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|Title=Single Wicket Cricket Diagram |Description=Single-wicket cricket diagram. From Donald Walker, 1837, Games and Sports, London, Pub. Thomas Hurst p. 218

|Game=Single-Wicket Cricket, |Text=<p><span>"CRICKET. A match of single wicket was yesterday played at the Red House, Harlem,</s

|Headline=When Cricket Still Had Foul Ground? ...he bat. All play was forward of the wicket, as it is now in single wicket games of less that five players a side. With these exceptions, the game was very

|Term=Single-Wicket Cricket |Description=<p>Single-wicket cricket uses teams&nbsp;smaller than the usual 11-player teams. All bowling is to a

<p>The author here is describing Inuit games.</p> |Comment=<p>These rules are similar to those of cricket and single-wicket cricket.&nbsp; When the number of players is limited, is seems likely that it could

...tt. Strutt speculates that Club-ball was the ancient ancestor of many ball games. Its rules of play are not known. Hone book has 2 illustrations.</p> ...says (without citing a source) that club ball was similar to Single wicket cricket.</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball and Cricket,&rdquo; <em>Newark Daily Advertiser,</em> vol. 24, no. 239 (5 Oct 1855), p.

...t players of New York, came off on Friday on the grounds of the Union Star Cricket Club. The Yorkers were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run in the <p><span>[B]"After this game had been decided, a match at single wicket cricket came off between two members of the Union Star Club - Foster and Boyd. Fost

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1), &ldquo;Cricket and Base Ball: Chicago,&rdquo; <em>Porter&rsquo;s Spirit of the Times,</em>

...ck, describing the advantages playing base ball had for success at playing cricket, and added his comments. ...his: cricket in a court?'' Richard Hershberger posted an 1860 reference to cricket being played in a court, and requested an explanation. John Thorn suggested

|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 arrived until

...a town in nearby West Sussex. According to a newspaper report, “a match of cricket is to be played between the married and single gentlemen. Trap, brace ball, ...friendly territory for safe haven ball games. It sports one of the oldest cricket clubs (1771) and has been a hotspot for stool-ball since the mid-19th centu

...cey">Robin Gracey</a>&nbsp;in 1990/91. It is a combination of rounders and cricket. Two teams participate, made up of form members from each class and the tea ...ne-handed bat. Runs are made by running to the end of the pitch, just like cricket. I seem to remember a rule that you can only run if you'd made contact with

...&nbsp; By 1850, of course, the&nbsp;Knickerbockers were playing intramural games elsewhere in New York.</p> ...as seen many references to what amounts to foul territory in single wicket cricket, but all of them seem to simply disallow base-running when a hit ball goes

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Field=Union Star Cricket Club grounds

...t players of New York, came off on Friday on the grounds of the Union Star Cricket Club. The Yorkers were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run in the ...d this detail: "After this game had been decided, a match at single wicket cricket came off between two members of the Union Star Club - Foster and Boyd. Fost

...ped into something much more interesting and important. It is preferred to cricket, because the play is more varied and less formal; but nevertheless it has b ...n the first, baseball/rounders is perceived as a family of closely related games, some more and some less developed. &nbsp;In the second, baseball is a sing

...uo; Richardson (1848) notes Tip-Cat&rsquo;s resemblance to [[Single-Wicket Cricket]]. &ldquo;Twenty-one [runs] is usually a game,&rdquo; he adds. The earliest <p>Gomme,<em>&nbsp;Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland, Volume 1</em>. pages 294-

...with the common bat. Anson certainly made a remarkable record in the two games in which he used it. June 23d, Buffington pitcher, in three times at bat h ...wood glued together, with cane as the central material. Like that of the cricket bat, the handle is covered with fine thread wound around it to give the han

...=<p>[A] "That [NY Tribune] article was a discussion, I believe, of the two games, the New York game and the Massachusetts round ball game, with a view to de ...e the genuine game of base ball than single wicket is like a full field of cricket. The Clubs who have formed what they choose to call the 'National Associati

...a new English game that was "a combination of the noble old English one of Cricket with the popular American one of Base-ball. It is especially adapted in its ...l encounter vigorous criticism . . . [It is} a combination of football and cricket . . .a big, soft ball being struck with a wide bat as well as kicked . . .

|Description=<p>Maigaard sees Long Ball as the oldest ancestor of rounders, cricket and baseball, a game that was played in many countries. Long Ball is descri |Sources=<p><span>Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games,"&nbsp;</span><em>Genus</em><span>&nbsp;5&nbsp;</span>(1941)<span>.&nbsp; R

...isiting New York this fall, to gain a little practical experience, such as games with our leading clubs alone yield.</p>

...n the 1858 illustration, appear to be flat-faced, though not as broad as a cricket bat.&nbsp; There&nbsp;are no visible wickets or bases . . .&nbsp; It is imp ...&nbsp; Is it possible that may other "plaing ball" references denote fungo games?&nbsp;</p>

