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|First Newspaper Mention=1864/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|State=ME |City=Waldoboro

|Name=Club of Ellsworth, ME |State=ME

|State=ME |City=Topsham

...ned for, and he was to obtain $1,000 in advance, the largest sum ever paid a base-ball tosser. He expected that Cincinnati enthusiasts were disappointe

...ccident, but, of course, cannot tell what the future may have in store for me; however, I pray for the best...</p>

|Title=a conditional three year contract ...cond baseman of the Hartfords, has contracted to play with the Boston Club in ‘78, ‘79 and ‘80–the last two years conditionally. St. Louis Globe

...reat deal of pleasure last summer, so it gives me a great deal of pleasure in return to dismiss the case against him, as I understand he promises not to

...Club was in arrears to him to the amount of about $2100. Jones also told me that he was obliged to give the proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, where

|Title=going to great lengths to sign a minor leaguer ...t Saginaw club was expelled, and wound up by saying I had only indulged in a little ‘practical base ball,’ which Caylor didn’t understand. He dec

|Name=In Hope Circa 1825 |State=ME

|State=ME |City=Biddeford

|Title=a hint that the blacklisted players will be reinstated ...e situation in its real light they will deal with me and my old players in a more kind and friendly spirit than they did before. (St. Louis) Missouri R

...e official averages I find that Philadelphia has the champion base runners in both associations.</p>

...failure. I'll tell you later what I am going to do with the bat and ball in '88.</p>

|City=Brandy Station ...on to use it. &nbsp;The library also passed on a link to an recent sale of a copy on eBay for about $425. (John Zinn)<br>

|State=ME |City=Lewiston

|Title=a wildly implausible argument for the ten-men ten-inning rule |Text=<p>[a letter to the editor from “A Convert] I am a constant reader of the Item, and find that it is beyond doubt the very best

|Headline=Game of Base was "A Peculiar Favorite" |State=ME

...hat now that Sullivan had given up his position he (Quinn) would have such a hard time of it that it would be politic of him to get out. Quinn wrote ba ...ave among its players fully thirty of the very best men at present engaged in the other associations.”</p>

|Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME |State=ME

|Headline=Bay Stater to Wife: “We had a gay old time playing ball . . . send me five dollars” |City=Wheeling

|Name=in Boston in 1725 |City=Boston

..., as it generally fell to me to obtain situations for all the unfortunates in the club, and as I had begun to lose heart for this wholesale drudgery, I r |Source=Philadelphia City Item

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|State=ME |City=Bangor

|Name=First Idaho BBC Club of Lapwai |Club Name=First Idaho BBC

|Headline=Roundball Recalled in Maine |State=ME

|State=ME |City=Kents Hill

...of the League. So I suggested that he introduce some of the Clevelands to me, for then I was only acquainted with the older members of the League.</p> ...ances of better behavior on the part of the men, and as we intend that the first club shall receive $7000, the second $5000, the third $3000, the fourth $20

|Name=In Pownal on 5 May 1853 |State=ME

|Headline=Juvenile Book's Chapter: "A Game at Ball": 'Cheating play never prospers' |City=

|Title=a proposal for outfield bleachers ...against the fence, behind the out-fielders?” He adds, “the last game cost me, all told, $7.50, and I had to stand all the while.</p>

|State=ME |City=Waterville

...struck, but if he goes in for innings he is quite likely to be opposed to a man who knows the result of the matter on which he is arranging to rob the

|City=Savannah ...was on the Beating Side. Nothing can beat me and Sergeant. Jones. He is a first rate man.&rdquo;</p>

...ll add, instead of injure, the Bostons, and that the game has so increased in popular favor that two clubs can easily find support.</p>

|Headline=Lithograph Shows Ballplaying in City Hall Park, NY ...rogress in the distance. My best squint shows me pitcher, batsman, a close-in catcher, two distant fielders and three spectators (two seated). Old cat? S

|Headline="Round Ball" Played in Bangor ME: Cony&#39;s Side 50, Hunt&#39;s Side 49 |State=ME

|City=Flatbush ...yed by Colonel John Oakey, a former A.D.A., when he was a child growing up in Brooklyn and Flatbush [NY]. From 1837 he attended the Erasmus Hall Academy,

|Name=Queen City Club of Bangor |Club Name=Queen City

|City=west point ...erintendent of West Point]. He was a splendid fellow, most gentlemanly and a soldier every inch. . . .</p>

