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  • Clipping:Reaction to the spread of Sunday baseball
    ...t which professional base ball is being conducted making such remunerative games absolutely necessary to the clubs which had hitherto abstained from playing
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  • Tom Altherr, April 2013
    ...pean games, to the evolution of base ball.  He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an
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  • 1773.3
    |Headline=Ball-Playing by Slaves Is Eyed in SC ...t assembling of Negroes in the Town [Beaufort, SC] on Sundays, and playing games of Trap-ball and Fives, which is not taken proper notice of by Magistrates,
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  • 1849c.5
    |Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls ...aying Ball" section is the observation that "[t]here are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b
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  • Clipping:Prospects for Sunday baseball
    ...Windsor Beach, the Sunday grounds of the Syracuse and Rochester clubs, the games have been stopped.</p>
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  • 1841.18
    ...ve the formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>
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  • Clipping:Spring training by playing handball
    ...t awakened to the importance of thorough training before playing any match games, and accordingly has put his men through a pretty thorough course of exerci
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  • Most Wanted: How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games?
    ...e 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? ...e Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>
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  • 1830s.21
    ...referred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"<em>&nbsp;Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32. Cleme
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  • BC750.1
    ...all. Pollux [ca 180 AD] lists a number of children's ball games, including games that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the pl <p>As far as we are aware, Greek ball games did not include any that involved running among bases or safe havens, or an
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on August 3 1850
    ...ay: "After tea, the boys amused themselves by playing at cricket and other games, and the girls by playing at base ball, &c."</p>
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  • 1659.1
    |Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...service on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
    ...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> ...p>This reference is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball p
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  • 1815c.5
    |Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...and simple kinds, such as hunting, fishing, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed."&nbsp;</p>
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  • Bandy
    |Sources=<p>Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, etc. "&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>&nbsp;(Spring 2011).</p ...at "bandy" was in the 1800s sort of a generic name for ice or field hockey games. [ba]</p>
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  • Clipping:The decline of regular amateur clubs
    ...ound at Prospect Park affords, presenting excellent facilities for playing games between extemporized nines, while regular club grounds are not at command,
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  • Clipping:A barnstorming team to play exhibitions with the PL
    ...ased to say that I have this day completed the entire circuit, playing two games in each city with each club as follows...</p>
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  • 1837.7
    ...inating that one of the first things they did, upon incorporation, was ban ball-playing on the Sabbath."</p>
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  • Corner Ball
    ...ription=<p>A plugging game that is closer to dodge ball than to safe-haven games. Some players, standing at designated corners or the perimeter of the playi
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  • Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 5 October 1858
    <p>This intramural game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation (WNY table) as compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by Porter ...now." It thus seems that other games may have preceded the 1858 intramural games, 'though they were not necessarily played by Associaton rules.</p>
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  • Three-Base Ball
    ...source as &ldquo;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
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  • 1795.5
    ...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
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1856
    ...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
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  • 1365.1
    ...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
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  • Clipping:A critique of pitching for strike outs
    ...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,
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  • Clipping:Reporting juvenile games
    |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
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  • Central Park
    ...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>
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  • 1860.83
    <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
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  • 1856.11
    ...aying&nbsp;<em>theque?</em>&nbsp;Is it significant that this book features games for adolescents, not younger children?</p>
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  • Clipping:The season in the South; Sunday baseball
    ...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
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  • Clipping:St. Louis Maroons frozen out by the League
    ...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
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  • 1840.35
    ...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
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  • 1870c.17
    ...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
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  • 1779.2
    ...nt: originally published in 1894), volume I.&nbsp; [Page not shone; listed games are presented alphabetically]</p>
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  • 1823c.9
    ...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&
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  • 1805.6
    ...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
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  • 1840s.42
    |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<sup>th</sup> a
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  • Clipping:Enforcement of the territorial limit
    ...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
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  • 1840c.34
    |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
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  • 1800c.3
    <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
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  • In Boston in 1854
    ...owever. In 1856 a new club arose, the 'Green Mountains,' and some exciting games were played between this Club and the Olympics. Up to this point the game a
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  • 1845.10
    |Headline=German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game |Text=<p>Included among the games is <em>das Giftball</em> (the venomball, roughly). Block observes that this
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  • 1852.12
    |Headline=Ball-playing Prohibited Near UNC Buildings ...games, such as fives, but it could have as easily targeted base ball-type games."</p>
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  • Clipping:The Central Park ball grounds
    ...e Central Park grounds are used only by the schools in the vicinity, match-games by senior clubs being prohibited on account of the crowds which they attrac
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  • Clipping:Comparing the playing strength of the NL and AA
    ...hough the Association usually got the best of the the League in exhibition games, where the carelessness of the older body, its known prestige, and the pron
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  • Amateur Base Ball Club of Lewiston
    .... 13, 1877 "On Saturday the Base Ball Club of this place had several brisk games upon their grounds," which implies a club existed here prior to 1877.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on June 21 1880
    ...er he would consider if it would not be for the public advantage that such games should be allowed in some part of the Park appropriated for the purpose?”
