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<p>The Mass game rules appeared in Mayhew and Baker, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Base Ball.</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A <br/>Manual of Cricket and Base Ball, With Rules and Regulations Illustrated</span>. <br/>(Boston, Mayhew and Baker, 1858), pages20 - 24.</p> <p>For a more modern treatment, see John Thorn's Our Game blog at https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/the-game-that-got-away-a385699cd936</p>  +
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/matball">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/matball</a><span>. Accessed 10/11/09.</span></p> <p><span>https://kickballzone.com/detailed-look-matball/.  Accessed 7/11/23.  (Lists 'Swedish Baseball' s another name for the game.)</span></p>  +
<p><span>F. G. Cassidy et al., </span><em>Dictionary of American Regional English</em><span> (Harvard University Press, 1996), pages 586-587.</span></p>  +
<p><em>Games and Sports for Young Boys</em><span>,</span><span>  </span><span>(Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, London, 1859)., page 33.</span></p> <p><span>Also described in </span>Alice Bertha Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unspecified. </p>  +
<p><span>Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>.</span><span>  </span><span>Brewster cites Mason and Mitchell, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Active Games</span><span> [“Rotation”], page 327 and Boyd, [“Piggie Move Up”], page 65.</span></p> <p><span><span>F. G. Cassidy et al., </span><em>Dictionary of American Regional English</em><span> (Harvard University Press, 1996).</span></span></p>  +
<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>, pages 407-408.</span></p>  +
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<p><span>Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>.</span></p>  +
<p><em>The Boy's Own Book</em><span>, pages 29-30.</span><span>  </span><em>Ball Games </em>(Routledge, 1860)<span>, page 54.</span><span>  </span><em>The Boy's Handy Book</em><span>  </span><span>(Ward and Lock, London, 1863), pages 18-19. Alfred Elliott, </span><em>The Playground and the Parlour</em><span> (Nelson and Sons, London, 1868) page 56.</span></p>  +
<p><em>Ball Games</em><span>., page 56.</span></p> <p><span><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>., pages 421-423.</span></span></p>  +
<p><span>Strutt, </span><em>The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England</em><span>.</span></p>  +
<p><em>Collections of the State Historical Society</em><span>, Volume 2 (State Printers and</span><span>  </span><span>Binders, Bismark ND, 1908), pages 213-214.</span></p> <p><span><span>Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games," </span><em>Genus</em><span> 5 (1941); see Block, Appendix 6, page 263.</span></span></p>  +
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<p><a href="http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html"><span>http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</span></a></p>  +
<p><span>“Play Oina!: Romanians Say Their Game Inspired Creation of Baseball,” </span><em>Oneonta Times, </em><span>March 29, 1990.</span></p> <p><span><span>“Oina – Perhaps it was Baseball’s Grandfather,” </span><em>World Leisure and Recreations Association Bulletin,</em><span> September-October 1973.</span></span></p> <p>http://www.romania-insider.com/forgotten-romanian-national-sport-oina-baseball/</p> <p>[This source states that oina became the national sport officially in 2014, but is endangered today and is "almost forgotten," with only 25 village clubs active.   It also claims that the sport has been documented in the 1300s. The sport was declared compulsory in Romanian schools in 1897.]</p> <p>Several <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Youtube videos</span> describe Oina (if you find others, let us know). Most of the following were scouted out by John Thorn, and submitted in an email to Protoball on 1/19/2017:</p> <p><br/>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw8abRh7OjY</p> <p>[English, <3 mins.  An oina preservation campaign is sustained by two photographers who have produced a photobook for sale.]</p> <p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6gzU3vH4XA</p> <p>[Non-English, >6 mins.  An inspired schematic representation that manages to convey many of the rules of play.]</p> <p><br/>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btJcbhEDiIM</p> <p>[Not narrated, < 1 minute.  A few dozen photos from a recent book on oina.]</p> <p><br/>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88BRU5QlS0A&t=3s</p> <p><span><span>[Non-English narration, > 5 mins.]  Varieties of mostly bucolic play.</span></span></p> <p><span><span> </span></span></p> <p><span><span>You'll find more with a YouTube search for "oina."</span></span></p> <p><span><span> </span></span></p> <p><span><span> </span></span></p> <p><span><span> </span></span></p> <p><span><span> </span></span></p>  +
