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  • The Glynde Butterflies Stoolball Team, 1866-1887
    |Place Published=Lewes, England |Is in library=Yes
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  • Hambledon: The Men and the Myths
    |Place Published=Cambridge, England |Is in library=Yes
    317 bytes (40 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
  • The Early Sporting Press in New England 1.0
    |Title=The Early Sporting Press in New England |Article Category=New England Roots
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  • 1749.1
    |Headline=Early Cricket: Addington Club Takes On All-England, Five on Five ..., was won by All England, notwithstanding it was eight to one on Addington in the playing.'"</p>
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  • 1630.4
    |Headline=Stoolball Played in Sherston, England |Country=England
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  • Baseball
    ...the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;The term first appeared in the United States&nbsp;in 1791.</p> |Sources=<p><span>Gomme,&nbsp;<em>Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland, Volume 1</em>.2, page 146.</span></p>
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  • 1796.4
    |Headline=Early Geographer Sees Variety of Types New England Ballplaying |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:George Stovey in the New England League
    |Title=George Stovey in the New England League ...signed by Worcester, is the first colored man that ever played in the New England League. The Sporting Life June 6, 1888</p>
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  • Clipping:The City Item's reporter on the England tour
    |Title=The City Item's reporter on the England tour ...sent at the various base ball and cricket matches that are to be played in England by the Athletic and Boston clubs, and being an amiable gentleman and experi
    562 bytes (88 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
  • 1849.10
    |Headline=Ladies' Wicket in England? |Country=England
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  • None (Birmingham Amateur Base Ball Club)
    |First Newspaper Mention=1889/12/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month
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  • Clipping:Collegiate players in England
    |Title=collegiate players in England ...when they would otherwise be idle, as the English foot ball season begins in September and extends to late April.</p>
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  • In Gravesend on 15 June 1871
    |Name=in Gravesend on 15 June 1871 |Country=England
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  • Clipping:Baseball in England
    |Title=baseball in England |Text=<p>A game of base ball was recently played near Manchester, England, between a nine of students, including three Americans, and a nine of crick
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  • Clipping:Cricket matches planned for the baseball tour
    ...l eleven. These games will be played at Lord’s celebrated cricket ground, England, the charge for admission to which is an English shilling, special seats co
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  • None (Derby Baseball Club)
    |First Newspaper Mention=1889/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year
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  • 1840c.27
    |Location=New England ...which girls in school now [1905] take part, never was domesticated in New England."</p>
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  • 1795.3
    |Headline=Playing Ball Cited as Major New England Diversion ...New England people? "Dancing is a favorite one of both sexes. Sleighing in winter, and skating, playing ball, gunning, and fishing are the principal."
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  • Preston v Derby in Preston on 21 June 1890
    |Name=Preston v Derby in Preston on 21 June 1890 |Country=England
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  • Clipping:Chadwick now a contributor to New England Base Ballist
    |Title=Chadwick now a contributor to New England Base Ballist ..., editor of the late “American Chronicle,” and our New York correspondence in this edition is from his very able pen.</p>
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  • Boston Red Stocking players v Philadelphia Athletics players in 1874
    |Name=Boston Red Stocking players v Philadelphia Athletics players in 1874 |Country=England
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  • Clipping:The first fly game in New England
    |Title=the first fly game in New England ...ly game” played in Boston as previous to this, the bound catch was allowed in all games.</p>
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  • 1837.10
    |Headline=In Recession, Doughty Ex-Workers Play Ball, Leave Town for Home |Location=New England
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  • 1820c.6
    |Headline=Modified Version of Rounders Played in New England. |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:A scheme for a collegiate English tour
    ...would be made up of gentlemen, which would tend to boom our National game in another country. The Sporting Life May 16, 1888</p> ...ot send over a nine this year. Whether Yale would consider such a project in the future I could not say. There are some difficulties with the plan asid
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  • 1856.7
    |Headline=First Official Use of the Term "Rounders" Appears? |Location=England,
