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• Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
  |Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
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• 1850 -- Southern Ball-Games
  |Title=1850 -- Southern Ball-Games
  279 bytes (34 words) - 07:31, 28 July 2019
• Games Played with a Ball
  |Title=Games Played with a Ball
  196 bytes (30 words) - 18:45, 28 July 2019
• Ball Games: 1800-1860
  |Title=Ball Games: 1800-1860
  302 bytes (41 words) - 18:45, 28 July 2019
• Clipping:A uniform ball for all championship games
  |Title=a uniform ball for all championship games ...r. Smith of the Maryland Club introduced a rule regarding all championship games to be played with a Ryan “dead” ball, which was adopted. So but one ba
  413 bytes (65 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
• Chronology:Games of bat and ball
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• The Evolution of Games at Ball
  |Title=The Evolution of Games at Ball
  403 bytes (65 words) - 18:44, 28 July 2019
• Hat ball (Family of Games)
  {{Family of Games |Description=Games featuring baserunning and/or plugging (but no batting).
  131 bytes (19 words) - 06:55, 2 June 2012
• Clipping:A uniform ball adopted for championship games
  |Title=a uniform ball adopted for championship games ...The strongest argument in its favor lay in the fact of its requiring all games to be played with a regularly authorized ball, instead of having continued
  860 bytes (139 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
• An Illustrated History of Ball Games
  |Title=An Illustrated History of Ball Games
  255 bytes (37 words) - 18:53, 28 July 2019
• Clipping:Experimental games: square bat a cork ball
  |Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball ...interesting experiments are to be made to-day and to-morrow in exhibition games between the Chicago and Buffalo teams. In to-day's game two radical new de
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• Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games
  ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games
  262 bytes (39 words) - 18:39, 28 July 2019
• David Block's Data (so far) for Early English Base Ball Games
  David here also offers data on games played under different names -- pize-ball, tut-ball, etc. You can browse t === Data On Early English Games ===
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• A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.
  |Title=A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.
  314 bytes (47 words) - 18:39, 28 July 2019

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• Clipping:Reaction to the spread of Sunday baseball
  ...t which professional base ball is being conducted making such remunerative games absolutely necessary to the clubs which had hitherto abstained from playing
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• Tom Altherr, April 2013
  ...pean games, to the evolution of base ball.  He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an
  969 bytes (157 words) - 07:21, 13 May 2013
• 1773.3
  |Headline=Ball-Playing by Slaves Is Eyed in SC ...t assembling of Negroes in the Town [Beaufort, SC] on Sundays, and playing games of Trap-ball and Fives, which is not taken proper notice of by Magistrates,
  805 bytes (125 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
• 1849c.5
  |Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls ...aying Ball" section is the observation that "[t]here are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b
  598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
• Clipping:Prospects for Sunday baseball
  ...Windsor Beach, the Sunday grounds of the Syracuse and Rochester clubs, the games have been stopped.</p>
  601 bytes (92 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
• 1841.18
  ...ve the formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>
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• Clipping:Spring training by playing handball
  ...t awakened to the importance of thorough training before playing any match games, and accordingly has put his men through a pretty thorough course of exerci
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• Most Wanted: How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games?
  ...e 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? ...e Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>
  659 bytes (101 words) - 12:29, 13 December 2018
• 1830s.21
  ...referred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"<em>&nbsp;Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32. Cleme
  1 KB (176 words) - 20:18, 29 January 2020
• BC750.1
  ...all. Pollux [ca 180 AD] lists a number of children's ball games, including games that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the pl <p>As far as we are aware, Greek ball games did not include any that involved running among bases or safe havens, or an
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• Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on August 3 1850
  ...ay: "After tea, the boys amused themselves by playing at cricket and other games, and the girls by playing at base ball, &c."</p>
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• 1659.1
  |Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...service on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di
  760 bytes (105 words) - 21:03, 21 October 2012
• Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
  ...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> ...p>This reference is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball p
  961 bytes (150 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
• 1815c.5
  |Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...and simple kinds, such as hunting, fishing, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed."&nbsp;</p>
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• Bandy
  |Sources=<p>Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, etc. "&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>&nbsp;(Spring 2011).</p ...at "bandy" was in the 1800s sort of a generic name for ice or field hockey games. [ba]</p>
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• Clipping:The decline of regular amateur clubs
  ...ound at Prospect Park affords, presenting excellent facilities for playing games between extemporized nines, while regular club grounds are not at command,
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• Clipping:A barnstorming team to play exhibitions with the PL
  ...ased to say that I have this day completed the entire circuit, playing two games in each city with each club as follows...</p>
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• 1837.7
  ...inating that one of the first things they did, upon incorporation, was ban ball-playing on the Sabbath."</p>
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• Corner Ball
  ...ription=<p>A plugging game that is closer to dodge ball than to safe-haven games. Some players, standing at designated corners or the perimeter of the playi
  481 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 6 January 2016
• Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 5 October 1858
  <p>This intramural game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation (WNY table) as compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by Porter ...now." It thus seems that other games may have preceded the 1858 intramural games, 'though they were not necessarily played by Associaton rules.</p>
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