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<p>One investigation of Old Fashioned Base Ball is at Astifan and McCray, "'Old-Fashioned Base Ball' in Western New York, 1825-1860," <em>Base Ball, </em>volume 2 number 2 (Fall 2008), pages 26-34.</p>  +
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<p><span>W. </span>Battle<span>, </span><em>Memories of an Old-Time Tar Heel</em><span>, </span>(UNC Press, Chapel Hill, 1945)<span>, page 57.</span></p>  +
<p>Ado<span> Gini, "Rural Ritual Games in </span>Libya<span>," </span><em>Rural Sociology</em><span> 4, no. 1 </span>(1939)<span>.</span></p> <p><span>Lidstrom and Bjarsholm, <em>Batting, Running, and ‘Burning’ in Early Modern Europe: A Contribution to the Debate on the Roots of Baseball</em>, International Journal of the History of Sport (2020),  at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09523367.2020.1714597</span></p>  +
<p><span>Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn<span>, N.Y.." pages 231-232.</span></p>  +
<p><span>F. G.</span><span> <span>Cassidy</span></span><span>, </span><em>Dictionary of American Regional English</em><span> </span><span>(Harvard University Press, 1996), page 232.</span></p>  +
<p><span><span>F. G.</span><span> Cassidy</span><span>, </span><em>Dictionary of American Regional English</em><span>  </span><span>(Harvard University Press, 1996), page 882.</span></span></p>  +
<p><a href="http://www.baseballfit.com/otl.htm">http://www.baseballfit.com/otl.htm</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2251292_play-over-line.html">http://www.ehow.com/how_2251292_play-over-line.html</a></p> <p>Peter Morris, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Game of Inches </span>(Ivan Dee, 2010 single-volume edition), page 499.</p>  +
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<p><span>Josh Chetwynd, </span><em>Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History</em><span> (McFarland, 2008). page 219.</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grabow.com.pl%2F%3Fregulamin-gry-w-palanta">http://www.grabow.com.pl/regulamin-gry-w-palanta</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.ghs-mh.de/traditions/topics/health/sports_pl.htm">http://www.ghs-mh.de/traditions/topics/health/sports_pl.htm</a></p> <p><span><span>D. Block, </span><em>Base Ball Before We Knew It</em><span> (UNebraska Press, 2005), page 101.</span><span>  </span><span>Protoball entry [[1609.1]] summarizes the Jamestown account.</span></span></p>  +
<p><span>See Protoball Chronology item [[1850c.17]].</span><span>  </span><span>Thanks to Skip McAfee for explaining the term.</span></p>  +
<p><span>W. Runquist, “The Hill,” in G. Land, </span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span> (UNebraska, 2004), page 98.</span></p>  +
<p>MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." <em>Folklore, </em>volume 16, no. 1 (1905), page 87.</p> <p>R. C. MacLagan, <em>The Perth Incident of 1396 from a Folk-lore Point of View</em> (Blackwood and Son, 1905), page 54.</p> <p><em>The Encyclopedic Dictionary</em> (Cassel, Peter and Galpin, 1882), page 625.</p> <p>J. Harland, <em>A Volume of Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester in the </em>Sixteenth<em> Century</em> (Chetham Society, 1864), page 156.</p>  +
<p>Charlie Metro (with [[Tom Altherr]]), <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Safe By A Mile </span>(U Nebraska Press,2002), page 426.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></p> <p> </p>  +
<p>An introduction to the game is found at <a href="http://www.pesis.fi/pesapalloliitto/international_site/introduction_to_the_game/">http://www.pesis.fi/pesapalloliitto/international_site/introduction_to_the_game/</a></p> <p> </p>  +
<p><span>Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Emily Elmore and M. O’Shea, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games </em>(Macmillan, New York, 1922)<span>, pages 93-95.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Richard Hershberger, “A Reconstruction of Philadelphia Town Ball,” </span><em>Base Ball</em><span>, Volume 1, number 2 </span>(Fall 2007)<span>, pages 28-43.</span></p>  +
