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• Athlete Jr Base Ball Club of Philadelphia2  + (<p>A separate Jr club from the one organized on June 3, 1866 located in the Twentieth Ward.</p>)
• 1848.10  + (<p>A team size of 12 and three-game match are consistent with some Mass game contests.</p>)
• 21st Century Townball  + (<p>A video of the game is at: </p … <p>A video of the game is at: </p></br><p><a href="http://ds.uhs.csufresno.edu/video/websiteMedia/townball16.mp4">http://ds.uhs.csufresno.edu/video/websiteMedia/townball16.mp4</a>  [loads slowly 9/8/2107]</p></br><p>--</p></br><p>Some particularly interesting variants from baseball include [note that key cricket characteristics are retained]:</p></br><p> </p></br><p>[] No foul balls [and no foul territory]</p></br><p>[] Plugging of runners is allowed</p></br><p>[] Basepath distance progresses  from from 42' to 110'feet sequentially</p></br><p>[] Batters defend a "zone" as cricket batters defend a wicket</p></br><p>[] Optional running except for third strike.</p></br><p>[] No set batting order -- can vary inning to inning</p></br><p> </p>et</p> <p>[] Optional running except for third strike.</p> <p>[] No set batting order -- can vary inning to inning</p> <p> </p>)
• Waggles  + (<p>A web search for "waggles england" in 2017 returns only the 1898 Gomme citation of the game.</p>)
• D. Eagan  + (<p>AKA D. Eagan</p>)
• Hit the Bat  + (<p>AKA Roll-the-Bat, Cherry, Rollabat. Cf. Sullivan, "Roll-the-Bat," <em>Southwest Folklore</em> 4 (1980) pp. 84-86; Cohen, <em>The Games We Played</em> (2001), p. 77</p>)
• Symmes2  + (<p>AKA Symms</p>)
• 1860.45  + (<p>About 20% of the games covered in … <p>About 20% of the games covered in available 1860 newspaper accounts of base ball in Syracuse depict "old-fashioned base ball" as played by a set of five area clubs. The common format for these games was a best-two-of-three match of games played to 25 "tallies" [not runs]. A purse of $25 was not uncommon. Teams exceeded nine players. However, no account laid out the details of the playing rules, or how they differed from those of the National Association. An 1859 article suggested that the game was the same as "Massachusetts "Base Ball," giving the only firm clue as to its rules. </p>ng the only firm clue as to its rules. </p>)
• Barn Ball (House Ball)  + (<p>Abraham Lincoln is said to have played barn ball with enthusiasm in Springfield c. 1858. Nicholas Young remembered playing barn ball in the Mohawk Valley in the 1850s.</p>)
• In St. Louis in 1860  + (<p>According to "Baseball Pioneers" the Morning Star BBC played town ball for several years prior to 1860. </p>)
• Morning Star Club of St. Louis  + (<p>According to Jeff Kittel in "Baseball Pioneers" the Morning Star BBC played town ball for several years prior to 1860. </p>)
• Star Club of Newark2  + (<p>According to Newark Daily Advertiser of 8/21/1866, the players were members of the Young Men's Catholic Association.  This is a different club from the 1861 Star Club of Newark</p>)
• 1781s.4  + (<p>According to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913, "lazzarone" referred to "the homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging." </p>)
• Judge's Spring  + (<p>According to http://nashvillehistory.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html, Judge's Spring (or McNairy's Spring), was located at approximately 7th Ave. and Jackson St. in Nashville.</p>)
• Brilliant Stars Club of Elizabeth  + (<p>According to the New Brunswick Daily Fredonian of 9/17/1869 - this was a "colored" club</p>)
• 1860.42  + (<p>According to the WSOT article, the Excelsior lineup included Creighton as pitching and third batter, Brainerd at 2B, and Leggett as catcher. Mr. Welling of the Knickerbockers served as umpire.</p>)
• Banana Ball  + (<p>According to this article, "banana ball" debuted in 2021:</p> <p>https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/introducing-banana-ball-the-savannah-bananas-attempt-to-change-baseball/</p>)
• 1854.13  + (<p>Actually, Mr. Calthrop may have come along about 95 years too late to make that claim: see #[[1760s.1]] above.</p>)
• 1827.2  + (<p>Adams' use of a frame-within-a-fr … <p>Adams' use of a frame-within-a-frame device is interesting to baseball history buffs, but the authenticity of the recollected game is hard to judge in a work of fiction. Mumford's lot was in fact an early Rochester ballplaying venue, and Thurlow Weed (see entry #[[1825c.1]]) wrote of club play in that period. Priscilla Astifan has been looking into Adams' expertise on early Rochester baseball. See #[[1828c.3]] for another reference to Adams' interest in baseball about a decade before the modern game evolved in New York City.</p>re the modern game evolved in New York City.</p>)
