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|Headline=First Tour of English Eleven to US and Canada |Country=United States

|Name=Oriental Club of the 5th US Artillery v Oriental Club of the 5th US Artillery on 18 June 1867 |Country=United States

|Name=7th US Cavalry v 19th Kansas in 1869 |Country=United States

|Name=in New Delhi in 1942 ...ide <em>Daily Press</em>, Aug. 24, 1942, states that US soldiers stationed in New Delhi have at their base "an alley which serves as a baseball field."</

|Country=United States <p>The 7th US Infantry was part of the postwar occupation force in Florida.</p>

|Headline=Early Cricket Clubs in the South |Tags=US cricket clubs,

...irst baseball game/club" in 3,863 different US towns, and "first baseball" in 215 different countries and geographic entities.</p> {{#arraydefine:states|{{#ask:[[Category:States in United States]] | limit = 10000 | link=none }}}}

|Name=in Fort de France in 1919 ...hips calling at Fort-de-France gave a few exhibition games on the "savane" in 1919."</p>

|Headline=1828 Advertisement for the Cricket Club in New Orleans |Tags=US cricket clubs,

|Name=Try Us Club of Muskegon |Club Name=Try Us

|Name=First team of Japanese Immigrants to US |Country=United States

|Headline=Officers of US Chasseurs Play Base Ball |Country=United States

|Name=Try Us Club of Dundee |Club Name=Try Us

|Headline="Base" and Cricket Listed in Book of US Pastimes .... . ," is the first known book reference to the play of "base" ball in the US. [David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We

|Tags=Ball in the Culture, Newspaper Coverage, |Country=United States

|Name=in Brooklyn in July 1846 |Country=United States

|Name=Picked ballplayers from Sidney v Ball club of Co. G, 3rd US Cavalry on 22 August 1875 |Country=United States

|Name=Corinthians Club of Corinne v Club of the 13th US Infantry on 13 July 1870 |Country=United States

|Headline=Cricket Becoming "The National Game" in US: "Considerable Progress" Seen |Country=United States

|Name=In Washington in 1862 |Country=United States

|Date Note=Newcastle issued an open challenge in 1876 to all teams from King County |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...found several dollars in silver . . .&nbsp; We were small boys then all of us, and I was the youngest."&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-- Jonathan Mason</p>

|Country=United States ...played the Hancock BBC of the 1st US Artillery. Says the Hancock organized in 1866 as the Gulf BBC.</p>

|Name=Alamo Club of San Antonio v US Army garrison club on 2 November 1867 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...is ends the first match played in the United States between Americans. Let us hope it will not be the last."&nbsp; The New York club won this match, and

|Headline=Union Prisoners in Texas Given a Ball Ground – For a While ...mmandant allowed him to carry out, and relieved us ever afterward. He gave us a fine ball ground which was well occupied and proved a blessing.&rdquo;</p

|Headline=Finally, Cricket Played in America Without Mostly English Immigrants! ...posed mostly of American natives was the Philadelphia Cricket Club, formed in 1854."</p>

...and that they could not play us. I want all base ball clubs in the United States to know such thieves. They have stuck me ten or fifteen dollars for telegr

|Headline=NY Man: "We Used to Say Come Let Us Play Ball or Base Ball" |Country=United States

|Headline=Walt Whitman Sees Boys Playing "Base" in Brooklyn: "Glorious" |Country=United States

|Name=in Nashville in 1866 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...Inauguration of this Noble and Manly Game Among us. The Spread of Baseball in the South Prior to 1870," Base Ball, Fall 2012.</p>

...ic?]. We all hope to be at home one year hence to dine with those who love us. God grant it!&rdquo;</p> <p>One may infer that the 2^nd NJ remained at winter quarters in Alexandria VA at this time, providing protection to Washington. Facsimile s

|Headline=Chicago Marine Plays Base Ball in Louisiana <p>[March 10] &ldquo;Went out in the afternoon and exercised my men in company drill. Played a game of ball.&rdquo;</p>

|Country=United States ...>"There were sixty members of the first base ball club which was organized in 1867."

|Country=United States ...Buckeye Base-Ball Club. This was the first Base-ball Club gotten together in Cincinnati. The players were selected from the Woodward and Hughes High Sch

|Headline=Strolling Past a Ballgame in Elysian Fields |Tags=Ball in the Culture,

|Headline=US Has Twenty Cricket Clubs ...ere were a half dozen clubs in New York and about twenty around the United States."</p>

|Headline=The First Uniforms in US Baserunning Games? |Country=United States

...M Troop 6th Cavalry v Friendship Base Ball Club of H Troop 6th US Cavalry in December 1873 |Country=United States

...nd expelled players for revenge, and thus get the press and public down on us. We will do nothing of the kind. We can get plenty of good players, and w

...of ball games states: "There are few of us of either sex but have engaged in base-ball since our majority."</p>

|Headline=First female baseball team outside the US? |Country=United States

...vil War.&nbsp; In contrast, there are nearly 30 cases of known female play in England for this period.&nbsp;</p> ...goal might be to fashion a Chronology on early women's ballplaying in the US.</p>

|Headline=Second NJ Regiment Forms BB Club in Virginia Camp |Country=United States

|Country=United States |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1858.19 -- First KY Box Score Appears in Louisville Newspaper</p>

|Country=United States ...ic?]. We all hope to be at home one year hence to dine with those who love us. God grant it!"</span></p>

...The entry for northern spell describes a game without running or fielding, in which the object is to hit the ball farthest - "this pastime possesses but ...rough the 1880s, and also identifies this book as Henderson's key evidence in his refutation of the Doubleday theory of baseball's origin 11 years later.

