ppers up through a cloud of dust asking judgment from the umpire. This sort of thing is enoug
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  • |Title=Draft Chapter on Beginnings of Ballplaying in KY |Is in library=No
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  • ...ing away. The ball-holder can then call “stop,” and the others must freeze in position while he attempts to plug one of them.</p>
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  • ...e. Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but the only three in the country I know of are Bushong of Brooklyn, Cook of Louisville and Daniels of Kansas
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  • |Title=a player agency ...eans of securing them an engagement. No charge will be made in the way of a commission, as is the custom with other professional agencies.</p>
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  • ...ome with a flea in their ears, and a good share of their previous winnings in the pockets of their contestants.</p>
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  • ...ready in three different clubs, and then announce himself ready to play in a fourth.</p>
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  • |Name=in Vasteras in 1910 |Country=Sweden
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  • |Title=English Baseball in London on January 22 1859 ...has enormous limbs, a back broad enough to play at base-ball upon, and was a capital runner.”</p>
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  • |Name=A. H. C. Quick Club of Amsterdam |Club Name=A. H. C. Quick
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  • |Name=in Abadan in 1956 |Country=Iran
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  • ...his class who, as a general thing, think themselves fully competent to run a baseball nine–on paper. Let club-managers avoid the pernicious influence
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Modlin on 30 May 1919 |Country=Poland
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  • |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
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  • ...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>
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  • |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
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  • |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>
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  • |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>
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  • |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>
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  • ...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
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  • |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>
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  • ...e the nerve to keep it up all the season round. Een the Phillies weakened in sliding as the season advanced last year.</p>
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  • |Name=Ball in Fort Smith in January 1864 |Country=United States
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  • |Name=in Broadview in 1883 |Country=Canada
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  • ...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>
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  • ...of misfortune was one of the most esteemed and worthy ball-players in the country.</p>
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  • |Headline=Stoolball Played, in Co-ed Form |Country=England
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  • |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>
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Hualien in 1921 |Country=Taiwan
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  • |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>
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  • |Headline="A Balk Is A Base" |Country=United States
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  • |Name=Amarillo team v Childress team in 1899 |Country=United States
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  • |Name=Midland v Colorado in Midland on 22 July 1890 |Country=United States
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  • ...1859 -- State Championship Wicket Game in Connecticut: A Hearty Hurrah for a Doomed Pastime |Is in library=Yes
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  • |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>
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  • |Headline=Hawkeyes beat Suckers in Corinth, MS |Country=United States
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  • |Title=Ted Sullivan a League scout ...ball organizations. He is probably the best judge of a ball player in the country...</p>
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  • |Name=in Seoul on 23 October 1894 |Country=Korea
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  • ...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
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  • ...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>
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  • |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>
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  • |Country=United States ...s think it no harm to play Ball, Draughts, or play the Fiddle and dance of a Sunday . . . "</p>
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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>
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  • |Name=in Jayapura in 1944 |Country=Indonesia
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  • |Name=in Madrid on 5 July 1918 |Country=Spain
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  • |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
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  • |Name=in Illiopolis in 1868 |Country=United States
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  • |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>
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  • |Is in library=No |Is in main bibliography=No
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  • |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>
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  • |Name=in Djibouti in 2004 |Country=Djibouti
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  • |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
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  • ...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
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  • |Headline=Scottish Dictionary Calls "Cat and Dog" a Game for Three |Country=Scotland
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  • ...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
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  • |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>
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  • |Headline=Base Ball in Melbourne? |Country=Australia
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  • |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
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  • ...am at home and abroad. They are in use in all the base-ball cities in the country.</p>
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  • ...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>
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  • ..."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>
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  • |Title=A Century of Philadelphia Cricket |Author=Lester, J. A.
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  • |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>
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  • ...$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
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  • |Name=Old Cat?? in Milwaukee in 1836 |Country=United States
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  • |Name=in Kenitra in 1943 |Country=Morocco
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  • |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
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  • |Name=in Tama on 4 July 1871 |Country=United States
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Spain in 1889 |Country=Spain
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  • |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
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  • |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>
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  • {{Other First |Name=First Known Interstate Challenge of a Men's Team by a Female Team
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  • ...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>
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  • |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
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  • |Country=United States ...l on the comon, their would be an other class piching quaits, an other set a wrestling."&nbsp;</p>
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  • |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
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  • ...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>
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  • |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,
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  • |Name=in Tbilisi in 1987 |Country=Georgia
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  • ...es as the older players grow rust and drop out, as they invariably must in a certain number of seasons. St.</p>
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  • |Name=Athlete Club of Princeton, IN |Country=United States
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  • |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>
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  • ...hronicle of Sports and Pastimes March 12, 1868 (see issue of 3/19/1868 for a long description of the scoring method.)</p>
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  • |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>
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  • |Name=In Boston in 1854 |Country=United States
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  • ...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
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  • |Title=A Short History of Baseball in Miami and Miami Beach |Is in library=No
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  • |Country=United States |State=IN
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  • ...dom carry with them the sympathy or good wishes of the lovers of base ball in any city which they may visit.</p>
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  • |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>
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  • |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>
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  • ...en let the remainder of the nine travel around and have their fun with the country-clubs.</p>
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  • |Name=in Sulaymaniyah Circa 1970 |Country=Iraq
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  • |Title=A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870 |Author=Adelman, M. A.
