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|Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel

...ball (St. Louis), 500, Half-ball, Indian Ball (MO), Sky Ball (CT), and Tip-Cat.</p> |Sources=<p><span>Culin, S. (1891). "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn." <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal of

...ed at ball self and son John vs. Messrs Aitken and Anderson beat them four Games."</p> ...lved.&nbsp; There were not enough for bullpen.&nbsp; The game was probably cat-ball."</p>

...erally, but as a reporter mocking the politician and making a reference to games the readers were familiar with.

|Title=A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball ...60]), pp. 54-56), the father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more like

|Headline=Games of Foot and Base ball between drills ...ame baseball against Lt. Mink. Beat him." (is this a references to and old cat/fungo type game?) 1-20-63&nbsp; played a game of baseball p. 156 (April 186

...t was similar to the present popular and national game.</p><p align="left">Cat-ball was a timid game usually played by girls or small boys. It was a three

|Text=<p>"I will now call your attention to some of the games and amusements indulged in by Worcester boys of fifty or sixty years ago . ...ball played in my day.&nbsp; I remember barn-ball, two and&nbsp;three old cat, and round ball.&nbsp; This last was very much like baseball of to-day&nbsp

...<p>The Olympic Club had formed nearly 30 years earlier, and played two-old-cat and then town ball in its earlier days, converting to base ball in 1860. Se |Query=<p>Do we really only have three games for this historic clubs, which endured until 1887?</p>

...at reportedly resembled shinty or modern field hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal |Sources=<p>Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, etc. "&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>&nbsp;(Spring 2011).</p>

|Text=<p>&ldquo;[W]hile I played barn ball, one old cat and two old cat in early boyhood days, Cricket was my favorite game, and up to the time I e ...las Young was born in Amsterdam NY in 1840, and thus was playing the named games in the 1850s. He was a member of the 32^nd&nbsp;NY Infantry, whic

...to be played in the streets of London in the 17th century. Billet, or tip cat, was also a favourite game for this day, and in some parts of the North of

...ngaged in my the larger boys, special mention may be made of 'Three Corner Cat,' and of 'Town Ball,' the latter sport being a simple form of what has deve

...ame as tip-cat.” Court records from 1583 seem to indication that the game “Cat’s Pallet” was also called Gidigadie, at least in the Manchester area.</ |Sources=<p>MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." <em>Folklore, </em>volume 16, no. 1 (1905), page 87.</p>

|Description=<p>A game banned, along with cat-ball, in Norwich CT in 1832. A 1890 source describes Sky-Ball as a fungo ga ...2012) of ''Originals,'' Tom Altherr notes that a 1900 source on schoolyard games noted "The game of Flip Up or Sky-Ball is still played by smaller children,

|Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games ...e was "Cat Ball," called in some parts of New England at the time "Two Old Cat." &nbsp;Later accounts report that the club formed in 1833, although J. M.

|Headline=List of Banned Games May Include Distant Ancestors of Cricket? ...ys at such game, to forfeit ten pounds to the king, and be imprisoned for two years."</p>

<p>Two students (Mills and Cogswell) who played the game in the early 1850s exchan ...Gotham Club at age 22 or 23, the Gotham "decided to remodel three-cornered cat and make a new game," and started by eliminating plugging.&nbsp;</p>

...arming 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel ...was “two-hold-cat,” when there were four boys, two to be in and knock, and two to throw. Then there was “base-ball,” when there were a good many to pl

...iety of baseball.&rdquo; Early usage of the term dates to the 1840s-1860s. Two sources relate the game to baseball, and one, a 1912 book of Virginia folk ...ago (i.e., 1850). See also Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, Etc." <em>Base Ball</em> (Spring 2011).</span></p>