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  • 1816.2
    ...err, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." <em>
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  • Block:Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884
    |Block Data=<p>“Ball-bias” was one of the games enjoyed by 200 children at the annual treat for students of the Wesleyan Ch
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  • Clipping:Early indoor baseball
    ...ways. Among the most popular methods employed in the playing of burlesque games of base ball. The bases are marked in the gymnasium as the regular diamond
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  • Clipping:The League softens on Sunday ball
    ...ined the League they might be accorded the privilege of playing exhibition games on Sunday. The League wants St. Louis. There can be no mistake in this.</
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  • Clipping:Athletics lobby to have Sunday games in Gloucester legalized
    |Title=Athletics lobby to have Sunday games in Gloucester legalized ...day, Friday or Tuesday scheduled games will be transposed and championship games played throughout the season whenever the Athletics are at home. The new a
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  • Clipping:Corcoran practicing pitching left-handed
    ...tion record is interesting to a certain extent, but team work is what wins games and championship.</p> ...credited with but 2,097, and Chicago and Detroit played the same number of games. Chicago Tribune October 14, 1886</p>
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  • Long Ball (US Batting Game)
    <p>Do we know know if this and other fungo style batting games were known elsewhere in the US?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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  • German Ball Game
    ...” [runs] wins the contest.  The game resembles the family of "battingball" games reported by Maigaard.</p> ..., et al., </span><em>One </em><span>Hundred</span><em> and Fifty Gymnastic Games</em><span> (G. H. Ellis, Boston, 1902), pages 22-23.</span></p>
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  • Block:Pize Ball in South Yorkshire on July 25 1904
    |Block Data=<p>“Pise-ball” was named as one of the games played at the annual excursion for children of the St. Philip's Church of S
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  • 1864.74
    ...he weather was favorable, those not on duty took exercise by playing a few games of "town ball."</span></p>
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  • Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 7 August 1860
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • Clipping:Fisler, Reach playing with multiple clubs
    ...member of the National Association–play Reach of the Eckford club in their games with their brother clubs; the Keystone club, also of the National Associati
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  • 1860.45
    ...clubs. The common format for these games was a best-two-of-three match of games played to 25 "tallies" [not runs]. A purse of $25 was not uncommon. Teams e
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  • 1810c.10
    |Text=<p>"The sorts and entertainments were very simple [around 1800] . . . games of ball, not base-ball, as is now [1880s?] the fashion, yet with wickets . ...days than now.&nbsp; We had more holidays, more games in the streets -- of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling."</p>
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  • 1863.14
    ...h VA, excerpts from the diary of Sgt Earle of the 15<sup>th</sup> MA notes games of ball with the 34<sup>th</sup> NY on March 18 and again on April 16, 1863 ...en wouldn&rsquo;t even have the shucks.&rsquo; The interest taken in these games in the army as a whole almost rivaled that taken in the races, sparring mat
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  • 1583.1
    ...</em> or hurling the Ball," - that no mannor person shall play at the same games, being above the age of seven years, wither in the churchyard or in any of
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  • Eagle v Em Quad in CA on 11 October 1860
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2
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  • Clipping:Beer and Sunday games in the Northwestern League
    |Title=beer and Sunday games in the Northwestern League
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  • 1849.3
    |Query=<p>Is Tom saying that there were no prior safe-haven ball games [cricket, town ball, wicket] out west, or just that the NY game hadn't arri
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  • Clipping:Umpire must call a ball or a strike
    ...ween the nines belonging to Turin and Constableville, who are playing five games for the championship of the county. … The first man was called to the ba
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  • 1853.4
    ...&nbsp; Is it possible that may other "plaing ball" references denote fungo games?&nbsp;</p> <p>Do we know of any other fungo games in which more than a single bat is used?</p>
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  • In New York on 29 November 1855
    ...clubs were out last Thursday week, and in spite of the cold, played their games out. “ [See separate descriptions below.])</p> <p>(NYC: “There seemed t |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • Block:English Baseball in East Sussex on July 26 1884
    ...f the male teachers played matches of cricket, and indulged in other manly games."</p>
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  • Baseball5
    ...with any ties being broken by playing extra innings&nbsp;as necessary, and games generally lasting 15 to 20 minutes. Unlike baseball/softball, there is no p
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  • Clipping:A new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games
    |Title=a new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games ...trong game. Afterwards they fell into “the sere and yellow leaf” of their ball-playing age, as it were, and resolved themselves into a committee of the whole on r