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  • |Name=Predecessor Game in Lowell in 1859 |Country=United States
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  • ...be four cities in the country which can pay the salaries and retain a team in the League.</p>
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  • |Headline=Town-ball in IN Later [and Vaguely?] Recalled |Country=United States
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  • ...some points. The Sporting Life October 22, 1884 [see also TSL 841029 for a response that the problem was Thompson’s mismanagement.]</p>
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  • |Name=in Guyana in 2012 |Country=Guyana
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  • |Headline=President's Peace Medal Depicts Baseball Game in Background |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Famous, Images,
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  • |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>
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  • |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
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  • |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>
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  • |Name=in Wrangell on 4 July 1915 |Country=United States
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  • |Headline="Struck a Ball Over the (163-foot) Weather-cock" in New York |Country=United States
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  • |First Newspaper Mention=1988/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year
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  • |First Newspaper Mention=1860/04/02 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day
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  • |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>
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  • |Country=United States ...a gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied; a bar or rod, used in playing wicket."</p>
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  • |Title=1755 -- 'The Bat and Ball;' A Distinct Game or a Generic Term? |Is in library=Yes
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  • |Is in library=No |Is in main bibliography=No
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  • |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
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  • |Title=a collegiate professional ...country nine, which defeated some of the best amateur clubs of the country in 1885 and 1886., quoting the Baltimore Herald</p>
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  • |Title=A Grassroots History of Baseball: Days of the Rosewood Bat and teh Silver Bal |Is in library=No
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  • {{Other First |Name=First Interscholastic Ball Game
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  • |Country=United States ...pan>"behind," three basemen, a shortstop (the inventor Adams himself), and a</span><br /><span>pitcher, their opponents elected to use no shortstop and
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  • |Title=a wager that there is no such thing as a curve ball ...t of the ball, this gentleman says , the laws of philosophy teach him that a curve can not be produced, and as the pressure of the air is equal on every
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  • |Name=in Miles City in 1884 |Country=United States
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  • |Title=Thorner on putting a NL club in Cincinnati ...acsimile of the Lucas Union Park in St. Louis, for which we have the plans in our possession. The Sporting Life September 16, 1885</p>
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  • |Name=round or base ball in Barre in 1848 |Country=United States
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  • ...and next season these clubs will be able to hold their own with any in the country. Philadelphia Times September 10, 1882</p> <p>a high delivery</p>
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  • |Title=a late assessment of cricket as a threat to baseball ...ct that cricket threatens, and dangerously threatens, its supremacy in the country.</p>
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  • ...game of base ball, and that not forty eight hours after they stood hemmed in by the rebels..."</p> |Country=United States
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  • |First Newspaper Mention=1871/06/17 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day
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  • ...ston," and for a long while they were the only club in this section of the country. It seemed hard to give up the old game, but the motto of the Tri-Mountain
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  • |Name=in West Point in 1863 |Country=United States
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  • |Headline=A Pitcher, a Catcher and a Batter in a Golf History Book? |Country=Belgium
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  • |Name=In Pownal on 5 May 1853 |Country=United States
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  • |Headline=Confederate POWs in Indianapolis play base ball |Location=IN
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  • |Country=England ...ikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed. <strong><br /></strong></p>
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  • |Name=In Dalton in April 1864 |Country=United States
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  • |Name=In Brooklyn in 1838 |Country=United States
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  • ...e capable of seating comfortably 5000 or 6000 persons. There will also be a handsome green-house upon the grounds, where visitors will be able at all t ...grounds will be a first-class restaurant, which will be conducted in such a manner as to gratify the most fastidious taste, and nothing objectionable w
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  • |Headline=Wicket Described in February <u>Porter&#39;s</u> |Country=United States
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  • ...ess of the game, and it was a pity that he could not have been arrested as a tramp, and removed to this proper apartments., quoting the Cincinnati Enqui
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  • |Name=YMCA Team from Prague v YMCA Team from Pilsen in 1920 |Country=Czech Republic
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  • ...listed men. They played ball in the morning and in the afternoon organized a burlesque parade which was very comical&rdquo; [page 56].</p> ...xperienced and skillful base ball player and took the lead in inaugurating a series of games of base ball&rdquo; [page166].</p>
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  • |Country=United States |Text=<p>"The Newburg boys excel in running bases with bottles of soda-water, sucking<br />as they run."</p>
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  • |First Newspaper Mention=1872/06/22 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day
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  • |Name=in New Albany in February 1861 |Country=United States
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  • ...ds, an alliance, offensive and defensive, between them was organized. The country is big enough and rich enough for both to exist.</p>
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  • ...on of Keystone Park, they promise to put the strongest nine in the country in that city next season. St.</p>
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  • ...ganization in the country, by the way, which has not adopted the stockings in their “make up.</p>
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  • |Name=In Fredericton in 1845 |Country=Canada
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  • |Title=English Baseball in Lancashire on July 23 1890 ...lves in a variety of games--including football, cricket, and base ball--in a field kindly placed at their disposal by the host and hostess."</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...Otherwise the very first time he happens to be unfortunate in his play at a match, he can, under the by-laws of his club, be either suspended or expell
