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- ...all games such as cricket and town ball, which featured 360 degree fields. In fact this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played thei ...question is: was Manhattan Island really devoid of open space for baseball in the 1840s and 1850s? Or was it instead because the open space was so far no24 KB (3,890 words) - 15:13, 3 November 2022
- ...ntroduction on the current knowledge about the Elysian Fields and its role in base ball history. ''' Available Playing Space in the 1840s and 1850s'''25 KB (4,328 words) - 16:57, 31 October 2022
- ...of nine players on a side, and of only five innings. Other players joined in as some left, and more innings were played, but it was only a regular game ...(<i>Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times:</i> “Considerable interest was manifested in this trial, and a very fair audience gathered upon the grounds to witness i121 KB (19,746 words) - 10:10, 29 April 2016
- ...s)</p> <p>(<i>New York Clipper:</i> “Our Albany friends have ‘set the ball in motion.’ A return match … came off a week or two since …”)</p> | <p>(1) “Game of Base Ball in Albany,” <i>New York Clipper,</i> vol. 5, no. 7 (6 Jun 1857), p. 54, col.85 KB (14,045 words) - 08:18, 29 April 2016
- ...o Invented Baseball,</i> pp. 72-73</p> <p>(3) Zoss and Bowman, <i>Diamonds in the Rough,</i> p. 57</p> ...t Club. The New Yorkers were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run in their three innings. Brooklyn scored 22 and of course came off winners.942 KB (153,437 words) - 19:26, 1 May 2016