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- |Headline=The Ballgames "Old Cat" and "Base" Played in Concord MA ...lt than the modern games. Chief were four old-cat, three old-cat, two old-cat, and base."</p>722 bytes (109 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Nostalgia for old games of Two Old Cat, Three Old Cat, Bull Pen, Run Around |Game=Two Old Cat985 bytes (147 words) - 06:21, 26 May 2022
- |Headline=Four Old Cat and Three Old Cat Well Known in MA ...players. . . . The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod1 KB (200 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Boys and Girls Play Old Cat at Recess in Wisconsin |Game=Old-Cat Games1 KB (172 words) - 06:10, 5 June 2022
- |Term=Round Cat |Description=<p>Round Cat is a game noted by Tom Altherr in September 2009. We find several brief men708 bytes (111 words) - 20:07, 25 May 2022
- |Game=Two O'cat ...s that the bat-ball games in Hawaii at the time were two-o-cat and three-o-cat. Castle was born n 1849.993 bytes (146 words) - 14:33, 27 February 2024
- ...bsp;batters run to the next hole, placing the stick in the hole before the cat can be retrieved and be put into the hole. The number of holes depends ...span style="text-decoration: underline;">Francis Willughby’s Book of Games (Ashgate, 2003), page 182.</span></p>920 bytes (145 words) - 06:35, 23 June 2015
- |Headline=New Hampshire Farm Boy Plays Baseball, Two Old Cat, Drive ...e old cat,' 'two old cat,' and 'drive,' played with balls . . . . In such games girls did not join; and the game of cricket, which has long prevailed in En1 KB (170 words) - 17:46, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=South Carolina College Students Make Do with Town Ball, "Cat" |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games791 bytes (127 words) - 23:06, 9 February 2014
- |Source Image=Tip Cat.pdf |Title=Tip-Cat345 bytes (47 words) - 09:18, 28 June 2023
- |Headline=<u>Boy's Own Toy-Maker</u> Covers Tip-cat and Trap-ball |Game=Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball,847 bytes (119 words) - 18:37, 9 May 2015
- |Game=base, old cat ...1 (Chaarles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905), page 52. Hoar was ten years old in 1836. Per Seymour, Harold – Notes in the Seymour Collection at Co1 KB (180 words) - 14:29, 27 February 2024
- |Headline=Cat and Trap-ball Seen as Boys' Games [The Men Play Foot-ball] ...me away so passes:/ Here men at foot-ball they do fall;/ There boys at <i>cat</i> and trap-ball."</p>496 bytes (80 words) - 17:29, 6 September 2012
- ...rson so playing being imprisoned in the <em>Doungeon</em> for the space of two hours; or else every person so offending to pay 6 [pence] for every time. A ...retrosheet.org/Protoball/Glossary.htm</a>], tip-cat could be played with a cat or a ball, and could involve running among holes as bases. <strong>Caveat:<2 KB (294 words) - 17:26, 6 September 2012
- ...vard, Most Students Played Baseball and Football, Some Cricket or Four-Old-Cat |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Old-Cat Games1,022 bytes (140 words) - 18:20, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Article in <i>The Knickerbocker</i> Mentions "Bass-ball," Old Cat, Barn-ball ...chance of any sort in the world, save the "bass-ball," "one" and "two-hole cat," and "barn-ball" of our boyhood . . . "</p>1 KB (163 words) - 09:57, 27 January 2013
- |Headline=Traveler in Wales Reports "Laudable" Sunday Games of "Trap, Cat, Stool-ball, Racket &c" ...cise and edify in the churchyard at the lawful and laudable games of trap, cat, stool-ball, racket, &c., on Sundays."</p>592 bytes (96 words) - 17:27, 6 September 2012
- |Game=Two Old Cat ...in Peekskill, stated that he wasn't very good at one old cat or other cat games as a youth.842 bytes (123 words) - 14:44, 27 February 2024
- ...' The batters act much in he same way as in cricket, except that the cat must be hit whilst in the air. The batter hits it as far away as poss ...Scotland, and Ireland</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 – reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 329.</p>1 KB (178 words) - 17:58, 13 March 2017
- |Game=Old Cat ...Base Ball now. The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod1 KB (187 words) - 14:38, 27 February 2024
- ...dline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...3. "Games with a Ball" treats stool-ball, trap-ball, tip-cat, among other games, and owes much to Strutt (see 1801 entry, above). The writer advises, "[St798 bytes (123 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described |Game=Stoolball,Horne-Billets,Kit-Cat,Tutball2 KB (312 words) - 06:15, 2 July 2022