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  • 1860.28
    |Headline=New England Publication Admits New Dominance of NY Game |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:Visit to England abandoned
    |Title=visit to England abandoned ...letter, that a visit of American ball players would not pay expenses. So, in view of the circumstances, Wright has abandoned the idea of “going East�
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  • 1854.2
    |Headline=First New England Team, the Olympics, Forms to Play Round Ball |Location=New England,
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  • Clipping:The Boston Unions playing as a cooperative team
    ...h will make engagements with clubs in the western New England, eastern New England and Intercollegiate associations during April. Boston Herald March 25, 188
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  • 1777.2
    |Headline=Mass. Sailor Plays Ball in English Prison |Country=England
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  • 1872.16
    |Text=<p>[American base ball players] "propose to travel throughout England, playing against each other, or to play against any nine that will appear a |Sources=<p><em>'Jackson's Oxford Journal'</em>, Oxfordshire, England, November 2, 1872:</p>
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  • John and Kay Price, December 2008
    ...ds.&nbsp;&nbsp;In August, the Angmering club, from the south coast of&nbsp;England, won the Sussex League Championship, scoring 293 runs to outmatch the 106 r ...sp;John and Kay are also working with [[Beth Hise]] on including stoolball in the 2010 exhibition on early ballplay at Lord&rsquo;s.</p>
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  • Bandy-Wicket
    |Location=England ...a curved club) instead of a cricket bat. This name was evidently once used in Norfolk and Suffolk.</p>
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  • Balloon
    |Description=<p>A fungo-like game played in Elizabethan times in England. The ball was an inflated leather bag, and was knocked with the arm - somet <p>An illustration and description of "balloon ball" is in Hone, p. 96</p>
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  • Club-ball
    ...an>Joseph Strutt,&nbsp;</span><em>The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England</em><span>&nbsp;</span>(1801)<span>, pages 104-105.</span></p> <p><span>Hone, "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England..." (1831) p. 105</span></p>
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  • Clipping:Early talk of an England tour
    |Title=early talk of an England tour ...fection by the two leading clubs would, no doubt, attract paying audiences in London, Liverpool, and Manchester, at least.</p>
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  • 1858.23
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • Clipping:The origin of the Olympic Club of Boston
    ...and. It was formed in the Summer of 1854. Mr. Arnold took an active part in organizing the same.</p> |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • Athletic Sports in America, England, and Australia
    |Title=Athletic Sports in America, England, and Australia |Is in library=Yes
    292 bytes (49 words) - 18:46, 28 July 2019
  • 1850c.34
    |Headline=Tut-ball Played at Young Ladies School in England |Location=England,
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  • 1791.3
    |Location=New England ...gs covered with leather in quarters &amp; covered with double twine, sewed in Knots over the whole. The Bat is from 2 to 3 feet long, round on the back
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  • Clipping:The English opinion of baseball
    ...o it would appear that “Capt.” Spalding’s mission to England was a failure in more ways than one.</p>
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  • Whacks
    |Location=London, England |Description=<p>In Gomme's 1898 survey, she includes the following sentence in an account of the game of [[waggles]]:</p>
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  • Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 3 August 1874
    |Country=England ...rt of their 1874 tour, the Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia 24-7 at Lords, in London, Aug. 3.</p>
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  • 1836.2
    ...tive of the Gutsmuths text, or does it confirm "base-ball" play in England in the 1820s and 1830s?</p>
    762 bytes (116 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
  • Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth Century England
    |Title=Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth Century England |Is in library=No
    236 bytes (34 words) - 18:53, 28 July 2019
  • 1846.17
    |Headline=Cricketers Form All England Eleven ...Cricket: A History of Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game</u> (Faber and Faber, 2001), page 70. Another facilitating
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  • Block:English Baseball in London in 1888
    |Title=English Baseball in London in 1888 ...val form of blindman's buff, baseball and stool-ball, etc. are perpetuated in hockey, trap-ball and similar games, and even cricket was not unrepresented
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  • Boston Red Sox v Philadephis Athletics on 30 July 1874
    |Country=England ...delphia played in Liverpool July 30th and 31st, 1874. Philadelphia won the first game 14-11, Boston the 2nd, 23-18.</p>
