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|Headline=First Murder in a Baseball Game? |Country=

|Name=in Ascension Island on 13 February 1944 |Country=Ascension Island

|Headline="Base-ball, a nonsuch for (Girls') eyes and arms" |Country=England

|Name=in Havana in 1864 |Country=Cuba

|Headline=Adult Play [Finally!] Signaled in New Manual for Cricket and Base Ball |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...ssays_All_About_Kalamazoo_History/Recreation/all-about-kalamazoo-base-ball-in-kalamazoo-before-1890.pdf&nbsp;</p>

|Headline=Ball Play in Children's Song |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Music

{{Other First |Name=First Interclub Second Nine Play

|Title=shenanigans to keep the championship in New York ...e nominal title of championship in Brooklyn, without giving any other club a chance to win it.</p>

|Country=United States ...perville won, 38 to 31. The game was played the Friday before (July 29th). A box score was included.</p>

|Title=a call for reform ...o encourage such a disregard of the duties of life, but it is purchased at a fearful cost. ...</p>

|Name=US Army Nurses v US Army WACs in 1944 |Country=Italy

|Title=big talk in Chicago ..., Ill, and others were offered positions on the nine at $1,500 a year, and in some instances the offers reached $2,500.</p>

|Country=United States ...efeated Spencer 27-11 on Sunday. (Spencer was platted in 1856 as a village in New Lenox Township)</p>

...and requested to be allowed to contribute. It is thought, therefore, that a sufficient amount to start them will be collected, and the end attained. N <p>a shutout</p>

|Headline=Soldiers&#39; Christmas in Virginia - Ballplaying "on Many a Hillside" |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...ine;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 197-198, points out that the first edition appeared 4 years before the edition that Henderson cited.</p>

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

|Country=Ukraine ...s had organized baseball teams in Yerevan, Armenia, and at a tractor plant in Kharkov, Ukraine.</p>

...the Boston club will seem exceedingly strange and unnatural. Our friends in Providence are to be congratulated on being able to secure Wright for their

|Title=a discussion of underhand throwing ...om throwing to bases from it, it does not begin to pay as well as strategy in pitching. To be consistent, the next time Chapman set as umpire he should

|Headline=Ball Playing a "Favorite Amusement" ...amusement with them. They, however, are tired of inactivity, and long for a chance to meet the foe."</p>

|Country=United States ...lletin, Nov. 22, 1866 says the Virginia and Northwestern Clubs are to play a match game for the Virginia City city championship on Nov. 29th.</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1878/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Country=United States ...NY game version, making them a rare example of a club playing two versions in the same season."</p>

|Name=In Chatham |Country=United States

|Name=in Saipan in 1938 |Country=Northern Marianas Islands

|Country=Moldova ...Internationale [??] in Miami. It managed to go 2-5 in the tourney, led by a javelin-trained pitcher.</p>

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

{{Other First |Name=First Printing of Knickerbocker Rules

|Name=Americans resident in Calcutta v American sailors in 1924 |Country=India

{{Other First |Name=First Known Female Base Ball Team in Tennessee

|Title=a proposal to defer the Brush plan for the Australian tourists ...hem that chance would be equivalent to setting the seal of condemnation on a most meritorious enterprise, and to indirectly punishing the participants t

...in advance before he returned to Philadelphia. Dunlap's desertion will be a heavy loss to the Cleveland Club. Fred. says he has fulfilled all his obli

|Headline=Wicket Players in MA Found Liable |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...ville nine is mentioned as part of the Grove City team that played Chicago in May, 1870. See Kankakee.</p>

|Country=United States ...anded by the railroad in Grand Junction on the 4th, and while there played a game with the Grand Junction boys "at the stockyards."</p>

|Headline=Michigan Colonel Plays Ball in Tennessee, Still Rebuffs Rebs |Country=United States

|Headline=Second NJ 27, First NJ 10, in Virginia Camp ...he 1^st NJ and prevailed. A member of the 2^nd NJ sent a short report and box to the Newark newspaper.</p>

|Country=United States |State=IN

|Text=<p>The following communication from a well known citizen is worthy of consideration:</p> ...ve the same evil to complain of. My sons appear to have lost all interest in their studies; and the claims of the Athletic and Atlantic, and what the Me

|Name=in Englewood on 4 July 1875 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...ittel's "Game of Games" blog has an ad (in German) for a ball of this team in 1867.</p>

|Name=Ballgame in Belgium in 1897 |Country=Belgium

|Title=English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 20 1885 ...h a rod and line baited for fish, others . . . pitched wickets and enjoyed a game at cricket, others played quoits, bass-ball, and other sports, indeed

|Country=Armenia ...s had organized baseball teams in Yerevan, Armenia, and at a tractor plant in Kharkov, Ukraine.</p>

|Headline=Games of Ball Seen in Sacramento CA in 1851, 1854 |Country=United States

|Name=In Rochester in 1847 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...smallest of which had a population of 9,500) before the Civil War started in April 1861.&nbsp; Twenty-seven of the thirty-four States had seen the game

|Title=Louisiana Club applies for membership in the N.A. ...wish to see the game extend in its professional ramifications all over the country.</p>

|Title=a monthly meeting of the Athletic Club <p>A committee was appointed to arrange with the club’s creditors for the amic

{{Other First |Name=First Night Game Played Under Lights

|Title=the argument against letting Detroit in the Association ...; would have necessitated an entire system of dividing gate receipts, for in the Association no special provision is granted to one club over another.

|First Newspaper Mention=1866/08/20 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Country=United States ...aying their proficiency in this game, sent a challenge to the Senora, also a club of juveniles, of Greensboro; which challenge was accepted, and game ca

|Country=United States ...>, July 23, 1909, under the Headline "Homewood Items" mentions the "Circle A's" losing to the Riverdale Maroons 3-1, and the South Homewoods losing to G

|Name=In Guelph in 1835 |Country=Canada

|Country=United States ...y, 28th 1863. Played the New York game all day. There was not ay drill for a wonder. No dress parade.</p>

|Country=United States ...at Pierre is base ball for money." The Pierre club played a scrub nine for a $40 purse.</p>

...d was the fact that the available first-class ball–playing material of the country was not more than enough to furnish players for eight clubs.</p>

|Country=United States ...Same July 2, 1879 says the Dunham club will play a picked nine on July 4th in Birmingham.</p>

