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|Name=In MA in 1800 |City=

...had given Ward the proper answer, and that a meeting should be held later in the season. I apprised Ward of the committee's decision, and his answer wa

...d a salary limit would have been needed. Now the big operators are pushed in fairness and agree to give the weaker clubs 40 per cent. of small profits,

|City=Poultney ...he practice, though I am not sure that any amount of it would have made me a perfect ball-player."</p>

|Title=a premises liability judgment against the Syracuse club ...received through the breaking of the railing during a game at Star Park...in the summer of 1885, the jury yesterday [3/18] awarded the plaintiff $3,516.

|State=ME |City=Brunswick

|City=Cape May ...; and to see a game of "town ball" played, awakens a desire to participate in the enjoyment . . . ."</p>

|Headline=Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing |City=Cannon's Ferry

...nd direct expenses of said club, shall be for the sole purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of our lamented Cato [sic.]. We have six months to |Source=Philadelphia All-Day City Item

|City=Cleveland ...s custom, until the umpire, Mr. Hanna, reminded him of his duty by calling a strike."</p>

|Title=Fitzgerald has second thoughts about a Europe tour ...to the trip to Europe. The argument runs in this way: The club is already in debt. Under the most favorable circumstances this debt cannot be paid befo

|City=New York ...embers are asked to attend which indicates to me the club existed at least in 1854.</p>

|Title=a vagaries of the baseball business ...teen dollars for telegraphing and advertising. From the nature of things, a great portion of this base ball business must be transacted by telegraph, a

|Title=Wiman threatens legal action, and a competing league ...team in every American Association city, even if it cost him $500,000(?) [in original].</p>

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=Brooklyn

|Title=trouble finding a city to take the AA franchise ...the tail of a rat.” From which it may be inferred that Buffalo will stay in the new International Association. The Sporting Life December 21, 1887</p>

|City= ...the young working people amusing themselves after the labours of the day. A village green, with its girls and boys playing at bass-ball, and its grown-

|Headline=Upstate Author Carried Now-Lost 1828 Clipping on Base Ball in Rochester |City=Rochester

|State=ME |City=Augusta

|City=Hamburg ...any." The Oct. 18 report specified that the recipient club was the Gorham, ME, Base Ball Club, and that the challenge was received on Oct. 16.</p>

|Title=early word of the Giants to be in Hoboken or Jersey City ...retain the Polo Grounds this season, but otherwise they will go to Hoboken in July, and anyway next year. The Sporting Life July 4, 1888</p>

|Headline=A Cool Treat for Kansas Fans |City=Fort Scott

|Title=The Story of George Thompson’s 1823 Find -- "Base Ball" in NYC! ...know that Thoreau thought that having no money was liberating, but he was a crank.) The next-best solution? Time-travel. And so I set forth.

|Name=Forest City Club of Ithaca v Mechanic Club of Groton on 5 September 1866 |City=Ithaca

|Title=The Story of George Thompson’s 1823 Find -- Base Ball in New York City |Description="One evening in the spring of 2001 . . . "

|City=Fairfax ...n sang patriotic songs, laughed and chatted, or danced jig to the sound of a violin.&rdquo;</p>

...en Western clubs will be taken by the League ere the opening of the season in 1887. St.</p>

...lle Club, we believe him a man who would not, even for the club in his own city, give the slightest favor inimical to any other club, and we determined tha ...tained about Toledo so as not to scare off Detroit if Toledo will not come in. The Sporting Life November 20, 1889</p>

|City=Peoria ...number of young men met at Roswell Bills' office last night and organized a base ball club under the name Olympic Base Ball Club. The following officer

{{Other First |Name=First Known Example of a Table-top Base Ball Game

|Headline=Recollections of a Jersey City Boy -- And A Different Rule for Plugging |City=Jersey City

|State=ME |City=Portland

|Headline=Southern Girls Play Town Ball and Cat in Clarksville |City=Clarksville

|Headline=Late Surge Lifts Douglas&#39; over Abe Lincoln&#39;s Side in Chicago IL |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Famous,

|Headline=A Drawing of Ballplaying in New York -- in the area where Central Park would later be, possibly?? |City=New York

|City=San Francisco ...the city of San Francisco [CA] on the 10^th day of Nov., 1858." A box score is included. It shows W. V. Babcock as batting leadoff, pitching,

|City=Natick ...exact shape now in universal use. &nbsp;About twenty years ago I showed to a nephew of mine the cover of my boyhood. &nbsp;He was working for Harwood, t