...p in numbers. The officers with one or two exceptions mingled with the men in fun and friendship. We played Base Ball, Foot Ball and Snow Ball when there ...kee Scout" p. 89. He was with the light division, 6th Corps, near Falmouth in 1863.</p>

|Country=United States ...rip by the Marion Club in April 1860 to Norfolk VA and other destinations. In Norfolk they played a local club, the Sumter Club, and this game finished u

...es to recognize us, for it has been a great source of revenue to its clubs in having the privilege of selling its best players wherever and whenever it l

|Location=Massachusetts, United States |Game Regions=US

|Name=In Providence Circa 1855 |Country=United States

...requiring manly pluck and endurance, and mental judgment and intelligence, in as many hours as cricket requires days.</p>

|Name=in Wake Island in 1940 |Country=United States

|Headline=Playing of Hole-less Two-Old-Cat in Providence RI |Country=United States

|Game Regions=US ...h County PA (about 50 miles NE of Philadelphia) recalls the game as played in the 1850s as having two bases about 25 paces apart, plugging, a fly rule, a

|Description=<p>From William Humber's "Early Baseball in Canada" manuscript, 9/14/12:</p> ...thusiast, who according to Bryan D. Palmer in Culture in Conflict had died in 1869 and was paraded to his grave site by his fellow shoemakers and other w

|Location=US, |Country=United States

|Headline=<u>Harper&#39;s</u> Suggests Plugging Still Used in Base-ball |Location=US,

|Name=in Nashville in July 1860 |Country=United States

|Headline=Cricket Club formed in Savannah, GA in 1859 |Tags=US cricket clubs,

|Headline=Survey Reports Cricket in New England, Playing at Ball in TN |Location=US South

|Country=United States ...The article notes that the game is seldom played in the US, but is popular in the Staffordshire (England) Potteries. It suggests that the players here we

|Country=United States ...the Wichita Beacon of that year as saying "The base ball mania has reached us." The book gives further 1874-75 newspaper excerpts commenting on the unifo

|Text=<p>[Thursday May 4, 1865] &ldquo;Not much to do in camp. Most of us playing ball.&rdquo;</p> ...ce on the next day, and three days later &ldquo;Ella and I married at 7:00 in the evening.&rdquo;</p>

|Country=United States ...possibly the first club west of NYC/NJ was established in Detroit Michigan in the summer of 1857. The club, comprising mostly printers from the Detroit

|Location=US, |Country=United States

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Of the 4th US Cavalry</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Of the 10th US Infantry</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Of the 1st US Artillery</p>

|Country=United States ...Enterprise and Mohawk Base Ball Clubs, resulting in a defeat of the latter in a score of 15 to 10."</p>

|Name=In Newport Circa 1862 |Country=United States

|Tags=Bans, US cricket clubs, |Country=United States

|Headline=US Editor Promotes Cricket as the "National Game" |Country=United States

base ball, and many an hour was spent at Camp Schaffer in this "In the afternoon eight boys of the 24th Wisconsin played ball

|Headline=24,000 Attend US-England All-Star Cricket Match at Elysian Fields |Country=United States

...ng> Note: </strong>can we find the location of the 1^st Regiment in late 1861? Are there other accounts of this unit that may add details to th ...Blue and Gray</span>, page 33. Lewis makes no other mention of ballplaying in this history.</p>

|Headline=In NC, Negroes Face 15 Lashes for Ballplaying |Location=US South

|Headline=Seymour: Cricket Groups Meet to Try to Form US [National] Cricket Club |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...s a fine opportunity to the young men engaged in mercantile pursuits...Let us have Base Ball Clubs organized, then, and the fun commenced."</p>

|Name=in Pearl City in 1890 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...ription=<p>Warrington was just west of then Pensacola, and the site of the US naval yard</p>

|Headline=Eventual National League Prexy Sticks with Cricket in War Camp |Location=US,

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Carlisle Barracks was a US army training depot</p>

|Country=United States ...the Civil War started in April 1861.&nbsp; Twenty-seven of the thirty-four States had seen the game by then.</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Composed of members of Co. H, 6th US Cavalry</p>

...we hereby invite the following representative clubs to be the participants in the tournament:</p> ...give notice that we will be prepared to defend our title of Champion Club in the base ball season of 1871. New York Dispatch October 16, 1870</p>

|Country=United States ...inity and throughout the country, as have printed Rules of Play, will send us a copy of the same."</p>

|Country=United States ...ntry and the Shamrock club of the 5th Cavalry, won by the Light Foot 14-10 in a five inning game.