...in "pila cacularis," and suggests that it might have been an early form of cricket. We might also ask whether it was referring to early stoolball.</p> ...s prohibited by proclamation in the reign of Edward III., exclusive of the games of chance, are thus specified; throwing of stones, wood, or iron….” The

...'æsthenic,' but is as far from the athletic sports of olden time as base, cricket, bandy, and camp, and the jumping, where broken shins, and sometimes broken

...n the National League adopted an official league ball for all championship games."</span></p> ...ively inelastic, compared to the range in available base balls?&nbsp; Were cricket balls, which had very similar dimensions and weights,&nbsp; more or less el

...for ice skates was a thing more broadly. In Britain they sometimes played cricket on ice, which takes real devotion. They also adapted the fine old summer ga |Comment=<p>For some sketchy reports of ice-bound base-running games see Chronology entries.&nbsp; A clippings search for "ice" turns up a few m

...were printed in New York newspapers. There are some indications that these games may have been played by the brand new Knickerbocker rules.</p> <p>Detailed accounts of these games are shown in supplement text, below.</p>

...correspond with the other website's claim of a game from 1863 between the cricket club and the new base ball club, the Olympics.

...translator mentions that while "balslaen" has been [where?] translated as "cricket," it "simply means 'hitting the ball.'</p> ...of Pamela Bakker, we find that "balslaen" can be taken as a description of games like hand-ball, or a team game like volleyball in which players propel a ba

| <p>Chicago</p> <p>Prairie Cricket Club grounds near Bull’s Head</p> | <p>Chicago</p> <p>Cricket grounds near Union Park</p>

...baseball: batting averages. The idea of batting averages was borrowed from cricket, and at this point is not at all new to baseball. The details, however, hav ...plate appearances, but this was not yet universal. The problem with using games played is that not every player gets the same number of chances. There were

...ball sports. While countless books enshrine the histories of baseball and cricket, and while millions of fans of those two sports celebrate the accomplishmen ...th a 200-year history and played by as many Britons in the 20th century as cricket, has never escaped its stigma as a game for the working classes and, most i

|Description=<p>From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat"</p> ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

of the club, have antecedents in older bat and ball games. While both the 1845 baseball games?

|Sources=<p><span>Stewart Culin, "Street Games of Boys in&nbsp;</span>Brooklyn,&nbsp;N.Y.<span>,"&nbsp;</span><em>Journal ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

...to engineer the adoption of a fly rule and thus to swing the game into the cricket practice for retiring runners. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> ...k Clipper</em>, the only exception to the use of a 9-player team for match games among senior clubs was a single 11-on-11 contest in Jersey City in 1855.</p

It was also a safe-haven games and most accounts call for five bases [including home], most of them specif None of the accounts suggests that the batter had the option, available in cricket, of declining to run on a weakly hit ball, during regular play. One accoun

...er;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">'''Characterizing Base Ball Games at Elysian Fields'''</span></p> ...ly] </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Elevated Uses</span>: Cricket, yachting, turtle club, stag hunt, dueling, carriage driving</p>

| <p>(1) “City Intelligence: Racket, Cricket and Base Ball,” <i>The New Orleans Bee,</i> vol. 32, no. 11,427 [new seri ...was most munificently displayed./…/ We may look upon this match [of three games] as virtually the inauguration of this noble and manly game among us; and w

...ined players in games against mere amateur players, as was the case in the cricket matches then the feature of the sports at Hoboken. At the convention of 185 ...of fifty-one to forty-two. The convention, however, consented to allow fly games to be played by mutual consent of contesting clubs. At this convention, too

...osed of India rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging club, and become the property of the ...he striker, when occupying his position at the Home Base. And in all match games, a line connecting the home and first base and the home and third base, sha

...rouping it with other unregulated, bat and ball, safe-haven, American folk games. While this is an acceptable description of the game, it does little to in ...distinguished town ball from other types of bat and ball, safe-haven folk games.

...mes ‘one out, all out;’ again, ‘one out, one out.’  We have a St. George’s Cricket Club, and two of the toss-ball Base Clubs (Erie and the Niagara).”)</p> ...>McWaine’s side 17-24-20</p> <p>(Rough and Ready Base Ball Club intra-club games)</p> <p>(<i>GCH:</i> <i>Herald</i> was published by A. J.  McWain.)</p>

...>(<i>New York Clipper:</i> “The third contest of a series of home and home games—the first two of which were played last season …  the Eureka succeeded ...racted a great deal of attention, as each club had won one of the previous games, and they are looked upon as the champions of the junior organizations of t

...on of the origins of the game of baseball, baseball’s predecessor bat-ball games, and the growth of baseball prior to 1871 (when professional, league baseba Several early bat-ball games bore resemblance to our modern baseball. These games (among them, Stool-ball, Pize-ball, Tut ball and Rounders) all featured str

| <p>Union Star Cricket Club grounds</p> ...t players of New York, came off on Friday
on the grounds of the Union Star Cricket Club. The New Yorkers
were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run