...interests of our noble game. Let the hired men take notice. Philadelphia City Item June 30, 1866 [citing the New York Tribune]</p> ...until he could obtain work. “Only this, and nothing more!” Philadelphia City Item July 14, 1866</p>

|Headline=Sgt. in the 6th Maine Reports “Huge Game of Ball” in VA |City=Falmouth

...bs win, but only when ‘tis fairly done. By inserting this you will oblige a large number of readers of your excellent and reliable sporting journal, an

|Title=the Atlantics backing out of a match ...erkenstock and Reach both played at great disadvantage from the same cause in Atlantic matches. Our boys refused to entertain the proposition to postpon

|City=Joliet |Description=<p>&ldquo;The first game in IL was in 1851 between Joliet and Lockport.&rdquo;</p>

|Title=a players' relief association proposednot a brotherhood or union ...ve no hesitancy in signing, as the scheme is a grand one and is sure to be a success. The Sporting Life March 10, 1886</p>

|Region=Portland, ME ! City/Town Playing Field

|City=NYC ...e ball be &ldquo;pitched, not thrown&rdquo;, pitchers by 1860 were finding a way to get not just movement, but predictable movement, on their deliveries

...for Johnson. These are the two organs of the Brotherhood. All the other city papers, which are non-partisan, scored it 14 and 3 and 3 and 7.”</p> ...rtisanship with a vengeance. There are no strong National League shouters in America than the base ball editors of the Star, Sun, Tribune, Journal, and

|State=ME |City=Portland

...n the National game–and he asked me what I thought was the actual value of a bas ball club as property. I replied that the various clubs would have var ...notice. I think, however, there would be no trouble whatever in securing a sum as high as $10,000 for the right. Let us split the different and say $

...ine=1883 Account Reflects on Details of "Town Ball" Played Decades Earlier in PA |City=Pittsburgh

|State=ME |City=Lewiston

|Headline=Very Early Game in Illinois Involves Joliet, Lockport? |City=Joliet

...e boat. These four cities figured out that by letting these two outsiders in it would mean the bouncing of them later on. So before they would agree to ...r. The Sporting Life March 5, 1890 [N.B. This agreement does not appear in the League minutes.]</p>

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=Jamaica

|Headline=First Known Table-top Base Ball Game Appears |City=NY

|City=Granville Corners ...r, which soon cleared off, and before the close of the game the ground was in excellent condition.&rdquo;</p>

...e, and Thursday night refused duty on the ground that his brother was dead in Paterson, N.J., and he wanted to go to the funeral. It appears from the be ...had no brother of that name. A Catholic priest of Patterson, in answer to a telegram, says that Nolan has no brother William, that none of the family a

! City/Town Playing Field | <p>Hector (Fort Edward Institute) 44</p> <p>Eureka (Granville) 19</p> <p>(first game of home-and-home match)</p>

|City=Independence ...playing base-ball. I have the ball and book of Rules with me that we used in forming the Knickerbocker Base-ball Club back home."</p>

...ness at Falls River, Mass., which nets him each year more than he can make in the base ball profession.</p> <p>Carpenter as a rule devotes the winter months entirely to hunting and fishing.</p>

|City= ...=<p>"Then comes a sun burnt gipsy of six . . . . her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage do

|Name=in Independence on 23 April 1849 |City=Independence

|Title=a rumor of the Players League ...sky business, but he is a man who has nerve enough to do anything to carry a point. Of course, the scheme will never work, and it only remains to be se

|City=Lewiston ...orts: "Base Ball Club--Several of the young men of the town have organized a base-ball club..."</p>

...enlisted, and the Boston Club’s stock was taken up by the home people with a rush. This ended Mr. Lucas’s labors so far as the whole organization was

...ason, and several games have been agreed upon, we believe. There has been a difference of opinion as to whether this could be legally done without infr ...leans, &c. They have had letters from the St. Louis Union-Club asking for a game about November 1. I would respectfully ask, will the National Agreeme

|City=New Bern ...n M [Marlboro NH] . . . the Boys have bases up &amp; are in a stem to have me play ball I supose I must go. . . [resuming later:] My side got 10 tales. T

|Headline=A "Badly Defined" and Soggy April Game, In Brooklyn Alongside Star Cricket Club? |City=Brooklyn

|Headline=A. G. Mills and Boyhood Friend Recall "Base Ball" at a Brooklyn School |City=Jamaica, Brooklyn

...should be an additional proviso that no local Umpire should officiate for a local nine. This will avoid all tendencies to raise any claim of being rob ...lub, which pays his expenses, but his salary is paid by the association as a body. Philadelphia Times July 6, 1882</p>

|Title=renewed talk of a Europe tour ...hey are earnestly discussing it, and, possibly, they may go over in May in a Philadelphia steamer!</p>