|Country=United States ...etween the 1st and 2nd nines of the baseball club, the former winning 15-6 in 5 innings. Charles Maurice is the captain of the 1st nine. Maurice was repo

|Headline=Ballplaying by Slaves is Part of a Normal Plantation Sunday in GA |Location=US South

|Country=United States ...isted of 12 acres in the southwest part of the city. The grounds were sold in October 1867. Charlotte Democrat, Oct. 15, 1867.</p>

|Country=United States ...lia of Norfolk and the Panama club of Gosport Naval Yard, the US navy base in Portsmouth.</p>

|Country=United States </p><p>Lawrence MA (1860 pop. about 18,000 -- 51st largest US city then) is about 25 miles N of Boston and near the NH state line.

|Game Regions=US, Britain |Description=<p>It appears that shinty was a bat-and-ball game known in Britain and Ireland and America before 1800 (Strutt, 1903 reprinting, page

|Country=United States ...rom any Base Ball Club in the state..." Challenges to be mailed to the 7th US Cavalry.</p>

|Name=in Lake City in December 1865 |Country=United States

...rly by us and in as bad faith as has been the case. They broke faith with us last year when they promised to abolish the $2,000 limit clause and did not ...could have got along with out. How Glasscock and Denny will kick. I see in the papers that there will be a great rush of players to sign before Dec. 1

|Country=United States ...; a certain game of ball.&nbsp; We wish such sights were more common among us. . . .&nbsp; &nbsp; The game of ball, especially its best game, cricket, is

|Country=United States ...1870 reports that in Nashville on the 17th, the Union Stars of Co. F, 16th US Infantry defeated the Natchez of Nashville 39-21. Game played on the ground

|Headline=Cricket Match in Hawaii |Tags=US cricket clubs,

|Country=United States ...y camp at Greenville between the Reveille Base Ball Club of company E, 4th US Cavalry, and the Jackson Base Ball Club of the 1st U.S. Infantry.</p>

|Country=United States ...y camp at Greenville between the Reveille Base Ball Club of company E, 4th US Cavalry, and the Jackson Base Ball Club of the 1st U.S. Infantry.</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Of the 4th US Cavalry</p>

|Country=United States ...1870 reports that in Nashville on the 17th, the Union Stars of Co. F, 16th US Infantry defeated the Natchez of Nashville 39-21. Game played on the ground

|Headline=Confederate Base Ball Players Finds Field "Too Boggy" in VA |Location=US South

|Headline=In SC, Some Slaves Use Sundays for Ballplaying |Location=US South

|Country=United States <p>This Beaufort club was made up of US naval officers stationed there.</p>

|Country=United States ...ss</em>, Feb. 24, 1870, reports that the Boys in Blue Club of Troop A, 7th US Cavalry, beat the Joys of Girard 67-41 at Girard on the 22nd.</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The Pattersons were from Company A, 20th US Infantry.</p>

|Name=Union army POWs v Union army POWs in 1861 |Country=United States

|Name=In Bluffdale Circa 1826 |Country=United States

|Name=in Oakland on 1 September 1881 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...as been organized." This club soon became known as the Holt Base Ball Club in honor of one of its founders, William Holt.</p>

|Country=United States ...This appears to be a soldier's club. See&nbsp;Eberle, "Baseball Takes Root in New Mexico, 1867-1883"</p>

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

|Name=in Mogmog in 1945 |Country=Federated States of Micronesia

|Country=United States ...ion=<p>"In the fall of 1859, two separate groups of government workers met in Washington and formed the area's first base baseball clubs, the Potomac and

|Name=Predecessor Game in Santa Barbara in April 1847 |Country=United States

|Headline=In Harlem, Men Play 330- Minute Game of Single Wicket for $100 Stake |Country=United States

|Headline=Wicket Sprouts in Iowa |Country=United States

...=<p>Gerlings's "One Hundred Seventeenth Illinois" p. 105: "May 18. Some of us played "town-ball" on the drill grounds. Col. Moore and Lt. Kerr being the <p>Col. Risdon Moore's 117th IL was stationed at Fort Pickering, Memphis in May 1863.</p>

|Country=United States ...and ball on the common, some half a dozen of us used now and then, to meet in an old wood-shed, that we shall never forget, and fume it away to our own w

|Name=Light Foot club of the 8th Infantry v Shamrock club of the 5th Cavalry in January 1875 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...t necessary...to catch the ball on the bound...any alteration of the rules in relation to the catch on the bound will not have that tendency to improve t

|Headline=Young Andrew Johnson Plays Cat and Bass Ball and Bandy in Raleigh NC |Location=US South

|Country=United States ...first captain was Samuel Pierce Jennison, later a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army.</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The Boston Daily Advertiser, July 28, 1866, reports on a game in Worcester July 27th between Williams College and Harvard, won by the former

|Name=Enterprise v Niagara in New York on 31 August 1859 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...<p>"The base ball season is upon us, and the boys are busy at it every day in the park."