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  • Clipping:Benefits of mixing baseball and cricket
    ...ve their play, both at the bat and in fielding, by practicing each other’s games. In batting, at base-ball, the cricketer learns a free use of his shoulder
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  • Clipping:Giving workers Saturday afternoons off
    ...of going to the games on Saturday instead of Sunday. The object of Sunday games mainly is to give the hard-working classes, who cannot see the game, which
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  • 1862.34
    ...1863, &ldquo;the officers and men enjoyed themselves much in the innocent games of cricket and base-ball.&rdquo; [page 290]. In May 1863, at a temporary ca
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  • Clipping:The benefit of good drainage
    |Text=<p>[New York vs. Philadelphia PL 5/8/1890] Many games are called sloppy on acdount of the poor fielding, but yesterday's was not
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  • Clipping:Attendance in Louisville 2
    ...resident Parsons and Manager Chapman is the splendid attendance at all the games. Tuesday there were 1252 people present; Wednesday there were 725; Thurs
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  • 1857.7
    |Headline=Daily Base Ball Games 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 continued
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  • 1872.11
    |Text=<p>"AMATEUR GAMES -- The Manhattan Cricket Club played baseball with the Knickerbockers on th ...ng baseball. Cricket and baseball clubs playing one another in one or both games was an established practice in this era. Generally the baseball team won at
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  • Clipping:A minor league club with a reserve team
    ...which will play on the home grounds the days the regular team are playing games in other cities in the semi-professional Inter-State League.</p>
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  • Clipping:Reduced attendance from the old days
    ...ith allowing first or second games to go by default in order to have third games, the Atlantic club have so lowered their playing status as to have ceased t
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  • Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on May 3 1879
    ...re playing about the streets, and who as a rule are allowed to enjoy their games of whip-top, base-ball, and other pastimes in the middle of the public stre
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  • Clipping:Poor support for a minor league team in Chicago
    ...e most prosperous towns in the West and Northwest, the Western Association games in this city draw hundreds only where the League team attracts thousands.</
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  • 1855.47
    <p>https://protoball.org/Club_of_Newark, which includes 21 of the club's games, 1855-1864</p> ...o applying some criteria to the limited information we have about the 1855 games and see if I can come up with a systematic approach to identifying the firs
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  • Clipping:George Wright's history
    ...essional of the St. George Club, getting off now and then to play in match games of base-ball. In 1865 I was professional to the Philadelphia Cricket Club
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  • 1849.14
    |Text=<p>"BALL-PLAYING -- Westfield vs. Granville --</p> ...sterday.&nbsp;There were 30 on each side, and the winners in three of five games were to be awarded the victory.&nbsp; On the first game, the Westfield boys
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  • 1860.13
    ...span> of August 11, 1860, page 132, carries accounts of two July town ball games in Philadelphia PA, [1] one involving the Olympics and [2] another involvin
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  • Clipping:Uniform rules under the National Agreement; official balls
    ...se rules. This is done so as to prevent the use of light or dead balls in games between the clubs of different bodies, a has frequently been the case in th
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  • Clipping:Indoor baseball in Brooklyn 2
    ...one obstacle to the success of the scheme seems to be in the fact that the games will be played by gaslight. Those directly interested, however, stated tha ...l be regulation size, but will be made as light as possible. Championship games will consist of as many innings as can be played in one hour and thirty min
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  • Clipping:Caylor comes out against Sunday baseball; Pritchard's response
    ...am not willing to make. The League has lived twelves years without Sunday games, and it is in pretty good health now. And wherever there are two clubs rep ...his Sunday question, and that is this:--St Louis is obliged to have Sunday games or do without a crack club. The Sporting Life October 5, 1887</p>
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  • First Nine v Second Nine on 8 September 1859 - 2
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • 1833c.12
    ...amed club merged in 1833, but only after they had, apparently, played some games against one another. "Since . . . there weren't any other ball clubs, eithe ...that "both sides had existence outside of that game." He dates one of the games to July 4, 1833, as the Olympic club had been formed to play a game on the
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  • Olympic Base Ball Club of Syracuse
    ...seball clippings collection of the Onondaga Hist Assn adverts to 5 Olympic games played in 1859 and one in 1860. They played the SyrBBC twice and the Chitt
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  • 1823.6
    ...sp; years before Jahn came forward.&rdquo;&nbsp; (Gutsmuths&rsquo; book on games provided David Block with the 1796 rules and diagram of a game called &ldqu ...ent parts, are altogether unessential and a matter of choice.&rdquo; &nbsp;Ball-playing, Beck wrote, &ldquo;unites various exercises: throwing, striking, running a
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  • Phillips Academy Club of Andover
