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...source as “Sports in Old Brooklyn: Colonel John Oakley Tells of the Games of His Boyhood: How Some Well-Known Men Amused Themselves in Bygone Days &n

...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 30-31

...r complaining that the police were not cracking down on youngsters playing games on the street in front of his business. “...a considerable army of young

...ns prohibited by proclamation in the reign of Edward III, exclusive of the games of chance, are thus specified; the throwing of stones, wood, or iron; playi

...iven for exhibitions of good fielding a base running. Strictly scientific games, where the scores are kept down, never were and never can be very popular,

|Title=reporting juvenile games ...e most pleasurable emotions, and we consider it our duty to encourage them games by every means in our power, even to the publication of the scores of their

...een set apart at Central Park, but the Commissioners are not allowing ball games to be played there, although it appears they allow cricket.</p> ...1863 purports to show informal baseball playing in the park. Formal match games seem to be allowed by 1868.</p>

<p>[B] Three other games that year for which game times were published last five to six hours.</p> |Comment=<p>By 1860, most Massachusetts Rules games were being played to 75 runs, instead of the 100 specified in the rules ado

...aying&nbsp;<em>theque?</em>&nbsp;Is it significant that this book features games for adolescents, not younger children?</p>

...n for playing champion-games in Louisiana and adjoining States. The great ball-playing day in New Orleans is Sunday; and every fine Sunday, all the ball grounds a

...estion. For him to play in the league with a weak club, playing no Sunday games and charging 50 cents admission, is bound to prove a losing venture. It wo

...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 37 and re

...s.&nbsp; I like to have my boys enjoy and practice all athletic sports and games, especially riding, towing, hunting, and ball playing.&nbsp; But I am a lit

...nt: originally published in 1894), volume I.&nbsp; [Page not shone; listed games are presented alphabetically]</p>

...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 31.&nbsp; |Comment=<p>Clay's book, which seems to make no other reference to ball-playing, was accessed 11/15/2008 via a Google Books search for &lt;life of cassius&

...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 29-3

|Text=<p>"In the early '40s a town ball club arranged to hold its games on a vacant plot across from the Harlem Railroad depot on 27^th a

...oncluded to enforce his five-mile privilege and is going to stop all these games. From what Mr. Byrne says, he can not only stop all national agreement clu

|Headline=Ball-Playing at Marshall College in PA ...eations they needed . . . . [In addition to local excursions], [s]ometimes ball-playing was the recreation, and sometimes it was leaping or jumping, that brought t

<p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 150. No ref given. Also referenced in Pe