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• 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>)
• Quickstep Club of Paterson v Active Club of Newark on 24 June 1864  + (<p>Correcting score from Daily Register of 6/25</p>)
• Oina  + (<p>Corrections and addition to this … <p>Corrections and addition to this account are encouraged.  If readers know of Romanian speakers willing to help, some central questions include:</p></br><p>[] What are the major playing rules?</p></br><p>[] Does the game remain widely popular?</p></br><p>[] What is know of the origins and history of the sport?</p>lt;/p> <p>[] What is know of the origins and history of the sport?</p>)
• 1855.21  + (<p>Craig Waff reported that, as far as he could tell, this was the first game in which the size of the assembled crowd was reported.</p>)
• 1867.9  + (<p>Creation of  phantom jobs for ballplayers was a commonplace in baseball's amateur era.</p>)
• Pottsville Cricket Club in July 1858  + (<p>Cricket Club in Pottsville 1858-66, and perhaps earlier.</p> <p>A "Ball Club" is mentioned in the same newspaper in 1843, but this might refer to "foot ball" (soccer).</p>)
• In Hanover in 1793  + (<p>Cricket said to have been played at Dartmouth in the 1830s. See https://www.dreamcricket.com/articles/history-of-american-cricket/history-of-american-cricket-part-ii--1800-to-1850/</p>)
• In Worcester in 1860  + (<p>Cricket said to have been played at Holy Cross College in Worcester prior to the Civil War. See Dream Cricket website.</p>)
• 1870.6  + (<p>Critics of the game had long insisted that low-scoring games were indicated play of higher quality.</p>)
• In GA in 1835  + (<p>Curry attended school in Lincolnton, GA 1833, 1835-37, and the Willingdon Academy in SC in 1834.</p>)
• 1867.23  + (<p>Custis Lee, General Lee's son, had served on Lee's staff during the war. General Smith was superintendent at VMI. The flags referred to were probably foul-line flags used to mark the foul lines on fields not enclosed.</p>)
• 1840s.45  + (<p>Cutting is listed as a member of the Class of 1871, and thus probably had little direct knowledge of early campus sports.  His impressions to round ball and perhaps wicket may have been relayed informally from older persons on campus.</p>)
• 1862.50  + (<p>D. P. Hopkins and Benjamin Frankl … <p>D. P. Hopkins and Benjamin Franklin Ezell (1839 MS - 1913 TX) were members of Norris' Frontier Battalion which in March 1862 was stationed at/near Kerrville, TX. The Hopkins diary was published in the San Antonio Express, 1-13-1918. The March 15, 1862 entry (on page 23 of the Express) mentions this game, and mentions that the troops made their own ball out of yarn socks. [ba]</p> made their own ball out of yarn socks. [ba]</p>)
• 1855c.10  + (<p>Damon added: "[[Aipuni]], the Hawaiians called it, or rounders, perhaps because the bat had a larger rounder end.t was a a forerunner of baseball, but the broad, heavy bat was held close to thee ground."</p>)