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  • Clipping:Reaction to the spread of Sunday baseball
    ...t which professional base ball is being conducted making such remunerative games absolutely necessary to the clubs which had hitherto abstained from playing
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  • Tom Altherr, April 2013
    ...pean games, to the evolution of base ball.  He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an
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  • 1773.3
    |Headline=Ball-Playing by Slaves Is Eyed in SC ...t assembling of Negroes in the Town [Beaufort, SC] on Sundays, and playing games of Trap-ball and Fives, which is not taken proper notice of by Magistrates,
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  • 1849c.5
    |Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls ...aying Ball" section is the observation that "[t]here are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b
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  • Clipping:Prospects for Sunday baseball
    ...Windsor Beach, the Sunday grounds of the Syracuse and Rochester clubs, the games have been stopped.</p>
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  • 1841.18
    ...ve the formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>
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  • Clipping:Spring training by playing handball
    ...t awakened to the importance of thorough training before playing any match games, and accordingly has put his men through a pretty thorough course of exerci
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  • Most Wanted: How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games?
    ...e 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? ...e Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>
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  • 1830s.21
    ...referred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"<em>&nbsp;Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32. Cleme
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  • BC750.1
    ...all. Pollux [ca 180 AD] lists a number of children's ball games, including games that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the pl <p>As far as we are aware, Greek ball games did not include any that involved running among bases or safe havens, or an
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on August 3 1850
    ...ay: "After tea, the boys amused themselves by playing at cricket and other games, and the girls by playing at base ball, &c."</p>
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  • 1659.1
    |Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...service on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
    ...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> ...p>This reference is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball p
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  • 1815c.5
    |Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...and simple kinds, such as hunting, fishing, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed."&nbsp;</p>
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  • Bandy
    |Sources=<p>Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, etc. "&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>&nbsp;(Spring 2011).</p ...at "bandy" was in the 1800s sort of a generic name for ice or field hockey games. [ba]</p>
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  • Clipping:The decline of regular amateur clubs
    ...ound at Prospect Park affords, presenting excellent facilities for playing games between extemporized nines, while regular club grounds are not at command,
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  • Clipping:A barnstorming team to play exhibitions with the PL
    ...ased to say that I have this day completed the entire circuit, playing two games in each city with each club as follows...</p>
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  • 1837.7
    ...inating that one of the first things they did, upon incorporation, was ban ball-playing on the Sabbath."</p>
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  • Corner Ball
    ...ription=<p>A plugging game that is closer to dodge ball than to safe-haven games. Some players, standing at designated corners or the perimeter of the playi
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  • Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 5 October 1858
    <p>This intramural game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation (WNY table) as compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by Porter ...now." It thus seems that other games may have preceded the 1858 intramural games, 'though they were not necessarily played by Associaton rules.</p>
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  • Three-Base Ball
    ...source as &ldquo;Sports in Old Brooklyn: Colonel John Oakley Tells of the Games of His Boyhood: How Some Well-Known Men Amused Themselves in Bygone Days &n
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  • 1795.5
    ...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 30-31
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1856
    ...r complaining that the police were not cracking down on youngsters playing games on the street in front of his business. “...a considerable army of young
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  • 1365.1
    ...ns prohibited by proclamation in the reign of Edward III, exclusive of the games of chance, are thus specified; the throwing of stones, wood, or iron; playi
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  • Clipping:A critique of pitching for strike outs
    ...iven for exhibitions of good fielding a base running. Strictly scientific games, where the scores are kept down, never were and never can be very popular,
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  • Clipping:Reporting juvenile games
    |Title=reporting juvenile games ...e most pleasurable emotions, and we consider it our duty to encourage them games by every means in our power, even to the publication of the scores of their
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  • Central Park