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  • |Country=United States ...emocrat</em> says Sparta "has a good base ball club--the Eagle Club. It is a new organization and came near to beating the Intrepids of this city, on th
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  • |Country=United States ...ty, and the "Stars," of Lockport. Our boys, though of a tender age, played a splendid game and came off victorious."</p>
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  • |Title=A Manly Pastime -- A Blog by John Zinn |Is in library=No
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  • |Country=England <p>A cricket historian describes an early attribute of cricket"</p>
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  • ...sal is not carried out now, we'll move it at the next Base Ball Convention in New York.</p>
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  • |Title=the pecuniary aspect of a grand tour ...d, which cost the club several thousand dollars, but they neither received a cent of the receipts at the gate on any one occasion, nor allowed any club
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  • |Name=Franklins v picked nine in Clarendon Hills on 16 June 1874 |Country=United States
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  • |Title=a dissent on the prevalence of underhand throwing ...otherwise impart the peculiar movement to the ball that he does, and it is a clean toss, having very little “pitch” about it.</p>
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  • ...=Team of the American legation in Budapest v Team of the American legation in Belgrade on 4 July 1922 |Country=Hungary
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  • |Title=that Atlantics place a man at the ticket office while on tour ...d to allow the Nationals to handle the gate money by placing their own men in the office and at the gate. quoting the Albany Express</p>
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  • ...sly, but the fact remained that he soaked more men than any pitcher in the country.</p>
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  • |Title=A History of Scranton Professional Baseball 1865-1953 |Is in library=No
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  • |Country=United States ...turn game. "The game was 31 points, best two in three. There were eight on a side."</p>
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  • |Headline=Town Ball club formed by Ohio Regiment in West Virginia ...es hugely. We have a town-ball club organized and a splendid field to play in. ..."</p>
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  • |Title=the 'crank' as a dangerous lunatic ...until he had safely lodged him in the hands of the police, when he made to a looking-glass to see the color of his hair. St., quoting an unnamed exchan
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  • |Country=United States ...on Joplin baseball history, mostly 1890s on. In the first mention, in 1883 a tornado destroyed Joplin's Cox Baseball Park. Team owner (and local banker)
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  • |Title=excitement over a Mutual-Atlantic match ...ered to witness a base-ball contest, numbering from 18,000 to 20,000, were in attendance.</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...otting horse race park, aka Beacon Park. It was situated in Allston, today a neighborhood of Boston, on the Charles River, bounded by Cambridge St. on t
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  • |Country=United States <p><strong>First Game Between Opposing Clubs</strong></p>
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  • |Country=United States <p>(Attributed to a visiting editor of the&nbsp;<em>Cleveland Banner.)</em></p>
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  • |Title=a proposal for a joint stock Cincinnati Club; Chicago's advances on Jones and Hallinan ...of this from no knowledge, and state it only as a possibility, and not as a probability; for it seems impossible that the Club can go through the seas
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  • ...or the double play, but by taking it on the fly, they give a man on a base a chance of running for another after the fly is taken, which would be stoppe
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  • ...ularly noticeable, and this is one of the most puzzling peculiarities that a batter can encounter. Indianapolis Journal June 27, 1878</p> <p>a home run through the fence; ground rule double for balls over the fence</p>
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  • |Country=Cayman Islands |Description=<p>In the 2010 Little League Caribbean Regional, a club from George Town, Cayman Islands, competed.</p>
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  • |Title=Cleveland NL players jump to Cincinnati UA; talk of a lawsuit ...ue will back us up. It looks now, however, as if Cleveland would not have a base-ball club next year. St., quoting the Cincinnati Enquirer</p>
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  • |First Newspaper Mention=1865/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year
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  • ...o. He has evidently got his hands full to keep the western section of the country into line.</p>
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  • |Headline="Poisoned Ball" Appears in French Book of Games |Country=
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  • ...is strength commences to fail, he is batted heavily. Bob needs to keep in first-rate physical condition to do himself justice, and he seems to have been so ...ground was there under a false impression, viz., that they were to witness a championship game. The real nature of the affair had not been made known v
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  • |Title=a question from a country club about fly balls |Text=<p>WHEN A FLY BALL CEASES TO BE A FLY BALL</p>
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  • ...n the United States. The paths will not be slippery and nothing less than a genuine flood will wet them so as to make the unfit for use. By this arran ...ere we expect to gain on the other clubs, “says Lew Simmons. “We can play in the rain just as well as the best of weather, and we do not intend to disap
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  • |Headline=Drawing Shows 1st NJ Artillery Playing Ball Game on a Diamond ...1<sup>st</sup> NJ Artillery formed at Hoboken NJ in 1861. It fought mostly in Virginia, and its winter camp for &rsquo;63-&rsquo;64 was near Brandy Stati
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  • |Title=English Baseball in London/Suffolk on August 29 1874 ...goes on to explain how the game was played in Suffolk, an account that is, in some aspects, plausible.</p>
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  • |Headline=Fictional Mom Recalls Liking to Bat Ball as a Girl |Country=United States
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  • |Country=Argentina ...f the Argentina capital, and the were visited for a series of six games by a team from Sao Paolo, Brazil."</p>
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  • |Headline="Homer" Used to Reference A Home Run in Baltimore Paper |Country=United States
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  • .... For Barkley to win would be the death blow to the greatest sport in the country.</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...a game of base ball at Anaheim, yesterday, beat the club of that place by a score of 33 to 7."</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...turn game. "The game was 31 points, best two in three. There were eight on a side."</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...of the gentlemanly apothecary, who had not anticipated such unceremonious a carronade."</p>
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  • |Country=United States ..."a hurriedly picked nine of Las Cruces", only recently organized, lost to a visiting El Paso club 41-14.</p>
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  • |Title=Spalding appointed agent in England for the Athletic Club ...d also in a pecuniary point of view. The directors were instructed to pay a portion of Mr. Spalding’s expenses, and await the result of his report.