...mes, they would come nearer winning the pennant, and people would turn out in greater numbers to see them. St.</p>

|Country=United States ..., July 1, 1859, reports the organization of this bbc, and that the bbc had a practice game Saturday last. [ba]</p>

|Country=United States ..., Connecticut, in 1860 when a team of local wicket players easily defeated a team of experience local cricket players." &nbsp;</p>

|Country=United States ...x score. "The game was a hard fought one, lasting three hours, and engaged in by the best players of both companies."</p>

|Country=United States ...tween the field and line officers. It ended in a 29-29 tie. The NYSM gives a box score. The two nines were called the "Old Bachelors" and the "Old Maids

|Headline=Story Places Baseball in Rochester NY |Country=United States

|Name=in Basseterre in 2017 |Country=St. Kitts and Nevis

|Name=In Springfield in 1858 |Country=United States

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

|Title=country play in California ...ling, and not pitching. They finally succeeded in talking another pitcher in for that innings, the result of which was, that they made, before being put

|Country=United States |Description=<p>TMI moved from Bastrop to Austin in 1870. The grounds overlooked Shoal Creek, west of the capitol, at about 12t

|Title=Fisler and Sensenderfer in business together ...le success in their new enterprise, and recommend our readers to give them a call, and patronize two of the most estimable and courteous members of the

|Headline=RI Soldier Cites “:A Game in Our Regt, Nine Innings a Side” |Country=United States

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

|Country=United States ..."The Boys of this place have organized a base ball club and intend to play a match game on July 5th."</p>

|Title=umpire wages too low; a call for a salaried umpire corps; crowd control .... It would be a good plan for the league to engage a number of umpires at a stated salary for the season. Boston Herald August 13, 1882</p>

...fielders, rather than to obtain runs by similar muscular display of those country-village batsmen.</p>

...yet young and proceed to get there. And get there as quickly as possible, in any way or manner you like, by any means, so they are honest and fair, and

|Title=a revived Cincinnati Club ...n hour last evening, and the rest will be forthcoming immediately. Within a day or two it is to be hoped that the permanent purchase will be accomplish

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/07/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|Name=Cricket in Lousiville in 1843 |Country=United States

|Name=In Spanish Point on 11 July 1883 |Country=Bermuda

|Country=United States ...9, 1863, saying that yesterday a base ball team from the 2nd Iowa defeated a team from the 52nd IL 100 to 77.</p>

|Headline=Union General Joseph Hooker Plays Baseball as a Boy |Country=United States

|Name=in Gravesend on 15 June 1871 |Country=England

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The Western Home Journal, May 2, 1867 reports a meeting of the Ottawa BBC.</p>

|Country=Japan ...aisei Gokko" in Tokio. Tokio won 27-19. A joint Tokio/Yokahama team played a team of the officers of the US Naval vessels Tennessee, Kearsarge and Yanti

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

|Country= ...ho has not played 'barn ball' in boyhood, 'base' in his youth and 'wicket' in his adulthood?"</p>

|Headline=Soldier Under General Rosecrans Sees Ballplaying in Tennessee ...aptain in the 51^st Illinois, which was in the Murfreesboro area in March 1863.</p>

|Headline=Soldiers Play Wicket in Little Rock <p>"In Camp near Little Rock. Ark Wednesday Sept 30, 1863.</p>

|Headline=Pupil in Class Seen to "Scamper like a Boy at Bass-ball" |Country=United States

|Name=In Killinchy in 1828 |Country=Northern Ireland

...he present time... Houck is one of the best short stops in the country and a thorough ball player. Were his habits good, he could command $250 or $300 ...ng such excellent judgment as a player, should exercise such poor judgment in other matters. Detroit Free Press October 2, 1881</p>

|Country=United States ...erits of the two games.  Every Base Ball player would improve his play by a knowledge of cricket and vice versa.  Fraternize, gentlemen, and let us

|Country=United States ...in a 14-14 tie. The article gives a box score. Same July 30, 1874 mentions a Loda junior club.</p>

|Country=Luxembourg (famed in Europe and North Africa

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

|Headline=Game of Base was "A Peculiar Favorite" |Country=United States

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The Bethany Colored Apes are mentioned in the September 14, 1876 issue of the Pulaski Citizen, along with the Bunker

|Country=United States ...game on the Fair Grounds May 9. Same, May 27th says the club's sponsoring a dance May 29th.</p>

...rgencies, and with a goal of increasing the supply of available men in the country. The operation of the rule by which each club can reserve eleven men is [i

|Name=Hunkidori Club of Wheeling v Union Club of Washington in August 1866 |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1858/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Country=United States ...rew ball.'" <strong>Note:</strong> presumably the baseball reference is to a pitcher's attempt to make the ball curve.</p>

|Country=United States ...yed by Colonel John Oakey, a former A.D.A., when he was a child growing up in Brooklyn and Flatbush [NY]. From 1837 he attended the Erasmus Hall Academy,

|Country=United States ...art of the latter club, the game resulted in a victory for the Hickorys by a score of 27 to 13."</p>

|Country=Canada ...ned are H. Paul catcher, the "sensation" of last year, T. Treadgold at 3b, A. Coe at 1b, and Eastman, pitcher.</p>

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

|Headline=Town Ball and Ballmaking in OH |Country=United States

|Country=United States |State=IN

...onsible citizens, and a determination to form a club second to none in the country seems to exist. The next meeting will be held at the same place on Thursda ...and of which has already been subscribed, and there is a good prospect for a thorough success of the project. Baltimore American October 27, 1871</p>

{{Other First |Country=United States

|Name=Ballgame in WY Circa 1864 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...ating the modus operandi&ndash;a game of base ball, or foot ball, is worth a dozen gymnassiums [sic], where the eye of surveillance is to check the flow

|Headline=Tolland CT 265, Otis-Sandisfield MA 189 In Wicket Match |Country=United States

...e country is now carrying a number of men who under last year’s rules were first-class pitchers, but who so far this year have proved rank failures.</p>

|Country=United States ...all club 35-34 at Crown Point Monday last, even though the Farwells played a man short (8 vs. 9).</p>

...for a few moments only, as he was immediately hit for two double bases and a single. He then returned to his former style, and maintained it without fu ...ng ignorant of the fact that there is only one professional pitcher in the country who delivers the ball with his arms swinging nearly perpendicular by his si

|Name=in Matanzas in June 1866 |Country=Cuba

|Country=Philippines ...the camp of the 12th Infantry in the Philippines, the 25th played the 12th a match game of baseball.</span></p>

{{Other First ...Base Ball Hits the Sports Pages? Sunday Mercury, Spirit of the Times Among First to Cover Game Regularly

|Name=in Cameroon in 1997 |Country=Cameroon

|Name=in Mongolia in 1994 |Country=Mongolia

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

|Name=In Saint John in 1855 |Country=Canada

|Name=In Rockford in 1858 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...to myself get into military service to the Union.&rdquo; She does not cite a date for this scene.</p>