    ...een set apart at Central Park, but the Commissioners are not allowing ball games to be played there, although it appears they allow cricket.</p> ...1863 purports to show informal baseball playing in the park. Formal match games seem to be allowed by 1868.</p>
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  • 1860.83
    <p>[B] Three other games that year for which game times were published last five to six hours.</p> |Comment=<p>By 1860, most Massachusetts Rules games were being played to 75 runs, instead of the 100 specified in the rules ado
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  • 1856.11
    ...aying&nbsp;<em>theque?</em>&nbsp;Is it significant that this book features games for adolescents, not younger children?</p>
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  • Clipping:The season in the South; Sunday baseball
    ...n for playing champion-games in Louisiana and adjoining States. The great ball-playing day in New Orleans is Sunday; and every fine Sunday, all the ball grounds a
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  • Clipping:St. Louis Maroons frozen out by the League
    ...estion. For him to play in the league with a weak club, playing no Sunday games and charging 50 cents admission, is bound to prove a losing venture. It wo
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  • 1840.35
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 37 and re
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  • 1870c.17
    ...s.&nbsp; I like to have my boys enjoy and practice all athletic sports and games, especially riding, towing, hunting, and ball playing.&nbsp; But I am a lit
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  • 1779.2
    ...nt: originally published in 1894), volume I.&nbsp; [Page not shone; listed games are presented alphabetically]</p>
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  • 1823c.9
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 31.&nbsp; |Comment=<p>Clay's book, which seems to make no other reference to ball-playing, was accessed 11/15/2008 via a Google Books search for &lt;life of cassius&
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  • 1805.6
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 29-3
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  • 1840s.42
    |Text=<p>"In the early '40s a town ball club arranged to hold its games on a vacant plot across from the Harlem Railroad depot on 27<sup>th</sup> a
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  • Clipping:Enforcement of the territorial limit
    ...oncluded to enforce his five-mile privilege and is going to stop all these games. From what Mr. Byrne says, he can not only stop all national agreement clu
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  • 1840c.34
    |Headline=Ball-Playing at Marshall College in PA ...eations they needed . . . . [In addition to local excursions], [s]ometimes ball-playing was the recreation, and sometimes it was leaping or jumping, that brought t
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  • 1800c.3
    <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 150. No ref given. Also referenced in Pe
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  • In Boston in 1854
    ...owever. In 1856 a new club arose, the 'Green Mountains,' and some exciting games were played between this Club and the Olympics. Up to this point the game a
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  • 1845.10
    |Headline=German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game |Text=<p>Included among the games is <em>das Giftball</em> (the venomball, roughly). Block observes that this
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  • 1852.12
    |Headline=Ball-playing Prohibited Near UNC Buildings ...games, such as fives, but it could have as easily targeted base ball-type games."</p>
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  • Clipping:The Central Park ball grounds
    ...e Central Park grounds are used only by the schools in the vicinity, match-games by senior clubs being prohibited on account of the crowds which they attrac
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  • Clipping:Comparing the playing strength of the NL and AA
    ...hough the Association usually got the best of the the League in exhibition games, where the carelessness of the older body, its known prestige, and the pron
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  • Amateur Base Ball Club of Lewiston
    .... 13, 1877 "On Saturday the Base Ball Club of this place had several brisk games upon their grounds," which implies a club existed here prior to 1877.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on June 21 1880
    ...er he would consider if it would not be for the public advantage that such games should be allowed in some part of the Park appropriated for the purpose?”
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  • 1816.2
    ...err, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." <em>
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  • Block:Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884
    |Block Data=<p>“Ball-bias” was one of the games enjoyed by 200 children at the annual treat for students of the Wesleyan Ch
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  • Clipping:Early indoor baseball
    ...ways. Among the most popular methods employed in the playing of burlesque games of base ball. The bases are marked in the gymnasium as the regular diamond
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  • Clipping:The League softens on Sunday ball
    ...ined the League they might be accorded the privilege of playing exhibition games on Sunday. The League wants St. Louis. There can be no mistake in this.</
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  • Clipping:Athletics lobby to have Sunday games in Gloucester legalized
    |Title=Athletics lobby to have Sunday games in Gloucester legalized ...day, Friday or Tuesday scheduled games will be transposed and championship games played throughout the season whenever the Athletics are at home. The new a
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  • Clipping:Corcoran practicing pitching left-handed
    ...tion record is interesting to a certain extent, but team work is what wins games and championship.</p> ...credited with but 2,097, and Chicago and Detroit played the same number of games. Chicago Tribune October 14, 1886</p>
