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- In Poultney Circa 1823 + (Horace Greeley described playing ball in VT in the early 1820s.)
- Length of Games, 1860-1865 1.0 + (How Long Did Games Take 160 Years Ago?)
- Accounts + (How did game accounts evolve locally? What were local box-score summaries like?? Was quantification and/or statistics important in the local popularity of the game?)
- Patterns of Spread + (How do we explain the observed patterns of local propagation of base ball . . . population shifts, transportation technologies, news media effects, etc.)
- Franklin Club of New Bedford v Franklin Club of New Bedford on 24 November 1859 + (Howland's side 100, Nye's 55)
- In Lafayette in 1829 + (Hugh M. King, in the year 1829, taught sch … Hugh M. King, in the year 1829, taught school in a one story frame that stood on the lot now occupied by Handley's block, on the east side of Fourth street, between Columbia and South streets. These were sub. scription schools - the employers paying according to the number of pupils subscribed, at the rate stipulated in the articles, which was generally from one dollar and fifty cents to two dollars per scholar per quarter. The branches taught were spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar and geography. In but few instances was the teacher called upon to instruct his pupils in more than the four first named branches. The athletic sports of the boys, at the noon play-time, consisted in playing corner ball (bull-pen), cat, town ball, and a game called shinny. Baseball, now so popular among grown-up boys, who go from city to city to play with other hopeful "nines " whose ages range from eighteen to forty five, is a perversion of town ball. It is a rough and dangerous game. The girls amused themselves jumping the rope, gathering flowers, swinging, and other healthful amusements. There were then no male and female Dolly Varden Croquet Clubs, playing out-door billiards on the green, with painted mallets and balls, large shoe buckles, and a stock of affectation to match. and a stock of affectation to match.)
- Black Hawk Club of Hunter's Point + (Hunter's Point is now a neighborhood in Brooklyn/NYC.)
- In Jacksonboro on 17 February 1782 + (In 1782 a Pennsylvania officer records "This day I was very much fatigued playing cricket." The officer was stationed at the Frazor farm, about 4 miles from Jacksonborough (as it was then known).)
- In Troy in 1839 + (In 1838 as well?)
- McKinstry vs. Brooklyn Daily Times + (In 1862, a baseball rules dispute played out between an umpire and a Brooklyn newspaper.)
- "A Good Many Different Kinds of Ball" + (In 1867 story, a father recollects boyhood ballplaying)
- Club of Rutgers University + (In 1869, Princeton defeated Rutgers in baseball 40-2.)
- In Concord Circa 1840 + (In 1892 Judge Milton McGee (b. 1828) reminisced about his early days in Concord, MI, which included choosing teams and playing ball after barn raising. The nature of the ball game is unspecified, but McGee played baseball later in life)
- In Bolivar Circa 1837 + (In 1897 a 70 year old reminisced about playing town ball in his boyhood)
- In Ottumwa Circa 1856 + (In 1903 J. A. Israel (born 1846, family moved to Wapello County in 1854) recalled that as a schoolboy in Wapello County, he played town ball, bull pen and three cornered cat)
- Harrison Club of Newark v Baltic Club of Belleville on 23 October 1860 + (In East Newark)
- In Concarneau in 1885 + (In their book ''Peintres Américains en Bretagne 1864-1914'', David Sellin and Catherine Puget mention that American artists staying in Pont Aven and Concarneau played baseball in 1885. These places are in Brittany.)
- In Beaufort in 1862 + (In the Spring of 1862, while in camp in Beaufort, SC, the 79th NY Infantry, a Scottish-American unit known as the Highlanders, played "Base Ball and Cricket" to "occupy some of our leisure moments.")
- In Boonton in 1858 + (Independence Cricket Club formed in Boonton in early 1858)
- Empire Club of New Orleans v Empire Club of New Orleans on 10 August 1859 + (Intersquad game)
- Empire Club of New Orleans on 26 April 1860 + (Intersquad game)
- Club of Pittsfield v Club of Pittsfield on 27 July 1859 + (Intersquad game)
- Tri-Mountain Club of Boston v Tri-Mountain Club of Boston on 11 August 1859 + (Intersquad game)
- Tri-Mountain Club of Boston v Tri-Mountain Club of Boston on 15 September 1859 + (Intersquad game)
- Olympic Club of Macon v Olympic Club of Macon on 24 March 1860 + (Intersquad game, 10 a side. Game umpired by "Mr. Warren of the New York Club.")