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  • 1828.13
    |Headline=In Christian Story, a Young Girl Chooses Batting Over Tatting |Location=England,
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  • Girls Just Wanted to Have Fun: Stoolball Reports in Local Newspapers, 1747 to 1866
    |Title=Girls Just Wanted to Have Fun: Stoolball Reports in Local Newspapers, 1747 to 1866 |Place Published=Lewes, England
    248 bytes (35 words) - 18:54, 28 July 2019
  • Sport in England: A History of Two Thousand Years of Games and Pastimes
    |Title=Sport in England: A History of Two Thousand Years of Games and Pastimes |Is in library=Yes
    256 bytes (41 words) - 18:54, 28 July 2019
  • The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
    |Title=The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England |Is in library=Yes
    293 bytes (44 words) - 18:52, 28 July 2019
  • Pentoss
    <p>A picture in the W. W. Grantham collection at Lewes, England, shows a game seeming to resemble stoolball, but with wickets that look&nbs <p>A photographic image of&nbsp;a game in progress can be found with Google search of &lt;"joshua biltcliffe" "ladies
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on July 11 1863
    |Title=English Baseball in Hampshire on July 11 1863 ...swings, See-Saw, Rounders or Base Ball, Jumping Stocks, Mechanical Models in motion: -Windsor Park, a Railway Train, Musical Bells, &c., &c.”</p>
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  • Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 1 August 1874
    |Country=England |First in Location=Manchester, England
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  • New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802
    |Title=New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802 New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802
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  • Riverside Park, Boston
    |Description=<p>The Riverside Park (est. 1864) was used for the 1867 New England Baseball Tournament, as well as other baseball games.&nbsp;</p> <p>This was a Trotting horse race park, aka Beacon Park. It was situated in Allston, today a neighborhood of Boston, on the Charles River, bounded by C
    915 bytes (150 words) - 07:19, 11 February 2024
  • Ball-Bias
    |Location=England ...898, was evidently the name of a batting-running game in the south-east of England.</p>
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  • Marion Club of New England Village
    |Name=Marion Club of New England Village |Description=<p>New England Village is part of Grafton</p>
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  • Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1
    |Title=Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1 |Is in library=Yes
    298 bytes (42 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
  • 1795.2
    |Headline=Survey Reports Cricket in New England, Playing at Ball in TN ...nterbotham is sometimes credited with saying that bat and ball was popular in America before the Revolutionary War, and that adults played it, but report
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  • The Ball Players' Chronicle
    |Is in library=No also New England Base Ball Players Gazette.
    326 bytes (46 words) - 18:39, 28 July 2019
  • Waggles
    ...much in he same way as in cricket, except that the cat must be hit whilst in the air. &nbsp;The batter hits it as far away as possible, and whilst the f ...d</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 &ndash; reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 329.</p>
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  • 1801.1
    |Headline=Joseph Strutt Says Stoolball Still Played in North of England; But He Slights Cricket |Text=<p>Strutt, Joseph., <u>The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England</u> [London, 1801]. Need page reference [is on page 102 of 1903 edition].
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  • 1859.13
    |Headline=First Tour of English Eleven to US and Canada ..., October 10-13, 1859. England overtook the US, 155-154 with seven wickets in hand. The US side comprised 13 Philadelphians and 9 New Yorkers.</p>
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  • Clipping:Proposed separation of professional and amateur players
    ...any other club than the one he plays with, shall be competent to take part in any match game. The penalty for an infringement of this rule shall be the <p>the New England Base Ballist</p>
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  • Clipping:An open criticism of Chadwick; his rebuttal
    ...is Mercury-Union articles, we have no fears on that account, however. New England Base Ballist November 5, 1868, quoting the New York Sunday News.</p> ...ime, too, when it was obtaining a foothold for a permanent existence. New England Base Ballist November 19, 1868 [from a piece signed “H. Chadwick, Editor
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  • Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 15 August 1874
    |Country=England |First in Location=Sheffield, England
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  • 1538.1
    |Headline=Easter Ball Play at Churches Ends in France |Country=France, England
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  • 1857.31
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • Clipping:A proposed European tour
    ...ccomplish this splendid result. It is possible that the Cricketers of Old England will so arrange exhibition games, that the receipts will pay the expenses.