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  • |Title=a proposed championship tourney ...ctor of the week's play be proclaimed the champion club, and provided with a symbol which it will retain.</p>
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  • {{Other First |Name=First Reported Scholastic Cricket Clubs
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  • |Name=In Exeter in 1853 |Country=United States
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  • ...On the 25th ult., two muffin nines of the [Excelsior and Putnam] clubs had a match together...</p>
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  • |Country=United States |Text=<p>A detailed comparison of base ball and cricket appeared in the&nbsp;</p>
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  • |Tags=Ball in the Culture, |Country=United States
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  • |Name=In Wilkes-Barre in 1834 |Country=United States
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  • |Country=Bosnia ...ports that a little league team was started in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1999.</p>
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  • |Headline=Played ball "in a new way" ..." p. 170, entry of March 23, 1863, Falmouth: "Played ball with the 26th in a new way."</p>
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  • |Title=English Baseball in Kent, Surrey on July 19 1890 ...cricket, base ball, cocoanuts, quoits, and many other games being indulged in by the company.” </p>
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  • |Headline=The First Uniforms in US Baserunning Games? |Country=United States
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  • {{Other First |Name=First mention of Negro Baseball in Arkansas
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  • |Country=United States ...p. 333, says that Oakland had a Live Oak BBC in 1866, and a Wide Awake BBC in 1867.</p>
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  • ..., Troy and Cleveland, there is scarcely a toss up as regards a choice: but in reference to the degree of training, discipline and harmonious work, the Bo ...at 12 o’clock, and the beneficial result of this regime is so marked that in games with undisciplined clubs, although comprised frequently of much older
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  • |Country=United States ...ns College played a baseball game against Stetson University of DeLand, FL in 1890.</p>
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  • ...ball they can get, leaving to muffer batsmen the boyish sport of knocking a lively ball over the heads of out-fielders.</p> ...Mutual and all the first-class clubs, and is the most durable and the best in the market.</p>
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  • ...The Chicago club is the only one in the country that furnishes any kind of a score-card free.</p>
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  • |Headline=Too Cold for Baseball in Confederate Camp ...Infantry: "Up to a week ago ball playing was quite in vogue, but it is now a little too cold for this kind of recreation..."&nbsp;</p>
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  • |Headline=Baseball in English Dictionary |Country=England
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  • |Country=United States ...=<div dir="ltr">The Story of a Cannoneer under Stonewall Jackson by Edward a. Moore.</div>
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  • ...nnot succeed in taking out pick of our present players with us, it will go a long ways towards keeping us just where we are.</p>
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  • |Name=In Lafayette in 1869 |Country=United States
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  • |First Newspaper Mention=1873/04/18 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day
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  • |Country=United Arab Emirates ...01">https://gc.com/t/fall-2017/abu-dhabi-phoenix-59263541921e0e91c4000001</a></p>
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  • |Title=a pitch machine ...with those thrown with the spring. The inventors will probably apply for a patent.</p>
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  • ...ball has taken a firm hold upon the American people, and it is has become a necessity to publish full scores and ample descriptions of contests to sati
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  • |Headline=In NC, Negroes Face 15 Lashes for Ballplaying |Country=United States
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  • |Name=in Montgomery in May 1865 |Country=United States
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  • |First Newspaper Mention=1867/05/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month
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  • ...the matter whether advancing to the outmost base results in the scoring of a run.&nbsp;</p> ...blished over many years in the local paper, which were themselves based on a series of oral-history interviews conducted at the behest of the school sup
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  • ...of a couple of thousand people. On days when games were played he invited a number of friends from the city and at the conclusion of the game they were
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  • |Country=United States ...quo; match game a few days since. Will come up and have you bump our shins a &ldquo;half string,&rdquo; some day.</p>
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  • |Title=London Dictionary Defines "Baseball" in 1768 ..."base": "A rural play, called also Baseball; as, Lads more like to run the country base. Shakesp."</p>
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  • |Title=English Baseball in Suffolk on August 30 1924 ..., cricket, skipping, base ball, and racing for money, were freely indulged in, the hunting for hidden treasures causing much fun.”</p>
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  • |Title=a player dishonorably working a base on balls? ...in that manner. There is an honorable and honest way of playing ball, and a dishonorable, tricky style. We must say that we prefer the former. New Yo