...osition, and to save themselves umpires had to stop fining players, except in very aggravated cases. This being the existing condition of things it is n ...ith players so offered, and to play the club or players in question in any city they may deem best, such games counting as championship games. … [This

|Title=the incorporation of the Champion Club of Jersey City is vetoed ...06, entitled “An act to incorporate the Champion Base Ball Club, of Jersey City, Hudson County,” without my approval.</p>

|Headline=New York Game Seen in Boston: Portland [ME] 47, Tri-Mountains 42. |City=Boston

...chéd catchphrase and you conjure up an image of some old curmudgeon, stuck in the past. ...ever would have found a tenth of that material. The U. of Pennsylvania has a great website that lists online newspapers by state, and includes newspaper

|Headline=Yanks and British Play Baserunning Game with Plugging . . . in Canton, China |City=Canton

|City= ...>Rhapsodizing about old organ-ground music, a father writes: "Oh! It makes me feel young again to hear it - for I cannot forget how I used to throw down

|City=Cleveland |Text=<p>"THE FOREST CITY CLUB -</p>

|Headline=First Reference to Change-of-Pace Pitching? |Location=Greater New York City,

|City=Baltimore ...controlling costs, by which I mostly mean player salaries. This will take a while for them to figure out. The great breakthrough will be the reserve sy

...was a simple fungo game played in the 1850s in which a fielder who caught a hit ball on the fly or on one bounce became the fungo batter.</p> |Sources=<p><span>F. M. Gilbert,&nbsp;</span><em>History of the City of Evansville</em><span>&nbsp;(Pioneer Publishing, 1910), page 106-108.</sp

|City=Roxbury ...“The match game … is to be played … on Friday, commencing at ten o’clock A. M.”)</p>

|Title=the Excelsiors engage a steamer ...asure parties only too frequently do; and secondly they arrange things in first-rate style, and with an eye to thorough gentlemanly pleasure.</p>

|Headline=Military Unit Plays "Bat and Ball" in Northern NYS |City=Ticonderoga

...sixty or a hundred feet away, while the second baseman did not come within a foot of him. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette May 20, 1888</p> <p>a pick off throw to the right fielder</p>

|Headline=Letter to "Spirit" Describes Roundball in New England <p>"I have thought, perhaps, a statement of my experience as to the Yankee method of playing 'Base,' or 'R

...ton, A. Hindle; Active, of Reading, J. J. King; Neshannock, of New Castle, A. W. Culbertson; Baltimore, Hugh Kennard; Stars, of New Haven, H. Brethauer, ...at “owing to pressing business engagements which it will be impossible for me to neglect, I regret my inability to preside over the deliberations of your

|Headline=Men's Stool Ball Match Set in Kent: Winner to Receive 150 Guineas . . . and Some Roasted Lamb! |City=Lynsted Park, Boughton

|City=Philadelphia ...e Athletics, as it always has been the custom for the club on whose ground a match is played to furnish the ball."</p>

|Headline=A Ball Club Forms in Philadelphia; It Later Adopts Base Ball, and Lasts to 1887 |City=Philadelphia

|State=ME |City=Portland

|City=Boston ...urn home to-day.&nbsp; They were entertained by the Tri-Mountain Club with a supper at the Cummings House, last evening.&rdquo;)</p>

|Title=a special meeting to sort out the championship rules ...for the transaction of other important business. Every professional club in the country should be represented, if they are alive to their own interests

|City=New York ...severe and well maintained contest, Victory, which had at times fluttered a little form one to the other, settled down on the heads of the Gymnastics,

|Title=the NL-AA war opens; prospects in Washington; the notorious Phillips ...not advise Simmons to take any action, but simply referred him to the law in the case, and told him that I would refer the matter to the President of th

...of Strike Four: The Evolution of Baseball (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). A frequent (and exacting) contributor to SABR's 19CCB list-serve, he is also ...into the field in a fog of idle curiosity. You seem to have arrived with a pre-fabricated mission of reading primary baseball material, year-by-year.

...the Rochester proper, as of August 2014.&nbsp; Other data for nearby play in Western New York has not been tabulated</em></p> <p><em>&ldquo;People ask me what I do in winter when there&rsquo;s no baseball. I&rsquo;ll tell you what I do. I sta

...demands admission to the League, and the League seems willing to take him in, while it will strictly enforce the punishment of the poor players whom he ...also SLPD 1/19/85 for a long statement by Von der Ahe and SLR 1/23/85 for a long statement by McKnight]</p>

...f professional league baseball in 1871. This article will offer some items in that history. ...have been sold at sporting events since ancient Rome built its Colosseum. In early 19th Century America, horse-racing was the most popular spectator spo

|Headline="Antiquated Base Ball Club" Plays Throwback Game in Newark |City=Newark

|Headline=In Paterson NJ, Old Fashioned Game Played After Civil War |City=Paterson