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- |Title=Baseball's ubiquity; Sunday ball playing ...ort was made to satisfy the numerous complainants, and about fourteen base ball players, mostly under age, and all belonging to the ward, were arrested dur2 KB (268 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813 |Game=Playing ball941 bytes (127 words) - 08:43, 31 January 2022
- |Title=Playing "Ball" In Canada In 1803 ..., along with the United States. The following article lays out proof of a “ball” game in Canada as early as 1803.8 KB (1,312 words) - 14:32, 12 September 2021
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- |Headline=Ball playing popular in 1st Minnesota ...ry "Reading, writings, & playing ball." March 23 entry notes that ball playing is very popular in the regiment. The regiment was stationed near Falmouth,762 bytes (109 words) - 10:08, 16 June 2019
- ...e Atlanta Southern Confederacy, April 11, 1862, editorializes against ball playing in the city streets:</p> ...the boys of their pleasure--particularly of the healthful exercise of ball playing--but it is inconvenient and dangerous in our streets."</p>907 bytes (130 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
- ...e formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>1 KB (169 words) - 06:06, 22 October 2012
- |Headline=Montpelier Threatens Ball Players with prosecution |Game=Ball Playing684 bytes (85 words) - 06:11, 1 June 2022
- |Title=Spring training by playing handball ...ers of out national game. Of course, very little can be learned in a hand ball alley in regard to the very essential point of batting; but if the men bec1 KB (188 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- #REDIRECT [[New Englander Confronts Impious Sunday Ball-playing in Virginia]]77 bytes (9 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2013
- |Headline=Providence RI Bans "Playing Ball" in the Streets |Text=<p>"The Town of Providence have passed a law against playing ball in any of their public streets; the fine is $2. Why is not the law enforce946 bytes (145 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Deerfield's Fine for Playing Ball: Six Cents ...one's room during study. In contrast, a one dollar assessment was made for playing cards, backgammon, or checkers, or walking or visiting on Saturday night or783 bytes (124 words) - 07:00, 29 May 2019
- |Headline="Ball playing" Schoolboy Essay |Tags=Ball in the Culture1 KB (199 words) - 19:00, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Ball Playing at Shiloh ..."engaging in a game of ball:" the day prior to the battle of Shiloh. Ball playing mentioned 2-20-63 and 1-20-1864 in Memphis, TN. </p>624 bytes (96 words) - 14:03, 14 December 2023
- |Headline=In Rome, Sculptor Fashions Statue of a Boy Playing Ball ...ble statue of Childhood, and has a fine statue of a boy engaged in playing ball, modeled in plaster. He is about returning to America."</p>523 bytes (83 words) - 18:27, 18 February 2013
- ...highest degree commendable if a young man has the requisite skill to play ball so that it will command a financial return, and he is thus enabled to defra717 bytes (125 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=NH Man Recalls Boyhood Habit of Playing Ball ..., born in 1818 in rural NH, refers in 1835 to his boyhood habit of playing ball.</p>544 bytes (80 words) - 17:41, 6 September 2012
- |Title=New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802 New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 18022 KB (244 words) - 14:58, 8 April 2013
- |Headline=NYC Council Finds Ball Playing Among "Abounding Immoralities" ...called Sunday, are . . . Horse Riding for pleasure . . . Skating ['] Ball playing, and other Plays by Boys and Men, and even Horse-racing." Minutes of the C653 bytes (94 words) - 17:51, 21 October 2012
- ...wn for playing base ball and getting exercise, but complains that the ball-playing has broken windows on Mulberry Street.</p> ...se Ball Club--We understand that efforts are being made to organize a base ball club."</p>786 bytes (114 words) - 07:16, 31 October 2015
- ...ng men of our city have organized a club for playing this favorite game of ball."</p> ...gfield Wicket Club" which urges the players to "Weild [ic] club, weild the ball.."</p>897 bytes (134 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
- |Game=Base Ball, ...icester's Improved SELF-FASTENING BASES, and the PATENT CONCAVE PLATES for Ball Shoes, which are free from all the danger, and answer all the purposes, of982 bytes (142 words) - 17:12, 19 July 2018
- |Name=Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813 |Game=Playing ball941 bytes (127 words) - 08:43, 31 January 2022
- |Headline=Newburyport MA Reminder - "Playing Ball in the Streets" is Unlawful ...nd Guardians are also requested to forbid, those under their care, playing Ball in the streets of the town; as by this unlawful practice much inconvenience616 bytes (90 words) - 17:37, 6 September 2012
- |Title=rowdy ball playing; breaking up a double play ...ouble would have ensued. Welch, in extenuation said: “Well, we’re playing ball to win.</p>1 KB (209 words) - 20:05, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...ng, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed." </p>1 KB (153 words) - 13:58, 29 January 2020
- |Name=Town ball in TX in December 1861 ...ng unusual transpiring in Camp. The boys are passing the time playing Town-Ball."790 bytes (113 words) - 10:19, 10 February 2013