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The Alert Club of Elmira NY is listed in Peverelly [1866]. It may well have formed earlier.</p>

|Title=the NL-AA war opens; prospects in Washington; the notorious Phillips ...not advise Simmons to take any action, but simply referred him to the law in the case, and told him that I would refer the matter to the President of th

|Country=United States ...16 on March 2. The Fair Grounds club was made up of soldiers of co. H, 8th US Infantry, stationed there.</p>

|Country=United States ...tual pastimes. We should like to chronicle the formation of a cricket club in this city. The following is the report of the last game played, Langford's

|Country=United States <p>Lahainaluna was a school in Lahaina.</p>

|Country=United States ...the Independents, Liberty, Occidental, Eclipse and Broderick clubs existed in San Francisco.</p>

|Country=United States ...e <em>Wilmington Dispatch</em>, Dec. 20, 1866: "They have a Base Ball Club in Charlotte called the "Hornet's Nest" club."</p>

|Country=United States ...art of the Niagara Club, to stop such proceedings; but they were looked to in vain.&rdquo;)</p>

|Country=United States ...ral Alabama, about 95 miles S of Birmingham and 160 miles NE of Pensacola. In the 1860s its population was 9000 to 10,500.</p>

|Name=In Northampton in 1823 |Country=United States

|Headline=In Georgia, "Baseball and Cricket Had Not Evolved" |Tags=College, US cricket clubs,

|Country=United States |Text=<p>Confederate prisoners played "bull pen" at the Fort Warren POW camp in Boston Harbor. See McGavock Diary, p. 626 (May 14, 1862)</p>

|Country=United States ...nds (1828-1919) was at the time speaker of the state house. He was later a US Senator.</p>

|Country=United States |Field=Delachaise grounds in the upper part of the city"

|Tags=US cricket clubs, |Country=United States

...line=Oliver Wendell Holmes Recalls Schoolboy Baseball and Phillips Academy in MA |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...we must here beg leave to say is, in our estimation, a miserable one, and in no way calculated to develope[sic] skill or excite interest . . .)"&nbsp;</

|Location=US South |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...he club tours during the season.&nbsp; But the action of the amateur clubs in withdrawing from the National Association [[see 1871.14]] . . . caused the

|Country=United States ...orter's Spirit, the correspondent calling it the "first match of Base Ball in this city."</p>

|Country=United States ...e Plaza has been filled with full grown persons engaged very industriously in the game known as 'town ball.' The amusement is very innocent and healthful

|Headline=Wicket Play in New Orleans LA? |Location=US South

|Country=United States ...ayers fairly behind, according to a report of the game which has been sent us by Master Plant, the Scorer for the "Enterprise." &nbsp;We learn, however,

|Headline=In Downstate Illinois, New Club Wins by 134 Rounds |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...veral years now, only gradually coming together. It will eventually happen in 1874. We can take this item as early marketing, to get the idea out there."

|Country=United States |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry#1858.19 – First KY Box Score Appears in Louisville Newspaper

|Country=United States ...chronicle another victory for the Covington boys. There is a junior club in our sister city that 'travels' under the cognomen of Copec. The name is a

|Country=United States ...ied and its single members. A large number of persons, of both sexes, were in attendance, and despite the excessively hot weather, seemed to enjoy the sp

|Country=United States ...om people who've just come to town from the east, some of whom work at the US Mint. NY players Finney and Berthrong are mentioned.</p>

|Country=United States |Text=<p>In 1865, a report of the U.S. Sanitary Commission titled "Rules for Preserving

|Country=United States .... Not any for us. We are drawing a pension now on a broken finger received in the service (Post, April 8, 1871)

|Country=United States |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #[[1859.39]] &ndash; Club Organized in St. Louis MO</p>

|Name=Army Side 1 v Army Side 2 in April 1847 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...Salisbury Beach outing of Essex County citizens. The Hawkswood won, 27-22 in a nine inning game.</p>

|Headline=Treat Us Special |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball, Newspaper Coverage,

|Headline=US Cricket Enters Steeper Decline |Country=United States

...N in 1900. His given age was 42, which would have made him eight years old in 1866. Perhaps the "Vaughn Loften" of the court records is a relative of his ...ould have him born in 1853, but he still would have been only 13 years old in 1866.</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The Detroit Club is listed as an NABBP member in 1860; its season included 5 games, including two against the Franklin Club

|Tags=US cricket clubs, |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...and to call balls in 1864, and it's a little hard for us to imagine a game in which those features were missing.&nbsp; But when did they become common?</

...on 27-19. A joint Tokio/Yokahama team played a team of the officers of the US Naval vessels Tennessee, Kearsarge and Yantic Sept. 2, 1876, the "Shore" be ...an>, an ardent Boston Red Sox fan from his days as a student in the United States. He organized the first Japanese baseball team, the Shinbashi Athletic Club

|Headline=Long Ball in Vermont |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...y within a club. There was a club in Sandusky and another nearby in Toledo in 1860."</p>

|Country=United States <p>"A fine day, play baste ball in the campus but am beaten for I miss both catching and striking the ball."</

|Country=United States ...a game of "Base" at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: "Exercisd in the afternoon in the intervals playd at base."</p>

|Headline=Scholar Deems 1855 the Peak of Cricket-playing in America |Location=US,

|Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, US cricket clubs, |Country=United States

|Tags=Ball in the Culture, Civil War, Military |Location=US,

|Country=United States ...the northern end of the Delmarva Peninsula and about 25 miles south of the US Rte 95 corridor.&nbsp; Galena MD (1860s population not determined; current

|Country=United States ...in 1870. McCloud was president of the Lone Star BBC (presumably "colored") in 1877 (see Daily Illinois State Journal, April 26, 1877).</p>

|Country=United States ...bers. In November 1867 the Alamo played a game against the officers of the US Army garrison.</p>

|Name=Eagle v Em Quad in CA on 11 October 1860 |Country=United States

|Headline=Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands? |Location=US South

|Headline=In Coastal SC: Union Men Played Ball “In Almost Every Camp” |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...game at Fort Peck, Montana Territory, where the Little Macs of Co. I, 6th US Infantry were defeated by the Phil Sheridans of Co. D, 9 to 6.</p>

|Country=United States |Text=<p>In a June 1832 letter to her 17-year-old brother at Amherst, the 10-year-old N

|Headline=New Yorkers Beat London Players in "Great Cricket Match", 167-80 |Tags=US cricket clubs,

|Country=United States ...ion=<p>"In the fall of 1859, two separate groups of government workers met in Washington and formed the area's first base baseball clubs, the Potomac and

|Tags=Ball in the Culture, Baseball Professionalism, Business of Baseball, Newspaper Cove |Country=United States

...e sweet evening air and early moonlight we heard cheerful sounds all about us at the men sang patriotic songs, laughed and chatted, or danced jig to the ...an officer with the 16^th New York Volunteers. The couple lived in Mattawan NY before the War. Provided by Jeff Kittell, 5/12/09. Available on

|Headline=Use in VA of "Base Ball" |Country=United States

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The El Paso Browns, the first team in that town, were formed May 16, 1884, and a game with Fort Bliss was played

|Country=United States |Text=<p>"I well remember when baseball made its first appearance in our quiet little community."</p>

|Country=United States ...Buckeye Base-Ball Club. This was the first Base-ball Club gotten together in Cincinnati. The players were selected from the Woodward and Hughes High Sch

|Country=United States <p>"The is one great point in which the English have the advantage over us: they understand how to take care of their health . . . every Cantab [stude

|Country=United States ...gular and well-understood diversion in most of the counties of most of the States of the Union?...We see no evidence that either base-ball or any other athle

|Country=United States ...s excepted].’ He also informs us that ‘the Croton was the challenging club in the late game,’ and that “they had a ball worth about 121/2 cents, and

|Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, US cricket clubs, |Country=United States

...ne, the fourth being the only inning in which his pitching was batted, and in that they earned three runs. The Clevelanders themselves were obliged to l ...placed him behind in this game, in order to allow their pitcher full swing in his pace. ...</p>

|Headline=John Oliver Plays Base Ball in Baltimore |Location=US South

|Headline=Loss of "Fine Grassy Fields" for Base Ball and Quoits is Decried in Manhattan |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...e Unknown of Austin 31-28.[&ldquo;A Short History of Professional Baseball in Austin,&rdquo; Austin Chronicle, July 4, 2003.]</p>

|Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, US cricket clubs, |Country=United States

...ferences to early ballplaying in the United States, many of them collected in his prize-winning 2000 essay, Leavel Enough to Play Ball, now available onl ...//protoball.org/A_Place_Leavel_Enough_to_Play_Ball. We asked him to tell us about some of his most satisfying finds.

|Headline=New York Game Arrives in Baltimore MD |Location=US South

|Country=United States ...ir bases in the event of a ball being caught on the fly; but it appears to us, that it would be as fair to one team as the other if the bases could be re

|Country=United States ...largest in the US. Mobile's cotton exports were second only to New Orleans in the 1840s.</p>

...art of the Niagara Club, to stop such proceedings; but they were looked to in vain.</p> <p>The writer of the article...states: that the friends of the Niagara kept up a continual yelling; and that when

|Headline=Pro Players Disparaged in Newspapers As Worthless, Dissipated, Buyable |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...S of Birmingham and 160 miles NE of Pensacola FL. Montgomery's population in the late 1860s was about 10,000.</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1858.42 &ndash; In Downstate Illinois, New Club Wins by 134 Rounds</p>

...ow are the girls in M [Marlboro NH] . . . the Boys have bases up &amp; are in a stem to have me play ball I supose I must go. . . [resuming later:] My si ..., was with the 46^th MA. New Bern had been captured by the North in March 1862 and held for the entire war. Text and facsimile online via the N

|Country=United States |Text=<p>"This [Massachusetts Run-Around] was ever a popular game with us young men, and especially on Town Meeting days when there were great contes

|Country=United States ...y a knowledge of cricket and vice versa.  Fraternize, gentlemen, and let us see which field the best—the Ball player on the Cricket field, or the cr

|Country=United States |Sources=<p><em>United States Gazette</em> (Philadelphia) March 28, 1826</p>

|Headline=US Prisoners of War in England Play Ball - at Great Peril, It Turned Out ...lling and wounding of many US prisoners in England's Dartmoor prison&nbsp; in April 1815:</p>

|Location=US South |Country=United States

...Cincinnati Base-Ball Club has been sold to Aaron Stern, a wealthy merchant in this city, who owned the club two years ago, and disposed of the nine last ...we are now looking for a purchaser. Mr. Stern will in all probability buy us out.” The Sporting News October 25, 1886</p>

|Country=United States ...stylish horse and gig over our wickets, as many took a malicious pleasure in doing, but turned aside, with a pleasant smile . . . ."</p>

|Country=United States <p>Key West was a US naval station. Northern-born sailors may have introduced the game there, an

