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1668 noteworthy milestones tracing the evolution of ballgames toward modern baseball. There are also a few hundred "peripheral" entries here, too.
The Protoball Chronology is Dedicated to Tom Altherr in appreciation of his work on early American ballplaying
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Chronology by Location of Play
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Chronology by Game that was Played
"Game of Ball" (1), "bat and ball" (1), "gould" (1), American Cricket (11), Ba'-baises (1), Ball (6), Ball Playing (4), Balslaen (1), Bandy (2), Barn Ball (2), Barn Ball (House Ball) (2), Barn ball? (1), Base (15), Base (Prisoner's Base) (1), Base Ball (612), Base Ball Predecessor (1), Base ball (1), Base-Ball (2), Base-ball (4), Baseball (14), Bass (1), Bass Ball (14), Bass-ball (1), Baste Ball (2), Baste ball (1), Bat and Ball (13), Bat-Ball (12), Bat-and-Ball (10), Bull Pen (2), Canadian Game (1), Cat (1), Cat Ball (2), Cat and Ball (1), Cat-and-Dog (4), Cavalry Base Ball (1), Chermany (1), Club-ball (1), Corner Ball (1), Cricket (183), Drive Ball (1), English Base Ball (1), English Base-Ball (1), Feeder (1), Foot Ball (3), Foot ball (1), Football (1), Fungo (1), Game of Ball (1), Game of Base (1), Goal (2), Goal Ball (3), Gool Ball ( Goal Ball) (1), Hand-ball (1), Horne-Billets (1), Hurling (1), Ice Base Ball (1), Irish Rounders (1), Kit-Cat (1), Long Ball (European baserunning game) (6), Long Ball (US Batting Game) (1), MA game? (1), Massachusetts Game (18), Massachusetts Run-Around (1), Northern Spell (1), O' Cat? (1), OFBB (4), OFBB? (remembered as base ball in 1877) (1), Oddball (5), Old Cat (2), Old Fashioned Game (2), Old-Cat Games (13), Om El Mahag (1), One Old Cat (1), Or Old Fashioned Base Ball (1), Palm Play (1), Patch Baseball (1), Philadelphia Town Ball (2), Playing with Balls (1), Poisoned Ball (3), Polo (1), Possibly? (1), Presumably (1), Prisoner's Base (1), Round Ball (20), Round Town (Round Town Ball) (1), Round-Ball (1), Rounders (42), Rounders - Britain (2), Sekar-hemat (1), Shinny (1), Shinty (2), Single-Wicket Cricket (2), Sky-Ball (1), Stool Ball (4), Stool-ball (1), Stoolball (68), Table-top Base Ball (1), Tennis (1), Three Old Cat (1), Tip-cat (1), Town Ball (76), Trap Ball (6), Tut-Ball (2), Tutball (1), Two Old Cat (4), Two-Old-Cat (1), US Wicket? UK cricket? Other? (1), Unknown (4), Unnamed Games - Czech (1), Unspecified (1), Whirl (1), Wicket (81), Xenoball (16)
Chronology Entries by Age of Player (under construction)
Adult (999), Juvenile (121), Unknown (40), Youth (197)
Civil War
The Civil War Chronology has a related essay: Ballplaying in Civil War Camps
Subtopics In Development
Music, Ball in the Culture, Base Ball Stratagems, Baseball Professionalism, Championship Games, Statistics, Interscholastic, Equipment, Business of Baseball
The Main Chronology
- Chronology up to 1700
- The main chronology from ancient times to 1700 (136 entries)
- Chronology: 1701 - 1780
- The chronology from 1701 to 1780 (123 entries)
- Chronology: 1781 - 1815
- The chronology from 1781 to 1815 (147 entries)
- Chronology: 1816 - 1830
- The chronology from 1816 to 1830 (175 entries)
- Chronology: 1831 - 1845
- The chronology from 1831 to 1845 (220 entries)
- Chronology: 1846 - 1850
- The chronology from 1846 to 1850 (131 entries)
- Chronology: 1851 - 1855
- The chronology from 1851 to 1855 (103 entries)
- Chronology: 1856 - 1860
- The chronology from 1856 to 1860 (274 entries)
- Chronology: 1861 - 1865
- The chronology from 1861 to 1865 (215 entries)
- Chronology: 1866 - 1876
- The chronology from 1866 to 1876 (102 entries)