<p><span>O. Heslop, </span><em>Northumberland Words</em><span> (Oxford U Press, London, 1893), page 535.</span></p>  +
<p><span>B. Boynton, “Diceball and Pingball,” in G. Land, </span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span> (UNebraska, 2004) pages 156 - 159.</span></p>  +
<p><a href="http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html"><span>http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</span></a></p>  +
<p><span>Alice Bertha Gomme, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland<em>, </em></span>Volume 2 (New York: Dover [reprint -- original publication 1898], 1964)<span>, page 45.</span></p>  +
<p><span>G. E. Johnson, </span><em>What to Do at Recess</em><span> (Ginn, Boston, 1910), page 32.</span></p>  +
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podex">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podex</a></p>  +
<p><em>Les Jeux Des Jeunes Garcons</em><span>,</span><span>  </span>(Paris, <span>Chez Nepveu, 4th edition, </span>1818)<span>, page 37.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games," </span><em>Genus</em><span> 5 (1941); reprinted in Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span> (U. Nebraska, 2005), Appendix 6, page 263.</span></p>  +
<p>G. E. Johnson, <em>What to Do at Recess</em> (Ginn, Boston, 1910), page 32.</p> <p><a href="http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html">http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>  +
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<p><span>Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn<span>, N.Y.." page 234.</span></p>  +
<p><span>J. H. McCurdy, “Classification of Playground Activities,” </span><em>American Physical Education Review</em><span> Volume 16 (1911), page 49.</span></p>  +
<p>Henderson, <em>Bat, Ball and Bishop</em> p. 137. Morris, <em>Baseball Fever</em> p. 23; Thorn, <em>Baseball in the Garden of Eden</em> p. 57-60; Block, <em>Baseball Before We Knew It</em> p. 159-160, 87-88.</p>  +
<p><em>Dialect Notes</em><span> (American Dialect Society, Norwood MA, 1896), page 214.</span></p> <p><span>Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, Etc." <em>Base Ball</em> (Spring 2011).</span></p>  +
<p><span>[A] Peter Morris, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">But Didn't We Have Fun: An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870</span> (Ivan Dee, Chicago, 2008), pp.16-18.  For data on 12 names of predecessor games, see the book's index entry for 'Rival Bat-and-Ball', page 282. </span></p> <p><span>[B] J. Lambert and H. Reinhard, </span><em>A History of Catasaqua in Lehigh County</em><span> (Searle and Dressler, Allentown, 1914), page 364.:  </span>William F. Mason, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Journal of William Franklin Mason</span>, completed in 1954; from <a href="http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/elliott/mason/mason29.txt">http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/elliott/mason/ mason29.txt</a>, accessed 2/24/2008.</p> <p><span>[C] New York Clipper January 1866. 19CBB post 2/2/2002 by John Freyer</span></p> <p><span>[D]  Email from Bill Hicklin, February 6, 2016, citing D. Reedy, ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">School and Community History jof Dickenson County, Virginia </span>[1994]<br/></span></p> <p><span>[E] Bruce Allardice, contributions to Protoball, (date lost).</span></p>  +
<p><span>Gyula Hajdu, </span><em>"Collection of Hungarian Folk Games" (as Translated from Hungarian Magyar Nepi Jatekok Gyujtemenye)</em><span> </span>(Budapest: 1971), page 173<span>.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>.</span></p>  +
<p><span>G. Carney, “The </span>Tennis Court<span>,” in G. Land, </span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span> (UNebraska, 2004), page 110.</span></p>  +
<p><span>W. Carew Hazlitt, </span><em>Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs</em><span> </span>(London: Reeves and Turner, 1905)<span>., page 527.</span></p>  +
<p><span>See Protoball Chronology item #[[1855c.1]].</span><span>  </span><span>The letter was written to the Mills Commission, which was examining the origins of American baseball.</span></p>  +
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<p><span>Endrei, W., and Laszlo Zolnay, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fun and Games in Old Europe</span>. Budapest, (Corvina Klado, 1986).</span></p>  +