Note: A shorter version of this interview appeared in the January issue of Protoball’s Next Destin’d Post. ...story and, by extension, its Official Historian. I believe I have settled in comfortably as a spokesperson for the game’s past and the pleasures it ho

|Country=United States ...a cricketer's admiration. We hope soon to chronicle similar organizations in the same neighborhood.</p>

|Headline=In Rare Extramural Game, Knickerbockers Fade, Lose 26-17 in Base Ball Game with Cricketers |Tags=US cricket clubs,

|Game Regions=US ...l but two are found before 1850.&nbsp; A new reference to the game "gould" in 2020 may denote the same game (see [[1854.23]]).</p>

|Country=United States |Text=<p>In May 1888, a&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Boston Globe</sp

|Country=United States ...Mississippi River town 5 miles north of St. Louis. Missouri. Jeff Kittel in his "This Game of Games' website thinks that this team probably played town

|Headline=Upstate Author Carried Now-Lost 1828 Clipping on Base Ball in Rochester |Country=United States

|Game Regions=US ...an email of 12/10/2008, Tom Altherr tells of the game of chermany, defined in a 1985 dictionary as &ldquo;a variety of baseball.&rdquo; Early usage of th

|Country=United States .... Sergeant Dryden, of an Iowa regiment, relates that during the long waits in the trenches before Vicksburg, the Union and Confederate soldiers jokingly

...d they are to sail on July 6 by the Cunard steamship Umbria, so the report states, and are to be gone for the summer months. It is said that the boys are to ...e English cricketers how to play our national game, while they instruct us in the rudiments of theirs.” The Sporting Life July 3, 1889</p>

|Headline=A Ball Club Forms in Philadelphia; It Later Adopts Base Ball, and Lasts to 1887 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...udiences, which fact indicated to us that the Harlemites take a just pride in, and place a proper estimate upon, the body of young men composing their fi

|Headline=Philly Paper Lists Betting Odds for US Championship Match in Brooklyn |Country=United States

|Game Regions=US ...all founder William R. Wheaton, as having been played at a Brooklyn school in his youth.&nbsp; See <a href="1849c.4">http://protoball.org/1849c.4</a> for

...s famous 1845 rules. This account, the discovery of which by Randall Brown in 2004 set the world of baseball history on its ear, suggests that the Knicke ...g. An old pioneer, formerly a well-known lawyer and politician, now living in Oakland, related the following interesting history of how it originated to

...they were loudly hissed and jeered by the populace. The game stood 8 to 0 in favor of the Baltimoreans. The only conjecture offered to account for Swee ...given up. The game was then called, with the score standing 12 to nothing in favor of the Baltimores. The report that the club was escorted to the boat

|Country=United States ...nded to the reporters on such occasions prevents us from giving the report in detail. We shall give the score next week.&rdquo;)</p>

|Headline=Thoreau Ponders Manliness in the Church and Base Ball |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...f Mobile played a match against the &ldquo;Lone Star&rdquo; of New Orleans in April, 1867, losing 92-7. [See Savannah <em>Daily News</em>, April 11, 1867

|Country=United States ...845&nbsp;through 1851]:&nbsp; the club itself was on the verge of collapse in the early years because many of its members failed to show up for scheduled

|Country=United States ...d manly game among us; and we hope it will be kept up with the same spirit in which it has been commenced and so far maintained.&rdquo;)</p>

|Country=United States ...its existence was the favorite resort of schoolboys and all others living in the lower part of the city, it is worthy of record"</p>

|Country=United States ...muffin playing of the balance of the eighteen, made us have strong doubts in regard to being anything better than a first class muffin match.&nbsp; We h

|Location=US South |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...hat aforesaid, and a cane. He enjoyed the game as much as the youngest of us, but came mainly to see fair play, and decide mooted points."</p>

|Country=United States ...erest was minimal here since most of the town's young men were usually out in the Atlantic fishing.</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>From Protoball entry #1858.42 &ndash; In Downstate Illinois, New Club Wins by 134 Rounds</p>

|Headline="Greatest Game of Base Ball Ever Played in this Country" |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...cause of the standing of the clubs, but a superabundance of matter compels us to do so.&rdquo;)</p>

|Country=United States ...David Ball, '</span></span><span>The item is a letter from a correspondent in that city [Philadelphia], and the context is some sort of political reform