...was formed in Galena, pre-dating baseball there. In July this club played a match among themselves. The club died out the next year.</p> |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...n=<p>t reports that the Adobeown base ball club has challenged Glendale to a match game "for the championship of Madison and Beaverhead Counties."</p>

|Name=Ballgame in Johnson Island on 27 August 1864 |Country=United States

|Text=<p>"Cricket is certainly a very innocent and wholesome, yet it may be abused if either great or little ...eighbourhood of a great city, it is not only improper, but mischievous, to a high degree. It draws number of people from their employments to the ruins

|Name=in Yellowknife in 1963 |Country=Canada

|First Newspaper Mention=1879/02/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/06/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|Country=United States ...n Jefferson and Madison Avenues, near Wayne (approx. 800 NE Madison Ave.). A later 1862 game is described as being played near the Greeley School, north

|Headline=3rd NH Celebrates Thanksgiving in SC “In Playing Ball, Turkey Shooting” ...d in the afternoon a pole was erected and the regimental flag run up, amid a thousand cheers.&rdquo; He does not further describe the ball game.</p>

|Country=United States |State=IN

|Country=Turkey ...an protestant charity, sponsored orphanages for Near Eastern refugees, and in many cases sponsored baseball clubs among the orphans.</p>

|Country=Turkey ...an protestant charity, sponsored orphanages for Near Eastern refugees, and in many cases sponsored baseball clubs among the orphans.</p>

|Country=United States ...to $3.30 pus court costs for those who "play cricket or any game in which a ball is used."&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

|Country=United States ...>, April 20, 1860, reports that at a meeting held April 14th in Ann Arbor, a "Base Ball and Wicket Club" was formed, the exact name to be determined lat

|Country=United States ...l 17, 1868...a big base ball match was played a few weeks since, resulting in favor of the Accomodation Club over the Laramie Club." Presumably the two t

|Title=catcher giving signals in 1872 ...the pitcher to throw to the bases he would lift the toe of his right foot a few inches from the ground, and when he wanted the ball delivered he would

|Name=In Hong Kong in 1841 |Country=Hong Kong

|Country=Turkey ...an protestant charity, sponsored orphanages for Near Eastern refugees, and in many cases sponsored baseball clubs among the orphans.</p>

|Title=a rejected proposal to play championship games in England ...and Boston have a right to see them, and hence they will be played in this country. The English games will be exhibitions. Philadelphia Sunday Republic Marc

|Headline=NH Loyalist Plays Ball in NY; Mentions "Wickett" |Country=United States

...s a nice present from the club for winning the League pennant. Every club in the League has made money this season, but Detroit makes less than any, eve

|Country=United States ...ents Clubs of this place. Both clubs will present their full strength, and a lively game may be expected.</p>

|Country= ...a set of children&rsquo;s educational game cards typical of those popular in the early part of the nineteenth century, . . ."&nbsp;</span></p>

...shall expect to see the Athletics priding themselves on the possession of a fine ground and clubhouse, and the Keystones another. New York Sunday Merc ...practicing on them twice a week. In view of the fact that the former was a rival organization, their course of action merits praise. New York Clipper

...Captain Martin&rsquo;s D Company rushed out to an 18-2 lead and coasted to a 40-15 win over Captain Logan&rsquo;s H Company.</p> ...a further source. Sadly, both captains were to be killed at Gettysburg in a matter of weeks. The regiment&rsquo;s history is Thomas D. Marbaker, <span

|Country=Afghanistan ...cal American community and the King&rsquo;s uncle, Shah Mahmood, threw the first pitch at the opening game.<span>&nbsp;</span><em style="margin: 0px; paddin

|Headline=A Baserunning Ballgame in the Stone Age? |Country=Libya

|Country=Sweden |Description=<p>"Towards the end of World War II, Sweden, which&nbsp;was a neutral, decided to buy fifty P-51 Mustang aircraft, to re-equip its air fo

|Headline=English Residents of Richmond, VA Try Unsuccessfully to Form A Cricket Club, Then Try Base Ball |Country=United States

|Country=Slovenia ...IBAF website, the Baseball and Softball Federation of Slovenia was founded in 1987.</p>

|Headline=Base ball in Rochester Camp ...glimpse an artillery company hard at drill, while off-duty recruits played a game of baseball."</p>

|Country=United States ...Ball played recently between the second nine of the Knickerbocker and the first nine of the Eagle Club..."</p>

|Country=England |Text=<p>"A time there is for all, my mother often sayes</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1866/08/12 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Described as a new senior organization.&nbsp;<span>New York Clipper, August, 29, 1868.</sp

|Name=Wicket in Little Rock on 30 September 1863 |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1874/04/18 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

...de $3,500 over all expenses. The managers plan to have the strongest team in 1879 that money can get together. New York Tribune November 29, 1878</p> <p>The joint share of White, Barnes and McVey in the Cincinnati club's salary fund for 1879 is $6,250. New York Tribune Mar

|Title=Fitzgerald has second thoughts about a Europe tour ...to the trip to Europe. The argument runs in this way: The club is already in debt. Under the most favorable circumstances this debt cannot be paid befo

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, April 28, 1859 repots that a new club, the Atlantic, has just been formed.</p>

...the reputation of nearly every pitcher in the country. Nolan, Galvin and a few others save themselves only by the use of the dead ball. Boston Herald ...led, and, therefore, any complaint on that subject comes from Chicago with a poor grace. St. Louis Globe-Democrat July 16, 1877</p>

|Name=In Hartford in 1767 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...In a <em>Nashville Union and Dispatch</em> article dated May 3, 1867 about a state convention of base ball players, the Mountain City Club is mentioned.

|Name=in Finland in 1980 |Country=Finland

|Country=United States <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In a letter written from Harvard College dated March 30, 1729 to Nicholas Gilman

|Country=United States ...ntics will not play their match with the Eckfords until they can get Pratt in their nine..."</p>

|Headline=Four Teams of African-Americans, All in the NYC Area, Are Reported |Tags=African Americans, Ball in the Culture, Newspaper Coverage,

|Name=Actives Club of Fort Lincoln v 'A picked nine' on 7 June 1874 |Country=United States

|Name=In Oxford Circa 1858 |Country=United States

...first nine” games, but are gotten up for the sake of social enjoyment, and a good time generally, regardless of victory or defeat.</p>

|Country=United States .../em>, Sept. 4, 1869, Fort Smith <em>New Era</em>, June 29, 1870,&nbsp; for a mention of this club.</p>

|Name=in Donald in 1883 |Country=Canada

|Country=United States ...Hotel," winning 100-60. The game was played under rules allowing "soaking" a runner, and thus was not NY Rules--or at least, not fully NY rules. Plus th

|Country=United States ...yer too . . . have the privilege of looking on without the pain of hearing a profane word . . . Signed, X."</p>

|Name=in Nantucket in 1867 |Country=United States

|Title=word of the Players League in New York; projection for the Polo Grounds ...r] “A syndicate had been formed in this city with a view to running a club in opposition to the New Yorks, and that it was after the plot of ground on Ei

|Name=In Red River Settlement, Manitoba in 1835 |Date Note="1830's" speciified in source