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  • Long Ball (US Batting Game)
    <p>Do we know know if this and other fungo style batting games were known elsewhere in the US?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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  • German Ball Game
    ...” [runs] wins the contest.  The game resembles the family of "battingball" games reported by Maigaard.</p> ..., et al., </span><em>One </em><span>Hundred</span><em> and Fifty Gymnastic Games</em><span> (G. H. Ellis, Boston, 1902), pages 22-23.</span></p>
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  • Block:Pize Ball in South Yorkshire on July 25 1904
    |Block Data=<p>“Pise-ball” was named as one of the games played at the annual excursion for children of the St. Philip's Church of S
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  • 1864.74
    ...he weather was favorable, those not on duty took exercise by playing a few games of "town ball."</span></p>
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  • Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 7 August 1860
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • Clipping:Fisler, Reach playing with multiple clubs
    ...member of the National Association–play Reach of the Eckford club in their games with their brother clubs; the Keystone club, also of the National Associati
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  • 1860.45
    ...clubs. The common format for these games was a best-two-of-three match of games played to 25 "tallies" [not runs]. A purse of $25 was not uncommon. Teams e
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  • 1810c.10
    |Text=<p>"The sorts and entertainments were very simple [around 1800] . . . games of ball, not base-ball, as is now [1880s?] the fashion, yet with wickets . ...days than now.&nbsp; We had more holidays, more games in the streets -- of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling."</p>
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  • 1863.14
    ...h VA, excerpts from the diary of Sgt Earle of the 15<sup>th</sup> MA notes games of ball with the 34<sup>th</sup> NY on March 18 and again on April 16, 1863 ...en wouldn&rsquo;t even have the shucks.&rsquo; The interest taken in these games in the army as a whole almost rivaled that taken in the races, sparring mat
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  • 1583.1
    ...</em> or hurling the Ball," - that no mannor person shall play at the same games, being above the age of seven years, wither in the churchyard or in any of
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  • Eagle v Em Quad in CA on 11 October 1860
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2
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  • Clipping:Beer and Sunday games in the Northwestern League
    |Title=beer and Sunday games in the Northwestern League
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  • 1849.3
    |Query=<p>Is Tom saying that there were no prior safe-haven ball games [cricket, town ball, wicket] out west, or just that the NY game hadn't arri
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  • Clipping:Umpire must call a ball or a strike
    ...ween the nines belonging to Turin and Constableville, who are playing five games for the championship of the county. … The first man was called to the ba
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  • 1853.4
    ...&nbsp; Is it possible that may other "plaing ball" references denote fungo games?&nbsp;</p> <p>Do we know of any other fungo games in which more than a single bat is used?</p>
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  • In New York on 29 November 1855
    ...clubs were out last Thursday week, and in spite of the cold, played their games out. “ [See separate descriptions below.])</p> <p>(NYC: “There seemed t |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • Block:English Baseball in East Sussex on July 26 1884
    ...f the male teachers played matches of cricket, and indulged in other manly games."</p>
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  • Baseball5
    ...with any ties being broken by playing extra innings&nbsp;as necessary, and games generally lasting 15 to 20 minutes. Unlike baseball/softball, there is no p
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  • Clipping:A new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games
    |Title=a new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games ...trong game. Afterwards they fell into “the sere and yellow leaf” of their ball-playing age, as it were, and resolved themselves into a committee of the whole on r
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  • Clipping:Benefits of mixing baseball and cricket
    ...ve their play, both at the bat and in fielding, by practicing each other’s games. In batting, at base-ball, the cricketer learns a free use of his shoulder
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  • Clipping:Giving workers Saturday afternoons off
    ...of going to the games on Saturday instead of Sunday. The object of Sunday games mainly is to give the hard-working classes, who cannot see the game, which
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  • 1862.34
    ...1863, &ldquo;the officers and men enjoyed themselves much in the innocent games of cricket and base-ball.&rdquo; [page 290]. In May 1863, at a temporary ca
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  • Clipping:The benefit of good drainage
    |Text=<p>[New York vs. Philadelphia PL 5/8/1890] Many games are called sloppy on acdount of the poor fielding, but yesterday's was not
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  • Clipping:Attendance in Louisville 2
    ...resident Parsons and Manager Chapman is the splendid attendance at all the games. Tuesday there were 1252 people present; Wednesday there were 725; Thurs
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  • 1857.7
    |Headline=Daily Base Ball Games Found in Public Square in Cleveland ...appealed to, he quietly informed the players that there was no law against ball-playing there . . . The crowd sent up a shout and renewed the game, which continued
