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• In Alexandria in 1842  + (<p>Bob Tholkes wonders: Is "town ball" the southern name for "base ball?"</p>)
• 1869.13  + (<p>Bob Tholkes' thorough 2016 paper … <p>Bob Tholkes' thorough 2016 paper [cited above] throws welcome light on the nature of elite base ball in period immediately following the Civil War, a period also associated with the rise of "Base Ball Fever" during which local clubs, representing individual companies, affinity groups, etc., formed clubs, some of which playing at sunrise [as early as five o'clock AM], prior to the work day. </p></br><p> </p></br><p> </p> day. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>)
• 1867.25  + (<p>Bob Tholkes, 5/6/2021:  "<span … <p>Bob Tholkes, 5/6/2021:  "<span>Didn't know there was a funeral announcement."</span></p></br><p><span>Richard Hershberger, 5/6/2021: "<span>I don't know of any report of the association meeting or otherwise showing any sign of life after the war."</span></span></p></br><p><span><span>In a 5/9/2021 search, Protoball doesn't find one after 1866 either.</span></span></p></br><p><span><span>Note: Protoball has an 1868 clipping of a throwback game (28 innings, score 24-23) played by Mass rules.  See https://protoball.org/Clipping:The_Mohawk_Club_reverts_to_amateur.</span></span></p></br><p><span> </span></p>3) played by Mass rules.  See https://protoball.org/Clipping:The_Mohawk_Club_reverts_to_amateur.</span></span></p> <p><span> </span></p>)
• 1860.38  + (<p>Box score provided; it is consistent with the National Association rules. Assuming that "Alleghany" is an alternative spelling for "Allegheny," this game occurred in a town absorbed into Pittsburgh PA in 1907.</p>)
• Charter Oak Club of Jersey City2  + (<p>Box scores confirm this is a white club.</p>)
• Active Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>Box scores of the Active Jr. against the Washington Market BBC (undated) can be found in <em>National Chronicle</em>, April 17, 1869 </p>)
• 1621.1  + (<p>Bradford explained that the issue … <p>Bradford explained that the issue was not that ball-playing was sinful, but that playing openly while others worked was not good for morale.</p></br><p><strong>Note:</strong> From scrutinizing early reports of stoolball, Protoball does not find convincing evidence that it was a base-running game by the 1600s.</p>nvincing evidence that it was a base-running game by the 1600s.</p>)
• 1762.2  + (<p>Brian Turner, 8/31/2014, notes that the wording of this order could be taken to mean that the game itself was seen as a form of cricket, and was not a distinct game. </p>)
• 1851.10  + (<p>British sailors played rounders on the ice in Melville Bay, Greenland, Aug. 20, 1857. See Lloyd, "The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas"</p>)
• Savannah Base Ball Club  + (<p>Bruce Allardice adds this note on … <p>Bruce Allardice adds this note on the social makeup of the Savannah BBC [19CBB posting of 2/5/2016]:</p></br><p> </p></br><p>"George G. Kimball was born in 1843 in ME, died 1923, attended Bowdoin (ME) College. Journalist.</p></br><p>William Forrestal May (1845-1920) was born in CT.</p></br><p>“Flanders”–only Flanders in 1870 Savannah a mulatto.</p></br><p>Edwin L. Beard was born in NY c. 1840.</p></br><p>Peter S. Neidlinger (1853-97) a clerk who was born in Savannah of German immigrants.</p></br><p>Peter Schaefer (1841-1902) was born in Germany.</p></br><p>Charles Rossignol (born c 1850) was born in GA, as was William Nungezer Nichols (1852-1930)</p></br><p>Frank Wagner Dasher (1852-88) was born in GA, of NY parents.</p></br><p>From the above, it’s pretty clear that the team was not highly gentrified but was at least half transplants."</p>rents.</p> <p>From the above, it’s pretty clear that the team was not highly gentrified but was at least half transplants."</p>)
