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  • |Headline=Soldier in MA Played Ball ...ng: 'Camping and played bowl,' he wrote on May 30. 'Bowl' for Tripp meant ball, because elsewhere he referred to cannonballs as 'cannon bowls.' On June 2
    1 KB (173 words) - 17:32, 6 September 2012
  • |Headline=Form of Stool Ball Possibly Found in Domesday Book in Norman England? |Text=<p>Stool ball, a stick and ball game and a forerunner of rounders and cricket, is apparently mentioned in t
    2 KB (353 words) - 07:00, 22 June 2022
  • |Game="Bowl" (ball) ...Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 39</p>
    2 KB (252 words) - 14:30, 27 February 2024
  • |Headline=U. of Michigan Alum Recalls Baseball, Wicket, Old-Cat Games |Game=Wicket, Base Ball, American Cricket, Old-Cat Games
    2 KB (253 words) - 22:28, 28 February 2014
  • |Description=<p>In describing an indoor form of Stool Ball played in case of wet weather, an 1891 source adds:&nbsp; "It is sometimes ...ll take stools [arranged in a circle] except the bowler, who is allowed to bowl out, catch out, and throw out just as at cricket."&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
    2 KB (290 words) - 10:15, 23 March 2021
  • <p><span>[A.] Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Traditional Games of England,&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sc .... The pitcher stood 24 feet from home base, and each batter was out if the ball was caught, or if it touched a base before the batter reached it. The game
    4 KB (707 words) - 18:10, 8 December 2021
  • ...earlier, but it is clearer that rounders employed a bat than that English ball did.</p> ...pitches were compelled to run on the third swing as if they had struck the ball.</p>
    12 KB (2,093 words) - 06:15, 25 June 2023
  • ...nd by the early nineteenth century “rounders” had become a popular bat-and-ball game, especially among children. Later that century, rounders was being pla ...icago White Stockings and an All-America team in 1889. Both tours included games in the rounders hotbed of Liverpool.<br>
    21 KB (3,885 words) - 08:49, 12 March 2016
  • |Title=A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball ...are oblige’d to walk 4 miles to day to find a place leavel enough to play ball.”<ref name="ref1" /> On the face of it, the two journal entries might not
    92 KB (15,359 words) - 17:54, 9 February 2013