...ences to playing games, some of them pitting different regiments, starting in August 1861. A General Hayes is mentioned as watching several games, someti ...dquo;The 21^st was another fine day. The men continued to engage in different sports, and there were ball games, jumping, putting the shot, and

|Name=in Honolulu on 9 February 1859 |Country=United States

|Title=Ballplaying in Civil War Camps ...a Base: NOTE -- This article was updated and re-cast by Bruce Allardice in 2018

|Country=United States ...ls fielded about as well as in the previous game, yet some very loose play in the sixth innings lost them this. The most noticeable feature of the game -

|Country=United States .../em>.&nbsp; This time-hallowed, if not time-honored occasion, was observed in the usual way.&nbsp; The ministers preached to pews exhibiting a beggarly e

|Country=United States ...off his horse and requested permission to catch behind the bat, informing us there was nothing he enjoyed so much. He gave it up after a few minutes and

|Headline=First Recorded US Cricket Match Played, "For a Considerable Wager," in NYC; New Yorkers Win, 167-80 |Country=United States

; [https://protoball.org/Base_Ball_Firsts Firsts in baseball as per Protoball] : Numerous editions of United States newspapers available from 1789 through 1963

|Country=United States |Field=Atlantic grounds in Bedford

...ement is, we believe, not generally know, nor is it our purpose to give it in detail at this time. The game is deduced from English origin, as are all o ...“Knickerbocker” of New York, which organized in 1845, and still continues in all its pristine vigor. Imitative New Yorkers soon organized other Clubs,

|Headline=Students Play Ball Game at Progressive School in Northampton MA |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...A.B. Thompson, of Marseilles acted as the Umpires.&nbsp; The time occupied in the game as 3 hours and 40 minutes.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

|Country=United States ...ors. The next game, the clubs being composed of adults will probably excel in interest, will be played between the Old Dominion and Richmond Clubs at the

|Headline=A Founder of the Gothams Remembers "First Ball Organization in the US" ...was the first ball organization in the United States, and it was completed in 1837.</p>

|Name=in Mobile in 1860 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...re on the ground at the appointed time, but the Judges appointed to decide in the game, on account of the unfavorable state of the weather, were not pres

|Country=United States ...boys brought home as a trophy, a first class regulation ball. They desire us to return their thanks to the Gophers for the handsome treatment received a

|Country=United States ...resolutions were adopted...Resolved, That the Tri-Mountain Base ball Club us its utmost influence and endeavors to secure the formation and organization

|Headline=Central Park a Boon to National Prowess in Base Ball, Cricket, Etc. |Tags=Newspaper Coverage, US cricket clubs,

|Country=United States ...t, a hard "bench ball," and four or five stones used as bases and arranged in a circle. Play starts when a "feeder" delivers a ball to a striker who trie

...received through the breaking of the railing during a game at Star Park...in the summer of 1885, the jury yesterday [3/18] awarded the plaintiff $3,516. <p>dissension in the Kansas City management</p>

|Headline=In GA, Men Played Fives, Schoolboys Played Base and Town Ball |Location=US South

|Headline=Batters' "Hits" First Appear in a Game Report |Country=United States

|Headline=Officers in 30th MA Play Base Ball In February 1864 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...arre.&nbsp; The Gazette says the Barre boys will challenge their neighbors in he towns surrounding, to play a [at?] round ball.</p>

...nati club, making him an offer of $10,000 for Comiskey's release. He also states that he would not accept the offer if made. St. Louis Republic July 22, 18 ...y, and his spirit is the motive power of the team. He is worth $15,000 to us. You see he is not only a captain, he is also the finest kind of a manager

|Country=United States <p>(NYT: &ldquo;The interest of the public in this game may be inferred from the fact that at least five thousand persons

...hich point the runner is free to try to advance. This rule was instituted in 1859. ...ground; and the ball shall, in both instances, be considered dead and not in play...

|Country=United States ...cription=<p>Baseball was played in Janesville in 1865, but it is not clear in this was the old-fashioned or the new game.</p>

...me is described as involving two 11-player teams that alternate batting as in a one-innings game of cricket. The pitch is a soft toss from a teammate.</p ...initial evidence on oina came from the two western news accounts provided in the Hall of Fame&rsquo;s &ldquo;Origins of Baseball&rdquo; file (cited belo

|Game Regions=US, Britain, Europe, Rest of World <p>The game is (arguably) recorded in 1300 in England, and for sure in 1598. See Altham, "A History of Cricket" p. 18-19, and Green, "A History of

|Name=in Salisbury in 1862 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...as yet, not a solitary club has ever practiced their best players together in this way...It is this neglect on the part of or clubs, to improve the chara

|Country=United States <p>has become a joke among us baseball folks. "He didn't invent baseball; baseball invented him." This le

|Country=United States ...ubs, two yacht clubs, &amp;c. &amp;c.&nbsp; The town is reviving, and I am in hopes to post you on some good accomplishments from some of them.)</p>

|Headline=Ballplaying Frequently Played at Salisbury Prison in North Carolina |Country=United States

...land ME Bans "Playing at Bat and Ball in the Streets" in 1805, Retains Ban in 1824 |Country=United States

