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...ed (and played) are Knickerbocker rules base ball, the Massachusetts game, wicket, cricket, stoolball, and rounders.  He is thinking about trying the an

...ket. The <em>Pacific Commercial Advertiser</em>, March 29, 1860: "Sport--A wicket club has been organized among the young men of this city and the students o ...(Castle) introduced the new baseball game to Hawaii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".</p>

|Headline=At Winter Camp, Pleasant Days Saw Base-Ball or Wicket ...med a center of attention for the unemployed members of the brigade; these games were becoming largely inter-regimental, a variety of &lsquo;teams&rsquo; we

|Headline=Base Ball [and Wicket] Played by the 10th Massachusetts ...3 to May 1864, seven mentions of ballplaying &ndash; one of them a game of wicket &ndash; appear in the account of the 10^th Massachusetts. In earl

...so universal as Cricket, Leap-frog, Marbles, etc., we have...Bandy, Bandy-wicket, Base-ball, Bandy-ball, Bubble-hole...Foot ball, Hocky (sic)..." and so on.

|Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...listed games played in Suffolk include cricket, base-ball, kit-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes. <strong>Note:</strong>: But not trap-ball? Not rounders? M

|Game=Cricket, Wicket <p>- at ten he knew many Harvard students - "their nicknames, their games, their individual haunts, we watched them at football and cricket [page 40]

|Headline="New Game" of Wicket Played in HI |Game=Wicket

...<span>John has an ongoing project of bat and ball games over history, from Wicket to Wiffleball, but hasn't determined whether it amounts to a new book. Curr

|Headline=Ah, Spring! Base-ball! Wicket! Gould! (Gould?) |Game=Base-ball,Wicket,"gould"

...tt. Strutt speculates that Club-ball was the ancient ancestor of many ball games. Its rules of play are not known. Hone book has 2 illustrations.</p> ...(1935) says (without citing a source) that club ball was similar to Single wicket cricket.</p>

|Game=Wicket <p>&middot; Huntsville, 3/64: "Games daily in camp, ball, etc." [p. 184]</p>

|Tags=Throwback Games, ...games reported appear to be base ball-like games, but 8 refer to cricket, wicket and trap ball.&nbsp;<span>Ten entries refer to soldierly play during the Ci

|Headline=Disparate Ball Games Seen in New Hampshire ...- it's hard to construe it having a one-out-side-out rule -, but it's not wicket, for the club is named the "Granite Base Ball Club", also of Manchester. Th

...onic feints and ruses which make a distinguishing feature of American card-games. A bowler will watch his opportunity two or three times, and apparently ab

...tend our knowledge of the early roots of base ball and similar baserunning games in the six New England states. The page serves as something of a homepage # Was the game of wicket (called Wicket Ball in some areas) known in your area? What was it like? Are its playing

...se Ball, and Cricket, noble, manly games,/Where Health herself beholds the wicket fall,/ and Joy goes flying for the bounding ball,/And the gay greensward, s

...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 30.</ |Comment=<p>The book has no references to wicket, cricket or roundball.</p>

|Headline=In 10th MA: Ballplaying Has “Become a Mania” in 1863 Camp, Wicket Also Played in 1864 ...256] suddenly lists ballplaying on seven days between April 13 and May 3. Wicket was played on April 13 [10^th vs, 37^th] and April 23<s

<p>The author here is describing Inuit games.</p> |Comment=<p>These rules are similar to those of cricket and single-wicket cricket.&nbsp; When the number of players is limited, is seems likely that