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|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 ...ne or two of the H. Eckfords to wait at the bat until the player on the 3d base got in.  Now this custom is not the most creditable one in the world,

...1866 is not stated. A number of references to young men playing a game of base ball are found in 1865, but no clue which game&ndash;old-fashioned or new&n ...themselves of the habit or resist the temptation to throw the ball at the base runner."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a title="" href="#cite_note

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...izen and News - </em>"MIDDLESEX AHEAD OF NORFOLK. The Holliston and Sharon base ball clubs, both of which have beaten the Boston club, played a game on Sat

...m>Tribune</em><span>, July 27, 1867, has an extensive article on the State base ball convention. Among the teams sending delegates were the Aurora and Blac ...n contains notices of very few match games by organized BBcs, but a lot of games by improvised company teams. Cf. Kemp's Harness Makers vs. Squires and Sons

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...livening appearance.&nbsp; The occasion was the commencement of a match of base ball between the Louisiana B. B. C., and the Empires, on a challenge of the

|Game=Base Ball ...unning the bases, and whoever was hit was out. if he could not jump to the base from where he was hit.&nbsp;</span><span>I would rather get hit by any memb

...ing game, or was it in the field-hockey, or handball, or golf, families of games?</p> ...ould it have influenced English ballplaying, including cricket and English base ball??</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Brooklyn Intelligence: Base Ball,&rdquo; NYT, vol. 8, no. 2429 (2 Jul 1859), p. 5, col. 2</p>

|Game=Base Ball ...n the National League adopted an official league ball for all championship games."</span></p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...see the chaps around keeping the account of the game. The weather was all base-ball players could desire, and with a good cool breeze to keep them in a &l

|Headline=NY and Brooklyn Sides Play Two-Game Series of "Time-Honored Game of Base:" Box Score Appears |Game=Base Ball

|Thematic Focus=19th century base ball rules ...an style="text-decoration: underline;">Forfeits and Successfully Protested Games in Major League Baseball: A Complete Record, 1871-2013</span> (2014, McFarl

|Headline=First Recorded Base Ball game in Canada [as reported in 1886]? |Game=Base Ball,

...Unlimited swings are permitted. Three-out-side-out innings and five-inning games are prescribed.&nbsp; The playing field is represented in a figure showing |Sources=<p><span>Brewster,&nbsp;</span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em> (U of Oklahoma Press, 1953) page 80.&nbsp;https://www.chrisoleary.com/

...hout giving in said scheme to the Metropolitan Club the full assignment of games with the other clubs in the Association.</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball: Atlantic vs. Harlem,&rdquo; BDE, vol. 19, no. 210 (4 Sep 1860), p. 2,

...d in the end your financial interest will suffer. The very best financial base ball investment you can make is to get as near a perfect corps of umpires a ...tested against certain umpires, and request that they never be assigned to games in which their respective clubs participate. … Mr. Young now proposes to

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball: Atlantic vs. Mutual,&rdquo; BDE, vol. 19, no. 180 (31 Jul 1860), p. 2

|Text=<p>The first annual meeting of the new Union Base Ball Association took place at the Bingham House, Philadelphia, Dec. 18 and ...compel Western clubs to pay visiting clubs 30 per cent. of the receipts of games played on Sunday, and one or two clubs favored the percentage plan. They f

...share of base ball stock, and he would expect to have the whole say of the games and dictate the appointment of all the players. I've been there and I know ...sons:--My desire is to give Milwaukee a team that will win a fair share of games, thereby being a credit to the city. To take a place in the Association si

|Description=<p>Andreas' Chicago, v.2&nbsp; p. 613, says that the Union Base Ball Club organized Aug. 12, 1856.</p> <p>"Union Base Ball Club.--A company of young men will meet this (Tuesday) evening at the

<blockquote>BASE BALL–This game, now so popular at the East, is about to be introduced in </p><p>These games took place at the State Fair Grounds, then located at North 13th and West W

...lic does not like the return of the League to the old pitching. No better games have been seen than those played under the new rule. They were full of lif ...trike-outs, fewer men on bases, fewer chances for brilliant plays and less base-running. I am of the opinion that a change will be made next season by whi

...st and most evenly balanced teams that were ever entered into a race for a base ball championship. On the other hand, this deal left the League with only ...future, which would mean a large increase in receipts for both; exchange games with each other in the fall and spring, etc.</p>

...es against Tony Mullane, the Cincinnati pitcher, who is accused of selling games in the East.</p> ...ived such a letter. He was guaranteed perfect immunity from arrest by the base ball people if he would come here, but he backed out. No George Clayton li

...ly filled the enclosure to within a few feet of the line between the third base and home. Dicky Pearce here refused to play until the crowd was driven bac <p>[Atlantics vs. Athletics 10/1/1866] The first of the games between these rival organizations was set down for Monday, October 1st, but

|Game=Base Ball, ...er 3 to play two grand matches with the Eastern and Western Districts, the games being announced to come off on the Satellite Grounds on October 3<sup>rd</s

|Game=Base Ball, ...n plates, placed at points fifteen and sixteen yards distant from the home-base, and for the striker...Section 7...whenever the pitcher draws back his hand

...ort promised---a game of cricket <br /> between the members of the club, a base ball game between the members of <br /> the Knickerbocker Club . . . , Shor ...he <br /> &nbsp;Elysian Fields for their exercise? In later years the Star Base Ball <br /> &nbsp;Club was usually the first to take the field in the sprin

|Game=Base Ball ...Compete for the 'Championship,'" <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span> Journal, volume 5, number 1 (Special Issue on Origins), pages 1

...al Baseball Library at the Hall of Fame, has speculated that baseball-type games at this stage were like pulling a hacky-sack out of a backpack and kicking ...“Baseball in the Stone Age,” Mehl located evidence of ancient bat and ball games not only in western Europe, but also in North Africa, Asia Minor, India, Af

...er;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">'''Characterizing Base Ball Games at Elysian Fields'''</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;">​''Base Ball'',&nbsp;volume 1, no. 1, Spring 2007, pp 78. - 102.</p>

| <p>Lightweights</p> <p>Heavyweights</p> <p>(Star Base Ball Club intra-club game)</p> | <p>(1) “Base Ball Season,” <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle,</i> vol. 20, no. 78 (3 Apr 1861),

...1</p> <p>Cartwright’s squad 8</p> <p>(3 innings)</p> <p>(1st Knickerbocker Base Ball Club intra-club game; 7 players on each side)</p> ...ecessarily untouched."</p> <p>(<i>NTMN</i> &amp; <i>The True Sun:</i> "The Base Ball match between eight Brooklyn
players, and eight players of New York,