<p>Thorne, Baseball in the Garden of Eden, p. 79. Rowell, p. 17; wikipedia;  New York Clipper, May 24, 1856: https://crickethistory.website/single_wicket/single_wicket_checklist.html </p> <p><span>Origins Committee Newsletter, October, 2022.</span></p>  +
<p><span>M. Davey, “Gloveless Players Hold on to Softball Dream,” </span><em>New York</em><em> Times</em><span>, 9/18/09.</span></p> <p><span><span>E. Hageman, “The Clincher,” In Gary Land, ed., </span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span> (UNebraska, 2004), pages 131-132.</span></span></p>  +
<p><em>Norwich Courier</em><span>, Volume 11, issue 8 </span>(May 16, 1832)<span>, page 1.</span></p> <p><span><span>H. Philpott, “A Little Boys’ Game with a Ball,” </span><em>The Popular Science Monthly</em><span>, Volume 37, Number 5 (September 1890) page 654.</span></span></p> <p>Writing in volume 5, no. 4 (April 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, and sometimes by large ones (especially girls). It is often played by as many as a dozen players and is here known as "Tip-Up," or "Tippy-Up." The 1900 source is D. C. Gibson, "Play Ball," ''Mind and Body: A Monthly Journal'',Volume 7, no 73 (March 1900), page 7. No rules for this game is given.</p>  +
<p><span>Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games," </span><em>Genus</em><span> 5 (1941); reprinted in  Block<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, Appendix 6, page 263.</span></p>  +
<p>Adrian C. Anson, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Ball Player's Career</span> (Era Publishing, 1900) pp. 13-14.</p>  +
<p><span>Hall, </span><em>The Tribune Book of Open-Air Sports</em><span> (1887), cited in K. Grover, </span><em>Hard at Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940</em><span> (UMass Press, 1992), page 244.</span></p> <p><span><span>F. C. Tatum, </span><em>Old West Town</em><span> Ferris Brothers, </span>Philadelphia<span>, 1888), page 8.</span></span></p>  +
<p><span>Paul Dickson, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Worth Book of Softball</span> (Facts on File, 1994).</span></p> <p><span>Morris A Bealle, </span><em>The Softball Story</em><span> </span>(Washington: Columbian Publishing Group, 1956)<span>.</span></p>  +
<p><span>MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." <em>Folklore</em> 16, no. 1 (1905), pages 87-88.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Amy Stewart Fraser, </span><em>Dae Ye Min’ Langsyne?</em><span> (Routledge, 1975), page 59.</span></p>  +
<p><span> Jane Leavy [Koufax bio, page needed].</span></p> <p><span><span>Emily W. Elmore, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span>, (Macmillan, NY, 1922), pages 17-18.</span></span></p>  +
<p><span>David Block, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game</em></span><span> </span>(University of Nebraska Press, 2005)<span>, page 138.</span></p> <p><span><span>The original source is Montague, </span><em>The Youth's Encyclopedia of Health </em>(1838)<span>.</span></span></p>  +
<p><span>Gregory Christiano, <a href="http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html">http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</a></span></p> <p><span> </span></p>  +
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span>, Volume 2 (New York: Dover [reprint -- original publication 1898], 1964), pages 216-217.</p>  +
<p>For more information on Stoolball England and the current status of the game, see <a href="http://www.stoolball.org.uk/">http://www.stoolball.org.uk/</a>.  </p> <p>For a 2013 review of the recent upwelling of interest in stoolball, see [[Stoolball Today -- The Rejuvenation of an Ancient Pastime]]. </p> <p>Alice Bertha Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (New York; Dover, 1964 – reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), pp 219-220</p> <p>A. Lusted, <em>Girls Just Wanted to Have Fun: Stoolball Reports in Local Newspapers, 1747 to 1866, </em>(44 pages) 2013. </p> <p>A. Lusted, <em>The Glynde Butterflies Stoolball Team 1866-1887</em> (96 pages), 2011.</p> <p>L. McCray, "The Amazing Francis Willughby, and the Role of Stoolball in the Evolution of Baseball and Cricket," <em>Base Ball, </em>volume 5, number 1,. pages 17 to 20.</p> <p><span>See the article on Stoolball in the Origins Committee Newsletter, December, 2021. And https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/pilgrim-stoolball-and-the-profusion-of-american-safe-haven-ballgames-bc277817999b</span></p>  +