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  • 1859.16
    |Location=England, |Country=England
    847 bytes (119 words) - 18:37, 9 May 2015
  • 1778.1
    |Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison |Location=New England
    998 bytes (149 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2020
  • 1802.3
    |Headline=New England Woman Sees Ballplaying in Virginia, Perhaps by "All Colors" ...bitants employed as they usually are on Sundays,&nbsp; some taking the air in coaches, some playing at ball, at nine pins, marbles, and every kind of gam
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  • Joe Gray
    |First Name=Joe |Location=England
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  • 1859.44
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2
    |Title=The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2 |Is in library=Yes
    356 bytes (48 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
  • 1854.8
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • 1858.37
    |Headline=In English Novel, Base-Ball Doesn&#39;t Occupy Boys Very Long |Location=England,
    937 bytes (142 words) - 18:35, 9 May 2015
  • 1854.3
    |Headline=Organized Round Ball in New England Morphs Toward the "MA Game" |Location=New England
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  • 1828.18
    |Headline=In Brighton England, 'Women of the Mill' Play Stool Ball Alongside Cricketers |Country=England
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  • 1754.2
    ...one?" <u>Smithsonian Magazine</u>, October 2006. The excerpt can be found in the seventh paragraph of the article [as accessed 10/19/2008] at:... ...sufficiently interested in the game [cricket] to bring back with him from England a copy of the laws of cricket, for it was this very copy which was presente
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  • 1828.7
    |Headline=Ballplaying in Pawtucket RI |Location=New England
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  • 1829 -- The Rise and Fall of New England-Style Ballplaying
    |Title=1829 -- The Rise and Fall of New England-Style Ballplaying |Is in library=Yes
    320 bytes (43 words) - 07:31, 28 July 2019
  • 1778.6
    |Headline=NH Loyalist Plays Ball in NY; Mentions "Wickett" |Location=New England
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  • 1787.2
    |Location=New England ...24. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball
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  • Before the Curse: The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918
    |Title=Before the Curse: The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918 |Is in library=Yes
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  • Stoolball
    |Location=England (in the past century, predominantly in Sussex and other south east counties) ...1600&rsquo;s; there are many more references to stoolball than to cricket in these early years.&nbsp; For Protoball's listing of over 60 specific (but m
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  • 1800c.9
    ...nd by the end of the century cricket had been recorded in most counties in England." John Ford, <u>Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835</u> [David and Charles
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  • 1863.85
    |Headline=New England rules game in camp ...giment played a match game of base ball, according to the rules of the New England Association of Base Ball Players, with eleven members of the 18th Mass. reg
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  • Base is Not Always Baseball: Prisoner's base from the 13th to 20th Centuries
    |Is in library=Yes |Country=USA, England
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  • Clipping:Spalding appointed agent in England for the Athletic Club
    |Title=Spalding appointed agent in England for the Athletic Club ...ed the idea, both as concerned the great prestige to be acquired, and also in a pecuniary point of view. The directors were instructed to pay a portion
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  • Clipping:A late example of the Massachusetts game
    ...ictors. [The game lasted 28 and a half innings, final score 24 to 23.] New England Base Ballist August 20, 1868 |Source=New England Base Ballist, Aug. 20, 1868
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  • Clipping:Word of Von der Ahe planning a European tour
    ...er. In the first place, the championship season here would interfere, and in the second place it would not pay. It was tried once before and failed fin ...t to say that there has been a great change in England regarding base ball in the last fifteen years, and there are great numbers of Americans over there
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  • Clipping:An early proposal for a European tour 2
    ...ould like to meet the Atlantics, or any other first class organization, in England, there to play for the championship of the world. The Committee on Europea
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  • 1744.3
    |Text=<p>The match it describes: All England vs. Kent, played at the Artillery Ground. The same year, admission at the ...Ground the greatest Cricket-Match even known, the County of Kent again all England, which was won by the former [the score was 97-96 - LM] . . . . There were
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  • Trunket
    ...person striking the ball must be caught out, or the ball must be deposited in the hole before the stick or cudgel &nbsp;can be placed there."</p> ...d</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 &ndash; reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 310.</p>
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  • 1586c.1
    |Location=England |Country=England
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  • 640s.1
    |Country=England ...tt reports "the author of a manuscript in Trinity College, Oxford, written in the fourteenth century and containing the life of Saint Cuthbert, says of h
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  • Brian Sheehy, February 2013
    ...trong>&nbsp; Players from the expanding number of VBB clubs in eastern New England will comprise a good share of conference attendees.</p>
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  • 1830s.6
    |Headline=Players Drink Egg-Nog in Base Ball Intervals in Portsmouth NH |Location=New England
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  • 1788.3
    |Country=England ...anages her whip with utmost skill, &hellip;she sings most charmingly, and, in fine, is not above playing a game of baste-ball with her attendants."</p>
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  • Clipping:A rejected proposal to play championship games in England
    |Title=a rejected proposal to play championship games in England ...is city and Boston have a right to see them, and hence they will be played in this country. The English games will be exhibitions. Philadelphia Sunday
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  • 1850.22
    |Location=England, ...blue collar base ball in England. A union journal described a May 21 march in which "hundreds of good and true Democrats" participated. Boating down the
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  • 1866.9