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  • 1872.11
    |Text=<p>"AMATEUR GAMES -- The Manhattan Cricket Club played baseball with the Knickerbockers on th ...ng baseball. Cricket and baseball clubs playing one another in one or both games was an established practice in this era. Generally the baseball team won at
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  • Clipping:A minor league club with a reserve team
    ...which will play on the home grounds the days the regular team are playing games in other cities in the semi-professional Inter-State League.</p>
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  • Clipping:Reduced attendance from the old days
    ...ith allowing first or second games to go by default in order to have third games, the Atlantic club have so lowered their playing status as to have ceased t
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  • Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on May 3 1879
    ...re playing about the streets, and who as a rule are allowed to enjoy their games of whip-top, base-ball, and other pastimes in the middle of the public stre
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  • Clipping:Poor support for a minor league team in Chicago
    ...e most prosperous towns in the West and Northwest, the Western Association games in this city draw hundreds only where the League team attracts thousands.</
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  • 1855.47
    <p>https://protoball.org/Club_of_Newark, which includes 21 of the club's games, 1855-1864</p> ...o applying some criteria to the limited information we have about the 1855 games and see if I can come up with a systematic approach to identifying the firs
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  • Clipping:George Wright's history
    ...essional of the St. George Club, getting off now and then to play in match games of base-ball. In 1865 I was professional to the Philadelphia Cricket Club
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  • 1849.14
    |Text=<p>"BALL-PLAYING -- Westfield vs. Granville --</p> ...sterday.&nbsp;There were 30 on each side, and the winners in three of five games were to be awarded the victory.&nbsp; On the first game, the Westfield boys
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  • 1860.13
    ...span> of August 11, 1860, page 132, carries accounts of two July town ball games in Philadelphia PA, [1] one involving the Olympics and [2] another involvin
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  • Clipping:Uniform rules under the National Agreement; official balls
    ...se rules. This is done so as to prevent the use of light or dead balls in games between the clubs of different bodies, a has frequently been the case in th
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  • Clipping:Indoor baseball in Brooklyn 2
    ...one obstacle to the success of the scheme seems to be in the fact that the games will be played by gaslight. Those directly interested, however, stated tha ...l be regulation size, but will be made as light as possible. Championship games will consist of as many innings as can be played in one hour and thirty min
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  • Clipping:Caylor comes out against Sunday baseball; Pritchard's response
    ...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>
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  • First Nine v Second Nine on 8 September 1859 - 2
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • 1833c.12
    ...amed club merged in 1833, but only after they had, apparently, played some games against one another. "Since . . . there weren't any other ball clubs, eithe ...that "both sides had existence outside of that game." He dates one of the games to July 4, 1833, as the Olympic club had been formed to play a game on the
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  • Olympic Base Ball Club of Syracuse
    ...seball clippings collection of the Onondaga Hist Assn adverts to 5 Olympic games played in 1859 and one in 1860. They played the SyrBBC twice and the Chitt
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  • 1823.6
    ...sp; years before Jahn came forward.&rdquo;&nbsp; (Gutsmuths&rsquo; book on games provided David Block with the 1796 rules and diagram of a game called &ldqu ...ent parts, are altogether unessential and a matter of choice.&rdquo; &nbsp;Ball-playing, Beck wrote, &ldquo;unites various exercises: throwing, striking, running a
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  • Phillips Academy Club of Andover
    ...t Phillips Academy) has a lot on early baseball here. Evidently "bat-ball" games were popular here in 1811.By 1852-53 they were playing "base ball,' but the <p>The 1853 games were played in an open field in the rear of the Seminary buildings. One gam
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  • 370c.1
    |Headline=Saint Augustine Recalls Punishment for Youthful Ball Games ...re punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown up games are known as 'business. . . . Was the master who beat me himself very diffe
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  • Clipping:What Constitutes an Amateur Base Ball Club
    ...d be a pecuniary loss were he not paid for his time spent in playing match games. If the opinion of your New York correspondent was to prevail, and be acce
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  • Clipping:An openly professional picked nine match; hundreds of baseball professionals
    ..., etc. The design of the National Association is to limit all contests to games in which the simple trophy of the ball is the incentive. If prizes are to
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  • 1807.1
    |Text=<p>"A hermit who had been watching some children playing ball games approved of their play and promised 'to provide bats, balls, &amp;c' at his
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  • 1860.49
    |Headline=Troy NY Writer: "Every Newspaper" Covers Base Ball Games, Some Showing Regrettable "Petty Meanness" ...ery branch of the game should be played in a friendly spirit. Many are the games which have been played, the beauty of which have been spoiled by the spirit
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