<p><em>The Boy's Handy Book</em><span>., pages 18-19.</span></p>  +
<p><span>F. G. Cassidy, </span><em>Dictionary of American Regional English</em><span>  </span><span>(Harvard University Press, 1996), page 882.</span></p>  +
<p><em>Collections of the State Historical Society</em><span>, Volume 2 (State Printers and</span><span>  </span><span>Binders, Bismark ND, 1908), pages 213-214.</span></p> <p>Maigaard, "Battingball Games." <em>Genus</em> 5 (1941).  (Reprinted as Appendix 6 of Block, <em>Baseball Before We Knew It.)</em>  See page 263.</p>  +
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<p><span>Henry H. Jessup, </span><em>The Women of the Arabs, with a Chapter for Children </em>(Dodd Mead, 1873)<span>, page 90.</span></p>  +
<p>Posted to the 19CBB listserve on May 13, 2007 by Craig B. Waff.  Craig cites the source as “Sports in Old Brooklyn: Colonel John Oakley Tells of the Games of His Boyhood: How Some Well-Known Men Amused Themselves in Bygone Days – Duck-on-the-Rock, Three Base Ball and Two Old Cat Good Enough for Them,” <em>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</em>, Volume 54, number 292 (Sunday, October 21, 1894), page 21, columns 4-5.</p>  +
<p>Block, David<em>, Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005).</em>, pages 147-148.</p>  +
<p>Joseph Strutt, <em>The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England—a New Edition, Much Enlarged and Corrected by J. Charles Fox</em> (????? (Reissued by Singing Tree Press, Detroit, 1968), 1903)., pages 109-110</p> <p><em>The Boy's Handy Book</em>., page 14.</p> <p>Aspin, "Ancient Customs, Sports, and Pastimes of the English" (1832) p. 225</p> <p>Gomme,<em> Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em>. pages 294-295.</p> <p>Dick, ed., <em>Dick and Fitzgerald, the American Boys Book of Sports and Games: A Practical Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements (Lyons Press Reprint, 2000).  Originally Published in 1864.</em>, pages 117-118.</p> <p>D. C. Beard, <em>The American Boy’s Book of Sport</em> (Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1896), page 332.</p> <p>H. D. Richardson, <em>Holiday</em><em> Sports and Pastimes for Boys,</em> (Wm S. Orr, London, 1848), pages 63-64.</p>  +
<p>“The American Base Ball Players,” <em>Guardian</em>, July 31, 1874, page 5.</p> <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 During Three Quarters of a Century</em> (Concordia Publishing, St. Louis, 1922), page 253.</p>  +
<p>Whitelaw Reid, <em>Ohio</em><em> in the War</em><span> (Moore, Wilstach and Baldwin, Cincinnati, 1868), page 562.</span></p> <p><span>See also PBall Chronology entry #[[1840c.37]]<br/></span></p>  +
<p><span>Charles Johnston, </span><em>Famous Generals of the Great War</em><span> (Page Company, Boston, 1919), page 253.</span></p>  +
<p><span>O. Heslop, </span><em>Northumberland Words</em><span> (Oxford U Press, London, 1893), page 741.</span></p>  +
<p>Wikipedia</p> <p>New York Evening Post, June 8, 1821</p> <p>Aspin, "Ancient Customs, Sports, and Pastimes of the English" (1832) p. 223.</p> <p>Walker, "Games and Sports" (1837) p. 237. Hone, "The Spots and Pastimes of the People of England..." pp. 107-109</p>  +
<p><span>Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</em><span> (Davit Nutt, London, 1898), page 307.</span></p> <p><span><em>Promptorium Parvulorum </em><span>(Society of Camden, reprinted 1865), page 503.</span></span></p>  +
<p><span>Josh Chetwynd, </span><em>Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History</em><span> (McFarland, 2008). page 14.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</em><span> (Davit Nutt, London, 1898), page 308.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</em><span> (Davit Nutt, London, 1898), page 309.</span></p>  +
<p>Alice Bertha Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 – reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 310.</p>  +
<p><span>[A] Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of Englan</em><em>d, Scotland, and Ireland</em> (Davit Nutt, London, 1898), page 314.</p> <p>[B] Joseph Wright, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The English Dialect Dictionary </span>(Henry Frowd, London, 1905), page 277.  Part or all of this entry appears to credit Burne's <em>Folklore</em> (1883) as its source.</p>  +
<p><span>Bell Irvin Wiley, </span><em>The Common Soldier in the Civil War</em><span> </span>(Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1952)<span>, Book Two, “The Life of Johnny Reb,” page 159.</span></p>  +