    |Headline=New England Association Forms , Intends to "Ignore the New York Game" ...ngland game, was held at the Parker House this morning, to organize a 'New England Association,' which shall ignore the New York game.&nbsp; Twenty gentlemen
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  • 1805.8
    |Headline=Yale Grad Compares Certain English Ballgames to New England's |Location=New England
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  • 1865.10
    |Headline=New England Association Formed ...influence and endeavors to secure the formation and organization of a New England Convention of National Baseball Players."&nbsp;</p>
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  • Kersa
    ...ssinia mentions this game, taken to be “the same game we call bat ball” in England.</p> |Sources=<p><em>Prospective Missions in Abyssinia</em><span> (Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Boston, 1834)
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  • 1834.1
    |Location=New England ...But I believe that 'base' or 'goal ball' are the names generally adopted in our country." The bases are "stones or stakes." According to Carver, runn
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  • 1858.34
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • 1685.1
    ...Gloucestershire adjoining." From A. B. Gomme, <u>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</u>, 1964 reprint of 1898 text [New York, Dover], pa
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  • Round Ball
    ...n to the game played in Massachusetts . . . and possibly beyond that . . . in the years before the Dedham rules of 1858 created the [[Massachusetts Game] ...-- all in New England and especially the state of Massachusetts.&nbsp; New England also has references to goal, or goal ball, base, or base ball, and bat-and-
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  • 1859.33
    |Location=New England, ...ng, shooting, and baseball mean, namely that there is a joyous spontaneity in human beings; and thus Nature, by means of the sporting world, by means of
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  • Clipping:Bond umpiring behind the pitcher
    |Text=<p>Tom Bond is doing some fine umpiring in the New England League. Like Gaffney he takes his position behind the pitcher when the cat
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  • Electric Club of Brighton
    ...ht" [Brighton?] was represented at the November 1865 convention of the New England Association.</p> <p>The Boston Journal, March 10, 1868, reports on a meeting of the New England Association of the National Base Ball players. The article mentions the Low
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  • 1806.4
    |Headline=Minister from New England Plays Ball in Western Reserve [OH] ...e via Google Books as of 11/15/2008. To view Volume 2, which has later New England references, use a Google Books "'robbins d. d.' diary" search.</p>
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  • 1852.5
    |Headline=Religious Chapbook Shows Action in Ball Play at Recess |Location=New England
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  • 1820.2
    |Headline=Round Ball played in Upton, MA |Location=New England
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  • 1859.46
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • Moncton Club of New Brunswick
    |Date Note=First Organized ...lipper</em>, June 7, 1862 reports the formation of this club under the New England rules.&nbsp;[ba]</p>
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  • Clipping:An early bunter?
    ...68] [second inning] Record hit a short one in front of the plate, made his first, Bush [the catcher] throwing to third over Smith’s head to catch Crosby, ...to third, and Crosby to second. Record gave another of his “little ones” in front of plate, O’Brien scoring his run.</p>
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  • 1841.2
    |Location=New England ...ck, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 206. The image first appeared in Carver's <u>Book of Sports</u> (see 1834 entry).</p>
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  • 1825.9
    |Headline=Ballplaying Planned on Saturdays in Hartford CT |Location=New England
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  • British Baseball (Welsh Baseball)
    |Location=Wales and England ...cket features, it is known in Liverpool England and in Cardiff and Newport in Wales.</p>
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  • 1810s.11
    ...hed, then the same boy mast take his chance again. Its great amusement was in being a trial of speed. Strutt says that it was known as early as the time
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  • Hand-in-Hand-Out
    |Term=Hand-in-Hand-Out |Location=England
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  • 1819.4
    |Headline=In Hartford CT: Legislative Session Associated with Ball-playing? |Location=New England
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  • 1828c.4
    |Location=New England |Text=<p>Cyrus Bradley, born in 1818 in rural NH, refers in 1835 to his boyhood habit of playing ball.</p>
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  • Clipping:Cricket vs. baseball fielding and throwing
    ...im, but the others run sideways with the ball, coax it up and then jerk it in from under their arm with much show but little effect.</p>
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  • 1816.5
    |Headline=In "The Year Without a Summer," CT Lads Play Ball on Christmas Day |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:Collegians travel to England
    |Title=collegians travel to England ...>Mr. Chadwick's pet notion that the proper way to introduce base ball into England would be through gentleman amateur channels apparently has fallen into frui
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  • Block:English Baseball in Cumbria on February 1 1884
    |Title=English Baseball in Cumbria on February 1 1884 ...cut and dried exercise. Let all our old sports and pastimes be encouraged in schools.” </p>
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  • Baste Ball
    ...;s diary entry for 1786 (5 years before the first known use of "base ball" in the US), which reveals only that the game involves catching and hitting. &n ...of President Benjamin Harrison's teen years around 1850, and in Tennessee in 1874. &nbsp;Further input is welcome.</p>
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  • Crekettes
    ...he 14th Century. A German scholar thinks that this earlier game originated in the Franco-Flemish border area as early as 1150. We have no faint notion of
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  • 1205.1
    ...dn't use "ball" in those days.] The source does not say whether people in England used some other term for their rolling playthings prior to 1205.</p>
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  • Clipping:Types of football
    ...s, originally consisting of two mobs of men and boys trying to kick a ball in opposite directions.</p> ...rotopix) of soldiers playing football. The game of foot ball was banned in England and Scotland by King Richard II (1389), James II (1458) and Elizabeth I (15
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  • Clipping:The Beacon Club to disband?