...us “rose to explain” to the men “whose ways are dark and tricks are vain,” in language that was undoubtedly “plain:”</p> ...f the ring is referred to. Now, who is this “Boss” or master knave? Give us his name, so that he may be shown up; for it is the temper of the players a

|Country=United States <p>Andreas' book claim is obviously referencing a notice in the <em>Chicago Daily Democratic Press</em>, Aug. 12, 1856, p. 3, col. 1:</

|Country=United States ...st nine men&mdash;Manoit&mdash;and the Enterprise also lacked Murtha&nbsp; in the field.&rdquo;)</p>

...nesia regarding women’s baseball heritage, I try to understand the context in which nineteenth-century women played our national game. One of the most ob ...on the human race. Stanton made a strong argument for women to be engaged in more vigorous outdoor work to improve their health instead of being cooped

|Title=the AA's eighth club; tried to place a club in Chicago ...ican Association. The triumvirs feared to give the Association a foothold in a city where they are none too popular. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Janu

|Country=United States ...for the game ball.&nbsp; Union General McClellan passed by while play was in progress.</span></span></p>

|Country=United States ...thirteen players from our regiment came off this forenoon, the result was in favor of our regiment, the innings stood&nbsp;seventy to eleven, pretty bad

|Headline=Town Ball Played in Chicago in 1856? |Country=United States

|Description=Nearly 400 Finds Let Us Understand the Frequency and Nature of Military Ballplaying During the War |Related Pages=Chronology:Civil_War, Chronology, Ballplaying in Civil War Camps

|Country=United States ...n this singular find at George Thompson, "An Enigmatic 1805 "Game of Bace" in New York,"&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>&

...the Rochester proper, as of August 2014.&nbsp; Other data for nearby play in Western New York has not been tabulated</em></p> <p><em>&ldquo;People ask me what I do in winter when there&rsquo;s no baseball. I&rsquo;ll tell you what I do. I sta

|Location=United States |Game Regions=US

|Country=United States <p>2. It was the first base ball game in the New York metropolitan area to be played on an enclosed ground.</p>

|Headline=The Balk -- From the Knicks, Prior US Games, or Abroad? |Country=United States

'''Note: this an initial December 2012 draft. Send us information on omissions and errors for a second draft.''' This note summarizes what we know about the way that rounders was played in England up to 1860. It draws on 12 independent “how to play” accounts

|Country=United States ...entirely on letters received from Abner Graves, a resident of Cooperstown in his childhood. The Commission's findings are soon discredited by historians

|Description=<p>Rounders was first described in the late 1820s.&nbsp; Current researchers believe that the game was similar <p>Rounders in the 19th Century generally resembled the game that Mass game; it used overh

|Headline=Earliest Base Ball in Colorado Territory |Country=United States

|Game Regions=US ...ll is rubber -- a &ldquo;spaldeen,&rdquo; now virtually the same that used in racketball, and bats vary but include broom handles. Allowances are made fo

...as to take a quick look at the Examiner’s coverage of the exhibition games in San Francisco. I knew that “Phin” Thayer, author of “Casey at the Ba ...ort as I rolled the film to Sunday, November 27. The Giants were featured in the first column and I hit the print button to capture that article. Befor

|Title=The First Baseball Game In Mexico ...ssional baseball leagues began. The article below was originally published in John Thorne’s MLB history blog, “Our Game.”

...”)</p> <p>(<i>New York Sunday Mercury:</i> “Base all clubs are flourishing in New Orleans, and a number of matches have been played during the present se ...rleans),</i> 20 Aug 1859</p> <p>(2) “Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: Base Ball in Louisiana,” <i>New York Sunday Mercury,</i> vol. [xx], no. [xx] (4 Sep 18

examine the major 1857 rules reformulation in 1857. We invite comments, The rules of baseball set down by the Knickerbocker Club of New York in

|Country=United States ...which Club is entitled to the distinction of being perhaps the 'first nine in America."</p>

'''Note: this is an initial December 2012 draft. Send us information on omissions and errors for a second draft.''' ...eal of respect must be given to historians who have worked on this subject in the past and their work has been invaluable and inspirational. However, as

| <p>(1) “Base-Ball in Buffalo,” <i>Porter’s Spirit of the Times,</i> vol. 4, no. 9 (1 May 185 ...<p>(Buffalo Base Ball Club intra-club game)</p> <p>(different players than in first game)</p>

...hich included the rules of rounders and also the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond. Alice Gomme, in her 1894 work on British games,1 writes that Rounders was generally played

...of nine players on a side, and of only five innings.  Other players joined in as some left, and more innings were played, but it was only a regular game ...(<i>Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times:</i> “Considerable interest was manifested in this trial, and a very fair audience gathered upon the grounds to witness i

...fore another military man, one Abner Doubleday allegedly invented the game in the sleepy east central New York village of Cooperstown.</p> ...s march might have been fifteen miles, to locate a spot flat enough to get in the game. Clearly this game meant something more to Henry Dearborn and his

...o Invented Baseball,</i> pp. 72-73</p> <p>(3) Zoss and Bowman, <i>Diamonds in the Rough,</i> p. 57</p> ...t Club. The New Yorkers
were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run in their
three innings. Brooklyn scored 22 and of course came off
winners.