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  • ProtoPix:Ball Playing at NYC City Hall c1838
    |Source Image=Ball Playing at NYC City Hall c1838.jpg |Title=Ball Playing at NYC City Hall c1838
    390 bytes (60 words) - 12:11, 23 June 2023
  • 1832.6
    |Headline=Reading Book Contains a Story, "Playing at Trap Ball" <p>1832.7 - Playing Ball on the Prairie</p>
    354 bytes (55 words) - 17:43, 6 September 2012
  • 1843.3
    |Headline=Playing Ball at Recess ...l the recess in play." But for now, studies come first, fellows: "Bat and ball is a very good play for the summer season."</p>
    488 bytes (84 words) - 17:48, 6 September 2012
  • 1847.19
    |Headline=Woodsfield fines ball players 25 cents |Game=Ball Playing
    740 bytes (102 words) - 06:09, 1 June 2022
  • ProtoPix:Civil War Soldiers Playing Foot Ball
    |Title=Civil War Soldiers Playing Foot Ball |Descriptors=Civil War Soldiers Playing foot-ball
    229 bytes (31 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
  • 1823.10
    |Headline=Hagerstown bans ball playing at the Court House |Game=Ball Playing
    712 bytes (93 words) - 06:37, 17 July 2022
  • Clipping:Reaction to the spread of Sunday baseball
    ...games absolutely necessary to the clubs which had hitherto abstained from playing on the first day of the week, at home, at least. [Goes on the discuss Wash
    686 bytes (103 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
  • 1863.98
    |Headline=Playing ball during a bombardment ...elling. Thursday afternoon several of the men of this brigade were playing ball just in the rear of our skirmishers, heedless of the shrieking of the shell
    806 bytes (120 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • 1795.3
    |Headline=Playing Ball Cited as Major New England Diversion ...s a favorite one of both sexes. Sleighing in winter, and skating, playing ball, gunning, and fishing are the principal."</p>
    486 bytes (72 words) - 17:34, 6 September 2012
  • ProtoPix:Monks Playing ball c. 1340?
    |Title=Monks Playing ball c. 1340? |Descriptors=Monks playing ball c. 1340
    300 bytes (39 words) - 05:47, 15 June 2023
  • Clipping:A schoolboy essay
    |Text=<p class="p1">BALL PLAYING</p> ...">&nbsp; </span>Two of the boys take the bats, and the other two throw the ball from one to the other past the boys who have the bats, at the same time one
    1 KB (208 words) - 07:50, 23 June 2019
  • 1861.15
    |Headline=First Sunday in the Army: "Ball-playing, Wrestling, and Some Card-Playing" |Game=Base Ball
    1 KB (176 words) - 05:09, 31 January 2023
  • 1844c.8
    |Headline=Base Ball Begins in Westfield MA? ...at the south end of the park. . . . [I have?] spent many a happy hour ball-playing on that ground . . . . I have known that ground for twenty-five years and
    965 bytes (154 words) - 17:49, 6 September 2012
  • 1821.3
    |Headline=Schenectady NY Bans "Playing of Ball Against the Building" |Text=<p>The Schenectady City Council banned "playing of Ball against the Building or in the area fronting the Building called City Hall
    486 bytes (71 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
  • 1846.26
    |Headline=Boys Play goal and ball |Game=Goal Ball
    1,001 bytes (139 words) - 08:14, 10 July 2022
  • ProtoPix:Cantigas de Santa Maria Ball Playing
    |Title=Cantigas de Santa Maria Ball Playing |Descriptors=Ball Playing Spain 1280s
    275 bytes (38 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
  • 1825.9
    |Text=<p>"BALL PLAYING: There will be Ball playing in Washington Street, a few rods South of the College, every Saturday after
    482 bytes (67 words) - 17:40, 6 September 2012
  • 1777.1
    |Headline=Revolutionary War Prisoner Watches Ball-Playing in NYC Area ...it [sic] a number of our Offrs . . . who were Zealously Engaged at playing ball . . . .</p>
    1 KB (172 words) - 12:06, 27 January 2020
  • Block:English Baseball in Oxfordshire on June 6 1891
    ...aying with a small ball,” and “one of the boys said they were playing base ball,” the newspaper added. Nevertheless, they were found to have abused “th
    772 bytes (114 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
  • 1773.3
    |Headline=Ball-Playing by Slaves Is Eyed in SC ...f 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, Constables,
    805 bytes (125 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
  • 1863.108
    |Headline=Ball playing popular in 1st Minnesota ...ry "Reading, writings, &amp; playing ball." March 23 entry notes that ball playing is very popular in the regiment. The regiment was stationed near Falmouth,
    762 bytes (109 words) - 10:08, 16 June 2019
  • 1862.62
    ...e Atlanta Southern Confederacy, April 11, 1862, editorializes against ball playing in the city streets:</p> ...the boys of their pleasure--particularly of the healthful exercise of ball playing--but it is inconvenient and dangerous in our streets."</p>
    907 bytes (130 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
  • 1841.18