- |Headline=Daniel Webster Writes of "Playing Ball" While at Dartmouth |Text=<p>Daniel Webster, in private correspondence, writes of "playing at ball," while a student at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.</p>1 KB (175 words) - 21:10, 27 January 2020
- ...ddenly Glasscock let go and Gore fell on all fours. When he recovered the ball had been fielded in.</p>805 bytes (140 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- |Game=Town Ball |Description=<p>Abe Lincoln is reported to have been playing "town ball... with a parcel of boys" in Springfield when he was notified of the GOP no636 bytes (97 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
- ...ive ball are most common." <b>Note: "</b>Up-ball?" "Drive ball?" No town ball?</p>598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Portland Newspaper Reports Boys Playing at "Bat-and-Ball." |Game=Bat-and-Ball957 bytes (137 words) - 11:42, 28 January 2020
- ...es by playing at cricket and other games, and the girls by playing at base ball, &c."</p>572 bytes (85 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...games, to the evolution of base ball. He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an969 bytes (157 words) - 07:21, 13 May 2013
- |Headline=Lithograph shows soldiers playing bat-ball game ...ol's. Near Brandy Station" published in 1864, shows soldiers playing a bat ball game.</p>594 bytes (86 words) - 10:19, 16 June 2019
- ...commercial nine matches have come to be the great feature of amateur ball playing in the metropolis; and by amateur play we do not mean that so called amateu1 KB (193 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Dirty ball playing ...<p>[Chicago vs. Pittsburgh 8/30/1889] ...there was considerable dirty ball playing. Carroll collided with Pfeffer in stealing second in the third, and Anson701 bytes (112 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- |Title=New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia ...ile traveling around the Norfolk area, twice she mentioned witnessing ball playing.2 KB (251 words) - 08:58, 18 November 2013
- |Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...ice on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di760 bytes (105 words) - 21:03, 21 October 2012
- |Title=playing points ...ength of teams nowadays. Nearly all professional ball players can catch a ball when it is thrown to them, and he is a poor one, incd3eed, who cannot make759 bytes (138 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. ...cket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in any public place, shall . . . " [be fined one dollar].</p>2 KB (233 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball ...rs call playing. He much preferred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."1 KB (176 words) - 20:18, 29 January 2020
- |Headline=Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands. ...Law in New Netherlands, including fine of a one pound Flemish for "playing ball," . . . cricket, tennis, ninepins, dancing, drinking, etc.</p>3 KB (388 words) - 19:35, 25 January 2020
- ...<u>Mary's Book of Sports</u> [New Haven CT] Has Drawing of "Playing at Ball" ...y! I should not think you could see at play. Oh, it is too late to play at ball, my lads. The sun has set. The birds have gone to roost. It is time for you733 bytes (122 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Rib-and-Ball Game in the Arctic: Baseball Fever Among the Chills? |Game=Bat and Ball876 bytes (124 words) - 18:33, 9 May 2015
- |Headline=CT soldiers indulging in ball playing and swimming ...VA: "The soldiers are delighted with the position--were indulging in ball playing and swimming."</p>635 bytes (86 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Soldiers confront idleness with ball playing ...Cleveland) saying that on the 25th "the day was spent in idleness and ball playing" because needed quartermaster supplies had not yet arrived.</p>706 bytes (97 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Princeton Faculty [NJ] Disparages "Playing at Ball" ...te of the Princeton faculty of May, 1761, frowns upon students "playing at ball."</p>772 bytes (104 words) - 05:20, 24 October 2015
- |Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison ...t by chance happened to lodge n the eave spout. One climbed up to take the ball out, and a sentry without the wall seeing him, fired at him, but did no har998 bytes (149 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2020
- |Headline=Ball playing, running and jumping ...left and to spare for them to enjoy themsleves as they wish, such as ball playing, running, and jumping."</p>656 bytes (93 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=New Jersey Youths Spotted "playing 'base ball'" |Game=Base Ball,963 bytes (149 words) - 13:18, 7 January 2020
- |Headline=Pitching Quoits and Playing Ball ...ecreation are generally employed by the men in pitching quoits and playing ball."</p>646 bytes (92 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Cause of Death: "Surfeit of Playing Ball" |Text=<p>"DIED. Last Evening of surfeit, playing ball, M[r] John McKibben, merchant of this city."</p>1,014 bytes (136 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
