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|Headline=Game Called Wicket Reported in England

|Country=England |Text=<p>"on Sunday, after afternoon service, the young people joined in foot-ball and hurling, bat and ball, or cricket."</p>

|Headline=Letter to "Spirit" Describes Roundball in New England |Location=New England

...ands; the “touch” was the base. Writing in 1922, Sihler that in Fort Wayne IN from 1862 to 1866 (when base ball arrived) “the favorite game was ‘touc <p>E. G. Sihler, “College and Seminary Life in the Olden Days,” in W. Dau., ed., <em>Ebenezer: Reviews of the Work of the Missouri Synod Duri

|Location=New England |Text=<p>In June the town wrote new by-laws:</p>

|Headline=Book Printed in Philadelphia Gives Details of Trap Ball in England ...ndorsement of trap ball . . . the most detailed description pf [trap ball] in the period."&nbsp; - Tom Altherr</p>

|Location=England, ...his instinctive Luddism suffered a reverse with the death of George Summer in 1870 and that year a heavy roller was at last employed on the notorious Lor

|Headline="Old-fashioned &#39;Ball&#39;" Popular in Waterville ME |Location=New England

...is close to the town of Rybnik, which&nbsp; Polish official sources states in the early 1960s was the headquarters of the Polish Baseball Union.&nbsp; Th ...y</em>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Mercury</span> (England, William Morgan, ed.) Issue 13, August 1976, page 4.&nbsp; Accessed 6/24/20

|First Name=John W. ...e, Kentucky. See http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/f4bd13cc for his biography in the SABR Baseball Biography Project</p>

|Name=In Cambridge in 1850 ...w England (Boston) Cricket Club played a 2-day match at Cambridge Crossing in late September 1850.

|Name=Quinsigamond Club of New England Village |First in Location=

|Sources=<p>Hartford&nbsp;<em>Courant</em>, Oct. 17, 1868;&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>, Oct. 29, 1868</p> |First in Location=South Windsor, CT

|Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...ngland], p. 238. Per RH ref 123 and Chadwick 1867. The listed games played in Suffolk include cricket, base-ball, kit-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes.

|Title=preparing for the England tour ...have the other. [from a letter from Harry Wright to Frederick Long written in Philadelphia May 18, 1874]</p>

<p>"the poor fellow could only look through the window, in perfect misery, upon the sports without - his favorite game of 'wicket,' or <p>"Schoolboy Days, "<i>The New-England Weekly Review</i> (Hartford, CT), Issue 5, column D, January 29, 1842. Pos

...the game is seldom played in the US, but is popular in the Staffordshire (England) Potteries. It suggests that the players here were from Staffordshire and w

|Headline=Providence RI Bans "Playing Ball" in the Streets |Location=New England

|Headline=Stooleball popular in 1600 |Country=England

<p>Bellows Falls "Times," Sept. 26, 1868;&nbsp;New England Base Ballist, Oct. 8, 1868</p> |First in Location=Bartonsville, VT