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<p>Second. For lease of grounds for Sunday games during the base-ball season of 1880.</p> <p>Bids must be sealed and addressed “Board of Directors Cincinnati Star Base-Ball Association,” care C. T. Blackburn, Secretary, City Auditor's Offic

|Headline=NY and MA Regiments Play Two Games Near the Civil War Front |Game=Base Ball,

..."The Aurora Ball Club and Olympic Ball Club will play best 3 in 5 games at Base ball on Tremont street mall on Friday next at half past 5 o'clock for 10 bo ...A and upstate NY; the "best-of" format may have been common in the game or games that evolved into the Mass Game.&nbsp;</p>

...n Chicago] this week in the shape of a system of reproducing here the ball games played by our team abroad. A couple of enterprising fellows from Nashville ...the name of Seery disappeared from the home plate and reappeared at first base, while that of Glasscock showed up at the home plate. “One strike,” tw

...it related, or relates, to base ball, long ball, or other early safe-haven games.</p> |Sources=<p>Ado<span>&nbsp;Gini, "Rural Ritual Games in&nbsp;</span>Libya<span>,"&nbsp;</span><em>Rural Sociology</em><span>&nbs

|Name=Star Club of Brooklyn v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 13 September 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Title=a prize fight under cover of being baseball games ...squads of about ten or twenty each, all of whom carried sticks resembling base ball bats, while one athletic individual displayed a ball of the latest and

...A.M.&nbsp; Tickets one dollar.<br /> <br /> P.S. - An interesting game of base ball to be played on the occasion."</p> ...St. Louis]<em> Missouri Republican</em>, August 2, 1864. Cited in Games of Games website.</p>

|Headline=Vermonters Play Manly Sport of Football, (and Base Ball) in Virginia ...micry of actual warfare &ndash; were played. . . . Many joined in games of base ball; others formed rings and watched friendly contests of the champion wre

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Matches to Come,&rdquo; PSOT, vol. 4, no. 19 (10 Jul 1858), p. 293, c

|Headline=Base Ball Games Reach Really Modern Duration; Score is 52-38 |Game=Base Ball

|Game=Base-Ball ...e playing was as follows: [<em>Mirror </em>members won two of three 25-run games, 25-3 "points", 17-25, and 25- 3.]</p>

|Name=Mauch Chunk Base Ball Club v Athletic Club of Philadelphia on 14 November 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Headline=Pre-modern Base Ball in Michigan ...nbsp; Old time rules of course governed the game, one of them being that a base runner could be put out if hit by a thrown ball anywhere between the bases.

...am not willing to make. The League has lived twelves years without Sunday games, and it is in pretty good health now. And wherever there are two clubs rep ...his Sunday question, and that is this:--St Louis is obliged to have Sunday games or do without a crack club. The Sporting Life October 5, 1887</p>

|Headline="Old Game of Base" Planned -- New York vs. Brooklyn |Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, Throwback Games,

...anding in his position, that first touches the ground, first base or third base, any part of the person or a player, umpire or any other objects that is in ...n leatned of the mistake he had made, as Collins was, of course, given his base on the hit. The difference lies in a ball hit direct from the bat to the g

<p>The Enterprise will play no match games for thirty day. Members of the club will assemble at Montague Hall to-morr ...lls, occasioned, partly, by the shortness of the field in rear of the home base. Wilkes Spirit of the Times July 28, 1868</p>

|Game=Base Ball |Text=<p>"BASE BALL -- A match game of Base Ball was played between&nbsp;the St. John's and Union Clubs (colored) yeste

...le="">[1]</a></sup> The following week, the paper reported "The Janesville Base Ball Club is now fully organized and in good operations. The �boy's propo ...e_note-5" title="">[6]</a></sup>, and issued a challenge to the Bower City Base Ball Club &ndash; also of Janesville &ndash; for a July 4th match, which wa