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• Chronology:Old-Cat Games
  30 bytes (4 words) - 23:11, 9 February 2014

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• 1836c.4
  |Headline=The Ballgames "Old Cat" and "Base" Played in Concord MA ...lt than the modern games. Chief were four old-cat, three old-cat, two old-cat, and base."</p>
  722 bytes (109 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
• 1878.1
  |Headline=Nostalgia for old games of Two Old Cat, Three Old Cat, Bull Pen, Run Around |Game=Two Old Cat
  985 bytes (147 words) - 06:21, 26 May 2022
• 1800c.4
  |Headline=Four Old Cat and Three Old Cat Well Known in MA ...players. . . . The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod
  1 KB (200 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
• 1850s.47
  |Headline=Boys and Girls Play Old Cat at Recess in Wisconsin |Game=Old-Cat Games
  1 KB (172 words) - 06:10, 5 June 2022
• Round Cat
  |Term=Round Cat |Description=<p>Round Cat is a game noted by Tom Altherr in September 2009. We find several brief men
  708 bytes (111 words) - 20:07, 25 May 2022
• In HI in 1866
  |Game=Two O'cat ...s that the bat-ball games in Hawaii at the time were two-o-cat and three-o-cat. Castle was born n 1849.
  993 bytes (146 words) - 14:33, 27 February 2024
• Hornebillets
  ...bsp;batters run to the next hole, placing the stick in the hole before the cat can be retrieved and&nbsp;be put into the hole. The number of holes depends ...span style="text-decoration: underline;">Francis Willughby&rsquo;s Book of Games&nbsp;(Ashgate, 2003), page 182.</span></p>
  920 bytes (145 words) - 06:35, 23 June 2015
• 1840c.27
  |Headline=New Hampshire Farm Boy Plays Baseball, Two Old Cat, Drive ...e old cat,' 'two old cat,' and 'drive,' played with balls . . . . In such games girls did not join; and the game of cricket, which has long prevailed in En
  1 KB (170 words) - 17:46, 6 September 2012
• 1850s.43
  |Headline=South Carolina College Students Make Do with Town Ball, "Cat" |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games
  791 bytes (127 words) - 23:06, 9 February 2014
• ProtoPix:Tip-Cat
  |Source Image=Tip Cat.pdf |Title=Tip-Cat
  345 bytes (47 words) - 09:18, 28 June 2023
• 1859.16
  |Headline=<u>Boy&#39;s Own Toy-Maker</u> Covers Tip-cat and Trap-ball |Game=Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball,
  847 bytes (119 words) - 18:37, 9 May 2015
• In Concord in 1836
  |Game=base, old cat ...1 (Chaarles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905), page 52. Hoar was ten years old in 1836. Per Seymour, Harold &ndash; Notes in the Seymour Collection at Co
  1 KB (180 words) - 14:29, 27 February 2024
• 1709.3
  |Headline=Cat and Trap-ball Seen as Boys&#39; Games [The Men Play Foot-ball] ...me away so passes:/ Here men at foot-ball they do fall;/ There boys at <i>cat</i> and trap-ball."</p>
  496 bytes (80 words) - 17:29, 6 September 2012
• 1583.1
  ...rson so playing being imprisoned in the <em>Doungeon</em> for the space of two hours; or else every person so offending to pay 6 [pence] for every time. A ...retrosheet.org/Protoball/Glossary.htm</a>], tip-cat could be played with a cat or a ball, and could involve running among holes as bases. <strong>Caveat:<
  2 KB (294 words) - 17:26, 6 September 2012
• 1853c.13
  ...vard, Most Students Played Baseball and Football, Some Cricket or Four-Old-Cat |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Old-Cat Games
  1,022 bytes (140 words) - 18:20, 14 October 2015
• 1850.6
  |Headline=Article in <i>The Knickerbocker</i> Mentions "Bass-ball," Old Cat, Barn-ball ...chance of any sort in the world, save the "bass-ball," "one" and "two-hole cat," and "barn-ball" of our boyhood . . . "</p>
  1 KB (163 words) - 09:57, 27 January 2013
• 1652.1
  |Headline=Traveler in Wales Reports "Laudable" Sunday Games of "Trap, Cat, Stool-ball, Racket &amp;c" ...cise and edify in the churchyard at the lawful and laudable games of trap, cat, stool-ball, racket, &amp;c., on Sundays."</p>
  592 bytes (96 words) - 17:27, 6 September 2012
• In Peekskill in 1845
  |Game=Two Old Cat ...in Peekskill, stated that he wasn't very good at one old cat or other cat games as a youth.
  842 bytes (123 words) - 14:44, 27 February 2024
• Waggles
  ...' &nbsp;The batters act much in he same way as in cricket, except that the cat must be hit whilst in the air. &nbsp;The batter hits it as far away as poss ...Scotland, and Ireland</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 &ndash; reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 329.</p>
  1 KB (178 words) - 17:58, 13 March 2017
• In MA in 1800
  |Game=Old Cat ...Base Ball now. The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod
  1 KB (187 words) - 14:38, 27 February 2024