    ...t Phillips Academy) has a lot on early baseball here. Evidently "bat-ball" games were popular here in 1811.By 1852-53 they were playing "base ball,' but the <p>The 1853 games were played in an open field in the rear of the Seminary buildings. One gam
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  • 370c.1
    |Headline=Saint Augustine Recalls Punishment for Youthful Ball Games ...re punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown up games are known as 'business. . . . Was the master who beat me himself very diffe
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  • Clipping:What Constitutes an Amateur Base Ball Club
    ...d be a pecuniary loss were he not paid for his time spent in playing match games. If the opinion of your New York correspondent was to prevail, and be acce
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  • Clipping:An openly professional picked nine match; hundreds of baseball professionals
    ..., etc. The design of the National Association is to limit all contests to games in which the simple trophy of the ball is the incentive. If prizes are to
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  • 1807.1
    |Text=<p>"A hermit who had been watching some children playing ball games approved of their play and promised 'to provide bats, balls, &amp;c' at his
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  • 1860.49
    |Headline=Troy NY Writer: "Every Newspaper" Covers Base Ball Games, Some Showing Regrettable "Petty Meanness" ...ery 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
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  • 1860.24
    ...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
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  • Clipping:A failed hidden ball trick
    ...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
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  • 1853.18
    ...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
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  • Clipping:The relationship between the Excelsiors and the Knickerbockers; social games
    ...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
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  • 1863.90
    ...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
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  • 1859.29
    ...all shrunk slightly in weight and size. Matches would be decided by single games.&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1842.1
    |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
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  • 1855.16
    ...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
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    ...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>
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  • Clipping:A raid on Sunday ball players
    ...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
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  • White Lot south of the White House
    ...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.
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  • Clipping:Resistance to Sunday games in Queens; single admission double header
    |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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  • Club of Detroit v Early Risers Club of Detroit on 8 August 1859
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  • Clipping:Joe Leggett absconds
    ...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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  • In New Orleans on 14 October 1860
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  • Clipping:Don't break the windows
    ...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
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  • 1749.2
    ...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>
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  • 1818c.7
    ...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>
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  • Three Man Ball -- Hit It Out
    ...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]]
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  • 1862.20
    <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>
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  • Union Club of Medway v Massapoag Club of Sharon on 19 September 1857
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  • Clipping:Playing baseball for money, and a call for boycott of 25 cent 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
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  • 1844.5
    ...this work pictures a scene of children on a village green playing various games including baseball."</p>
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  • Excelsior v Rough and Ready in Batavia on 4 June 1858
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  • 1843.2
    <p>Reeve, Arthur B., <i>Beginnings of Our Great Games</i>, <u>Outing Magazine</u>, April 1910, page 49, per John Thorn, 19CBB pos
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  • Clipping:Winter ball in the South
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  • Pepper
    ...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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  • Atwater Club of Westfield, MA v Nonotuck Club of Northampton on 11 August 1858
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  • 1849.9
    ...Granville MA on Thursday, at which the Westfield boys won the first three games by 10, 20, and 40 runs."</p>
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  • 1862.13
    |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>
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  • Norr and Spell
    |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.<
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  • Clipping:Overtures from the League
    ...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
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  • 1872.7
    ...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
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  • 19CBB Highlights, August September 2013
    ...re Anglicized because, among other things, of the recent craze for English games like base ball.