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Name=Sweden v US Olympic Club in Sweden in 1912 |Country=Sweden

|Name=Union v American in Dresden on 14 July 1869 |Country=Germany

|Headline=Early Cricket Clubs in the South |Country=United States

|Title=early word of the Giants to be in Hoboken or Jersey City ...retain the Polo Grounds this season, but otherwise they will go to Hoboken in July, and anyway next year. The Sporting Life July 4, 1888</p>

|Headline=Traveler Observes Ball-Playing in CT |Country=United States

|Name=Bachelors v Married Men in Baraboo in 1859 |Country=United States

...between $1,000 and $2,000, and intend visiting New York this fall, to gain a little practical experience, such as games with our leading clubs alone yie

...e base ball war is still raging and will wax hotter as the season draws to a close. The expulsion of Charles Sweeney, the Providence pitcher, and his a ...s have been the cause of the recent disaffection in different parts of the country.</p>

...The club ought to remedy this matter. Lumber is a cheap commodity in this country, and if the experiment was tried, it would soon pay for itself.</p>

|Name=in Bangkok in January 1928 |Country=Thailand

...four &lsquo;tuts,&rsquo; or stopping-places. The first cited use appeared in 1796. Gomme (page 45) adds that if the batter-runner is hit before reaching ...to mind the French&nbsp;<em>la balle empoisonnee</em>&nbsp;or Poison Ball: a very similar game where, again, the ball was swatted with the hand. --W C H

...79 Bank street, this city. It is to be hoped that every person receiving a notice similar to this will do his utmost towards securing new members. �

|Country=United States <p>Morgan Park is now a neighborhood of Chicago. It was annexed in 1914.</p>

|Country=United States ...er settlement. It is now a ghost town. Near present day Holder and Bentown in Tazewell County.</p>

|Headline=Franz Schubert Watches a "Game of Ball" Near Vienna |Country=Austria

|Name=Florists v Picked Nine in Morton Grove in 1891 |Country=United States

|Title=Baseball and Richmond: A History of the Professional Game. 1884-2000 |Is in library=No

|Name=in The Gambia in 2018 |Country=The Gambia

|Name=Ballgame in Da Baca County in 1865 |Country=United States

|Name=El Salvador team v Nicaragua team in March 1935 |Country=El Salvador

|Country=United States ...coming of base ball: "in seven years [1857] a new game superseded handball in student favor - it was 'town ball' or the old Connecticut game."</p>

|Name=In Waltham in 1857 |Country=United States

...of park at Washington for the same purpose. To accommodate the small ones a ticket office and gate will be opened at the corner of Tenth and S. Streets

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

|Country=Montenegro |Description=<p>A Montenegro baseball facebook page was established in 2015.&nbsp;</p>

|Title=Baseball Discovered -- A one-hour Emmy-nominated Documentary on Baseball's Beginnings |Is in library=No

|Title=Email messasge, 2005 --Pre-Major Leaguers in Louisiana |Is in library=No

|Name=in Anna in 1881 |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1862/03/29 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Country=United States ...) reports that baseball games are played on the hotel grounds "three times a week," and two weeks later reports the score of one such game between the h

|Name=In Buffalo in 1859 |Country=United States

|Name=in Toowoomba in 1895 |Country=Australia

...ase Ball Hits the Sports Pages? Sunday Mercury, Spirit of the Times Among First to Cover Game Regularly |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1871/07/15 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Name=In New Bedford Circa 1837 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...s of Boston. They were beaten by a score of 54 to 21. Twelve men played on a side."&nbsp;</span></p>

|Country=United States ...and every game boys pursue&rdquo; when he was a student at Friends Academy in the mid-1830s.</span></p>

|Name=In Indianapolis in 1859 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...ly closing of the stores gives a fine opportunity to the young men engaged in mercantile pursuits...Let us have Base Ball Clubs organized, then, and the

|First Newspaper Mention=1866/06/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|Country=North Africa ...lsed in anger and envy, much more so than I was when a playmate beat me at a game of ball."</p>

|Country=China ...full decade before the date generally accepted for the first baseball game in Japan."</p>

|Country=United States ...bsp; One amusement in which they indulged much, was playing at ball.&nbsp; A Ball-Alley was fitted up at the Court-House, where some of them were to be

|Country=United States ...ston Post</em>, May 21, 1866 reports that the Somerset of Boston attending a meeting of the area's junior clubs.</p>

|Name=in San Diego on 6 May 1871 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...art of the latter club, the game resulted in a victory for the Hickorys by a score of 27 to 13."</p>

|Country=United States ...pril 1859, but this is the first game account that we know of. It is found in the baseball clippings collection at the Onondaga Hist Assn.</p>

|Country=United States ...>, July 23, 1909, under the Headline "Homewood Items" mentions the "Circle A's" losing to the Riverdale Maroons 3-1.</p>

|Title=Baseball in Cincinnati: A History |Is in library=Yes

|Country=United States ...rule...It is to make six out all out, instead of making three and all out. A player who is caught out on the fly, being marked 00, or two out to his sid

|Title=1856 -- The New York Game in 1856: Poised for a National Launch |Is in library=Yes

|Title=Baseball in Dutchess County: When it Was a Game |Is in library=No

|Country=United States ...the ball had got to there, [and] it would cause more runs to be made, and a much more lively and satisfactory game."&nbsp;</p>

...citate the character and standing of their club until they have arrived at a position second to but few of the contestants for the champion pennant.</p>

|Title=Baseball in the Berkshires: A County's Common Bond |Is in library=No

|Country=United States ...of Rock Island its ground to practice on for a July 4th match (the 3rd of a three game series) with the Pioneer of Geneseo, to be played at Atkinson.</

|Name=in Vladivostok in 1919 |Country=Russia

|Title=a bicycle track at the new Chicago grounds ...a track which it was intended shall be equal if not superior to any in the country.</p>

|Country=United States ...eole, Pioneers, Hope, Crescent and Palmetto. Same issue has a box score of a Hope BBC "of the City Park," largely made up of German surnamed players.</s

|Country=United States ...on to use it. &nbsp;The library also passed on a link to an recent sale of a copy on eBay for about $425. (John Zinn)<br>

|Headline=A Different View of Alexander Cartwright |Country=United States

|Country=Japan ...picked nine of the United States Ship Colorado." The sailors won 14-11 in a game called on account of darkness after 4 innings.</p>

|Country=Lebanon ...an protestant charity, sponsored orphanages for Near Eastern refugees, and in many cases sponsored baseball clubs among the orphans.</p>

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

|Headline=In Cricket, Pha Foursome Defeats NY Quad, 27-19, Pockets $500 |Country=