- ...en. It is illustrated as “La Batonet” in the charming series of children’s games designed by Stella and published in Paris, 1657, as “Les Jeux et Plaisiri683 bytes (104 words) - 09:39, 28 November 2012
- |Term=Cat i’ The Hole ...son. All but one player stands by a hole, holding a stick [called a “cat.”] The last player, holding a ball, gives a signal, and the others ru3 KB (482 words) - 13:59, 24 February 2022
- |Headline=Throwback Game of Cat-and-Dog Seen in Pittsburgh |Game=Cat-and-Dog1 KB (206 words) - 18:43, 14 October 2015
- |Term=Cat's Pallet ...for the space of two hours . . . . Thus, Gidigadie may be another name for Cat’s Pallet. The rules of this game are as yet unknown.</p>884 bytes (150 words) - 09:37, 28 November 2012
- |Term=Tip-Cat ...ok</em>, but adds the feature that the fielding player tries to return the cat to the hitter’s circle such that the hitter does not hit it away agai3 KB (509 words) - 06:29, 7 March 2022
- |Term=Cat-and-Dog ...ers the hole, defender and thrower switch places. Gomme, who uses the name Cat and Dog Hole, describes a game using a ball in which a stone replaces the h3 KB (520 words) - 06:05, 14 March 2017
- |Headline=Indianans Play Town Ball, Two Old Cat |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games1 KB (234 words) - 19:54, 16 April 2018
- |Game=Old Cat |Description=Students at Harvard playing old cat games?709 bytes (94 words) - 14:12, 27 February 2024
- |Term=Hornie-Holes (also Kittie-Cat) ...d their holes with a sticks, described as like a walking sticks, against a cat (“a piece of stick, and frequently a sheep’s horn”) throw914 bytes (137 words) - 12:37, 7 February 2022
- ...Base Ball now. The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod1 KB (191 words) - 15:20, 27 February 2024
- |Headline=Alabama soldiers play bull-pen, cat and town ball |Game=Town Ball, Two Old Cat921 bytes (140 words) - 07:33, 11 August 2023
- |Game=Barn Ball, Old-Cat Games, American Cricket, ...iful Mohawk Valley, and while I played barn ball, one old cat, and two old cat in my early boyhood days, cricket was my favorite game, and until I e1 KB (184 words) - 23:24, 9 February 2014
- |Headline=MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood |Game=Base Ball, One Old Cat1 KB (208 words) - 07:58, 31 January 2020
- |Headline=Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands? ...mes, choices for males [in NC] appear to have been 'town-ball, bull-pen,' 'cat,' and 'prisoner's base,' whatever exhibitions of dexterity they may have in2 KB (250 words) - 19:05, 29 January 2020
- ...ointed on each end, were used in an ancient form of the game later know as Cat.</p> |Sources=<p>Culin, Stewart, “Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.,” <em>Journal of American Folklore,</em> Vo1 KB (167 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
- |Headline=U. of Michigan Alum Recalls Baseball, Wicket, Old-Cat Games |Game=Wicket, Base Ball, American Cricket, Old-Cat Games2 KB (253 words) - 22:28, 28 February 2014
- |Headline=Near Richmond VA, Games of Round Cat and Chermany ...old home where he and the other boys, black and white, had played "[[round cat]]" and "[[chermany]]" in the summers before the war and had set their rabbi1 KB (164 words) - 19:43, 29 January 2013
- ...: he will try to understand, and explain, what those “old-cat” games were all about.</p>499 bytes (80 words) - 14:10, 18 June 2012
- |Headline="The Popular Game" For Boys in NY State: Old Cat |Game=Old-Cat Games905 bytes (140 words) - 23:23, 9 February 2014
- |Game=Town Ball, Three Cornered Cat ...e students played town ball, three cornered cat and anthony-over, all ball games.836 bytes (112 words) - 14:32, 27 February 2024
- ...to Gomme, a Lincolnshire glossary specifies that Bunting is a name for Tip-Cat.</p> |Sources=<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>., page 53.</span>341 bytes (49 words) - 09:14, 28 November 2012
- |Headline=Chadwick Agrees: The Parent of Base Ball is Two-Old-Cat . . . Not English Rounders, After All? |Game=Base Ball,Two-Old-Cat,Cricket3 KB (435 words) - 17:59, 22 February 2022
- |Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |Game=Cricket, Old-Cat Games, Town Ball1 KB (213 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
- ...not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two Old Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p> ...elves in Bygone Days – Duck-on-the-Rock, Three Base Ball and Two Old Cat Good Enough for Them,” <em>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</em>, Volume 54,984 bytes (150 words) - 06:08, 5 June 2022
