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...l game of ball on Saturday afternoon. Ball-playing was one of the favorite games with the boys. . . . [Nat comes to bat.] 'I should like to see a ball go by

...e heart of the town [Cleveland] by his tricks and antics. He plays to win games, and that's the kind of playing that pays. In last Monday's game he taught

...nbsp;<em>Mercury</em> necessarily was referring to the group of safe-haven games under various names played throughout the United States since colonial time

...le=the relationship between the Excelsiors and the Knickerbockers; social games ...t from year to year in friendly rivalry. The matches are not “first nine” games, but are gotten up for the sake of social enjoyment, and a good time genera

...ying ball games cross the river. "We would sit on the bank and watch their games, and the distance was so short we could understand every movement and would

...all shrunk slightly in weight and size. Matches would be decided by single games.&nbsp;</p>

|Text=<p>A group of young men begin to gather in Manhattan for informal ball games. The group plays ball under an evolving set of rules from which emerges as

...s too advanced and too institutionalized for a society that lacked a manly ball-playing tradition.&nbsp; Americans drew from the only heritage they had -- that of ...=<p>Adelman bases his analysis on the premise that base ball's predecessor games were played mainly be juveniles.&nbsp; This premise can be questioned.&nbsp

...off. It does not seem possible that they will sacrifice upwards of twenty games for the purpose of playing two or three with Detroit. The two Clubs can pl ...and Metropolitans have a contest, then the latter nine is barred from any games with the American nines.</p>

|Title=charges of League games being thrown

...d fined one dollar each and costs, and at the same time were informed that ball-playing in the city limits on the Sabbath hereafter would not be allowed. There wa

...s Savage, who worked in DC) later recalled Pres. Lincoln watching the ball games played there, See the <em>Rock Island Argus</em> and other newspapers, Feb.

|Title=resistance to Sunday games in Queens; single admission double header ...remark the position lines. Only one admission will be charged for the two games.</p>

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...Geer, who is announced to play in Cincinnati next season is playing Sunday games in San Francisco this winter. One paper has an idea that he should be expe

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...y, from the vast amount of glass broken, in the club houses, by organizing games in front of the buildings, and the proprietors justly complain of this usel

...was there a two-player version of the game then (in the 1800s competitive games of cricket were similarly reported with only two named players)?</p>

...in-the-foreground-(pen-and-ink-and-wc-on-paper).html" target="_blank">Ball Games at Atzenbrugg with Franz Schubert (1797-1828... (#219422) (meisterdrucke.us ...l.org/Modern_rules_of_Schlagball.&nbsp; We don't know much about the other games, nor when they were played.</div>

...ed,&nbsp;additional hits beyond the end-line are registered as outs.&nbsp; Games take 45 minutes, or an unclear number of innings.</p> <p>This game bears a resemblance to other non-running fungo-type games listed on this website, including [[Indian Ball]] (Missouri), [[Line Ball]]

<p>&middot; Huntsville, 3/64: "Games daily in camp, ball, etc." [p. 184]</p> ...ying ball with our neighbors, Buckeyes, this afternoon. We beat them three games of four.</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Field=Medway, Mass. (other four games)

|Title=playing baseball for money, and a call for boycott of 25 cent games ...large crowds of people who have been attracted to witness the championship-games this fall, and the profits arising therefrom which have been realized by th

...this work pictures a scene of children on a village green playing various games including baseball."</p>

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<p>Reeve, Arthur B., <i>Beginnings of Our Great Games</i>, <u>Outing Magazine</u>, April 1910, page 49, per John Thorn, 19CBB pos

|Text=<p>On the 5 th instant it is said that there were twenty-one games of base ball at New Orleans. They must have it quite severely there. A pr

...whatever, you would use in a professional baseball game. . . . But pepper games are gone. . . . It would still be worth putting every player through a pepp

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...Granville MA on Thursday, at which the Westfield boys won the first three games by 10, 20, and 40 runs."</p>

|Headline=Government Survey: Athletic Games Forestall Woes of Soldiers Gambling ...six, there were none. Where there were none, card playing and other indoor games took their place. This invited gambling abuses, it was inferred.</p>

|Sources=<p><em>Ball Games</em><span>., page 56.</span></p> <p><span><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>., pages 421-423.<

...ve all the games they can play from now until the close of the season, and games in which the lions share of the receipts go into their own cash boxes and n

...en internalized by the baseball community generally as How It Is Done. The games are explicitly to be played under the Professional Association rules. This

...re Anglicized because, among other things, of the recent craze for English games like base ball.

|Comment=<p>We have no record of the Empire Club playing match games in 1854, but the following April, they took the field.</p>

...ield street. It is centrally located in the business district, and as the games of the Brotherhood and League Clubs are to be displayed, it cannot fail to

...and over broad acres, playing 'one old cat,' and base ball (no scientific games or balls as hard as a white oak boulder in those days) excepted when presse ...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 38. The b

...dozen accounts of "old fashioned base ball" games in Paterson in 1867. The games typically lasted six innings with eleven on a side."</span></p>

|Headline=Disparate Ball Games Seen in New Hampshire |Comment=<p>Intramural games are described for two clubs. In one, appearing on May 19, "the stars of the

...$30,000 had been received at home games. This amount and that gained from games played in other cities, together with the starting investment, a total of $

...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 36 and re

|Submission Note=Waff games

...and brilliant fielding have been the rule in a very large majority of the games. With the abolition of the foul tip, and the reduction of the number of ba

<p>[Bates then described the killing of the ball-playing prisoners and concluded that seven&nbsp; were killed and sixty wounded.]&nb ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 39.</p>

...oring population turned out en masse Sunday to the parks and the base-ball games. There was no “Blud Monday” in this country as there was in England, a

