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...bove): "The children, to the number of about 320,…soon commenced the usual games, including swinging, jumping, base-ball, croquet, &c." </p>

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...ntries.&nbsp; In July he pinned down and entered new &ldquo;Earliest Known Games&rdquo; in Argentina, Bermuda, Burma, the Netherlands, Panama (a&nbsp; Crick

|Text=<p>"Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the bod ...err, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine

...ylaw was written, perhaps the authors of the Bylaw were not thinking about games involving the "trap" device. In classical physics terminology, a baseball b ...bat.&nbsp; This is akin to how these ordinances often give a list of ball games they are regulating, then add something on the lines of "or any other game

|Sources=<p><span>Paul R. Wieand, </span><em>Outdoor Games of the Pennsylvania Germans</em><span> </span>(Plymouth Meeting, PA: Mrs.

|Headline=Newburyport MA Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games

...is to begin May 26 and end Oct. 1, each club playing every other club six games, and an expensive silk flag will be awarded the winning team. Mahn’s bal

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{{Subtitle|A compilation of {{#ask: [[Category:Games]] | format = count }} games with a resemblance to baseball, most often using base-running and run-scori ...Games is dedicated to Francis Willughby (1635-1672), compiler of a Book of Games, an early member of the England's pathbreaking Royal Society, and perhaps n

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|Title=games take too long ...ggards who keep the spectators waiting on their laziness. Patrons of ball games have a right to demand promptness in this matter, and it is the duty of the

...4 there were few other known clubs for the KBBC&nbsp;to challenge to match games.</p> ...shamed to play "a child's game," or that earlier varieties of base-running games were not played by older youths and adults?&nbsp; This chronology&nbsp;has

...Chucking the Old Apple; Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"</em><span>&nbsp;resulted in 33 new entries for the Protoball Chronology.<

|Description=<p><span>The Evansville Daily Journal reports several town ball games in 1860, one featuring the Hoosier Town Ball Club. See May 7, July 14, Nov.

...the idea. President Spalding has decided to issue no return-checks during games, and this will cut off saloon patronage from the grounds, and as just befor

...protesting how children were being deprived of their opportunities to play games in a Sheffield park because so many adults were swarming in to play sports.

...hief excited some interest in others, while ball-bias (see note) and other games engaged the attention of the rest."</p>