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  • 1854.7
    |Comment=<p>We have no record of the Empire Club playing match games in 1854, but the following April, they took the field.</p>
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  • Clipping:John Morrill opens a sporting goods store
    ...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
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  • 1820s.22
    ...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
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  • 1867.11
    ...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>
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  • 1860.34
    |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
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  • Clipping:Allegheny Club ownership, finances
    ...$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 $
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  • 1827.7
    ...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
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  • Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport v Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport on 3 October 1858undefined
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  • Clipping:Rule changes increase batting
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  • 1815.8
    <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>
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  • Clipping:Baseball and the Saturday half-holiday
    ...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
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  • First Game Played on Ice Skates
    ...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
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  • Bull Pen
    |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>
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  • 1863.10
    ...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
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  • Wolverines Club of Benton Harbor
    </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
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  • 1864.88
    ...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>
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  • 1685.1
    ...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,
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  • Elysian Fields Sub-topics -- 2022
    ...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
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  • Clipping:How the game is played on ice
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  • 1775.2
    ...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>
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  • 1839.4
    |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
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  • BC1460.1
    |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>
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  • Brian Turner, April 2013
    ...thampton) in 1791 and another thing in other towns (such as the names ball games were known by Pittsfield).&nbsp;</p>
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  • Belding Base Ball Club of Piermont
    ...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
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  • 1796.4
    ...in winter, and skating, playing ball (of which there are several different games), gunning and fishing . . . "</p>
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  • Clipping:Types of football
    ...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
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  • 1812c.1
    |Text=<p>[At age four] "he spent many hours at games with boys of the neighborhood, his favorite being 'Cat and <strong>Bass Bal
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  • Clipping:Junior players playing the fly game
    ...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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  • Enterprise Club of Bedford v Young America Club of Harlem on 5 October 1857
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  • 1800c.1
    ...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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  • Putnam Club of Brooklyn v Charter Oak Club of Brooklyn on 9 July 1860
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  • 1363.1
    ..., "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
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  • Ballgame in Cleveland in 1857
    |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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  • Vernon Club of Brooklyn v Neptune Club of Brooklyn on 18 May 1859
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  • 1850.22
    ...l Tavern," where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."</p>
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  • Clipping:Stalling a game to give the pitcher rest
    ...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
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  • 1830s.12
    ...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>
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  • Clipping:Cleveland NL players jump to Cincinnati UA; talk of a lawsuit
    ...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
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  • Block:English Baseball in Sutherland (Scottish Highlands) on September 25 1894
    ...oon was spent in skipping, playing base-ball, running exercises, and other games.”</p>
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  • Clipping:Detectives follow Phillies and Pittsburgh players
    ...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>
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  • Game with wickets in Sheffield in 1800
    ...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
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  • 1797.5
    ...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.</
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  • Clipping:A challenge to Chadwick on playing 'social' games to evade eligibility rules
    |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
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on May 13 1886
    ...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
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  • 1861.23
    |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
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  • Clipping:The condition of the Beacon Club 2
    ...rain or practice. All the ball-playing indulged in by members is in match games.</p>
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  • Knock-Out
    ...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,
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  • Clipping:The condition of the Olympic Club 4
    ...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
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  • In Jefferson OH in July 1859
    ...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
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  • Clipping:The ill effects of cricket hitting
    ..., 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
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  • Clipping:Disagreement over what rule are operative
    <p>Only three out of the eleven games were marked by double-figure scores, while four were won by socres of five
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  • 1834.1
    ...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
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  • Browns Club of Albuquerque
    ...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
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  • Clipping:The Mutuals ground situation
    ...als will, therefore, practice at Hoboken as heretofore, but play all match games upon the Union Ball grounds in Brooklyn, Eastern District.</p>
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  • Clipping:The official scorer in Detroit
    ...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
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  • Up-Ball
    ...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
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  • In Danville in 1857
    ...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>
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  • 1863.20
    ...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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  • Overmeyer’s side v McPherson’s side on 31 July 1860
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  • In Cambridge in 1829
    ...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
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  • Ballgame in Troy in June 1860
    ...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
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  • Cuck-ball
    |Sources=<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>, page 83.</span><
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  • Cincinnati Townball
    ...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.