- ...: "After the hoop came, as now, the ball games, skip, one old cat, two old cat, hit or miss, and round ball. We made our own balls, winding yarn over a co |Query=<p><strong>Query:</strong> do we know the nature of the ball games of "skip" and "hit or miss?"</p>1 KB (186 words) - 17:33, 4 November 2016
- |Headline=New York Children's Pastimes Recalled: Old Cat, Rounders Cited ...vacant lots, and nearby fields resounded with the immemorial games of old cat, rounders, hopscotch, I spy, chuck farthing and prisoner's base . . . . Th1 KB (172 words) - 17:51, 21 October 2012
- |Headline=Dutch Handbook for Boys Covers "Engelsch Balspel," Trap-ball, Tip-cat ...l. Also [[<strong>De kat</strong>]], which Block identifies as English tip-cat.</p>1 KB (187 words) - 06:59, 27 October 2016
- |Term=Trippit and Coit (Trippets, Trip-Cat) |Sources=<p><span>Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</em><span> (Davit Nutt, London, 1898)409 bytes (57 words) - 09:42, 28 November 2012
- |Game=Two Old Cat ...erally, but as a reporter mocking the politician and making a reference to games the readers were familiar with.996 bytes (147 words) - 14:11, 27 February 2024
- |Headline=MA Gents Recall Boyhood Games in 1830s: Cat, Wicket, OFBB ...oubtless knew how to play one, two, and three old cat, and wicket, and the old fashioned kind of base ball when a foul was known as a tick; when a ball, w1 KB (196 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Young Andrew Johnson Plays Cat and Bass Ball and Bandy in Raleigh NC ...ent many hours at games with boys of the neighborhood, his favorite being 'Cat and <strong>Bass Ball</strong> and Bandy,' the last the 'choyst' game of al1 KB (169 words) - 10:21, 28 December 2018
- |Term=Two Old Cat |Description=<p>From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat"</p>7 KB (1,149 words) - 07:35, 15 June 2023
- ...ook is called "original and unusual" by Block. For one thing, it includes two forms of trap-ball, the second being the "Essex" version referred to in the ...than rounders." <b>Note:</b> Does the book identify rounders with old-cat games, or does Block so that?</p>1 KB (248 words) - 17:50, 6 September 2012
- |Term=One O’ Cat ...ugh a series of fielding positions with each out, until they become one of two batters. “An ordinary base-ball bat is used.”</p>483 bytes (79 words) - 09:40, 28 November 2012
- ...wo holes are made about ten feet apart. A player on the out-team pitches a cat toward a hole, and its defender tries to hit it with his stick. He and his |Sources=<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>, pages 84-85.</sp538 bytes (91 words) - 09:37, 28 November 2012
- |Headline=Games Recalled at Phillips Exeter Academy ...Col. George Kent wrote this verse in response to an inquiry about student games from 1807 at Exeter:</p>800 bytes (120 words) - 17:36, 6 September 2012
- ...n closest to base ball and cricket -- resembling the o'cat games with two or four or six players -- but it employs a section of animal horn, or ...an>(v. 1 p. 210) lists as the third meaning for "billet" the game of [[Tip-Cat]] and connects it to Derbyshire."</p>2 KB (306 words) - 15:27, 27 February 2013
- ...om were some of the leading merchants and their clerks, had a game of good old-fashioned base ball on Sheriff Brown's premises, makai..."</p> ...aii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".</p>1 KB (226 words) - 05:44, 20 December 2018
- |Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. <p>"any person who shall on the Sabbath day play at bandy, cricket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in a2 KB (233 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
- ...oung men are expert in a variety of games at ball - such as cricket, base, cat, football, trap ball . . . ," is the first known book reference to the play |Comment=<p>The cited lines were from an appendix to Smith's book on American games, written by Samuel Woodworth c. 1835. ][ba]</p>904 bytes (142 words) - 13:08, 23 November 2023
- |Headline=New England Lad Recalls Assorted Games, Illicit Fast Day Ballplaying ...these were "base-ball," in which we chose sides, "one hole cat," "two hole cat," "knock up and catch," Blackman," "snap the whip," skating, sliding down h2 KB (252 words) - 17:38, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...k 1867. The listed games played in Suffolk include cricket, base-ball, kit-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes. <strong>Note:</strong>: But not trap-ball? N833 bytes (126 words) - 21:29, 13 June 2019