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  • |Country=United States ...bring;/ Come, my brave Yankee boys, there's room enough for all,/ So join in Uncle Samuel's sport - the pastime of base ball."</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...a good old fashioned game of base ball, and then a capital dinner at which A. M. C. Smith presided."</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...of a rudimentary type of base-ball, a crooked stick was used as a bat and a&nbsp; ball made of yarn took the place of the common ball now used."&nbsp;<
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  • |Headline=British POWs Linger in Colonies -- Did They Help Sew Base Ball's Seeds? |Country=United States
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  • ...to make, and if the club has as good a year as last it will show a balance in the club's favor of from $10,000 to $12,000 at the end of the season, espe
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  • |Country=Guatemala ...ccer team in 1910. When the Hercules Club shifted its emphasis to baseball in 1910, Arturo also took up this foreign sport ..."</p>
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  • |Title=a scheme for a collegiate English tour ...ade up of gentlemen, which would tend to boom our National game in another country. The Sporting Life May 16, 1888</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...ing team. The Boise team played on the 18th and lost to Baker City 7 to 2. A team from Pendleton, Oregon also competed.</p>
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  • |Headline=In Recession, Doughty Ex-Workers Play Ball, Leave Town for Home ...laughed at their misfortunes, marched through the streets, played ball for a day and as soon as possible exchanged the shoe-shop for the farm house."</p
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  • |First Newspaper Mention=1860/08/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day
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  • ...ys that the appointments of Sportsmans' Park will be second to none in the country, just as soon as he is able to purchase the ground.</p>
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  • |Headline=1906 Baseball History Sees Rounders in US, 1825-1840 ...ould play it. It was played with a ball and bats and was practiced in this country as early as 1825 [p. 437] . . . Rounders was popular between 1825 and 1840,
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  • |Country=United States ...n to relate how the Minot pitcher was so wild he beaned everybody, causing a fight.</p>
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  • |Title=how the Athletics would play country clubs ...for a club’s averages, 402 to 71, and nobody on the winning side “sweating a hair.” Three cheers for our National Game.</p>
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  • |Name=Lithuanian club v Estonian club in 1923 |Country=Estonia
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  • ...astonishing. They kept up the sport until it was too dark to see the ball in it flight."</p> |Country=United States
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  • |Headline=Newell Sees Baseball&#39;s Roots in MA |Country=
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  • ...ican rubber company, after many experiments, made a solid rubber ball with a livelier rebound than the imported.</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...game. The Valdostans had to leave in the middle of the 4th inning to catch a train.</p>
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  • |Headline=Base Ball Would be Welcome in Lowell MA, Town of Factories |Country=United States
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  • |Title=the best amateur players in the country ...31 to 14. These two contests immediately placed the Yales in the list of first-class clubs, and they stand recognized to-day probably as .</p>
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  • |Name=Captain Lawrence's Team v Captain Lovejoy's Team in April 1858 |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States |Text=<p>[A] the town's first team, the Live Oak Club, formed in 1857.</p>
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  • |Headline=America's First Interclub Ballgame, in Philadelphia |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States ...dependent Record</em>, April 20, 1883, reports that Glendive has organized a base ball club.</p>
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  • |Headline=In Reconstruction SC, Riot Follows a Ball Game |Tags=African Americans, Ball in the Culture,
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  • |Headline=Former Catcher Recalls Ballgame with Soaking and "Fugleing" in NYS |Country=United States
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  • |First Newspaper Mention=1874/05/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month
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  • |Country=England ...ntleman" penned a reply, "Kentish Cricketers." This exchange is amply told in H. T. Waghorn, compiler, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cricket
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  • ...o put in the plea of temporary insanity and refer to the Chicago incident, in which he came within an inch of losing his life. Cincinnati Enquirer March ...ry injury. Larkin’s downfall was entirely due to his excessive indulgence in liquor and kindred vices. The Sporting Life April 23, 1884</p>
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  • |Headline=126th NY has "a good game of base ball" |Country=United States
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  • ...vor of the 16th, they winning in thirteen innings." The teams had 12&nbsp; a side.</p> ...Civil War Diary" [of Corporal John A. Irving]: "April 22. No drill today. A base ball match between the 16th Mass. The 16th Mass. won the game."...</p>
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  • |Country=Nigeria ...Nigerian team participated in the World 18 and under baseball championship in Canada. See IBAF website, www.ibaf.org; Elias, "The Empire Strikes Out," p.
