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|Game=Long Town Ball ...rows at him. The suspense under which the victim was while waiting for the ball to strike was telling.

...ine=Traveler in Wales Reports "Laudable" Sunday Games of "Trap, Cat, Stool-ball, Racket &amp;c" ...ify in the churchyard at the lawful and laudable games of trap, cat, stool-ball, racket, &amp;c., on Sundays."</p>

|Headline=Holiday Encroached by Round Ball, Long Ball, Old Cat |Game=Round Ball,Long Ball,Old-Cat Games

...modern field hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> <p>The New York Clipper, June 1, 1861 has a long article on Bandy, which it describes as a Welsh version of Hurling.</p>

|Headline=Lem: Juvenile Fiction&#39;s Boy Who Loved Round-ball |Game=Round Ball, Massachusetts Game, Gool Ball ( Goal Ball)

|Term=Round Town (Round Town Ball) |Description=<p>Round Town (also found as 'round-town,' or 'Round Town Ball') has been found in a handful of sources listed below.&nbsp; It appears to

|Term=Cat (Kat) |Description=<p>For a recent description of Cat/Old-Cat, see&nbsp;<strong>Supplemental Text below.</strong>&nbsp;</p>

|Term=The Union Hall Game of Ball |Description=<p>A game they evidently&nbsp;knew&nbsp;as&nbsp;"base ball" was played by the students of the Union Hall Academy in&nbsp;Jamaica (Quee

...ribed as elementary baseball, and said to be analogous to rounders and old-cat. It was reported that Om El Mahag was only played by the Berber tribes.</p> ...it related, or relates, to base ball, long ball, or other early safe-haven games.</p>

'''Note''': For a later and deeper account of base ball in the Civil War, see The 2018 Update by Bruce Allardice on Protoball.org. In the current decade, two books have appeared on the role of base ball in the Civil War (Millen 2001; Kirsch 2003). Neither author lists all the

of base ball as of about 1860. It covers the Knick Rules, and Part Two will of the club, have antecedents in older bat and ball games. While both the 1845

|Title=What Was Town Ball, Anyway? |Description=A Source-Based Description of Town Ball Play

|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