...Union Association like Messrs. Lucas and Thorner, every association in the country would now be paying homage to the young organization.</p>

|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

|Name=In Bourbon in 1856 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...5 deletes the phrase "it being understood, however, that in no instance is a ball to be thrown at him [the baserunner]."&nbsp;</p>

|Country=United States ...owning triumph being the defeat of the strongest nine in the United States in two successive contests."</p>

|Country=United States ...s that the Orleans BBC defeated a newly organized team, the Atlantic, 26-8 in Algiers on Dec. 2nd.</p>

|Headline=Book About a Scotsman Mentions "Cat and Doug" and Other Diversions |Country=Scotland

|Country=United States ...urer -&nbsp;&nbsp;Isaac D. Paull; Directors - Henry Holland; David Phelan; A.D. Carpenter." </span></p>

|Country=United States ...ickly received by Randolph, and</span><br /><span>placed upon Whiting just in the nick of time; he was within six inches of</span><br /><span>the base wh

|Title=kicking; attendance; better class of patrons in Brooklyn ...one. The absence of kicking unquestionably caused the remarkable increase in the grand stand attendance.</p>

|Country=United States |Description=<p>Harrisburg Patriot, Oct. 18, 1866, has a long article on the state baseball convention. Among the clubs sending dele

|Country=United States ...Main street." Also reports that the meeting will be held tomorrow to form a club.</p>

|Name=in Maquon in 1867 |Country=United States

|Name=In Maysville on 14 August 1860 |Country=United States

|Headline=23-Year-Old Iowa Cavalryman Played Ball, Probably in SW Missouri ...ther. In the afternoon played a game of ball. Mar 14 Played a game of ball in the afternoon. Bill rode my horse on the forage guard.&rdquo;</p>

...e=a contrary opinion on calling 'no strike' when the batter steps forward; a jab at Chadwick ...up with the new fangled ideas of “country” clubs or sensation reporters. In this he displays his good sense. Our national game will never progress so

|Headline=Cricket Match in Hawaii |Country=United States

|Headline=The First Vintage Games? |Country=United States

...aching to the knees, and a red belt. On the shirt front the word “Boston” in red German text will be worked, which, with the usual canvas gaiters, will

|First Newspaper Mention=1872/06/14 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Country=United States ...to state that the members challenge any of the other clubs in the city to a trial either of New York or Massachusetts game."</p>

|Country=United States ...ning it round once...They are to be had at Mr. Chic[h]ester's, we believe, in Wall street."</p>

...believe that 'base' or 'goal ball' are the names generally adopted in our country." The bases are "stones or stakes." According to Carver, runners ran cloc ...r Hat-Ball [a game with running/plugging but no batting], Catch-Ball [also a running/plugging game], Rackets, and Cricket.</p>

|Headline=Egyptian Tomb Has Earliest Depiction of Catching (Fielding) a Ball? |Country=Egypt

|Headline=Convention of "colored" clubs in New Orleans |Country=United States

|Country=England ...cket.' . . . documentary evidence of it is hard to find before the chapter in William Clarke's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Boys' Own Book</

|Name=In Upton in 1820 |Country=United States

|Name=Ballgame in Zurich in 1981 |Country=Switzerland

|Name=In Xalapa on 20 April 1847 |Country=Mexico

|Name=In Mexico City in 1827 |Country=Mexico

|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>

|Country=United States ...ge City <em>Times</em>, May 6, 1877 gives a full report, and box score, of a game between the Clippers of Fort Dodge, and the Dodge City Club, at Fort D

|Name=Ballgame in San Francisco in March 1851 |Country=United States

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

{{Other First |Name=First Black-White Interracial Match Game

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

|Name=Accommodation Club of Fort Fetterman v Laramie Club of Fort Laramie in 1868 |Country=United States

|Name=in Willow Springs in 1877 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...s allow park grounds to use as a ball field. Same May 8, 1865 reports that a base ball grounds has been set apart at Central Park, but the Commissioners

...h New Jersey Regiments on Tuesday last, resulted in favor of the Eighth by a score of 50 to 15. . . . On the second innings the Eighth Regiment made 14 ...dvertiser</span> on April 28, 1863 [provided by John Zinn on 3/10/09], and in the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Daily State Gazette and Repub

|Title=a players' union ...of next season, and I am prepared to promise the St. Louis public as good a club next year as they have had this.” The Sporting Life November 4, 188

|Title=Fear of a rupture in the National Agreement ...tion to prevent a rupture of the national agreement, which would result in a regular war between the two associations. Boston Herald January 11, 1885</

|Title=defining a balk; pitchers' deliveries ...nd fails to follow it up by delivering the ball to the pitcher, he commits a baulk without doubt. The Association Book is standard authority, and the r

|Headline=“Sky-ball”, “Cat and Ball” Remembered in Southern PA |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...n play until it shall first have been settled in the hands of the pitcher. In either case, the players running the bases shall return to them."&nbsp;</p>

|Country=United States ...rticle under the headline "Base Ball. A State Association Formed." Meeting in Cincinnati to form an Ohio State Base Ball Association. Among the 41 clubs

|Name=Girls team from Syre orphanage v Boys team in 1924 |Country=Greece

|Name=in Melbourne in 1867 |Country=Australia

|Name=In Buffalo in 1856 |Country=United States

|Title=a charge of game throwing in St. Louis ...dds veered around from $100 to $60 on the, despite the fact that Stivetts, a green pitcher, was substituted.</p>

..., of the National League team of St. Louis, is said to be enthusiastically in favor of the plan. The Sporting Life July 14, 1886</p> ...e is too radical, and the existing state of affairs, although not the best in the world, is good enough not to warrant any risky experiments. The Sporti

|Headline=Two Base Ball Tourneys in California |Country=United States

|Headline=Confederate Prisoners Play Ball in Chicago |Country=United States

|Headline=College Prez Was a Klutz at Ball and Cricket |Country=United States

...bat which resembles a billiard cue, being 2 ft. and 9 in. long and 1¼ in. in diameter. The four bases are 1½ ft. square. There are nineteen rules whi ...laces at the end of every inning. They must not be members of either club in the game. 19—The umpires shall be sole judges of the game.</p>

|Headline=Ballgame Marks Anniversary in MA |Country=United States

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

|Name=in St. George on 24 May 1869 |Country=Canada

|Name=In Barre in 1848 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...r</em>, May 4, 1876, gives a story and box score of a game "last Saturday" in which Union Grove defeated Corinth 27-14.</p>

|Name=in Fort Hays in May 1868 |Country=United States

|Headline=Score it 7-5-4: "Three Hands Out in a Jiffy" |Country=United States

...to such severe tests as have been those of McBride, Zettlein, Martin, and a number of others we might mention. We must content ourselves by exclaiming