• Clipping:Traditional Easter Ballplaying . . . Where Fast Day Play was Born?  + (<p>Bruce Allardice notes that "town corporation" was a British term for what we would call a city council. </p>)
• Clipping:An interracial game  + (<p>Brunson, "Black Baseball" says this Albion Club organized in 1868, but presents no cite prior to 1872. [ba]</p>)
• 1850s.49  + (<p>Buckland is about 45 miles north … <p>Buckland is about 45 miles north of Portland.</p></br><p>The ages of players is not clear.</p></br><p>As of Jan 2013, this is one of three uses of "gool" instead of "goal" in ballplaying entries, all in the 1850s and found in western MA and ME.  [To confirm/update, do an enhanced search for "gool".]  One of these [[1850s.33]] uses "gool" as the name of the game.</p>1850s.33]] uses "gool" as the name of the game.</p>)
• In Buffalo in 1856  + (<p>Buffalo Evening Post, April 4, 1851 ran an ad about a meeting to form a cricket club. </p> <p>Same July 15, 1856 mentions a proposed Albion Cricket Club. Same club as the Amateur?</p>)
• 1844.18  + (<p>By "plebeian," the writer presumably meant "not upper-class."</p>)
• 1860.83  + (<p>By 1860, most Massachusetts Rules games were being played to 75 runs, instead of the 100 specified in the rules adopted in 1858. A match for the state championship was abandoned, unfinished, after four days' play.</p>)
• Hansong YMCA Team Club of Seoul  + (<p>By 1920 there was a Korea baseball championship. See www.projectcobb.org.uk</p>)
• Lawrence Base Ball Club of Cambridge  + (<p>Cambridge had 26,060 residents in 1860.</p>)
• 1864.18  + (<p>Camp Sedgwick was in northern VA. FORT Sedgwick was near Petersburg, and not built after the Battle of the Wilderness. [ba]</p>)
• 1861.19  + (<p>Camp Seminary was located near Fairfax Seminary in Alexandria VA, near Washington DC. </p> <p>One may infer that the 2^nd NJ remained at winter quarters in Alexandria VA at this time, providing protection to Washington. </p>)
• Sacramento Base Ball Club v Union Club of Sacramento on 22 February 1860  + (<p>Can we determine Spalding's sources for this account?  Is the game account clear that New York rules were used?</p>)
• Mechanics Ball Club of Waltham  + (<p>Can we determine if this game was played by Mass game rules?</p>)
• Red Rover Base Ball Club of San Francisco  + (<p>Can we discover more about this club's foundation, history, and fate? </p>)
• 1857.30  + (<p>Cannot confirm this source. The rules described appeared in the <em>New York Clipper, </em>October 10, 1857.</p>)
• 1844.16  + (<p>Canton, NY is about 15 miles SE o … <p>Canton, NY is about 15 miles SE of Ogdensburg NY.  Its population in 2000 was a bit over 10,000.</p></br><p>Ogdensburg [1853 population "about 6500"] is about 60 miles [NE] down the St. Lawrence River from Lake Ontario.  It is about 60 miles south of Ottawa, about 120 miles north of Syracuse, and about 125 miles SW (upriver) of Montreal.</p>miles SW (upriver) of Montreal.</p>)

• Whitney  + (<p>Catcher</p>)

• Flour City Club of Rochester v Niagara Club of Buffalo on 3 September 1858  + (<p>Caution: Protoball has them playing in Buffalo that day, with a different score.</p>)
• Bonafon  + (<p>Center Field. Also spelled "Bonaf … <p>Center Field. Also spelled "Bonaffon" and "Bonnaffon" in other sources. The Nashville City Directory lists "FV Bonnaffin" as a clerk for the quartermaster at a railroad depot. In 1867, "F.V. Bonnaffon" was stationed under the Nashville quartermaster in Kentucky.</p>der the Nashville quartermaster in Kentucky.</p>)
• Marion Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>Cf Marion Base Ball Club of South Brooklyn. [ba]</p>)