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  • Clipping:Talk of excluding co-op clubs from the NA
    ...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>
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  • Clipping:Talk of crooked play in the League
    ...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
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  • Base Ball Association of Manchester v Base Ball Association of Manchester on 5 May 1860
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...s in the Mears Collection (dated "May 1860" by hand), disparate intramural games are described for two clubs. In one, "the stars of the East" played an in-h
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  • Clipping:The Elysian Fields
    ...gular organization. The western field has been set apart for the Saturday games of the newspaper nines, and these are all the clubs which will play on the
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  • Clipping:A telegraphed theatrical display of games
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  • 1330.1
    |Headline=Vicar of Winkfield Advises Against Bat/Ball Games in Churchyards; First Stoolball Reference? ...instructions to parish priests, advising them to forbid the playing of all games of ball in churchyards: "Bats and bares and suche play/Out of chyrche-yorde
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  • Harlem v Eureka in Hoboken on 14 September 1860
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  • Clipping:A uniform ball for all championship games
    |Title=a uniform ball for all championship games ...r. Smith of the Maryland Club introduced a rule regarding all championship games to be played with a Ryan “dead” ball, which was adopted. So but one ba
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  • Clipping:High pitch delivery
    ..., and governed by two sets of rules and constitutions, the umpire in these games has no control of the visiting pitchers. Derby took advantage of this fact <p>This is not base ball, but in these exhibition games it can not be helped. The League Clubs are instructed by their Directors t
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  • 1818.3
    |Text=<p>"Although playing ball games near the barracks was prohibited, cadets could play 'at football' near Fort
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  • BC2000 to 1000ADc.1
    ...Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians&mdash;play primitive ball games for recreation, as fertility rites and in religious rituals.</p> ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 8-21.</p>
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  • Western Empire Base Ball Club of Springfield
    ...and much wine, the party dispersed with the general understand that match games of Base Ball are good things, however they result.</p>
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  • Club of Paris, IL
    ...ription=<p>The Coles County Historical Society website has a list of early games in the local newspapers. The first game listed for&nbsp;Paris was played Au
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  • Hole-Ball
    ...cription=<p>H. J Philpott used the names "hole-ball and "wibble-wobble" as games that seem consistent with hat-ball.  One player would place the ball in a
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  • Seventh Section Freshman v Sixth Section Introductory on 7 June 1861
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  • Clipping:Negotiating the rules
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  • Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Cricket Club on 1 August 1859
    ...dice that seems to exist on both sides in regard to the merits of the two games.  Every Base Ball player would improve his play by a knowledge of cricke |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • 1830s.32
    ...err, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine
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  • 1840s.32
    ...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.</
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  • Club of Sherman
    ...73, writes that the “Denison and Sherman base ball clubs are playing match games of base ball.”
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  • Lincoln Club of New Britain
    ...tions the Mansfields of Middletown playing the Lincolns of New Britain two games in 1866.