    ...e formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>
    1 KB (169 words) - 06:06, 22 October 2012
  • 1849.17
    |Headline=Montpelier Threatens Ball Players with prosecution |Game=Ball Playing
    684 bytes (85 words) - 06:11, 1 June 2022
  • Clipping:Spring training by playing handball
    |Title=Spring training by playing handball ...ers of out national game. Of course, very little can be learned in a hand ball alley in regard to the very essential point of batting; but if the men bec
    1 KB (188 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
  • New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia
    #REDIRECT [[New Englander Confronts Impious Sunday Ball-playing in Virginia]]
    77 bytes (9 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2013
  • 1823.5
    |Headline=Providence RI Bans "Playing Ball" in the Streets |Text=<p>"The Town of Providence have passed a law against playing ball in any of their public streets; the fine is $2. Why is not the law enforce
    946 bytes (145 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
  • 1795.4
    |Headline=Deerfield&#39;s Fine for Playing Ball: Six Cents ...one's room during study. In contrast, a one dollar assessment was made for playing cards, backgammon, or checkers, or walking or visiting on Saturday night or
    783 bytes (124 words) - 07:00, 29 May 2019
  • 1856.30
    |Headline="Ball playing" Schoolboy Essay |Tags=Ball in the Culture
    1 KB (199 words) - 19:00, 14 October 2015
  • 1862.118
    |Headline=Ball Playing at Shiloh ..."engaging in a game of ball:" the day prior to the battle of Shiloh. Ball playing mentioned 2-20-63 and 1-20-1864 in Memphis, TN.&nbsp;</p>
    624 bytes (96 words) - 14:03, 14 December 2023
  • 1854.6
    |Headline=In Rome, Sculptor Fashions Statue of a Boy Playing Ball ...ble statue of Childhood, and has a fine statue of a boy engaged in playing ball, modeled in plaster. He is about returning to America."</p>
    523 bytes (83 words) - 18:27, 18 February 2013
  • Clipping:Rising stature of professional ballplayers
    ...highest degree commendable if a young man has the requisite skill to play ball so that it will command a financial return, and he is thus enabled to defra
    717 bytes (125 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
  • 1828c.4
    |Headline=NH Man Recalls Boyhood Habit of Playing Ball ..., born in 1818 in rural NH, refers in 1835 to his boyhood habit of playing ball.</p>
    544 bytes (80 words) - 17:41, 6 September 2012
  • New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802
    |Title=New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802 New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802
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  • 1812.3
    |Headline=NYC Council Finds Ball Playing Among "Abounding Immoralities" ...called Sunday, are . . . Horse Riding for pleasure . . . Skating ['] Ball playing, and other Plays by Boys and Men, and even Horse-racing." Minutes of the C
    653 bytes (94 words) - 17:51, 21 October 2012
  • In Harrisburg in October 1860
    ...wn for playing base ball and getting exercise, but complains that the ball-playing has broken windows on Mulberry Street.</p> ...se Ball Club--We understand that efforts are being made to organize a base ball club."</p>
    786 bytes (114 words) - 07:16, 31 October 2015
  • In Springfield in 1858
    ...ng men of our city have organized a club for playing this favorite game of ball."</p> ...gfield Wicket Club" which urges the players to "Weild [ic] club, weild the ball.."</p>
    897 bytes (134 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
  • 1861.22
    |Game=Base Ball, ...icester's Improved SELF-FASTENING BASES, and the PATENT CONCAVE PLATES for Ball Shoes, which are free from all the danger, and answer all the purposes, of
    982 bytes (142 words) - 17:12, 19 July 2018
  • Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813
    |Name=Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813 |Game=Playing ball
    941 bytes (127 words) - 08:43, 31 January 2022
  • 1813.1
    |Headline=Newburyport MA Reminder - "Playing Ball in the Streets" is Unlawful ...nd Guardians are also requested to forbid, those under their care, playing Ball in the streets of the town; as by this unlawful practice much inconvenience
    616 bytes (90 words) - 17:37, 6 September 2012
  • Clipping:Rowdy ball playing; breaking up a double play
    |Title=rowdy ball playing; breaking up a double play ...ouble would have ensued. Welch, in extenuation said: “Well, we’re playing ball to win.</p>
    1 KB (209 words) - 20:05, 29 February 2020
  • 1815c.5
    |Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...ng, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed."&nbsp;</p>
    1 KB (153 words) - 13:58, 29 January 2020
  • Town ball in TX in December 1861
    |Name=Town ball in TX in December 1861 ...ng unusual transpiring in Camp. The boys are passing the time playing Town-Ball."