- ...it among them, which carries the spectators back a good many years in ball playing, and, from a spectative point of view, it is one of the best teams in the c1,011 bytes (178 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Ball Playing popular in Wisconsin Camp ...p.....Chess constitutes an agreeable and profitable pastime. Card and ball playing are more general favorites in which a large proportion of the men engage."<835 bytes (119 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Boston Spelling/Reading Book Describes Cricket and "Playing at Ball" ...chool house in Boston. It is now recess time, and some lads are playing at ball on the green lawn before the portico of the brick building."</p>942 bytes (139 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
- ...ball playing has been pretty generally successful in the East, and Sunday playing in this section will for some time to come be only tolerated in spots. …601 bytes (92 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
- ...latterly was well supported by his worthy coadjutor, one of whom, when the ball was about to be thrown tot he first base, called out to “throw high way, ...hole of the Champion nine had become impregnated with Slatterly’s style of playing, they all came in from the field before one of the Stars had been put out,2 KB (373 words) - 18:20, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Thousands of soldiers playing ball ...osite Fredericksburg, VA: "...in camp the man are out by thousands playing ball, pitching horseshoe quoits, running foot races and indulging in other athle730 bytes (101 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
- ...revival here, has been a conscientious Christian and believes that playing ball is not the proper way of keeping the commandment – ”Remember the Sabbat736 bytes (124 words) - 20:12, 29 February 2020
- ...tion=<p>At Main and Virginia Sts. "Opposite the Medical College." Also the ball grounds of the early Frontier BBC.</p> ...65 the Niagaras were playing at the Arsenal (which see). By 1867 they were playing at York (now Porter) and 6th (now Busti).</p>554 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 21 August 2020
- |Headline=Rebels seen playing ball ...etter from the 27th CT: "From Falmouth, the rebels are daily seen, playing ball and apparently enjoying themselves."</p>763 bytes (100 words) - 08:25, 19 March 2022
- |Headline=Confederate Surgeon encourages ball-playing <pre>"The manly play of ball, with its invigorating exer-1 KB (175 words) - 07:12, 1 July 2018
- ...modern field hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> ...the playing of bandy in the streets. In 1858 boys were arrested in DC for playing bandy on the streets (Washington Star, Nov. 27, 1858).</p>1 KB (202 words) - 06:01, 14 October 2023
- |Headline=Edward III Prohibits Playing of Club-Ball. ...f . . . ." Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. The actual term for "club-ball" in the proclamation was, evidently, "bacculoream."</p>1 KB (219 words) - 13:25, 3 November 2012
- |Headline=Survey Reports Cricket in New England, Playing at Ball in TN ...ock notes that Winterbotham is sometimes credited with saying that bat and ball was popular in America before the Revolutionary War, and that adults played1 KB (160 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
- ..., the chief enjoyment of which appears to consist in sending a hard wooden ball into the face of every stray passenger they can hit...”</p> ...all, rather than baseball, because of the mention of a bat and because the ball is described as being hard and made of wood.</p>1 KB (175 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...s that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the playing of a complicated form of catch, one that involved feints to deceive other p ...ng to milder forms of ball play, he said "I believe that in this form ball playing is also superior to all the other exercises." His partiality to ballplaying2 KB (310 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
- |Term=Three-Base Ball ...le its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two Old Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p>984 bytes (150 words) - 06:08, 5 June 2022
- |Headline=Playing At Ball in the Untamed West (Now Kentucky?) |Text=<p>"Wrestling, jumping, running foot races, and playing at ball, are the common diversions." </p>1,018 bytes (142 words) - 14:10, 29 January 2020
- |Headline=Confederate Prisoners Play Ball in Chicago |Game=Town Ball,2 KB (244 words) - 08:57, 14 July 2018
- ...on’t think I have done anything on the “square,” either. But this playing ball for so much a week, or for a suit of clothes, or for “license fees,” or2 KB (350 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- |Headline="Professional" Players? Yes. Playing For Money? No |Game=Base Ball,1 KB (209 words) - 19:15, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Fond OH Editor on Youthful Ball-playing: "We Like It" |Game=Base Ball1 KB (211 words) - 08:55, 7 July 2022
- |Game=Play ball ...eptember 1869, written by "1843." As cited in Genovese, Daniel L, The Old Ball Ground: The Chronological History of Westfield Baseball (2004), pages 1-2.1 KB (213 words) - 14:53, 27 February 2024
- ...the boys. Even when no engaged in a game, they are practicing throwing a ball from one to the other; and after schoolhours, every vacant lot or suitable973 bytes (169 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=New Yorker Dies Playing Base Ball |Game=Base Ball,967 bytes (143 words) - 19:04, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Soldier Van Smoot's Diary Notes Playing Catch at New Orleans LA ...ound a soft ball in my knapsack, that I forgot I had put there and started playing catch with it."</p>483 bytes (81 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