|Text=<p>A favorite amusement all through our Murfreesboro stay was base ball, and many an hour was spent at Camp Schaffer in this

|Country=United States ...Hunkidoris organized in 1866. The Hunkidori Club of Wheeling WV is listed in Peverelly [1866]. It may well have formed earlier.</p>

|Name=in Hyde Park on 4 July 1866 |Country=United States

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

|Name=In Scipio Township Circa 1840 |Country=United States

|Name=in Great Barrington on 11 April 1856undefined |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...he practice, though I am not sure that any amount of it would have made me a perfect ball-player."</p>

|Title=Baseball in Old Chicago |Publisher=A. C. McClurg

|Name=Marseilles Base Ball Club v Base Ball and Wicket Club of Ottawa in June 1858undefined |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...version in or near the College-building." [A first offense brought a fine, a second offense brought suspension.]</p>

|Headline=Old-Fashioned Base Ball in Buffalo NY |Country=United States

|Country=Australia ...Nov. 2, 1935 reports a baseball practice at the Telopea Park grounds, with a meeting of the Baseball Association planned.</p>

|Title=going easy on the country club ...y one-sided, Dick McBride pitching “slow” in order to allow the Riversides a chance tor un up their score. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 22, 1869

|Headline=Stoolball in Selmeston |Country=England

|Headline=OFBB Variant Played in Buffalo NY; 11 Players, 12 Innings |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...of Charlotte will play the Carolina Military Institute club. The latter is a Charlotte school.</p>

|Country=United States ...sville, losing 32 to 3. See Pat Allen Bailey, &ldquo;A Century of Baseball in Jackson County,&rdquo; The Stream of History, vol 7 nos 3-4 (July/Oct. 1969

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

|Country=United States ...Wikipedia locates these grounds at 1st Ave. between 105th and 106th Sts., in the Harlem neighborhood.</p>

|Country=United States ...erbockers was held and a new code established. The outcome of this was the first actual convention of ball clubs.&nbsp;</p>

|Author=Tarvin, A. H. |Is in library=No

|Title=Research Notes on Modern BB in Early IL |Is in library=Yes

|Name=in Jamestown in 1880 |Country=United States

|Name=In Nashville in November 1857 |Country=United States

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

|Country=United States ...soldiers. The location was then in Lake View, which was annexed by Chicago in 1889.</p>

|Title=a call to fire the manager ...overs of the game are interested in the club and would like to see it make a respectable showing, but until certain remedies are applied this can never

|Name=In Pittsburgh in 1830 |Country=United States

...e kindly volunteered his services, and his excellent pitching lost nothing in comparison with that of the more youthful, but rather overrated Cummings. ...cular place. He requires the finest support, particularly in the infield, a majority of the balls being hit towards third base. Without this support h

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

|Name=In Brooklyn in October 1845 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...layed a game of ball for a supper - Tolland beat. There were 30 players on a side."</p>

|Name=in Binh Tuy on 8 August 1966 |Country=Vietnam

|Country=United States ...an unusual noise about three o'clock, &amp; on looking out the window, saw in the opening between Hollis &amp; Stoughton, four or five persons, two of wh

|First Newspaper Mention=1866/10/04 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Country=United States ...ure, a South Sioux City NE), but no Sioux City SD. North Sioux City SD has a current population of about 2500.</p>

...Jersey last year. All of these now compose the Irvington senior nine, and a pretty strong team they are.</p> ...his ears until the snow falls. Philadelphia City Item June 23, 1866 [the first paragraph quoting the Brooklyn Union]</p>

...uld be the most popular, if not the only, skating and ball grounds in this country.</p>

|Headline=Confederate soldiers in need of base ball and cricket bats |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...ect to see the word 'consolidating' with regard to two existing clubs, not a newly formed and an existing club." (rc)</span></p>

|Country=United States ...epa, "Baseball Mania Strikes Iowa," Iowa Heritage (2006) says that in 1866 a Fort Dodge team played Boonsboro (Boone), at Boonsboro, for the championshi

|Country=United States ...rts the formation of a new Base Ball Club in Roscoe, to be named the Star. A D. Lawrence was elected president.</p>

|Country=Canada ...competed earlier against the Halifax Club, held its organizational meeting a couple days later..."</p>

|Headline=Union POWs in SC Given “Plot of Ground Where They Could Play Ball” ...ll loaf of bread, with some salt, were allowed them as a daily ration; and a plot of ground where they could play ball and exercise themselves was set a

...ier from the 87^th NY, Robert T. Douglass started making entries in May 1864.</p> ...ball called cat.&rdquo; Douglass returned the diary to its original owner in 1867.</p>

|Headline=A Change from Dodging Leaden Balls ...squo; at base ball, it seems, and we commend them there for, as it must be a very agreeable change from dodging leaden balls.&rdquo;</p>

|Headline=Base Ball A Silver Lining |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Civil War, Newspaper Coverage,

...first defeat, although they have played games with every first-class club in the National Association.</p>

|Country=United States ...chool in New Marlborough, MA, drew up a hybrid game. Their version is rare in that its documentation has survived.</p>

...and did it so quickly and in such rapid succession that a batsman who had a fashion of hammering the plate had no chance to get ready before the sphere

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The Fort Scott Club of Fort Scott KS is listed in Peverelly [1866].&nbsp;</p>

|Name=in Chesterfield in September 1867 |Country=United States

|Name=Chester Club of Preston v Senora Club of Greensboro in 1867 |Country=United States

|Headline=Ball Play Banned in New York City's Park, Battery, and Bowling-Green |Country=United States

|Tags=Ball in the Culture, Civil War, |Country=United States

...o profit by it. No nine in the country last season excelled the Hartfords in fielding, and Ferguson was at the bottom of it all., quoting the Louisville

|Country=United States ...best record in the country. They defeated the famed Cincinnati Reds twice in 1870 (defeating Chicago's arch-rival, Cincinnati, was the prime object of t

|Name=in Bhutan Circa 1995 |Date Note=In the 1990s

|Country=United States ...o March 7th, sends the following [box] score of a game of base ball played in that place on the day previous, between the Fresno Base Ball Club and the M

|Country=United States ...s (from an 1856 map) this location was the modern Commons Park (est. 1867) a few blocks north of where the current Pirates Stadium is.</p>

|Headline=Rutherford Hayes Sees Harm to Hearing in Ballplaying |Country=United States

...nals, who had accepted advance money from two clubs and neither club knows in which the double contractor will enroll himself when the season opens. Esp

{{Other First |Name=The First Vintage Games?

|Country=United States ...n, and was awarded the silver ball; it is now at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.&nbsp;</p>