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  • |Name=Ball in AR in 1841 |Country=United States
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  • |Title=is curved ball pitching a fallacy?; a bet on the question ...art of the ball, this gentleman says the laws of philosophy teach him that a curve cannot be produced, and as the pressure of the air is equal on every
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  • |Title=English Baseball in London/Hampshire in 1853 ...ut the field, or joined merrily in a game of bass-ball or rounders, or sat in the bower, listening to the song of birds."</p>
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  • |Headline=Awaiting Release, Soldier in DC Plays and Watches Base Ball ...the 24<sup>th</sup> the game &ndash; after seven innings &ndash; standing in favor of the former club, the score being 53 to 23&rdquo;</p>
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  • |Headline="we had a game of ball notwithstanding" ...t's army near Vicksburg, writing: "A cold, raw wind blew all day... We had a game of ball notwithstanding... [Drill] will take up some of our ball playi
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  • ...exception of Mr. Davidson, secretary of the Mutual Club, who withdrew for a time from the proceedings of the convention because of the “gabbling” o
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  • |Country=United States ...erprise and Mohawk Base Ball Clubs, resulting in a defeat of the latter in a score of 15 to 10."</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...allowed the Knickerbockers to develop a harder baseball that was more like a cricket ball.&nbsp;</p>
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  • |Headline=Strolling Past a Ballgame in Elysian Fields |Tags=Ball in the Culture,
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  • ...we possess for obtaining base ball news, this undertaking cannot but prove a success. Remember, 114 South Third street, is the place to obtain the late
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  • |Country=Italy ...918 and included a black and white photo of the female ball players.&nbsp; A color version of the fresco is available online.</p>
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  • |Title=the ball grounds in Louisville ...f which circle were ranged dozens of carriages, the whole scene presenting a tout ensemble worthy the brush of an artist to delineate. On the right of
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  • |Headline=Base Ball Reported in Erie PA Area, with Plugging ...Erie County, PA, I played Base Ball with my schoolmates; and I know it was a common game long before my time. It had just the same form as the Base Bal
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  • ...un at <i>Barley-breake</i> until they fall:/And country lads fall on them, in such sort/That after forty weekes the[sic] rew the sport."</p> ...ball game] was, like stoole ball, traditionally a spring courtship ritual in the English countryside.</p>
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  • |Headline=21st MA "played ball a good deal..." |Country=United States
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  • |Headline=Reader Catches "A Slight Error" - Base Ball is English, not American |Country=United States
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  • |Title=a justification of the reserve in the majors but not the minors ...sitively detrimental to the game at large and the minor leagues themselves in particular. These bodies now have so little to complain of that all talk o
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  • |Headline=President Lincoln to Umpire a Game? |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States ...as named. A. L. Hurd, a rr ticket agent, was elected president. The played a game near the railroad depot.</p>
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  • |Title=US Infantry Faces Cavalry in WY in 1876 |Is in library=No
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  • |Title=Diamonds in the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada |Is in library=Yes
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  • ...ts. They are determined to get together one of the strongest nines in the country, and already hold leases on the grounds the present American association cl
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  • |Headline=Ball Playing in Black Regiment ...p. 147 (Nov. 24, 1864 entry): "This afternoon was a grand parade and then a review by Col. Kozlay; then we played ball till dark."</p>
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  • |Headline=Stoolball Played in Sherston, England |Country=England
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  • ...o compete with them, and endeavor to make the game what it should be&mdash;a truly National one.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p>
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  • |Headline=Many Tackle the New Game in Macon, But a Few Secede |Country=United States
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  • |Name=Brettauer v Decker in Zurich in June 1870 |Country=Switzerland
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  • |Country=Greece ...ner this year was from the American orphanage for girls at Syre," who beat a boys team 19-17 for the title.&nbsp;</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...iption=<p>The <em>Centralia Daily Sentinel</em>, Aug. 5, 1897 reports that a Mt. Vernon semi-pro team defeated McLeansboro yesterday 15-0.</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...ch between the Knicks and the Empires. The Empires elected to play without a shortstop while positioning two men 'behind'"</p>
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  • |Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States ...try, being present . . . ." Two games were played, the second resulting in a tie that was then played off.</p>
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  • |Headline="Old Boys of Westminster" Play Harrow in Cricket |Country=England
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  • ...heir grounds, which comprise some ten acres, and serve the purpose also of a croquet-field, Sunday school and other social picnic parties. The grounds
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  • ...een played by American colonists.” We have no other reference to this game in the US, and no indication of how it was played.</p> |Sources=<p><span>Josh Chetwynd, </span><em>Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History</em><span> (McFarland, 2008). page 14.</span></p>
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  • |Country=United States ...t the Naquag BBC of Barre challenged, then played, the BBC of Hardiwck, to a game of 100 tallies. MA Rules?</p>
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  • |Title=English Baseball in Hampshire on March 30 1889 ...try there is little doubt that the pastime will be more than ever indulged in."</p>
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  • ...ld put clubs in the field next spring, but at last both have decided to go in on the cheap plan.</p>
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  • |Headline=Weary Soldier Plays Ball a Little While ...rade played ball for half an hour . . . I think we will certainly march in a day or two:</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...touching on the costs of excellence after the club decided not to support a pro club after 1870:</p>
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  • |Title=a description of the crowd; delegations from out of town ...ree or four thousand of these flags of truce, the appearance being that of a gathering of gigantic white moths on the field.</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...s on a game in Georgetown last Wednesday between the "Georgetown boys" and a "base ball company." Georgetown won.</p>
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  • ...ceforth be their pitcher, as there is no one in the country to surpass him in that position, and few to equal him. New York Sunday Mercury July 12, 1863 ...ia, the reason he assigned being that he had been offered a good situation in New York, and had joined the Atlantic club of Brooklyn, and henceforth he w