- ...A very large proportion of the students participated in the sport; and the old residents will readily recall with what regularity. Fast day used to be de ...e 83. <b>Caveat</b>: The section in which this excerpt resides evidently games played half a century earlier, but other interpretations are possible.</p>861 bytes (138 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
- |Term=Cat (Kat) |Description=<p>For a recent description of Cat/Old-Cat, see <strong>Supplemental Text below.</strong> </p>13 KB (2,309 words) - 06:23, 18 July 2023
- |Headline=Holiday Encroached by Round Ball, Long Ball, Old Cat |Game=Round Ball,Long Ball,Old-Cat Games3 KB (408 words) - 06:14, 5 June 2022
- |Description=The old-fashioned games of three-cornered cat, round town ball, long town ball, hat ball, baseball and many others were p749 bytes (119 words) - 14:36, 27 February 2024
- ...t Strutt views a game he calls "club ball" as the precursor to this set of games, but notes that modern scholars are skeptical about this proposition.</p>728 bytes (113 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
- ...style="text-decoration: underline;">The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games</span> [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books.< ...bat is three feet long; two strikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed. <strong><b974 bytes (145 words) - 18:34, 9 May 2015
- ...Themselves in Bygone Days - Duck-on-the-Rock, Three Base Ball and Two Old Cat Good Enough for Them," <em>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</em>, vol. 54, number <p>Craig reported that Oakey, 65 years old in 1894, had attended Erasmus Hall from 1838 to 1845.</p>2 KB (392 words) - 13:56, 18 July 2022
- ...led 'Whacks' is played in a similar way [to that of Waggles, a form of tip-cat] -- London streets."</p> ...Scotland, and Ireland</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 – reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 329. </p>859 bytes (135 words) - 18:09, 13 March 2017
- ...the country, was an occurrence which le the knowing ones to surmise that a cat was concealed in the meal somewhere, and the aforesaid dispatch opens the b <p>Gentlemen of the Fraternity! Has it come to this, that a series of games cannot be played on the merits of the contesting clubs, but by an arrangeme3 KB (518 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...e bat-ball games played in Hawaii were versions of "two o-cat" or "three o-cat". Other sources have baseball being played at Punahou in 1866.</p>2 KB (297 words) - 06:52, 4 June 2023
- |Field=Next to the Old Stone Church ...e pic-nic ground, makai of the Stone Church, where, after a few appetizing games of ball, they sat down to a sumptuous repast..."</p>2 KB (385 words) - 06:23, 20 May 2018
- ...17 listed a large number of permitted Sunday activities -including no ball games - and cited as unlawful only "beare and Bull beatinge enterludes & bowl ...uded ballplay, contemporary ballgames like stoolball and cricket - and cat games - remained unconstrained.</p>1 KB (180 words) - 17:26, 6 September 2012
- ...ing them are helped into a more healthy groove we shall still have the tip-cat, base-ball, &c., in the back streets and squares as much as ever.”</p>918 bytes (143 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...the ground old game of base, let them begin with one old cat--not the old cat--or even with barn ball, if not ambitious.</p>2 KB (360 words) - 17:40, 8 July 2023
- ...gland and colonial Boston in North America called stoolball. All of these games were played on a field with bases, a ball, and one or more sticks. The mod1 KB (184 words) - 17:34, 6 September 2012
- |Text=<p>"In April 1892 the Milwaukee [WI] Old Settler's Club received a ball from a Mr. E. W. Edgerton which the young me ...ajot, January 3, 2010. In 1946 a journalist speculated that the N-old-cat games were what was likely played in 1836 Dennis cites the April 19, 1892 issue902 bytes (146 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
- |Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel5 KB (822 words) - 07:48, 11 January 2022
- ...ball (St. Louis), 500, Half-ball, Indian Ball (MO), Sky Ball (CT), and Tip-Cat.</p> |Sources=<p><span>Culin, S. (1891). "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn." <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal of3 KB (486 words) - 09:32, 23 June 2023