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  • 1837.2
    ...runner was put out, he would replace the fielder who made the putout. Some games would last for days.</p>
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  • Welsh Baseball
    ...ven-player teams, no foul ground, an all-out-side-out rule, and two-inning games.</p>
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  • 1852.17
    ...ine=Dickens Names Cricket, but not Stoolball or Rounders, Among "Merriest" Games ...played . . . They were active afoot, and on horseback; at cricket and all games of ball; the prisoners base, hare and hounds, follow up leader, and more sp
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  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on September 2 1865
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  • 1862c.54
    |Text=<p>"Camp Games.&nbsp; Every volunteer who has been in service, has realized the tedium of
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  • Niagara Club of Lockport v Fillmore Club of Buffalo on 6 August 1860
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  • Clipping:A call for reform
    ...attention of ball players. We refer now to clubs engaging in two or three games a week during portions of the season. This necessitates players neglecting
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  • 1450.1
    ...anned games "tenessyng handball, fott ball stoil ball and all manner other games out churchyard." <b>Note:</b> can we determine when the "other author" wro
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  • 1385.1
    ...ey play ball inside and outside the church and engage in other destructive games there, breaking and greatly damaging the glass windows and the stone images
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  • 1494c.1
    ...er the smoke of palm nuts. A discovery which improved the delights of ball games was noteworthy." 350 years later, after Goodyear discovered vulcanization [
    1 KB (200 words) - 13:44, 3 November 2012
  • Club of Denison
    ...ites that the &ldquo;Denison and Sherman base ball clubs are playing match games of base ball.&rdquo;</p>
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  • 1861.37
    ...se Ball after 1854" (draft), October 2012.&nbsp; Data from the Protoball [[Games Tabulation]] (version 1.0) compiled by Craig Waff.</p>
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  • Alton Base-Ball Club v Upper Alton Base Ball Club on 19 June 1858undefined
    ...wn 5 miles north of St. Louis. Missouri. Jeff Kittel in his "This Game of Games' website thinks that this team probably played town ball, having fund a ref
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  • Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 5 October 1860
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  • Clipping:Morrill opens a sporting goods store
    ...field street. It is centrally located in th business district, and as the games of the Brotherhood and League clubs are to be displayed it cannot fail to b
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  • Atwater Club of Westfield, MA
    <p>A concise log of the games of the Atwaters appears in Daniel Genovese, The Old Ball Ground: The Chrono
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  • Clipping:Brooklyn and Cincinnati prospects of jumping to the NL
    ...ing fixed so that our regular schedule can be played out by playing Sunday games in Kentucky, as everything can be run wide open over there.”</p> ...ey remaining in the Association, charging 25 cents, and playing his Sunday games in Kentucky.</p>
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  • Excelsior Club of Upton v Union Club of Medway on 3 October 1860
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  • 1863.59
    ...starting in August 1861. A General Hayes is mentioned as watching several games, sometimes along with his wife.</p> ...day. The men continued to engage in different sports, and there were ball games, jumping, putting the shot, and other amusements.&rdquo;</p>
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  • 1840c.17
    |Text=<p>"Among the favorite games engaged in my the larger boys, special mention may be made of 'Three Corner
    1 KB (185 words) - 13:57, 18 July 2022
  • Gothams Club of New York v Eagle Base Ball Club of New York on 24 October 1856
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  • Town Ball
    ...d generically to denote, in substantially later years, any of a variety of games that preceded the New York game in a particular area. [[Philadelphia Town B ...try [[1831.1]] and [[Philadelphia Town Ball]] in the Protoball Glossary of Games.</p>
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  • Clipping:The state of hippodroming and revolving
    ...ship contest, whatever there might have been in “exhibition” or gate-money games.</p>
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  • 1744.2
    ...1762. He also notes that a 1767 revision features engravings for the four games.</p>
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  • Resolute v Constellation in New York on 18 September 1858
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  • Whirl
    ...d to think that whatever game it was would have been very similar to other games more familiar to participants, especially if they were able to field a team
    3 KB (595 words) - 07:34, 11 September 2021
  • 1500s.1
    ...n College of St Bernard contemplated that permission might be obtained for games, though not before dinner or after the bell rang for vespers. A sixteenth
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  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on April 11 1903
    ...paper report, he proposed that “no football, hockey, cricket, or dangerous games be allowed on the Church Hill.” He argued that these game endangered moth
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  • Fair Play Club of Easton MD v Fair Play Club of Easton MD on 20 April 1867
    ..., and enjoyed the first game on Wednesday. This is one of the most popular games now in the country and is very wholesome exercise. The society have appoint ...Fair Play' Club was organized some time since, and have played a number of games, the members are all deeply interested, and the club promises to be equal t
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  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on July 27 1861 (2)
    ...“they commenced playing at cricket, foot and base-ball, &c., and the usual games resorted to on such occasions.”</p>
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  • 1854.3
    ...owever. In 1856 a new club arose, the 'Green Mountains,' and some exciting games were played between this Club and the Olympics. Up to this point the game a
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