Search by property

This page provides a simple browsing interface for finding entities described by a property and a named value. Other available search interfaces include the page property search, and the ask query builder.

List of results

• 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>)
• 1820s.22  + (<p>Danforth, born in 1822, became a judge. Williamstown MA is in the NW corner of the commonwealth, and lies about 35 miles E of Albany NY.</p>)
• 1858.59  + (<p>Dansville NY (2010 population about 4700) is about 40 miles S of Rochester in western NY. Per the Dansville Historical Society, the facility in question was a water cure (hydropathy) center called <span>Our Home on the Hillside.</span></p>)
• In Peekskill in 1845  + (<p>Date is approximate.</p>)
• 1799.1  + (<p>David Block (BBWKI, page 183; see … <p>David Block (BBWKI, page 183; see also his 19CBB advice, below) notes that Cooke was in correspondence with her cousin Jane Austen in 1798, when both were evidently writing novels containing references to base-ball. Also submitted to Protoball 8/19/06 by Ian Maun.</p></br><p>Cooke, like Austen, did seem to believe that readers in the early 1800s might be familiar with base- ball.</p>rs in the early 1800s might be familiar with base- ball.</p>)
• BC2400c.1  + (<p>David Block [<span>Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 303 (note 1)] writes that Piccione’s identification of <em>seker-hemat </em>with baseball is “apparently speculative in nature.”</p>)
• 1847.11  + (<p>David Block explains, 2/27/2008: … <p>David Block explains, 2/27/2008: "Clearly, the writer had curling confused with ice hockey, which was itself an embryonic sport that the time." Or maybe he confused it with ice-hurling, which actually employs a ball. </p></br><p>From Richard Hershberger, 12/8/09: "What makes this so interesting is that the response speaks of "bass ball" played on ice. This is a decade before such games were commonly reported, suggesting that the [later] practice by organized clubs was borrowed from older, informal play on ice."</p>ubs was borrowed from older, informal play on ice."</p>)
• Pize Ball  + (<p>David Block in Pastime Lost posit … <p>David Block in Pastime Lost posits that "pize-ball" and "tut-ball" were regional names for English baseball. I would toss in that "pize-ball" may well be a rounded-down form of dialectical "pizin-ball" i.e. poison-ball, which calls to mind the French <em>la balle empoisonnee</em> or Poison Ball: a very similar game where, again, the ball was swatted with the hand. --W C Hicklin</p></br><p>From Gomme, p. 45:</p></br><p>"Pize Ball</p></br><p>Sides are picked ; as, for example, six on one side and six on the other, and three or four marks or tuts are fixed in a field. Six go out to field, as in cricket, and one of these</p></br><p>throws the ball to one of those who remain "at home," and the one "at home" strikes or pizes it with his hand. After pizing it he runs to one of the " tuts," but if before he can get to the " tut " he is struck with the ball by one of those in the field, he is said to be bumt^ or out. In that case the other side go out to field — ^Addy*s Sheffield Glossary. See " Rounders."</p> that case the other side go out to field — ^Addy*s Sheffield Glossary. See " Rounders."</p>)
• 1844.14  + (<p>David Block observes: "<span s … <p>David Block observes: "<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">the sentence describing the boy's skill at taking evasive action when threatened by soaking seems significant to me. I don't recall ever seeing this skill discussed before, and, although long obsolete, it must have stood as one of the more valuable tools of the base runner in the era of soaking/plugging ." </span> </p>era of soaking/plugging ." </span> </p>)
• 1856.13  + (<p>David Block reports that these rules are generic, not restricted to one club. </p> <p>This may be the first publication specifically devoted to base ball.</p>)
• 1830s.13  + (<p>David Block's forthcoming 2019 book may address the rules of English Base-Ball in this period.</p>)
• 1830c.39  + (<p>David Block, 5/3/2021, on the ide … <p>David Block, 5/3/2021, on the idea that ballplaying clubs were though to be extinct in 1837:  "Not quite extinct."</p></br><p>Tom Gilbert, 5/4/2021: "We knew -- largely indirectly -- that there were adult bb clubs and a thriving bb scene in NYC in the 1830s and probably earlier, but it is great to see confirmation, and by a contemporary source. This also underlines the importance of Stevens's Elysian Fields in helping to preserve the incipient sport from being snuffed out by rapid urban development, in a sort of incubator.</p></br><div>(And the connection between the gymnastics movement and the baseball movement is closer than might appear. We can identify Knickerbocker bbc club members, Excelsiors and others who exercised at NYC and Brooklyn gyms, including I believe Fuller's)."</div></br><div> </div></br><div>Stephen Katz, (19CBB posting 5/4/2021) points out that ironically, 1837 is also the year claimed for the establishment of the Gothams.  See Wheaton letter at [[1837.1]]</div></br><div> </div></br><div> </div></br><p> </p>37.1]]</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <p> </p>)
• 1820.1  + (<p>David Block, <span style="text … <p>David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 188, adds that it is unusual among chapbooks as "more space and detail are devoted to "playing ball" than to cricket, which at the time was a more established game."  </p></br><p>While the text does not explicitly mention or show base-running, David Block thinks of this as an early account of English base ball. </p> this as an early account of English base ball. </p>)
• 1848.1  + (<p>David also feels that a new rule appeared in the 1848 list that a runner cannot score a run on a force out for the third out. David Block posting to 19CBB, 1/5/2006.</p>)