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  • |Country=United States ...of ball." Same, Aug. 29, 1892: "Bisbee News...The Ball Game." reported on a game between the Copper Camp Kids and the "grave yard kids."</p>
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  • ...ne=Long Poem Describes Stool-Ball in Some Detail; First Evidence of Use of a Bat? |Country=England
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  • ...harge twenty-five cents admission. The principal object of the proprietor in adopting this course is to keep out the crowd of boys.</p>
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  • |Headline=MA Regiment Organizes a Baseball Club ...e scores were not unusual, and a phenomenally small one by no means argued a superior game.&rdquo;</p>
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  • ...d like slaves in bondage, and reasoned that if there was any money in such a sale they were the ones that ought to get it. It was for this reason that
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  • |Country=United States ...am of "city boarders" styled the Missisquoi Club. The Sheldon won 21-10 in a 2-hour game.</p>
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  • ...raud-tempting pool-selling and the bought-and-sold “exhibition” games–what a contrast does this present to the glorious days of ten short years ago!</p>
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  • |Name=51st Fighter Group Club in Karachi |Country=Pakistan
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  • |Country=United States ...ner cannot be put out in using all possible means of making one base, when a baulk is made by the pitcher."</p>
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  • ...te them. It seems that Halliwell was not a fan of sport. <b>Note:</b> can a list of the other safe-haven games be made?</p>
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  • ...reduced rates, it seem probable that the polo grounds will speedily become a popular place of resort for lovers of all kinds of outdoor sports and pasti
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  • |Title=scoring a base on balls ...ror or a base hit either. In Cincinnati, last year, they gave the batsman a base hit for taking his base on balls. Chicago Tribune April 15, 1877</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...rnal</em>, Aug. 19, 1859 reports that Jamestown played nearby Frewsburg in a "match game of base ball" on "Saturday last."</p>
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  • |Headline="Errant Rogue," in Poem, Prefers Ball to Study |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States ...s Cook County Herald</em>, June 29, 1906: "Schaumburg is going to organize a baseball team."</p>
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  • |Country=Belgium ...that visiting Japanese sailors inspired local Belgians in 1923 to form the first known "native-born" baseball team, the Antwerp Cats. Several teams of local
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  • |Headline=Untitled Drawing of Ball Game [Wicket?] Appears in US 1830s Songbook |Country=
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  • ...now she proposes to bed steep for a professional team that will rank high in the championship list. W. W. Haldeman, President of The Courier-Journal Co
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  • |Headline=Surreymen Play Londoners in Cricket for 500 Pounds a Side ...n Club by his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, for 500 [pounds] a Side." <u>Country Journal of The Craftsman</u> (London), July 16, 1737. Excavated by John Th
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  • ...r the scorers and reporters, will make the ground equal to the best in the country. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 3, 1867</p> ...r the crowd occupying seats will keep those of the assemblage from getting in front of them. Ball Players Chronicle August 8, 1867</p>
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  • |Headline=Organized Round Ball in New England Morphs Toward the "MA Game" |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States ...st, which resulted in a score of 16 to 17. Our club now proposes to accept a challenge from Salem."</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...e mistake not, Flint District, in this county, is entitled to the honor of first organization, unless the Boise institution is more that six months old."</p
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  • |Country=United States ...a between the Luaehus and the Lahainalunas, won the the former 19-9. Gives a roster of both teams, who are mostly of Polynesian ancestry.</p>
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  • |Date Note=Newcastle issued an open challenge in 1876 to all teams from King County |First Newspaper Mention=1876/07/01
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  • |Country=United States ...d angering or humiliating the base players. It is almost impossible to put a player out who is determined to enforce this manner of avoiding the ball, u
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  • |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball, |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States ...bum decision" by the umpire sparked a players brawl. The spectators joined in, and the game collapsed.</p>
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  • ...shed there upon the same basis of public favor that it has enjoyed in this country for years past.</p> ...up a business there, as the result of my contemplated venture, that will, in the end, repay me.</p>
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  • |Country=United States |Description=<p>The <em>Big Horn Sentinel</em>, Sept. 8, 1888 announced a baseball tournament to be held later that month, with teams from Buffalo, D
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  • ...position... This [illegible] young pitcher will undoubtedly make his mark in time, his style of delivery resembling that of Cummings of the Stars, the b ...and it is the intention of Mr. Houck to have erected not only a large but a beautifully designed grand stand, for the especial accommodation of ladies;
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  • |Title=a lost ball results in a drawn game ...e under these circumstances was impossible, the umpire decided that it was a draw, and the contestants withdrew. New York Daily Tribune August 5, 1869<
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  • |Country=United States ...at objection of having so far to walk is now done away with, we may expect a full turnout on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons."</p>
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  • |Headline=Boston Area Ballgames Noted in 1858 |Country=United States
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  • |Title=a call for a minor league association; Western Association hints at going major ...the minor associations what the National League has been in the past. In a nutshell, Morton proposes that the Western Association shall become an open
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  • |Headline=Diarist at White Oak Church Camp in VA Plays Ball ...Friday, April 17, 1863 Quite a fine day. Boys all playing ball. Co. drills in the afternoon.</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...y of play.&nbsp; There are about fifty members belonging to it, from which a playing nine has been chosen, headed by Miss Nannie Miller as captain."</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...spectators applaud his tom-foolery, just so long will he enact the part of a clown."</p>
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  • |Title=dismissing the possibility of a Players League ...in other League cities? It is surprising that intelligent men take stock in such fairy stories.</p>
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  • |Headline=Cricket Club formed in Savannah, GA in 1859 |Country=United States