    790 bytes (113 words) - 10:19, 10 February 2013
  • 1797.1
    |Headline=Daniel Webster Writes of "Playing Ball" While at Dartmouth |Text=<p>Daniel Webster, in private correspondence, writes of "playing at ball," while a student at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.</p>
    1 KB (175 words) - 21:10, 27 January 2020
  • Clipping:Grabbing the runner's belt
    ...ddenly Glasscock let go and Gore fell on all fours. When he recovered the ball had been fielded in.</p>
    805 bytes (140 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
  • In Springfield in May 1860
    |Game=Town Ball |Description=<p>Abe Lincoln is reported to have been playing "town ball... with a parcel of boys" in Springfield when he was notified of the GOP no
    636 bytes (97 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
  • 1849c.5
    ...ive ball are most common." <b>Note: "</b>Up-ball?" "Drive ball?" No town ball?</p>
    598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
  • 1828.2
    |Headline=Portland Newspaper Reports Boys Playing at "Bat-and-Ball." |Game=Bat-and-Ball
    957 bytes (137 words) - 11:42, 28 January 2020
  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on August 3 1850
    ...es by playing at cricket and other games, and the girls by playing at base ball, &c."</p>
    572 bytes (85 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • Tom Altherr, April 2013
    ...games, to the evolution of base ball.&nbsp; He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an
    969 bytes (157 words) - 07:21, 13 May 2013
  • 1864.69
    |Headline=Lithograph shows soldiers playing bat-ball game ...ol's. Near Brandy Station" published in 1864, shows soldiers playing a bat ball game.</p>
    594 bytes (86 words) - 10:19, 16 June 2019
  • Clipping:The decline of regular amateur clubs
    ...commercial nine matches have come to be the great feature of amateur ball playing in the metropolis; and by amateur play we do not mean that so called amateu
    1 KB (193 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Dirty ball playing
    |Title=Dirty ball playing ...<p>[Chicago vs. Pittsburgh 8/30/1889] ...there was considerable dirty ball playing. Carroll collided with Pfeffer in stealing second in the third, and Anson
    701 bytes (112 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
  • New Englander Confronts Impious Sunday Ball-playing in Virginia
    |Title=New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia ...ile traveling around the Norfolk area, twice she mentioned witnessing ball playing.
    2 KB (251 words) - 08:58, 18 November 2013
  • 1659.1
    |Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...ice 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
    760 bytes (105 words) - 21:03, 21 October 2012
  • Clipping:Playing points
    |Title=playing points ...ength of teams nowadays. Nearly all professional ball players can catch a ball when it is thrown to them, and he is a poor one, incd3eed, who cannot make
    759 bytes (138 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
  • 1837.7
    |Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. ...cket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in any public place, shall . . . " [be fined one dollar].</p>
    2 KB (233 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
  • 1830s.21
    |Headline=Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball ...rs call playing. He much preferred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."
