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...possible that the term was used for diverse variations of local safe-haven games in other areas.</p> <p>One might speculate that later still, such games would be thought of as &ldquo;town ball.&rdquo;</p>

|Headline=MA Gents Recall Boyhood Games in 1830s: Cat, Wicket, OFBB

|Game=OFBB ...means. Clearly it is a bat-and-ball game, and given the documented earlier games of baseball (in some form or other) in California and the absence of docume

|Game=OFBB ...ber of hours were devoted to practice.&nbsp; That summer the team won many games. . .&nbsp;.</p>

...n to rely on newspaper descriptions, years later, of re-creations of early games, not unlike trying to understand the New York game solely by watching vinta ...strong>&nbsp; John's reflections on this game, and other 1860's reports of OFBB in Newark and Paterson NJ are carried in&nbsp;<em>Supplemental Text,</em> b

|Game=OFBB |Warning=<p>The dates that these games were originally seen are not reported.&nbsp; We have assigned them to "the

...er;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">'''Characterizing Base Ball Games at Elysian Fields'''</span></p> <p>1839.1* Shinty played in the Scottish games, at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken. See Chronologies 1839.8</p>