- |Headline=Correspondent Sees Playing Base Ball and Cricket As Common Pastimes ...other amusements between parades and drills, pitching quoits, playing base ball and cricket, and horse racing are their every day pastimes.”</p><p>“Pen901 bytes (129 words) - 18:10, 6 September 2012
- ...men of our country. The following clubs have secured the ground for ball playing:</p> <p>Swiftfoot Base Ball Club, Tuesday and Friday.</p>1 KB (197 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=South Carolina Man Lists Ball-Playing Among Local Amusements |Text=<p>"[A]musements are few: consisting of dancing, horse racing, ball playing and rifle shooting."</p>916 bytes (135 words) - 07:37, 29 January 2020
- ...eur playing, will soon set the ball rolling in their annual revival, first playing an opening game, new nine versus old. With several of the strongest of the638 bytes (105 words) - 19:10, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856 |Description=<p>"The match game of Base Ball between the Empire and Excelsior Clubs, came off yesterday on the Cricket G2 KB (259 words) - 10:19, 10 February 2013
- |Headline=Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast" ...p>" [Five of us] were playing ball on the common before breakfast: and the ball fell into a hole where one of the booth's stakes had been driven the day be1 KB (166 words) - 06:55, 29 January 2020
- |Headline=NYS Traveler Notes Dutch Boys Playing "Bat and Ball" |Game=Xenoball, Bat and Ball1 KB (188 words) - 15:40, 9 November 2012
- |Term=Corner Ball |Game Family=Hat ball481 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 6 January 2016
- |Headline=Playing Ball in Racine Camp ...ave until two o'clock to rest, which time is generally occupied in playing ball, jumping, throwing dumb bells, running foot races, and wrestling."</p>756 bytes (110 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
- |Title=Al Reach discusses base ball versus town ball ...nd related one or two humorous instances of his experience in playing town ball.</p>556 bytes (91 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- ...f the several party leaders and committees have begun to see that the base ball community are sufficiently numerous and influential to be looked after.</p>641 bytes (99 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Buffalo NY Council and "Playing at Ball" ...to make laws regulating the rolling of hoops, flying of kites, playing at ball, or any other amusement having a tendency to annoy persons passing in the s775 bytes (125 words) - 17:43, 6 September 2012
- |Title=How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? ...n juvenile games in Britain. Which of the Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>659 bytes (101 words) - 12:29, 13 December 2018
- |Headline=Playing Ball near Yorktown ...ty, they engage in almost every variety of exercise and amusement, playing ball, pitching quoits, and other athletic sports."</p>851 bytes (120 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Ball Playing competes with fencing in camp ...leisure hours "in great part to athletic exercises--fencing, boxing, ball playing--while their evenings are passed in singing."</p>791 bytes (114 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Riddle Game Cites "Fourteen Boys at Bat and Ball" |Game=Bat-Ball538 bytes (82 words) - 17:37, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Ball Playing a "Favorite Amusement" ...h NY) datelined St. Helena Island [near Port Royal], March 21, 1863: "Ball playing is a favorite amusement with them. They, however, are tired of inactivity,764 bytes (109 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Kentucky Abolitionist Recalls Playing Base-ball ...athletic sports - riding on horseback . . . playing base-ball, bandy, foot-ball and all that - so I had confidence in my prowess."</p>1 KB (204 words) - 05:31, 18 July 2022
- ...se out the catcher, himself, and the audiences. It may be more scientific playing, but it is not nearly so satisfactory to the crowd. Spectators enjoy the s793 bytes (125 words) - 19:11, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Drive Ball at Camp Doubleday ...76th NY Soldiers at Camp Doubleday playing bat-ball game that may be drive ball377 bytes (51 words) - 19:24, 19 June 2023
- |Headline=Confederate soldiers play ball near Fredericksburg ...rom Virginia." "The amusements of the army are rational and generous. Ball playing is a common game when the weather is pleasant..."</p>966 bytes (130 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Harvard Student Magazine Notes "Multitude" Playing Base or Cricket There |Game=Cricket, Base Ball,649 bytes (84 words) - 18:32, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Carlisle PA Bans Playing Ball ...persons . . . to frequent and use the market-house as a place for playing ball or any other game."</p>1 KB (158 words) - 19:35, 30 January 2020
- ...has brought on horse-racing and billiard playing will attach to base ball playing which will lose its popularity with the better class of our citizens. It is885 bytes (146 words) - 07:26, 12 November 2020
- |Headline=Ball Playing at Andersonville POW Camp ...es me a pass to go to hospital. Have been down there all afternoon playing ball.”</p>758 bytes (119 words) - 10:20, 16 June 2019
- ...ball-playing day in New Orleans is Sunday; and every fine Sunday, all the ball grounds are occupied, except those of the best social status. New York Sun895 bytes (144 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020