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|Headline=Chapbook Illustrates Trap-ball .../u>, page 193. The book describes "several popular games," including trap-ball, with poetry and woodcuts.</p>

|Term=Trounce-Ball ...s this game as a Norfolk version of [[Trap Ball]], but with a hole for the trap and a cudgel for a bat.</p>

|Headline=Cat and Trap-ball Seen as Boys&#39; Games [The Men Play Foot-ball] ...:/ Here men at foot-ball they do fall;/ There boys at <i>cat</i> and trap-ball."</p>

|Headline=<u>Boy&#39;s Own Toy-Maker</u> Covers Tip-cat and Trap-ball |Game=Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball,

|Headline=Trap-ball Found in Book of "Many Exercises and Exercises for Ladies" ...w It</u>, page 201. Most of this text covers gymnastic routines, but trap-ball is also included. <b>Note:</b> Is this an early use of the term "manly" in

|Headline=Book Printed in Philadelphia Gives Details of Trap Ball in England ...ging endorsement of trap ball . . . the most detailed description pf [trap ball] in the period."&nbsp; - Tom Altherr</p>

|Headline=<u>Book of Games</u> Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball ...ground, or if I have hit the trigger more than twice, without striking the ball, I am out and one of you take the bat, and come in, as it is called."</p>

|Headline=Children's Book Describes Trap Ball and its Benefits |Game=Trap Ball,

...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=<u>Games and Sports</u> Covers Rounders, Feeder, Trap-ball, Northern Spell ...n, Warne and Routledge] This book's descriptions of rounders, feeder, trap-ball, and northern spell were cloned from the 1841 publication <span style="text

...that a wooden ball was sometimes used. The objective was mainly to hit the ball for distance.</p> |Sources=<p><em>Ball Games</em><span>., page 56.</span></p>

|Headline=Trap Ball, Stool Ball, Well Established in Louisville KY |Text=<p>"Other forms of bat and ball games, like trap-ball and stool-ball, became well established in Louisville in the decade preceding the Civil Wa

|Term=Up-Ball ...lls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-ball and drive-ball are the most common.”</p>

|Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls ...ive ball are most common." <b>Note: "</b>Up-ball?" "Drive ball?" No town ball?</p>

|Headline=NY Paper Carries Notice for "English Trap Ball" at a Military Ground |Game=Cricket, Trap Ball

|Headline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...former utilized a bat while Strutt's sketch of stool-ball stated that the ball was struck by the bare hand."</p>

|Headline=Dutch Handbook for Boys Covers "Engelsch Balspel," Trap-ball, Tip-cat ...English ball). A second game is <em>De wip</em> (the whip), a kind of trap ball. Also [[<strong>De kat</strong>]], which Block identifies as English tip-ca

|Term=Trap Ball ...involved the catching and tossing back of the ball toward the batter. Trap ball persists today in Kent, England, as a tavern game.</p>

...<i>Little Pretty Pocket-Book</i> Refers to "Base-Ball," "Stooleball, "Trap-Ball," Cricket |Game=Cricket, English Base Ball,

|Headline=New "Original and Unusual" Manual Has New Slants on Rounders, Trap-ball ...ginal and unusual" by Block. For one thing, it includes two forms of trap-ball, the second being the "Essex" version referred to in the 1801 Strutt opus.<