...gambler when in Worcester, Mass.; and Manager Bancroft was also called as a witness. The Board of Directors decided by an unanimous vote to expel High ...our opinion the League did a very sensible thing, for Dick has been under a cloud for some time, and should never have been chosen as an umpire.</p>

...s the only addition advocated by any of the delegates and was incorporated in the instrument as the seventh article of the Agreement, which was shortly a

...d gaining for it a firm foothold as the great American sport. He informed me this morning that he desired to see the local club succeed and become penna

...a $10 reward for recovery of a hand roller - presumably one used to smooth a playing area - by the Star of the West Cricket Club.</p> ...$10 reward strikes me as downright extravagant. That must have been quite a piece of wood. Baseball clubs didn't need to fool with this sort of thing,

|Title=a country catcher and the chest protector ...ith a sharp foul tip. Once more he took a drop and has been catching with a mask ever since. St.</p>

|City=Boston ...wall's grandson, reportedly, and a Harvard '23 man -- (LMc)] got up betime in the morning, and took Ben Swett with him and went into the [Boston MA] Comm

|State=ME |City=Skowhegan

...d thus make their wagers in advance, so as to have the money in safe hands in New York. He has sold the following pools on the forthcoming contest betwe ...e their time and money, and how fortunate we are in staid old Philadelphia in having so such state of moral turpitude. Yours, truly, T.H.M.</p>

|Headline=Reader Catches "A Slight Error" - Base Ball is English, not American |Location=Greater New York City,

|Headline=English Gent in NYC Goes Off to a Ball Game ...to old Ferry point where we landed, and went in the mizzle to play at ball in the meadow, leaving our captain to cook Chowder for us."</p>

|City=Savannah ...The Savannah Base Ball Club shows as early as 1869, when it played a match in Charleston. See <em>Charleston Courier</em>, July 27, 1869, and Protoball's

|State=ME |City=Portland

|Name=In Saco Circa 1820 |State=ME

|Title=prospects of the Giants moving to Jersey City ...people across the river, and by the time the New Yorks are ready to locate in Jersey the patrons will have become familiar with the ferry trips.</p>

...om Philadelphia, to Frederick Long, dated September 3, 1875] [Boyd arrived in time to umpire the game.]</p> |Source=from a letter by Harry Wright, writing from Philadelphia, to Frederick Long

|Headline=Schoolboy Game of "Three Base Ball" Recalled in Brooklyn |City=Flatbush

|Name=Ballgame in Americus on 5 January 1865 |City=Americus

|City=Falmouth ...pay the expenses of an oyster supper.&rdquo; The Left Wing won, 24-21, in a game evidently played by NY rules &ndash; nine players played nine innings

|Headline=NY Game Shown to "Show Me" State of MO |City=Independence

|Title=a proposal for post-season interleague play ...er. I have no doubt whatever but what the eight series would generally be a great success, providing the weather was all right. This thought prompts t

|City= ...ctice, though I am not sure that any amount of practice would have made me a perfect ball-player.</p>

|State=ME |City=Portland

...e don’t want you to ‘sell’ the game, or anything of that kind, but just go in and play kinder mad, you know.”</p> ...g has since been tried both at Hoboken, where it was publicly exposed, and in Philadelphia.</p>

|City=Brooklyn ...o catch a fellow running bases, I sent the ball at him hot, and it hit him in the eye. Then I learned the new rule was to throw the ball to the base play

...nnual meeting at the Parker House to-morrow evening, after which they have a supper. New York Clipper April 8, 1882</p> ...be the regular short-stop of the Providence Club this season. He may play in one or two games during the Summer, but the demands of his business prevent

...representation. It is greatly to the advantage of the Association to have a representative there.</p> ...er of the convention and made himself as small as possible compatible with a legal representation (and you must know he can make himself very small, ind

|City=Philadelphia ...e &lsquo;tournament&rsquo;, which has awakened such a wide-spread interest in all parts of the country...&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>