- ...ed at ball self and son John vs. Messrs Aitken and Anderson beat them four Games."</p> ...lved. There were not enough for bullpen. The game was probably cat-ball."</p>2 KB (232 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
- |Title=A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball ...60]), pp. 54-56), the father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more like4 KB (684 words) - 03:49, 9 April 2013
- |Headline=Games of Foot and Base ball between drills ...ame baseball against Lt. Mink. Beat him." (is this a references to and old cat/fungo type game?) 1-20-63 played a game of baseball p. 156 (April 1861 KB (174 words) - 06:12, 3 January 2023
- ...t was similar to the present popular and national game.</p><p align="left">Cat-ball was a timid game usually played by girls or small boys. It was a three3 KB (508 words) - 14:10, 27 February 2024
- |Text=<p>"I will now call your attention to some of the games and amusements indulged in by Worcester boys of fifty or sixty years ago . ...ball played in my day. I remember barn-ball, two and three old cat, and round ball. This last was very much like baseball of to-day 1 KB (238 words) - 09:57, 16 June 2019
- ...<p>The Olympic Club had formed nearly 30 years earlier, and played two-old-cat and then town ball in its earlier days, converting to base ball in 1860. Se |Query=<p>Do we really only have three games for this historic clubs, which endured until 1887?</p>1 KB (173 words) - 17:46, 6 June 2020
- ...at reportedly resembled shinty or modern field hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal |Sources=<p>Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, etc. " <em>Base Ball</em> (Spring 2011).</p>1 KB (202 words) - 06:01, 14 October 2023
- |Text=<p>“[W]hile I played barn ball, one old cat and two old cat in early boyhood days, Cricket was my favorite game, and up to the time I e ...las Young was born in Amsterdam NY in 1840, and thus was playing the named games in the 1850s. He was a member of the 32<sup>nd</sup> NY Infantry, whic2 KB (443 words) - 19:11, 14 October 2015
- ...to be played in the streets of London in the 17th century. Billet, or tip cat, was also a favourite game for this day, and in some parts of the North of1 KB (179 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...ngaged in my the larger boys, special mention may be made of 'Three Corner Cat,' and of 'Town Ball,' the latter sport being a simple form of what has deve1 KB (185 words) - 13:57, 18 July 2022
- ...ame as tip-cat.” Court records from 1583 seem to indication that the game “Cat’s Pallet” was also called Gidigadie, at least in the Manchester area.</ |Sources=<p>MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." <em>Folklore, </em>volume 16, no. 1 (1905), page 87.</p>1 KB (191 words) - 09:40, 28 November 2012
- |Description=<p>A game banned, along with cat-ball, in Norwich CT in 1832. A 1890 source describes Sky-Ball as a fungo ga ...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,1 KB (179 words) - 09:41, 28 November 2012
- |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games ...e was "Cat Ball," called in some parts of New England at the time "Two Old Cat." Later accounts report that the club formed in 1833, although J. M.6 KB (931 words) - 18:36, 19 January 2017
- |Headline=List of Banned Games May Include Distant Ancestors of Cricket? ...ys at such game, to forfeit ten pounds to the king, and be imprisoned for two years."</p>2 KB (329 words) - 17:25, 6 September 2012
- <p>Two students (Mills and Cogswell) who played the game in the early 1850s exchan ...Gotham Club at age 22 or 23, the Gotham "decided to remodel three-cornered cat and make a new game," and started by eliminating plugging. </p>5 KB (969 words) - 16:34, 8 February 2016
- ...arming 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel ...was “two-hold-cat,” when there were four boys, two to be in and knock, and two to throw. Then there was “base-ball,” when there were a good many to pl4 KB (699 words) - 08:46, 18 November 2013
- ...iety of baseball.” Early usage of the term dates to the 1840s-1860s. Two sources relate the game to baseball, and one, a 1912 book of Virginia folk ...ago (i.e., 1850). See also Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, Etc." <em>Base Ball</em> (Spring 2011).</span></p>2 KB (261 words) - 06:47, 27 May 2022
- The Game Was the Outgrowth of Three-Cornered Cat, Which Had Become Too Tame.</big></div> ...e time when the only characteristic American ball sport was three-cornered cat, played with a yarn ball and flat paddles.8 KB (1,512 words) - 16:08, 6 March 2016