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|Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. <p>"any person who shall on the Sabbath day play at bandy, cricket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in a

...oung men are expert in a variety of games at ball - such as cricket, base, cat, football, trap ball . . . ," is the first known book reference to the play |Comment=<p>The cited lines were from an appendix to Smith's book on American games, written by Samuel Woodworth c. 1835. ][ba]</p>

|Headline=New England Lad Recalls Assorted Games, Illicit Fast Day Ballplaying ...these were "base-ball," in which we chose sides, "one hole cat," "two hole cat," "knock up and catch," Blackman," "snap the whip," skating, sliding down h

|Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...k 1867. The listed games played in Suffolk include cricket, base-ball, kit-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes. <strong>Note:</strong>: But not trap-ball? N

...A very large proportion of the students participated in the sport; and the old residents will readily recall with what regularity. Fast day used to be de ...e 83. <b>Caveat</b>: The section in which this excerpt resides evidently games played half a century earlier, but other interpretations are possible.</p>

|Term=Cat (Kat) |Description=<p>For a recent description of Cat/Old-Cat, see&nbsp;<strong>Supplemental Text below.</strong>&nbsp;</p>

|Headline=Holiday Encroached by Round Ball, Long Ball, Old Cat |Game=Round Ball,Long Ball,Old-Cat Games

|Description=The old-fashioned games of three-cornered cat, round town ball, long town ball, hat ball, baseball and many others were p

...t Strutt views a game he calls "club ball" as the precursor to this set of games, but notes that modern scholars are skeptical about this proposition.</p>

...style="text-decoration: underline;">The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games</span> [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books.< ...bat is three feet long; two strikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed. <strong><b

...Themselves in Bygone Days - Duck-on-the-Rock, Three Base Ball and Two Old Cat Good Enough for Them,"&nbsp;<em>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</em>, vol. 54, number <p>Craig reported that Oakey, 65 years old in 1894, had attended Erasmus Hall from 1838 to 1845.</p>

...led 'Whacks' is played in a similar way [to that of Waggles, a form of tip-cat] -- London streets."</p> ...Scotland, and Ireland</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 &ndash; reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 329. &nbsp;</p>

...the country, was an occurrence which le the knowing ones to surmise that a cat was concealed in the meal somewhere, and the aforesaid dispatch opens the b <p>Gentlemen of the Fraternity! Has it come to this, that a series of games cannot be played on the merits of the contesting clubs, but by an arrangeme

...e bat-ball games played in Hawaii were versions of "two o-cat" or "three o-cat". Other sources have baseball being played at Punahou in 1866.</p>

|Field=Next to the Old Stone Church ...e pic-nic ground, makai of the Stone Church, where, after a few appetizing games of ball, they sat down to a sumptuous repast..."</p>

...17 listed a large number of permitted Sunday activities -including no ball games - and cited as unlawful only "beare and Bull beatinge enterludes &amp; bowl ...uded ballplay, contemporary ballgames like stoolball and cricket - and cat games - remained unconstrained.</p>

...ing them are helped into a more healthy groove we shall still have the tip-cat, base-ball, &c., in the back streets and squares as much as ever.”</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...the ground old game of base, let them begin with one old cat--not the old cat--or even with barn ball, if not ambitious.</p>

...gland and colonial Boston in North America called stoolball. All of these games were played on a field with bases, a ball, and one or more sticks. The mod

|Text=<p>"In April 1892 the Milwaukee [WI] Old Settler's Club received a ball from a Mr. E. W. Edgerton which the young me ...ajot, January 3, 2010. In 1946 a journalist speculated that the N-old-cat games were what was likely played in 1836 Dennis cites the April 19, 1892 issue