    1 KB (176 words) - 20:18, 29 January 2020
  • 1656.1
    |Headline=Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands. ...Law in New Netherlands, including fine of a one pound Flemish for "playing ball," . . . cricket, tennis, ninepins, dancing, drinking, etc.</p>
    3 KB (388 words) - 19:35, 25 January 2020
  • 1832.3
    ...<u>Mary&#39;s Book of Sports</u> [New Haven CT] Has Drawing of "Playing at Ball" ...y! I should not think you could see at play. Oh, it is too late to play at ball, my lads. The sun has set. The birds have gone to roost. It is time for you
    733 bytes (122 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
  • 1857.10
    |Headline=Rib-and-Ball Game in the Arctic: Baseball Fever Among the Chills? |Game=Bat and Ball
    876 bytes (124 words) - 18:33, 9 May 2015
  • 1863.73
    |Headline=CT soldiers indulging in ball playing and swimming ...VA: "The soldiers are delighted with the position--were indulging in ball playing and swimming."</p>
    635 bytes (86 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • 1863.72
    |Headline=Soldiers confront idleness with ball playing ...Cleveland) saying that on the 25th "the day was spent in idleness and ball playing" because needed quartermaster supplies had not yet arrived.</p>
    706 bytes (97 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • 1761.1
    |Headline=Princeton Faculty [NJ] Disparages "Playing at Ball" ...te of the Princeton faculty of May, 1761, frowns upon students "playing at ball."</p>
    772 bytes (104 words) - 05:20, 24 October 2015
  • 1778.1
    |Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison ...t by chance happened to lodge n the eave spout. One climbed up to take the ball out, and a sentry without the wall seeing him, fired at him, but did no har
    998 bytes (149 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2020
  • 1862.76
    |Headline=Ball playing, running and jumping ...left and to spare for them to enjoy themsleves as they wish, such as ball playing, running, and jumping."</p>
    656 bytes (93 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
  • 1846.23
    |Headline=New Jersey Youths Spotted "playing 'base ball'" |Game=Base Ball,
    963 bytes (149 words) - 13:18, 7 January 2020
  • 1861.69
    |Headline=Pitching Quoits and Playing Ball ...ecreation are generally employed by the men in pitching quoits and playing ball."</p>
    646 bytes (92 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
  • 1811.7
    |Headline=Cause of Death: "Surfeit of Playing Ball" |Text=<p>"DIED.&nbsp; Last Evening of surfeit, playing ball, M[r] John McKibben, merchant of this city."</p>
    1,014 bytes (136 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
  • Clipping:A description of the Cuban Giants
    ...it among them, which carries the spectators back a good many years in ball playing, and, from a spectative point of view, it is one of the best teams in the c
    1,011 bytes (178 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
  • 1861.66
    |Headline=Ball Playing popular in Wisconsin Camp ...p.....Chess constitutes an agreeable and profitable pastime. Card and ball playing are more general favorites in which a large proportion of the men engage."<
    835 bytes (119 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
  • 1832.5
    |Headline=Boston Spelling/Reading Book Describes Cricket and "Playing at Ball" ...chool house in Boston. It is now recess time, and some lads are playing at ball on the green lawn before the portico of the brick building."</p>
    942 bytes (139 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
  • Clipping:Prospects for Sunday baseball
    ...ball playing has been pretty generally successful in the East, and Sunday playing in this section will for some time to come be only tolerated in spots. …
    601 bytes (92 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Stalling; the wait game
    ...latterly was well supported by his worthy coadjutor, one of whom, when the ball was about to be thrown tot he first base, called out to “throw high way, ...hole of the Champion nine had become impregnated with Slatterly’s style of playing, they all came in from the field before one of the Stars had been put out,
    2 KB (373 words) - 18:20, 29 February 2020
  • 1863.79
    |Headline=Thousands of soldiers playing ball ...osite Fredericksburg, VA: "...in camp the man are out by thousands playing ball, pitching horseshoe quoits, running foot races and indulging in other athle
    730 bytes (101 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • Clipping:Players who won't play on Sunday
    ...revival here, has been a conscientious Christian and believes that playing ball is not the proper way of keeping the commandment – ”Remember the Sabbat
    736 bytes (124 words) - 20:12, 29 February 2020
  • Niagara Grounds, Buffalo
    ...tion=<p>At Main and Virginia Sts. "Opposite the Medical College." Also the ball grounds of the early Frontier BBC.</p> ...65 the Niagaras were playing at the Arsenal (which see). By 1867 they were playing at York (now Porter) and 6th (now Busti).</p>
    554 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 21 August 2020
  • 1863.95
    |Headline=Rebels seen playing ball ...etter from the 27th CT: "From Falmouth, the rebels are daily seen, playing ball and apparently enjoying themselves."</p>
    763 bytes (100 words) - 08:25, 19 March 2022
  • 1862.71
    |Headline=Confederate Surgeon encourages ball-playing <pre>"The manly play of ball, with its invigorating exer-
