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  • In Ridgeway Circa 1855  + (<p>See also 1804.1 for town ball in SC</p>)
  • 1825c.4  + (<p>See also 1825.15, 1827.9, 1835.3</p>)
  • 1837c.12  + (<p>See also 1840c.26</p>)
  • In Lewisburg in 1851  + (<p>See also <em>The Bucknellian</em>, Nov. 3, 1938</p>)
  • Phillips Academy Club of Andover  + (<p>See also Bruce Garland's article on Andover star Archie Bush at https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/archie-bush-amateur-era-superstar-2cba240979e8</p>)
  • Club of Hudson  + (<p>See also Chatham Courier, Nov. 16, 1865, May 24, 1866</p>)
  • Excelsior Club of Chicago v Atlantic Club of Chicago on 11 June 1859  + (<p>See also Chicago Inter Ocean, July 26, 1885</p>)
  • Continental Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>See also Continental Club of East Brooklyn</p>)
  • Actives v Benteens in SD on 31 July 1874  + (<p>See also Eberle, "Seventh U.S. Cavalry Base Ball in Kansas, 1868-1870," Fort Hays State U. Monograph 2019 [ba]</p>)
  • Lafayette Park  + (<p>See also Flaspohler, "St. Louis Baseball History"</p>)
  • St. Louis Fair Grounds  + (<p>See also Flaspohler, "St. Louis Baseball History"</p>)
  • In Concord in 1836  + (<p>See also Hoar, "A Boy Sixty years ago"</p>)
  • In Saint John in 1840  + (<p>See also Howell, "Northern Sandlots" p. 23, which seems to refer to the same source and says that Town ball and cricket were played in St. John around 1840.</p>)
  • Independent Base Ball Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>See also Independent Club of Brooklyn and independent Club of South Brooklyn?</p> <p> </p>)
  • Club of Irvington  + (<p>See also Irvington Club of Irvington.</p>)
  • Quinnipiacks Club of West Meriden  + (<p>See also Meriden</p>)
  • In Bangor in 1844  + (<p>See also Orem vo. 1 p. 3</p>)
  • Podex  + (<p>See also Puddox.</p>)
  • 1823.1  + (<p>See also [[1821.5]] and[[1821.9]] for possible NYC ballplaying in this era.</p>)
  • In San Francisco in January 1852  + (<p>See also a letter in the Quincy Whig, April 9, 1853, which states that town ball is played every day in SF. And Chronologies 1852.7.</p>)
  • -700c.1  + (<p>See also chronology entry [[1788.3]]<p>See also chronology entry [[1788.3]] for a later translation that uses "baste ball" instead of stool-ball as the game played by the women.</p></br><p>Non-written depictions of ball play also exist in various ancient art forms.</p></br><p>Some writers see the <em>Odyssey</em> verse as describing a game resembling dodgeball.</p></br><p> </p>dyssey</em> verse as describing a game resembling dodgeball.</p> <p> </p>)
  • Yale University Club of New Haven  + (<p>See also entry for Scientific Club of Yale, and Yale Class of 1861, 1862</p>)
  • Meteor Club of Addison  + (<p>See also the Addison Advertiser, July 31, 1867, which has a long article and box score of a game between the Meteors and the Canacadea of Hornellsville.</p>)
  • Olympian Club of The Hill  + (<p>See also <em>The Bucknellia<p>See also <em>The Bucknellian</em>, Nov. 3, 1938 has an article on early sports at Bucknell. The writer says the earliest mention of baseball at Bucknell is in the diary of J. Sexton James, class of 1868, on Sept. 28, 1867 where the freshman team beat the rest of the college team 47-19. From this the Olympian Club sprang.</p>ege team 47-19. From this the Olympian Club sprang.</p>)
  • Collegian Base Ball Club of Fulton  + (<p>See also <span>Columbia Herald-Statesman, May 27, 1870</span></p>)
  • Aleut Baseball  + (<p>See also <strong>Supplementary Text</strong>, below.</p>)
  • In Sandusky in May 1855  + (<p>See also Chronologies 1855.33</p>)
  • Independents Club of Batesville  + (<p>See also Independence County Chronicle, Vol. 9, Issue 4 (Apr 1968)</p>)
  • In Lexington in 1867  + (<p>See also Kentucky Explorer, Vol. 16, Issue 8 (Feb 2002)<strong><br/> </strong></p>)
  • Feeder  + (<p>See also [[Feeder_and_Rounders,_1841]], contributed by Bill Hicklin.</p>)
  • Wall Ball  + (<p>See also http://protoball.org/1845.29 for more on this source. </p>)
  • Round Town (Round Town Ball)  + (<p>See also<strong> [[Straight Ball]]<p>See also<strong> [[Straight Ball]].</strong></p></br><p>Note that our sources now extend to MD, NC, OH, PA, SC, and VA,  as if May 2023.  The latest reports appear to extent to the end of the 19th Century.</p></br><p>One form of the game [see item [B] above] has a rule variant that , as of 2023, appears to be in unique for US base-running games: that more than one runner can occupy a base at the same time.  Multiple base-running is known in some Scandinavian games and in (two-base) Russian lapta and, maybe, in iona in Romania. </p></br><p>The "old Virginia Ball Game" article is from Walden's Monthly Magazine of April 1894, in an article written by Henry Chadwick. [ba]</p></br><p> </p></br><p> </p></br><p><strong> </strong></p></br><p><strong> </strong></p></br><p><strong> </strong></p>gt; <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p>)
