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|NY Rules=Unknown ...for Thanksgiving 1858, according to numerous announcements. See Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC table] compiled by Craig Waff.</p>

|Sources=<p>Tholkes Games Database</p> |Comment=<p>Not clear who the home team is as the playing field is unknown.</p>

|Age of Players=Unknown |Sources=<p>Culin, Stewart, &ldquo;Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.,&rdquo; <em>Journal of American Folklore,</em> Vo

|NY Rules=Unknown |Description=<p>This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported in Wilkes' S

...152. Some sources say the Confederate guards occasionally joined in on the games. </p><p>But it does not appear that viewing the POW games spurred the locals to play baseball themselves. The first notice I can find

|NY Rules=Unknown |Description=<p>This intramural game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was covered by the Roches

|Headline=MA Regiment Plays Daily Intramural Games in Spring Months ...pp?. Crockett article is unprocured as of May 2009, and primary source is unknown.<strong> Note:</strong> It would be useful to know what game the regiment p

|Headline=Daily Base Ball Games Found in Public Square in Cleveland |Age of Players=Unknown

|Age of Players=Unknown |Text=<p>"Other forms of bat and ball games, like trap-ball and stool-ball, became well established in Louisville in th

...ty or sixty years ago, when the modern games of croquet and base-ball were unknown, the people used to amuse themselves with marbles, "town-ball" - which was

|Age of Players=Adult, Unknown ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], page 19; the image itself is reproduced oppo

|NY Rules=Unknown ...<p>This intramural game (marrieds 49, singles 52) appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by the Batav

...sp; the Hudson folks . . . did not remember that 'a balk is a base' in the games of children of a larger growth."&nbsp; ...ractice to the 1830s is somewhat arbitrary, as the writer's age in 1847 is unknown.&nbsp; Locating the practice in NY State is also uncertain.&nbsp;

|Name=The First Vintage Games? <p><span>Rules played are unknown. The score was 86-69, and three players are listed in the box score as "not

...ations of students for athletics, were unknown at that time. Athletics and games there were indeed a plenty, but as purely spontaneous expressions of abound

|NY Rules=Unknown |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1857.7 – Daily Base Ball Games [NY-Style] Found in Public Square in Cleveland?

|Headline=Games of Ball Seen in Sacramento CA in 1851, 1854 |Age of Players=Unknown

|Age of Players=Unknown <p>There were two games played in Brooklyn earlier that month.</p>

...heir first nine. If the Colonel can sustain his statements, of course all games played by the Association clubs this season are at once “null and void.�

|NY Rules=Unknown |Description=<p>This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by the Clipp