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<p><span>Endrei, </span><em>Fun and Games in Old Europe</em><span>.</span></p>  +
<p><span>-Hippolytus Guarinoni*, </span><em>The Horrors of the Devastation of the Human Race (Orig: Greuel Der Verwustung Des Menschlichen Geschlechts<span> (Ingolstadt, Austria 1610)</span><span>.</span></em></p> <div> <p><em>Block, David, Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005).</em></p> </div> <div> <p>Endrei, <em>Fun and Games in Old Europe</em>.</p> </div>  +
<p><span>Endrei, </span><em>Fun and Games in Old Europe</em><span>.</span></p>  +
<p><em>Juvenile Pastimes: Or, Girls’ and Boys’ Book of Sports</em><span> </span>(S. Babcock, New Haven, 1849.)</p>  +
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigoro">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigoro</a><span>.</span><span><br/></span></p> <p><span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=history%20of%20vigoro%20game">https://www.google.com/search?q=history%20of%20vigoro%20game</a></span></p>  +
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<p><span>Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</em><span> (Davit Nutt, London, 1898), page 329.</span></p>  +
<p><span>For a history of Welsh baseball, see http://www.welshbaseball.co.uk/history/history/journal/. Included is Martin Johnes, "'Poor man's Cricket': Baseball, Class and Community in South Wales, c.1880 - 1950." <span style="text-decoration: underline;">International Journal of the History of Sport</span>' volume 17, number 4 (December 2000). </span></p> <p>George Vecsey, "Playing Baseball in Wales," <em>New York</em><em> Times</em>, August 11 1986.</p> <p><span>Kevin O'Brien - www.welshbaseball.co.uk</span></p>  +
<p><span>Short descriptions of the game are found in Protoball Chronology items #[[1846.8]], #[[1850s.16]], and #[[1855c.3]].</span><span>  </span><span>There is also a Protoball Subchronology  at http://protoball.org/Chronology:Wicket.  As of 2022, Protoball lists over 50 milestones for to wicket.</span></p> <p><span>Robin Carver, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Book of Sports </span>(Boston, 1834).  See chapter III, "Games with a Ball.  The simpler game appears on pages 48-49."  Carver does not name the simpler game as  wicket.</span></p> <p><span>An excellent article on wicket in CT, by Alex Dubois, appeared in the March 2022 Origins/Protoball Committee Newsletter.</span></p>  +
<p>For a longish <em>New Yorker</em> article on an advanced form of wiffle ball, see https://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/the-men-who-have-taken-wiffle-ball-to-a-crazy-competitive-place?mbid=social_twitter.  (Submitted 9/3/2018 by Glenn Stout; pitches have been measured at over 90 mph.)<em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br/></span></em></p> <p>A web search for <ben mcgrath wiffle ball> may help you locate the <em>New Yorker</em> piece.  It is dated August 31, 2018.</p> <p>For a lighthearted You Tube exposition of the fourth-best team in the the National Wiffleball Championship Tournament (what year? where played?), see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPEnXCtwHeU. </p> <p>The Wiffle Ball Company's somewhat spartan site is at http://www.wiffle.com/. </p> <p>Also, see Billy Baker, "Takes a Swing at Wiffle Ball Legacy," <em>Boston Globe,</em> September 9, 2019, pp 1 and A7.  </p> <p> </p>  +
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireball">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireball</a></p>  +
<p><span>Two examples of Work-Up are depicted in G. Land, </span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span> (UNebraska, 2004), pages 83 and 175.</span></p>  +
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<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZFNRc9mKk</p>  +
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<p>Sophronia E. Bucklin, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">In Hospital and Camp: A Woman’s Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War</span> (Potter and Company, Philadelphia, 1869), pp. 35-36. Viewed at Google Books 5/27/09, via the search <bucklin camp>.</p>  +
<p><em>New York Sunday Mercury</em>, Dec. 8, 1861</p>  +
<p>[A] <em>New York Sunday Mercury, </em>April 7, 1861</p> <p>[B] <em>New York Sunday Mercury, </em>May 12, 1861</p>  +
<p><em>Wilkes' Spirit of the Times,</em> April 27, 1861.</p>  +
<p><em>New York Sunday Mercury</em>, Aug. 2, 1862</p>  +