- Interviews + (Interviews with Diggers)
- Louisville Base Ball Club v Louisville Base Ball Club on 8 July 1858 + (Intrasqad "trial game")
- The Beneficiaries + (Is it clear who profited from the growth of the game in your area? Did that affect the game on the field? How?)
- Gymnasts Town Ball Club of Cincinnati v Gymnasts Town Ball Club of Cincinnati on 1 July 1858undefined + (J.S. Claypool's side 145, S. Robinson's side 71. (Porter’s Spirit of the Times: “Our correspondent says that the club designs to challenge the Excelsior Town Ballers to a grand public trial of skill.”))
- Capitol City Grounds + (Jeff Sackmann says that the Capital City B … Jeff Sackmann says that the Capital City BBC, the original organized BBC in Madison, had in 1865 its grounds on the shore of Lake Mendota, near the University of Wisconsin.</br></br>He also says an 1860 schoolboy game was played on a vacant lot 3 blocks from the capitol building. And that during the Civil War, baseball was played at Camp Randall, a union army training camp that today is the location of the University football stadiumocation of the University football stadium)
- Osceola Club of Berryville + (Jeffersons of Charlestown 58, Osceolas of Berryville 37)
- In Jersey City in 1867 + (Jersey City Cricket Club org. last Spring, vs.Paterson)
- In Channel Islands in 1861 + (Jersey and Guernsey have had a cricket rivalry since 1861)
- In Williamstown Circa 1847 + (John Bascom (1827-1911), an 1849 grad of W … John Bascom (1827-1911), an 1849 grad of Williams College, is said to have dominated the wicket-field at the college.Future President James Garfield (b. 1833) attended Williams, and played wicket at Hiram College after graduation. Did he learn wicket at Williams? on. Did he learn wicket at Williams? )
- In Delphi Circa 1848 + (Jonathan Lee Knight (1837-1915), a noted photographer, wrote to the Delphi Times in 1870 that as a boy in Delphi, IN, he played bull pen and three cornered cat, which he labeled the "immediate progenitor" of baseball.)
- Massasoit Club of Springfield v Johnson Club of Chicopee on 27 September 1860 + (Jonson 2nd nine)
- Union Club of Brooklyn v Resolute Club of Brooklyn on 29 October 1863 + (Jr vs sr)
- Perseverance Club of Brooklyn v Laurel Club of New York on 19 September 1860 + (Jr vs. sr)
- Young America Club of Canastota v Club of Clockville on 13 September 1860 + (Jr. vs. Sr.)
- Gotham Jr. Club of New York v Champion Club of Salem on 8 September 1860 + (Jr. vs. Sr.)
- Atlantic Club of Newark v Liberty Club of Newark on 24 October 1860 + (Jrs)
- Alert Club of Hunt's Point v Irving Club of Morrisania on 25 July 1862 + (Jrs)
- Oriental Club of Brooklyn v Enterprise Club of Brooklyn on 7 September 1860 + (Jrs vs. Enterprise 3rd nine)
- Resolute Club of Greenville v Mechanic Club of Jersey City on 6 September 1860 + (Jrs.)
- Atlantic Club of Fordham v Niagara Club of Fordham on 29 September 1860 + (Jrs.)
- Aurora Club of Mount Vernon v National Club of Brooklyn on 8 September 1860 + (Jrs.)
- Lafayette Club of Newark v Gotham Jr. Club of New York on 21 September 1860 + (Jrs.)
- Columbia Club of Orange v Passaic Club of Belleville on 8 September 1860 + (Jrs.)
- Alert Club of Brooklyn v Wyoming Club of Brooklyn on 10 June 1860 + (Jrs.)
- Nassau Club of Brooklyn v Muffin Club of Brooklyn on 11 September 1860 + (Jrs.)
- Mystic Club of New York v Juniata Club of New York on 4 July 1862 + (Jrs. 2nd nines)