...opular winter pastime before the Civil War. The first of several base ball games played on ice occurred in 1860, and involved members of the Atlantic and th

|Sources=<p><span>Paul G. Brewster,&nbsp;</span><em>American Nonsinging Games&nbsp;</em>(U Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1953)<span>, page 82-83.</span></p>

...se ball from March 1863 to February 1864. Two soldiers&rsquo; diaries note games on March 11, March 29, and April 11 1863 in Falmouth VA. A Captain Phillips

</p><p>"In Benton Harbor the games were played on the Morton ball ground on Morton Hill." ...ld Congregational Church on East Main Street. . . . When playing practice games on this ground a few of the players would occasionally bat the ball to the

...s that a few weeks ago at James City, VA "the boys got about all manner of games [including] the old school-boy game of base-ball."</p> <p>Craft, "141st Pennsylvania" p. 168 says that "ball-playing" in camp at James City was popular in March 1864.</p>

...hire and Gloucestershire adjoining." From A. B. Gomme, <u>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</u>, 1964 reprint of 1898 text [New York,

...pectators' Roles --'''What more can we find out about the spectators at EF games -- and also about the Stevens family's attitude toward fans and baseball as

...ases are used, and the rules changed to conform to the new line. In match games on the ice ten men are usually selected, the tenth man playing at the right

...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 39.</p>

|Headline=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, "[St

|Text=<p>Wall inscriptions in Egyptian royal tombs depict games using bats and balls.</p> ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 20.</p>

...thampton) in 1791 and another thing in other towns (such as the names ball games were known by Pittsfield).&nbsp;</p>

...t clubs around New York in what now has become one of the most fashionable games of the day. What say you young gentlemen, shall we have more Base Ball Club

...in winter, and skating, playing ball (of which there are several different games), gunning and fishing . . . "</p>

...his fact, for it was evolved from one of the crudest and most primitive of games, originally consisting of two mobs of men and boys trying to kick a ball in

|Text=<p>[At age four] "he spent many hours at games with boys of the neighborhood, his favorite being 'Cat and <strong>Bass Bal

...ting the fly game as it appears they have done for the regular first class games. The McClellan, Burnside, Ironside and Carroll clubs will play a first cla

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...was commonplace, according to a historian of that school.&nbsp; 'The only games seem to have been old-fashioned 'bat and ball', which, in the spring, was p

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..., "forbidding, all and single, on our orders, to toy in any way with these games of throwing stones, wood, or iron, playing handball, football, "stickball," ...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

|Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1857.7 – Daily Base Ball Games [NY-Style] 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 continue

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...l Tavern," where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."</p>

...ck was pitching and I was catching. McCormick had pitched in two or three games that week with a pretty sore arm. He was tired in the last inning and Anso

...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38.</p>

...tion, and it is a serious question whether we can play out the schedule of games for which we are obligated. I have received a number of dispatches from pl

...oon was spent in skipping, playing base-ball, running exercises, and other games.”</p>

...two of the players didn’t go to bed at all. On the Fourth they played two games with the Pittsburg team and both clubs played wretchedly. ...</p>

...days than now. We had more holidays, more games in the street, &ndash; of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling. [p.21]" ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. Accessed 11/16/200

...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 29.</

|Title=a challenge to Chadwick on playing 'social' games to evade eligibility rules ...this game and the circumstances attending it are precisely similar to the games played by the Athletic Club in Boston, we insist that he assumes the same p

...ll" was reported, this time in the Fratton area of Portsmouth, Hampshire: "Games in the Street.--George Lean, William Vesey and John Baker, youths, were sum

|Tags=Championship Games ...the Committee on Championship have resolved to postpone the proposed match games for the championship...Among the reasons...is the fact that quite a number

...rain or practice. All the ball-playing indulged in by members is in match games.</p>

...ican baseball players in England practice by playing a game of "knock up." Games of "Knock up and catch" is mentioned in the Chicago Tribune, July 5, 1879,

...has been maintained simply for exercise, and has not engaged in any match games. At present it has under lease a handsome ground at Eighteen and York stre

...y Sean Lahman describes 1959 play in Jefferson that uses teams of 14, with games decided at 100 runs, noting that base-ball had been played by "early settle

..., especially by so much cricket playing, as to this is the loss of so many games plainly to be attributed. Those who notice their batting will see how apt

<p>Only three out of the eleven games were marked by double-figure scores, while four were won by socres of five

...hem, which I believe to be the most popular with boys." [Page 37.] Other games describes are Fives, Nine-Holes, or Hat-Ball [a game with running/plugging

...raction park in Albuquerque. The Browns won 17 to 7. They won the next two games 20-16 and 36-12. An online source says, without citation, that the Browns s

...als will, therefore, practice at Hoboken as heretofore, but play all match games upon the Union Ball grounds in Brooklyn, Eastern District.</p>

...n of official scorer for the purpose of getting dead-head admission to the games, and obtained both. His “official” report of Saturday's game gives the

...ound an 1849 chapbook printed in Connecticut: “there are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b

...e of Danville IN spend a lot of time playing "bull pen," and suggests that games such as "town ball" or "bull pen" are healthy exercises.</p>

...ound all the officers with Colonel Edwards at their head out playing ball. Games are all the rage now in the Army of the Potomac. [page 78]&rdquo; A few lat

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...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. The text of the au

...ry 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

|Sources=<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>, page 83.</span><

...bout the same as early baseball, yet in looking over the old score-book of games of townball played in Cincinnati during the war, we find one of 146 to 21.

...erience of the present season that the co-operative system of professional ball-playing is a failure and an injury to the regular clubs.</p>

...formation to the League, especially in relation to the Athletic-Cincinnati games in Cincinnati last July, and that Seybert, of New York pool-selling notorie