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|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 ...ne or two of the H. Eckfords to wait at the bat until the player on the 3d base got in.  Now this custom is not the most creditable one in the world,

...1866 is not stated. A number of references to young men playing a game of base ball are found in 1865, but no clue which game&ndash;old-fashioned or new&n ...themselves of the habit or resist the temptation to throw the ball at the base runner."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a title="" href="#cite_note

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...izen and News - </em>"MIDDLESEX AHEAD OF NORFOLK. The Holliston and Sharon base ball clubs, both of which have beaten the Boston club, played a game on Sat

...m>Tribune</em><span>, July 27, 1867, has an extensive article on the State base ball convention. Among the teams sending delegates were the Aurora and Blac ...n contains notices of very few match games by organized BBcs, but a lot of games by improvised company teams. Cf. Kemp's Harness Makers vs. Squires and Sons

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...livening appearance.&nbsp; The occasion was the commencement of a match of base ball between the Louisiana B. B. C., and the Empires, on a challenge of the

|Game=Base Ball ...unning the bases, and whoever was hit was out. if he could not jump to the base from where he was hit.&nbsp;</span><span>I would rather get hit by any memb

...ing game, or was it in the field-hockey, or handball, or golf, families of games?</p> ...ould it have influenced English ballplaying, including cricket and English base ball??</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Brooklyn Intelligence: Base Ball,&rdquo; NYT, vol. 8, no. 2429 (2 Jul 1859), p. 5, col. 2</p>

|Game=Base Ball ...n the National League adopted an official league ball for all championship games."</span></p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...see the chaps around keeping the account of the game. The weather was all base-ball players could desire, and with a good cool breeze to keep them in a &l

|Headline=NY and Brooklyn Sides Play Two-Game Series of "Time-Honored Game of Base:" Box Score Appears |Game=Base Ball

|Thematic Focus=19th century base ball rules ...an style="text-decoration: underline;">Forfeits and Successfully Protested Games in Major League Baseball: A Complete Record, 1871-2013</span> (2014, McFarl

|Headline=First Recorded Base Ball game in Canada [as reported in 1886]? |Game=Base Ball,

...Unlimited swings are permitted. Three-out-side-out innings and five-inning games are prescribed.&nbsp; The playing field is represented in a figure showing |Sources=<p><span>Brewster,&nbsp;</span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em> (U of Oklahoma Press, 1953) page 80.&nbsp;https://www.chrisoleary.com/

...hout giving in said scheme to the Metropolitan Club the full assignment of games with the other clubs in the Association.</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball: Atlantic vs. Harlem,&rdquo; BDE, vol. 19, no. 210 (4 Sep 1860), p. 2,

...d in the end your financial interest will suffer. The very best financial base ball investment you can make is to get as near a perfect corps of umpires a ...tested against certain umpires, and request that they never be assigned to games in which their respective clubs participate. … Mr. Young now proposes to

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball: Atlantic vs. Mutual,&rdquo; BDE, vol. 19, no. 180 (31 Jul 1860), p. 2

|Text=<p>The first annual meeting of the new Union Base Ball Association took place at the Bingham House, Philadelphia, Dec. 18 and ...compel Western clubs to pay visiting clubs 30 per cent. of the receipts of games played on Sunday, and one or two clubs favored the percentage plan. They f

...share of base ball stock, and he would expect to have the whole say of the games and dictate the appointment of all the players. I've been there and I know ...sons:--My desire is to give Milwaukee a team that will win a fair share of games, thereby being a credit to the city. To take a place in the Association si