• Club of Hamburg, Germany  + (<p>Additional sources for same report, with some detail. The Maine club involved reported as the Gorham Base Ball Club.</p>)
• 1855.16  + (<p>Adelman bases his analysis on the … <p>Adelman bases his analysis on the premise that base ball's predecessor games were played mainly be juveniles.  This premise can be questioned.  Even discounting play by university youths up to 1845, adult play in the military and elsewhere was hardly rare before the Gothams and Knickerbockers formed in New York around 1840, as many entries in this chronology indicate.  </p>dicate.  </p>)
• 1853c.15  + (<p>Adelman does not mention that until 1854 there were few other known clubs for the KBBC to challenge to match games.</p> <p> </p>)
• 1862.9  + (<p>Admission had occasionally also been charged for "benefit" games for charities or to honor prominent players.</p>)
• Pythian Club of Philadelphia v Mutual Club of Washington on 18 June 1871  + (<p>African American Clubs</p>)
• Club of Columbus  + (<p>African American ball club.</p>)
• Club of Madison  + (<p>African American ball clubs.</p>)

• Unique Club of Brooklyn v Excelsior Club of Philadelphia on 3 October 1867  + (<p>African American base ball.</p>)
• Young Americas Club of Manhattan v Golden Stars Club of Manhattan in September 1871  + (<p>African American base ball.</p>)

• Club of Smyrna  + (<p>African American club.</p>)
• Colored Union Club of Williamsburg  + (<p>African American club.</p>)
• Pythian Club of Philadelphia v Mutual Club of Washington on 2 September 1871  + (<p>African American club.</p>)
• In Albany in 1882  + (<p>African American clubs.</p>)
• Unexpected Club of Rochester  + (<p>African-American team. Frederick Douglass' son Charles played for them.</p>)
• Bachelors Club of Albany  + (<p>African-American team</p>)
• Star Club of Los Angeles  + (<p>African-American. First inter-racial game in Los Angeles?</p>)
• 1859.65  + (<p>After the Eckford Club contradict … <p>After the Eckford Club contradicted the <em></em>claim that several  players were resigning and moving to other clubs, the <em>Clipper </em>issued a retraction on December 3: "...we are pleased to learn that it is not correct, for we do not approve of these changes at all." </p>e do not approve of these changes at all." </p>)
• Hamilton Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>Aka Hamilton Club of Bedford?</p>)
• Spencer Club of Boston  + (<p>Aka King Philip BBC?</p>)
• Melpomene Base Ball Club of New Orleans  + (<p>Aka Melpomenia</p>)
• Randall Club of Philadelphia  + (<p>Aka S. J. Randall Club. Named for a politician.</p>)
• Irwin Club of Philadelphia  + (<p>Aka William B. Irwin club. Men of a fire company.</p>)
• In New Bedford in 1868  + (<p>Almost forgotten for 30 years!</p>)
• Softball Cricket  + (<p>Also played on the Isle of Man, the West Indies and the U.S.</p>)
• Manchester Mirror printers v Other Manchester printers on 6 April 1858  + (<p>Also see The Peterborough Transcript, April 14, 1858 [ba]</p>)
• Cassidy  + (<p>Also spelled "Cassady" and "Cassiday."</p>)
• Castrin  + (<p>Also spelled "Castrine"</p>)
• 1811.1  + (<p>Altherr explains that Kingston Academy is British.</p> <p>This book appears to be a reprint of the 1805 London publication above at [[1805.3]].</p>)
• Sunrise Club of Paterson v Amateur Club of Paterson on 4 July 1866  + (<p>Amateur Club was formerly the Empire Club</p>)
• Club of Saltillo  + (<p>American soldiers may have played … <p>American soldiers may have played baseball in Saltillo in 1847. O<span>n January 30, 1847, Adolph Engelmann, an Illinois volunteer, reported: “During the past week we had much horse racing and the drill ground was fairly often in use for ball games.” [cited in Our Game blog]</span></p>ames.” [cited in Our Game blog]</span></p>)
• Excelsior Club of Baltimore  + (<p>An 1866 club called itself the Ex … <p>An 1866 club called itself the Excelsior of West Baltimore. Baltimore <em>American</em>, Aug. 10, 1866.</p></br><p>An Excelsior BBC played the Peabody for the city junior championship in 1867. Baltimore <em>American</em>, July 30, 1867.</p></br><p>The Baltimore Daily Exchange, July 13, 1859, reports that in the past week the Excelsior BBC was formed, with W. D. Shurtz as president.</p></br><p>This club may have been preceded in Baltimore by the "Urche" club. See McKenna, "Baltimore Baseball: The Beginning, 1858- 1872"</p> the "Urche" club. See McKenna, "Baltimore Baseball: The Beginning, 1858- 1872"</p>)
• Wright's Grove  + (<p>An 1868 image fsrom the CHS is in protopix.</p> <p>It was called Timothy Wright's Grove in the 1850s, after the co-owner of the Chicago Tribune.</p>)
• Alamo Plaza  + (<p>An 1869 game was played at the Arsenal Grounds. See San Antonio Express, Oct. 17, 1965</p>)