  • In Wilbur in 1857  + (<p>See entry for townball, same town</p>)
  • Williams College Club of Williamstown v Williams College Club of Williamstown on 29 May 1858  + (<p>See predecessor games.</p>)
  • Thèque  + (<p>See the article on Theque in the Origins Committee Newsletter, May, 2021. [ba]</p>)
  • In Honolulu in 1855  + (<p>See Chronologies 1855c.10</p>)
  • Club of Knoxville  + (<p>See https://www.c-span.org/video/<p>See https://www.c-span.org/video/?527958-1/post-civil-war-baseball-knoxville-tennessee and the Knoxville Sentinel, Nov. 20, 1921. See also William E. Hardy, <span>"'A Perfect Mania': The Origins of 'Base Ball' in Knoxville, Tennessee," volume 94 (2022) of the </span><em>Journal of East Tennessee History</em></p></br><p>This team was mostly northerners and unionists, whereas the Holstons were mostly ex-Confederates. First meeting March 19 at Cooper's Star Billiards, in  Ramsey's Hall, according to Knoxville Whig March 20, 1867. See also https://knoxvillebaseball.blogspot.com/2023/03/it-began-at-coopers-star-billiards.html </p></br><p>Samuel B. Dow appears to have bene the chief organizer. Although the members were primarily northern-born or Unionists, several ex-Confederates also joined.</p>rthern-born or Unionists, several ex-Confederates also joined.</p>)
  • College Green, Columbia  + (<p>See https://www.columbiahistorybuff.com/2021/03/first-pitch-baseball-during.html for a depiction of the grounds.</p>)
  • Waukegan Grounds, 1859  + (<p>See https://www.facebook.com/WaukeganHistoryMuseum/videos/play-ball-baseball-in-waukegan-with-ty-rohrer-of-the-waukegan-history-museum/153578009305784/ for illustrations of the various early baseball grounds in Waukegan.</p>)
  • 1857.40  + (<p>Seen by <em>Porter's</em> as a compromise solution to the controversy over continuing the bound catch rule.</p>)
  • Frank Wright  + (<p>Served as umpire for game on 10/16/1860 between the Pythian and Potomac Clubs of Washington.  Was a member of the National Club of Washington at that point.</p>)
  • 1858.55  + (<p>Several Olympic games were covered in the <span>St. Paul Daily Times</span> in 1859, starting in June.</p>)
  • Union Club of Matamoros  + (<p>Several players on the Union club attended Seton Hall University and presumably were exposed to baseball there. See https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/latin-american-baseball-origins</p>)
  • 1630.4  + (<p>Sherston, England is in the southwest of England, near the Cotswolds and about 20 miles NE of Bristol England.</p>)
  • In Indianapolis Circa 1840  + (<p>Shinny in Protoball is considered a game akin to field hockey, not baseball.</p>)
  • 1779.2  + (<p>Shinny, Wikipedia says, denotes f<p>Shinny, Wikipedia says, denotes field hockey and ice hockey. Thus, by "ball," Shute was not referring to field hockey.  If he was not denoting handball, he may have been adverting to some early form of base  ball.</p></br><p>According to Alice B. Gomme, <em>Bandy Wicket </em>refers to the game of cricket, played with a bandy (a curved stick) instead of a bat.</p>et, played with a bandy (a curved stick) instead of a bat.</p>)
  • In Binh Tuy on 8 August 1966  + (<p>Ships of the US Asiatic fleet visited Saigon, French Indochina, in the 1930s, and these ships had baseball clubs (e.g., USS Barker, Saigon, 1935). In all probability, the sailors played baseball there. [ba]</p>)
  • Sullivan  + (<p>Short Stop</p>)
  • Henry F. Roll  + (<p>Signed letter as "treasurer" to C<p>Signed letter as "treasurer" to Chattanooga Lookouts declining the state championship challenge, but "F. Sanford" was listed as the secretary at the club's founding earlier in 1866. See <a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025718/1866-04-21/ed-1/seq-3/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025718/1866-04-21/ed-1/seq-3/</a></p>gov/lccn/sn83025718/1866-04-21/ed-1/seq-3/</a></p>)
  • 1450.2  + (<p>Since Cervantes' Don Quixote was published between 1605 and 1615, the above date should be changed to that date.... or to 1694 (see below). [ba]</p>)
  • 1853.18  + (<p>Since at the time only three club<p>Since at the time only three clubs, all in New York City, were playing Knickerbocker Rules Base Ball, the <em>Mercury</em> necessarily was referring to the group of safe-haven games under various names played throughout the United States since colonial times.</p> throughout the United States since colonial times.</p>)