{{Other First |Name=First African-American Games

|First Newspaper Mention=1869/04/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The <em>Louisville Courier</em>, March 31, 1859 has an ad for a meeting of the Eclipse BBC. [ba]</p>

|Country=United States ...Montana Baseball History" p. 22 says that Diamond City had a baseball club in 1873.</p>

|Headline=US Traveler Sees Baseball-Like Game in Northeastern France |Country=France

|Country=United States ...ase ball&rdquo; is a fine, healthy game, but should not be allowed in such a crowded thoroughfare, where women and children are constantly passing and l

|Headline=NY Private Plays a Lot of Ball Over Seven Weeks ...ng after April 17, and Brockway&rsquo;s diaries for his other 3.5 years as a soldier are not referenced.</p>

|Country=United States ...ents Clubs of this place. Both clubs will present their full strength, and a lively game may be expected.</p>

...m in the country for both, and if Brooklyn were to take Washington's place in the League there is no reason why Washington should not become an Associati

|Title=Baseball in Columbus |Is in library=No

|Country=United States ...ption=<p><em>Chicago Inter Ocean</em>, July 31, 1891: "To-morrow afternoon a game of baseball will be played between the Lake Bluff white and colored ni

|Country=United States ..."&nbsp;<br />The article gives a roster of both teams. Same issue promises a baseball game of the 4th of July.</p>

|Name=In Great Barrington in 1851 |Country=United States

|Title=Diamonds in the Coal Fields |Is in library=No

|Country=United States ...Commercial Advertiser</em>, Jan. 13, 1883, says that on Jan. 1st there was a baseball game between the Kahului and Wailuku teams, with Kahului winning.<

...The object is to have a convention of the amateur clubs, and to establish a code of playing rules of their own. It is desirable that replies should be ...f allowing games to go by default for betting-ring or third-game objects. In fact, did the professional clubs know what conserved their best interests,

|Headline=First Multi-Racial Baseball Team? ...31, 1867, ran a box score on what may be the first reported baseball match in Hawaii, between the Pacific and Pioneer Clubs.</p>

|Country=United States ...ar was a very dull one, this clubs in this locality [Brooklyn] playing but a few matches, and those of no importance."&nbsp; The recent delline:</p>

|Name=Ballgame in Lisbon in 1919 |Country=Portugal

|Country=Germany ...Club of Dresden. Both clubs were formed of Americans resident there. Gives a box score.</p>

|Country=United States ...ple had formed a base ball club, and enjoyed themselves three times a week a the sport. There were some good, and even expert players, and two or three

|Tags=Ball in the Culture, Civil War, Military |Country=United States

|Title=rumors of the Phillies in the NL ...t it will be admitted to the League. Manager Reach has just returned from a Western trip, and it is rumored that he brings with him contracts with seve

|Headline=In Georgia, "Baseball and Cricket Had Not Evolved" |Country=

|Headline=Bay Stater to Wife: “We had a gay old time playing ball . . . send me five dollars” ...ormed we would be discharged and sent to our Regiments in ten days. We had a gay old time playing ball. . . . You must send me five dollars without fail

|Headline=Town Ball Played in South Carolina |Country=United States

...English origin, it has been so modified and improved of late years in this country, as almost to deprive it of any of its original features beyond the mere gr ...e one near, who will try to hit or to ground, as seems the most advisable. A caught ball also puts the striker out.

|Country=United States ...a ghost town today. A BBC played there in 1881, and in nearby Hughes City in 1882.</p>

|Country=United States ...from a soldier in the 17th Maine Infantry, dated April 18, which says that a few weeks ago at James City, VA "the boys got about all manner of games [in

...cannot see why base ball, with the immense capital invested throughout the country, should be any exception to the plain business rule, viz.: Let everyone ge

|Country=United States ...The <em>Warsaw Bulletin</em>, Oct. 8, 1870 has a lengthy article of a game in Warsaw between the Crescents and the Excelsiors of Luray, MO, won 29-27 byt

|Name=In New Bedford in 1858 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...e 1854 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Youth's Casket</span> was a . . . moralistic tale centered on lying . . . ."&nbsp;</p>

|Country=United States ...>, Nov. 10, 1927 says that the Quick Step BBC was formed in Council Bluffs in 1871. William Withrow played 3b, Edgar Brown pitched, Ernest E. Hart caught

|Country=United States ...and Provincial Words</span>: '<em>Base-ball.</em> A country game mentioned in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moor's Suffolk Words</span>, p. 2

|Headline=Revolutionary War Prisoner Watches Ball-Playing in NYC Area |Country=United States

|Name=In Hanover in 1793 |Country=United States

|Headline=Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball |Country=United States

...nferences have been held by the Brotherhood for the purpose of formulating a programme for action.</p> ...but to give them an absolute release at the end of the tour contributed in a great measure to precipitate the present proceedings of the Brotherhood.</p

...e regular pastime, it only furnished the opportunity for another, and many a battle of snow-balls was conducted. . . . &rdquo;</p> ...ently its brigade, was at &ldquo;Camp Sedgwick&rdquo; on the Rapidan River in VA.</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1875/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

...solation of knowing that our conduct on the fied as players, gained for us a reputation that will certainly outlive our defeat.</p> ...to arrange such games for us, or advise us as to the propriety of playing in such places:</p>

|Headline=Man Played Base Ball in CT Before the War |Country=United States

...the regiment played a game of baseball, the Left wing winning 26-12. Gives a box score.</p> |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...of the club. Same, May 3, 1864, says that at this meeting J. W. Elsworth [a local hotel proprietor] was elected president, and Wm. Spinner [of the city

|Country=United States |Text=<p>Two base ball clubs were scheduled to play a game in Mariposa, a southern Sierra gold mining town.</p>

|Country=United States ...the Officers of the Brigade turn'd out &amp; Played at a game of ball the first we have had this yeare.'&nbsp;</p>

|Country=United States ...e clubs that relied on rare intercity visits for interclub competition. In a far greater number of locales, from Minnesota to Louisiana and from Maine t

|Name=in Narsarsuaq in 1943 |Country=Greenland

|Country= ...f the windows, and robbed of three new coats, a silver watch, and money to a considerable amount. No arrest.)"</span></p>

|Name=in Rio de Janeiro on 30 June 1867 |Country=Brazil

|Country=Canada ...p match was organized, with Charlottetown prevailing over the Pisquid Club in the deciding game."</p>

|Country=United States ...at, the superior of play on the part of their adversaries of course having a great deal to do with the result."</span></span></p>

|Name=in Herschel Island in 1893 |Country=Canada

|Name=In Richmond in 1795 |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1871/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Country=United States ...ball or balls in any of the streets, lanes, or alleys of this town, . . ." a fine of 25 cents to one dollar was to be assessed.</p>

|Country= |Text=<p>A Cleveland OH newspaper writer was moved to respond to reader [Edith] who gr

|Country=Korea ...dited with organizing the first baseball team at the Hansong YMCA in Seoul in 1905.