• 1860.6  + (<p>Chadwick emigrated from western E … <p>Chadwick emigrated from western England, and is reported to have been familiar with rounders there.</p></br><p>His claim that American base ball had evolved from English rounders was long refuted by fans of the American game.</p></br><p>In 1871 Chadwick identified Two-Old-Cat as the parent of American base ball.  See [[1871.20]] </p></br><p> </p></br><p> </p>[1871.20]] </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>)
• Was Baseball Really Invented in Maine?  + (<p>Chapter 1 deals with baseball in Maine from statehood well into the 20th century and he does tie some of the early stories to newspaper documentation.</p>)
• When Towns Had Teams  + (<p>Chapters 1 and 2 deal with early Maine baseball.</p>)
• Chatham Club of Chatham  + (<p>Chatham was known as "Chatham Four Corners" until 1869.</p>)
• Chicopee Club of Groton v Riverside Base Ball Club of Nashua on 19 June 1869  + (<p>Chicopee of Groton (Senior club)</p> <p>Riverside of Nashua (Junior club)</p>)
• 1859.6  + (<p>Chris Hauser, in an email on 9/26/2007, estimates that this notice appeared in the <em>New York Anglo-African</em>, and was referenced in Leslie Heaphy's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Negro League Baseball.</span></p>)
• 1840.16  + (<p>Chron serial#1840.16 was formerly assigned to stories of Abe Lincoln's ballplaying as a young man; see #[[1830s.16]] for that item.</p>)
• 1859.19  + (<p>Cilley himself does not attribute the 1859 injuries to plugging.</p>)
• 1857.17  + (<p>Clark then cites "a well-traveled … <p>Clark then cites "a well-traveled myth in the American baseball community . . . that the first baseball played in Australia was by Americans on the gold fields of Ballarat in 1857 . . . . No documentation has ever been produced for a Ballarat gold fields game [also page 5]."</p> a Ballarat gold fields game [also page 5]."</p>)
• In Clarksburg Circa 1850  + (<p>Clarksburg had 895 residents in 1860.</p>)
• 1823c.9  + (<p>Clay's book, which seems to make no other reference to ball-playing, was accessed 11/15/2008 via a Google Books search for <life of cassius>.</p>)
• Club of Fox Lake, WI v Club of Courtland on 4 June 1859  + (<p>Club is of Fox Lake, WI not IL</p>)
• Excelsior Club of Ridgewood  + (<p>Club was formed about 7/1/1865</p>)
• Riverside Club of Nashua  + (<p>Club was organized October 1867, and reorganized March 11, 1868.</p>)
• In Apia on 16 October 1917  + (<p>Collins, "Sea-tracks of the Speejacks" (1923) p. 48 has a photo of Americans and Samoans playing baseball in Pago Pago. Pago Pago is in American Samoa.</p>)
• Keystone Club of Newark  + (<p>Colored - African-American Club, played in 1866, 1867 and 1868</p>)
• Arlington Club of New Brunswick  + (<p>Colored Club</p>)
• Hamilton Club of Newark  + (<p>Colored or African-American Club, played matches in 1865 and 1866</p>)
• Robert Morris BBC of Philadelphia  + (<p>Composed of the members of the Robert Morris Hose Company.  This department was founded on March 14, 1831 and was located on Lombard Street above 8th Street.</p>)
• 1861.47  + (<p>Contents of the 1860 Beadles publ … <p>Contents of the 1860 Beadles publication include:</p></br><p>[] a description of the game of rounders</p></br><p>[] the 1845 Knickerbocker Rules (14 sections on field rules)</p></br><p>[] A listing of 22 clubs formed 1845-1857</p></br><p>[] The 1858 establishment of the NABBP</p></br><p>[] The NABBP Rules of 1860 (38 sections)</p></br><p>[] The 1858 Rules of the Massachusetts Game (21 Sections)</p></br><p>[]Rules for the Formation of a Club</p></br><p>The 1861 edition is reported to include player averages (runs per game)</p>> <p>[]Rules for the Formation of a Club</p> <p>The 1861 edition is reported to include player averages (runs per game)</p>)
• Clipping:A late example of the Massachusetts game  + (<p>Copied from another posting</p>)
• 1778.7  + (<p>Corlear's Hook was a noted ship landing place along the East River. Today there's a Corlears Hook Park on the site.</p>)