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  • |Title=the ten-men game in the country clubs ...d the season with a match-game under this new rule, the Actives winning in a ten-innings game of two hours duration.</p>
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  • |Headline=In Middletown CT, "Wicket" Recalled, but Not Base Ball. |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States ...s Countryman</em>, Feb. 19, 1868, reports there is a ladies base ball club in Coldwater, Michigan. The club is unnamed.</p>
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  • |Headline=Brooklyn Soldiers Play Ball “in Seccesia” |Country=United States
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  • |Title=a relief pitching scheme by innings ...ixth, when he was hit for three singles, a double, a triple and a home run in quick order. This, with an error by Glassock allowed five men to cross the
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  • |Country=United States |Description=<p>The Silver City "Idaho Avalanche," July 27, 1878, runs a letter from Lewiston which says the Amateurs of Lewiston beat the Grumblers
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  • |Headline=Phillips Exeter Academy Used Plugging in "Base-ball?" |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States ...dly tussle with the Minooka club which resulted in a defeat of our nine by a score of 31 to 16."</p>
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  • |Headline=Ball Playing popular in Wisconsin Camp |Text=<p>The Wisconsin State Journal, May 25, 1861, prints a letter datelined 1st Regiment, Camp Scott, Milwaukee, May 24:</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...deep. Slipping and falling in his eagerness to obtain it, his head struck a sharp rock, which fractured his skull. Medical attendance was immediately p
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  • |Headline=Club Organized in St. Louis MO |Country=United States
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  • ...ble variance is the omission of the rule found in Clark according to which a ball hit behind the catcher is an out, the earliest hint of the concept of ...he case may be, and a third player begins; as they get home, that is, to ''a'', they play at the ball by turns, until they all get out. Then, of course,
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  • |Title=a baseball statistician ...e Athletics, Atlantics and Unions, in their games with the same clubs. In a note of the subject, he says–</p>
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  • |Title=Baseball in Minnesota: A Definitive History |Is in library=No
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  • |Country=United States ...from a member of the Lightfoot Club of Northwood, about playing base ball in Barrington. Mentions clubs of Barrington, Somersworth, Deerfield, Stratford
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  • |Headline=Confederate POWs play baseball in New York City |Country=United States
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  • |Headline=Mass. Sailor Plays Ball in English Prison |Country=England
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  • ...three dozen of the best and eight dozen of the cheaper grades of balls in a day. The wages earned weekly range from $7 to $9. The balls are afterward ...leather. The capacity of our factory when we get our new molding machines in working order will be about 15,000 daily, each machine being expected to tu
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  • |Country= ...held privately, became known to researchers in the 1990s and was published in 2003.</p>
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  • |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Newspaper Coverage, |Country=United States
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  • |Country=England ...bsp;<em>Times of London</em>, Issue 23073 (August 18, 1858), page 7 column A.&nbsp;</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...chool Boys of Wheaton, won by Wheaton 34-30. Query--were the "School Boys" a Wheaton College team?</p>
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  • |Country=Paraguay ...aguayan landscape. The principal diamond, constructed in the planta urbana in 1946, has accommodated as many as eight complete teams recruited from appro
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  • |Title=a proposed scheduling meeting of the professionals ...ly. This can and should be avoided. He suggests that the meeting be held in New York City, Friday, March 17, 1871.</p>
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  • |Headline=The Times Calls a Spade a Spade-- Base Ball is Obliterating Cricket |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States |State=IN
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  • |Tags=Ball in the Culture |Country=United States
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  • ...ays if he gets possession he will make it the finest base ball park in the country.</p>
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  • |Name=In Roxbury Circa 1842 |Country=United States
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  • ...were simply marvelous. He was all over the field and he kept the crowd in a good humor by the broad grin he wore on his handsome face. The Sporting Li <p>a balk move</p>
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  • |Name=in Jefferson in July 1859undefined |Country=United States
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  • |Headline=Americans in London Play "A Game Called Ball," Seen as a "Novelty" By Locals |Country=England
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  • ...and that it has been organized simply as a matter of speculation in which a few brewers can coin money. Sure it is that the sale of beer and the playi
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  • |Country=United States ...ion=<p>"Altona.... a few of our boys went to Oneida on Saturday to witness a game of baseball."</p>
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  • |First Newspaper Mention=1895/05/19 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Fort Grant on 25 December 1872 |Country=United States
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  • |Name=Union army POWs v Union army POWs in 1861 |Country=United States
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  • ...vel headed players throughout the country, and if the managers do not keep a pretty sharp look out they will get the toot and the persecuted players wil
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  • |Headline=Roundball Recalled in Maine |Country=United States
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  • |Country=United States ...ion=<p>From Protoball Entry #1859.2 &ndash; Elusive Intercollegiate Game [First Played by NY Rules] Pits St. Francis Xavier and Fordham College
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  • |Title=early proposal for inter-league play; a championship of the country ...r both organization—ninety-eight in all, just what the number is this year in both Associations.</p>
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  • |Title=dissension in the champion Unions; reduced spectator interest in amateurs ...e had on the ballfield, and also to a reoccupation of the playing position in which they have stood so creditably for so many years. New York Sunday Mer
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  • |Name=In Worcester in 1849 |Country=United States
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  • |Name=in Denver on 26 April 1862 |Country=United States
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  • |Headline=Bristol CT Bests Waterbury in Wicket |Country=United States
    1 KB (210 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2015
  • ...r, even as late as last season, makes no secret, whatever, of their paying a pitcher, the present one. It is almost impossible to find, at the present
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  • |Country=United States ...red pants of the local baseball team, and fled, thinking the young man was a Klan member.</p>
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