|First Newspaper Mention=1868/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Headline=Mitts in Michigan |Country=United States

|Headline=John Oliver Plays Base Ball in Baltimore |Country=

|Name=Excelsior Club of Albany v Empire Club of Albany in July 1856 |Country=United States

...him Anson may be able to pick out the best man in this League. Then, out in the Western League, “Ans” gets his tips from orator Shaffer.</p>

|Country=United States ...country, it would be found in the fact that it has flourished through such a year of adverse circumstances as those that have marked the season of 1861.

|First Newspaper Mention=1891/05/07 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Headline=Manly Virtues of Base Ball Extolled; 25 Clubs Now Playing in NYC Area |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...eral instances of ball-playing in New York State in 1776 and in New Jersey in 1777.&nbsp; His initial entries cite the game of whirl, and later ones note

|Country=United States ...game. The Valdostans had to leave in the middle of the 4th inning to catch a train.</p>

|Title=a resume of the Athletics' history and prospects ...red members, the best nine in the country, and about seven hundred dollars in the treasury. It remains to be seen how long this prosperity will continue

|Title=a condemnation of hippodroming; and a retraction ...somewhere, and the aforesaid dispatch opens the bag, and shows th “animal” in plan view. Gate money is what is the matter, as the following dispatch wil

|Country=Canada ...Quebec <em>Saturday Budget</em>, May 19, 1877: "Base Ball Match--There was a very exciting and interesting match last week on the Cove Field, between th

|Country=Canada ...competed earlier against the Halifax Club, held its organizational meeting a couple days later..."</p>

|Country=United States .... 14, 1884 reports that the match game between "a schoolboy nine&nbsp; and a team picked from among the young men about town" has been postponed.</p>

|Name=White Caps Club of Sioux City v Railroad Club of Cherokee in July 1870 |Country=United States

|Headline=Disparate Ball Games Seen in New Hampshire |Country=United States

|Name=In Adelaide in 1846 |Country=Australia

|Title=Ball Bias in Kent on September 21 1847 ...ry dancing, to separate bands, drop handkerchief, ball bias, &c., in which a large portion of those present heartily participated.”</p>

|Country=Ecuador ...he capital. However, Quito is so high up the air was too rarified to throw a good curve ball.</p>

|Country=United States ...d from an attack of baseball fever..." The baseball team evidently created a ball diamond last year, and are now raising funds to improve it. Same March

|Country=United States ...lock's side beat Keating's by a tally of 24 to 16." This game was reported in the Santa Fe Weekly Gazette, June 15, 1867.</p>

|Name=In Saco Circa 1820 |Country=United States

|Country=United States |Description=<p>First known game: September 7, 1869, vs. the Riversides of Nashua.</p>

|Name=Ball in MA in 1780 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...rounds, Chicago Base Ball Grounds) was used by the Chicago White Stockings in 1871. See Lowry, "Green Cathedrals." It is at the site of the modern Millen

|Headline=A Pleasant Beech Grove, Where the Boys Played Bass Ball |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...opkinsville and Clarksville. A Visit to the Former City". Article tells of a visit by the Bailey Base Ball Club of Clarksville to play the Brown Stockin

|Country=United States ...ive to six hundred spectators, including a liberal portion of ladies, were in attendance as spectators of both the morning and afternoon trials.”)</p>

...ng the minor leagues...was unanimously sat upon, and when it was presented in the joint conference the representatives of the Western and Atlantic associ ...effectually at that tender spot—the pockets—that the resolution requesting a reduction was promptly withdrawn.</p>

|Country=Canada ...competed earlier against the Halifax Club, held its organizational meeting a couple days later..."</p>

{{Other First |Name=First Tour Ever- Excelsiors Conduct Undefeated Western NY Road Trip.

|Name=in Rwanda in 2020 |Country=Rwanda

|Name=In Delphi Circa 1848 |Country=United States

|Country=United States |Description=<p>The <em>New York Clipper</em>, July 2, 1859, reports on a June 4th game at Fox Lake, WI between the Fox Lake and Courtland teams.</p>

|Headline=Impact of War Lessens in NYC |Tags=Ball in the Culture

|First Newspaper Mention=1874/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Country=United States ...human beings; and thus Nature, by means of the sporting world, by means of a great number of very imperfect, undignified, and sometimes quite disreputab

|Headline=Tenth MA Plays Inter-regimental Games of Base Ball and Wicket in VA ...are to have a grand match of Base Ball to day. a few days ago they played a game of Wicket with the 37^th and our boys beat them handsomely .

|Country=United States ...r. As early as 1863, ballgames were played on these grounds. The field had a clubhouse and wooden bleachers, but the site was not enclosed until 1865.</

|First Newspaper Mention=1866/09/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|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>

...of the leading clubs, and there is no doubt that they have been doing all in their power to bring about the dissolution that has at length taken place.<

|Country=United States |State=IN

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

|Name=Union army POWs in 1863 |Country=United States

|Name=in Zimbabwe in 1999 |Country=Zimbabwe

...n in our brigade for <em>300.00. </em>The Jersey boys beat 20 inings &amp; a ining not played.&rdquo;</p> ...NJ. <strong>Note:</strong> the men were about to fight at Chancellorsville in VA, but we do not know the location of this game.</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1860/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Headline=Soldiers play Round Town Ball in camp |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...A and served as a Sergeant in the Confederate army. The Pastimes toured MD in Sept. 1867, playing the local teams.</p>

|Country=United States ..., at the "race course" in Tombstone. Tombstone was badly beaten, 35 to 15. A box score is given. and no, none of the Earp brothers were on the Tombstone

|Name=in San Marino in 1960 |Date Note=Some time in the 1960s

|Country=United States ...ne 3, 1882 reports: "The base ball clubs of this city and Rosita will play a match game at the latter place next Wednesday."</p>

|Country=United States ...tch.]. But what I meant to write you about, was to ask where we can obtain a full statement and explanation of the rules and principles of base-ball."&n

...o return to the old tactics of the club, and to play their amateur experts in the place of professionals, and to decline entering the championship-arena ...ir quiet and gentlemanly style of playing even if they don’t pay their men a thousand dollars apiece. New York Dispatch March 22, 1868</p>

|Country=Palau |Description=<p>Baseball Oceania website says Palau had a club entered in the 1999 South Pacific games. Palau hosted the 2005 games, and finished 2nd

|Name=In Barre in 1855 |Country=United States

|Name=Ball in AR in 1836 |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1904/06/02 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Country=Canada ...Gandolfo, romped. A week later, on Friday, August 2, the Gandolfos hosted a re-match"</p>

|Country=United States ...orts that the Nashville Suckers played a game against Sparta that ended in a draw, only Sparta is claiming that they won.</p>