    ...he Beacons. They have always caught in their net the best college players in this vicinity.</p>
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  • 1858c.57
    |Location=New England, ...was perhaps more responsible than anyone else for bringing the game to New England."</p>
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  • Tip-Cat
    ...nce. Failing that, another player replaces him. (A similar version appears in <em>The Boy&rsquo;s Handy Book</em>, but adds the feature that the fielding ...nd,&rdquo; whereas in about 1850 it had been confined to &ldquo;rustics on England.&rdquo; Richardson (1848) notes Tip-Cat&rsquo;s resemblance to [[Single-Wic
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  • 1755.5
    |Headline=Authoritative Rules of Cricket Published Nationally in England ...led by the Several Cricket-Clubs, Particularly that of the Star and Garter in Pall Mall</u> (London, 1755). </p>
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  • 1859.62
    |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Baseball Professionalism, Business of Baseball, Newspaper Cove ...s any more than professional card-players. We trust that the Eleven of All England are to have no imitators on this side of the ocean."</p>
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  • 1680.1
    ...of this tract sees the pamphlet as a tool used to trigger civil unrest in England, calling it "a mere <i>trap-stick</i> to bang the <i>Phanaticks</i> about."
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  • 1835c.16
    |Headline=Graduate Grimly Recalls Rounders at Greenwich School in England ...much curtailed, a poor game of rounders being the only source of amusement in that line."</p>
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  • Alpine Club of Bradford
    ...tion=Haverhill annexed Bradford in 1897.&nbsp; Bradford had 2014 residents in 1870. |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'',&nbsp; Oct. 29, 1868
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  • Jellal
    ...esembling “in some of its parts our old game of Rounders” as he knew it in England. There was hitting and “getting home,” but a difference that he noted w ...span>G. T. Lowth, </span><em>The Wanderer in Arabia; or, Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks</em><span> (Hurst and Blackett, London, 1855), pages 108-11
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  • In MA in 1815
    |Name=In MA in 1815 ..., and Was Confined First, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, on England, and Last, at Dartmoor Prison [Rowe and Hooper, Boston, 1816], p. 186. Per
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  • Beth Hise, February 2013
    ...d a paper on the English response to exhibition base ball games in England in the early 1900s.</p>
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  • 1829.2
    |Headline=Round Ball Played in MA |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:A condemnation of hippodroming; and a retraction
    ...somewhere, and the aforesaid dispatch opens the bag, and shows th “animal” in plan view. Gate money is what is the matter, as the following dispatch wil ...ome mere tools in th hands of speculators and the betting fraternity. New England Base Ballist October 22, 1868</p>
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  • 1200s.1
    |Headline=Bat and Ball Game Illustration Appears in English Genealogical Roll ...from a genealogical roll of the Kings of England up to Henry III, who died in 1269."</p>
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  • 1840s.30
    |Location=New England ...and bootmakers, of whom there were some in most villages, were the leaders in these games."</p>
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  • Clipping:Sending out of town for an umpire
    |Text=<p>Of late years, [John A. Lowell] has officiated as Umpire, in prominent games all over this section of the country, and several times he |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • Clipping:Horace Phillips goes to England
    |Title=Horace Phillips goes to England ...ects to return to Philadelphia during the Centennial, providing his duties in Liverpool do not detain him. He will be accompanied by J. J. Dunn, of Star
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  • 1784.2
    |Headline=Seymour Notation Adverts to Evidence that Town Ball Was Exported to England |Text=<p>"Rounders not a serious game until 1889 in Britain. But at least close resemblance. Evidence Town Ball introduced by
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  • Cat's Pallet
    |Location=England ...rd or in any streets of the this town, upon pain of . . . being imprisoned in the Doungeon for the space of two hours . . . . Thus, Gidigadie may be anot
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  • Clipping:The Bowdoin Club reconnoiters the New York play for updates