<p>Deacon White wears a mask</p> ...in the Grand Stand Saturday, as Jim White put on his wire mask, “Mercy on me; they've got him muzzled!” Jim did look fierce. Cincinnati Enquirer Ap

|Title=another account, from a correspondent |Text=<p>A Philadelphia correspondent, who seems to have had an eye on the proceedings

|Title=Florida as a spring training site ...lub, and if they could get good local material so much the better. With a first-class club, arrangements could easily be made with Northern teams to come d

|State=ME |City=Portland

|Title=the umpire charged with having a pecuniary interest ...hey could get any one lese to serve, but finally Higham was induced to act in the position and the game went on. New York Clipper June 7, 1873</p>

...stirred up a year ago. Do sit down, H. P., and give the world a chance. First thing you know, Sir Isaac Newton, Professor Morse, Edison and the like will ...at 250 people, in order that I might consult Mr. Mark Wallace and yourself in order to have Cincinnati represented.</p>

|Title=stealing a player on a technicality ...ewhere. … [quoting Day:] “He was not a member of the club 31 days after he first agreed to play for it. The Metropolitans' management had to file his contr

...land ME Bans "Playing at Bat and Ball in the Streets" in 1805, Retains Ban in 1824 |State=ME

...vit on Wednesday against five of the players, and alleges that in one game in which he was umpire one player approached him and stated that he had $300 b <p>[see also Philadelphia All-Day City Item 9/6/1874 for an interview of McLean.]</p>

...mail in getting the consent of the other League clubs to the deal, and in a few days we shall know whether or not Baltimore is to bid the Association g ...e, as it might be very difficult to drop Baltimore because it was a strong city. The Sporting Life November 27, 1889</p>

|City=Mount Vernon ...rest were gone.&nbsp; I have not played with your bat and ball as you bid me."</p>

...r any weight upon his right leg, and he had to be carried from the cars to a carriage, and was taken to Harry Wright’s residence, at the Highlands.</p |Source=Evening City Item

|Headline=Game With Plugging of Runners Later Recalled in Jersey City |City=Jersey City

|Headline=Michigan Colonel Plays Ball in Tennessee, Still Rebuffs Rebs |City=Middleburg

|Name=White Caps Club of Sioux City v Railroad Club of Cherokee in July 1870 |City=Sioux City

|Name=In Newtonville in 1823 |City=Newtonville

...ed into with Mr. Jeff D. Bernstein, Miss Jarbeau's manager, and culminated in the “coon's” desertion of the theatrical stage for the base-ball field. <p>“I hear you've lost your 'snowball,'” said a reporter to Miss Jarbeau last night.</p>

|City=Americus ...prisoner of war at Andersonville POW camp, says &ldquo;Capt. Wirz gives me a pass to go to hospital. Have been down there all afternoon playing ball.&rd

|City=Harrisonburg ...ub is known as the Lone Star&hellip;&rdquo; See Scott H. Sale, &ldquo;Take Me Out to the ballgame: Exploring the 19th Century Roots of Valley Baseball,&r

|Name=In Upton in 1820 |City=Upton

|City=New Madrid ...out that way. Well, the boys are getting up a game of ball and yelling for me and recon I must go.</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Headline=“Sky-ball”, “Cat and Ball” Remembered in Southern PA |City=

...attract, and the destruction that would result to the turf. Philadelphia City Item April 7, 1867, citing the Tribune</p> ...c.; they also check bases, shoes, caps, balls, bats, &c.; and it well pays a person to visit the grounds while the clubs are playing. Ball Players Chro

...hen they returned, just after the thirty-fourth ballot had been announced, a thunderbolt was thrown into the convention by the reading of the resignatio ...the step I did . If any man can blame me for leaving the company of such a set of men I want to know who he is.” The Sporting Life November 20, 188

|Headline=Round Ball Played in MA |City=

|City=Cambridge ...as played in the reign of Charles the First [1625-1649 - LMc]. The bat was a heavy oak thing and they trundled the ball along the ground, the ball being

|Title=rumor of a League club in Indianapolis ...t Kansas City possess and then talk to—well, talk to the League and Kansas City at the same time. The latter will sell you its team and franchise and the

|Name=in MA in 1800undefined |City=

...of cricket and base-ball came from. The first cricket match I ever played in was with the Third Eleven of New York Club against the Second Eleven of Man ...Gotham Juniors, from which I was taken into the Gotham Seniors, playing my first match with them at the age of 15 against the Star Club of Brooklyn, I playi

|Headline=Belfast ME Had Ballplaying as Early as 1805 ...r, it was voted 'that the game of ball, and the pitching of quoits within [a specified area] be prohibited."</p>