    1 KB (175 words) - 07:12, 1 July 2018
  • Bandy
    ...modern field hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> ...the playing of bandy in the streets. In 1858 boys were arrested in DC for playing bandy on the streets (Washington Star, Nov. 27, 1858).</p>
    1 KB (202 words) - 06:01, 14 October 2023
  • 1365.1
    |Headline=Edward III Prohibits Playing of Club-Ball. ...f . . . ." Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. The actual term for "club-ball" in the proclamation was, evidently, "bacculoream."</p>
    1 KB (219 words) - 13:25, 3 November 2012
  • 1795.2
    |Headline=Survey Reports Cricket in New England, Playing at Ball in TN ...ock notes that Winterbotham is sometimes credited with saying that bat and ball was popular in America before the Revolutionary War, and that adults played
    1 KB (160 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1856
    ..., the chief enjoyment of which appears to consist in sending a hard wooden ball into the face of every stray passenger they can hit...”</p> ...all, rather than baseball, because of the mention of a bat and because the ball is described as being hard and made of wood.</p>
    1 KB (175 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • BC750.1
    ...s that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the playing of a complicated form of catch, one that involved feints to deceive other p ...ng to milder forms of ball play, he said "I believe that in this form ball playing is also superior to all the other exercises." His partiality to ballplaying
    2 KB (310 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
  • Three-Base Ball
    |Term=Three-Base Ball ...le its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two Old Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p>
    984 bytes (150 words) - 06:08, 5 June 2022
  • 1795.5
    |Headline=Playing At Ball in the Untamed West (Now Kentucky?) |Text=<p>"Wrestling, jumping, running foot races, and playing at ball, are the common diversions."&nbsp;</p>
    1,018 bytes (142 words) - 14:10, 29 January 2020
  • 1864c.56
    |Headline=Confederate Prisoners Play Ball in Chicago |Game=Town Ball,
    2 KB (244 words) - 08:57, 14 July 2018
  • Clipping:Rumors of professionalism in the Atlantics; a situation does not make a man a professional
    ...on’t think I have done anything on the “square,” either. But this playing ball for so much a week, or for a suit of clothes, or for “license fees,” or
    2 KB (350 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
  • 1865.12
    |Headline="Professional" Players? Yes. Playing For Money? No |Game=Base Ball,
    1 KB (209 words) - 19:15, 14 October 2015
  • 1841.12
    |Headline=Fond OH Editor on Youthful Ball-playing: "We Like It" |Game=Base Ball
    1 KB (211 words) - 08:55, 7 July 2022
  • In Westfield in 1844
    |Game=Play ball ...eptember 1869, written by "1843." As cited in Genovese, Daniel L, The Old Ball Ground: The Chronological History of Westfield Baseball (2004), pages 1-2.
    1 KB (213 words) - 14:53, 27 February 2024
  • Clipping:Spread of the game among boys
    ...the boys. Even when no engaged in a game, they are practicing throwing a ball from one to the other; and after schoolhours, every vacant lot or suitable
    973 bytes (169 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
  • 1859.28
    |Headline=New Yorker Dies Playing Base Ball |Game=Base Ball,
    967 bytes (143 words) - 19:04, 14 October 2015
  • 1812.2
    |Headline=Soldier Van Smoot&#39;s Diary Notes Playing Catch at New Orleans LA ...ound a soft ball in my knapsack, that I forgot I had put there and started playing catch with it."</p>
    483 bytes (81 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
  • 1863.35
    |Headline=Correspondent Sees Playing Base Ball and Cricket As Common Pastimes ...other amusements between parades and drills, pitching quoits, playing base ball and cricket, and horse racing are their every day pastimes.”</p><p>“Pen
    901 bytes (129 words) - 18:10, 6 September 2012
  • Clipping:The Columbia grounds
    ...men of our country. The following clubs have secured the ground for ball playing:</p> <p>Swiftfoot Base Ball Club, Tuesday and Friday.</p>
    1 KB (197 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
  • 1802c.1
    |Headline=South Carolina Man Lists Ball-Playing Among Local Amusements |Text=<p>"[A]musements are few: consisting of dancing, horse racing, ball playing and rifle shooting."</p>
    916 bytes (135 words) - 07:37, 29 January 2020
  • Clipping:The condition of the Beacon Club
    ...eur playing, will soon set the ball rolling in their annual revival, first playing an opening game, new nine versus old. With several of the strongest of the
    638 bytes (105 words) - 19:10, 29 February 2020
  • Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856
    |Name=Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856 |Description=<p>"The match game of Base Ball between the Empire and Excelsior Clubs, came off yesterday on the Cricket G
    2 KB (259 words) - 10:19, 10 February 2013
  • 1790s.2
    |Headline=Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast" ...p>" [Five of us] were playing ball on the common before breakfast: and the ball fell into a hole where one of the booth's stakes had been driven the day be
    1 KB (166 words) - 06:55, 29 January 2020
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