    ...then in their prime, to visit Boston and give our players a lesson or two in the game.</p> |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • 1793.1
    ...arly form of cricket, given the tall wicket which is not known for the New England pastime of wicket.</p>
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  • Elm Club of East Hartford
    |Description=East Hartford had 3007 residents in 1870 |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Aug. 27, 1868
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  • 1824.5
    |Location=New England ...the playing at ball or any game in which ball is used on the public common in front of Dartmouth College, set apart by the Trustees thereof among the pur
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  • Bittle-Battle
    ...[as such?]]]&nbsp; (but not described) in the famous 1086 Domesday Book in England. Some have claimed that this game resembled Stoolball:</p> <p>[A] In fact, Gomme [1894, ] describes Bittle-Battle as &ldquo;the Sussex game of &
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  • 1830.4
    |Location=New England ...</em> titled "Origin of Baseball. Mr. Mendum Played the Game in Portsmouth in 1830."<em> XXX request scan from John Thorn</em></p>
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  • Tribet
    |Location=Lancashire, England ...as the Lancashire version of [[Trap Ball]]. A game named Trypet is listed in a English-Latin dictionary from the 1300s.</p>
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  • Clipping:The manager of the colored Mutuals absconds
    ...rlow had all the funds in his keeping, and last night paid the hotel bills in Webster, where the nine played yesterday, and then dusted, leaving his fell
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  • The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball
    |Is in library=Yes |Is in main bibliography=No
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  • 1775.1
    |Headline=Soldier in CT "Played Ball All Day" |Location=New England
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  • 1813.1
    |Headline=Newburyport MA Reminder - "Playing Ball in the Streets" is Unlawful |Location=New England
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  • 1815c.2
    |Headline=US Prisoners of War in England Play Ball - at Great Peril, It Turned Out |Country=England
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  • 1790.9
    |Country=England ...elch. An All England club played in 5 matches, and the Mary-Le-Bone played in 9 matches. Three matches took 4 days, 8 took 3 days, 13 took two days, and
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  • In West Point in 1863
    |Name=in West Point in 1863 |Description=<p>Baseball was played by some cadets in 1863, according to army baseball historian Barrett Haight.</p>
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  • 1861.8
    |Location=New England |Text=<p>A club formed in Chester, VT.</p>
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  • Winnehassett Club of Woburn
    |Description=<p>In 1860 they played the New England game, 14 a side.</p> <p>Woburn had 8,560 residents in 1870.</p>
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  • Predecessor Games
    ...."&nbsp; You will note that he finds no pattern of prior use of 'rounders' in the US, even though many writers had suggested that that English pastime wa * First player to bat in an inning follows the player who made the third out last inning.
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  • Volunteer Club of Peabody
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Nov. 5, 1868 |First in Location=Peabody, MA
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  • Mystic Club of Marshfield
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Oct. 1, 1868 |First in Location=Marshfield, MA
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  • Minot Club of Cohasset
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Oct. 22, 1868 |First in Location=Cohasset, MA
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  • Spartan Club of Winthrop
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Nov. 5, 1868 |First in Location=Winthrop, MA
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  • 1861.2
    |Headline=Stoolball Played, in Co-ed Form |Country=England
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  • Monitor Club of West Amesbury
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Oct. 1, 1868 |First in Location=Amesbury, MA
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  • Clipping:Another defense of the New York game
    ...of the Massachusetts Convention are only acknowledged by some twenty clubs in Massachusetts. I give you a few of the points of the Massachusetts game, t ...ed dumpling. The New York ball weighs six ounces, and measures ten inches in circumference, and is nearly as hard as a cricket ball, as the crooked fing
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  • 1744.2
    |Country=England ...t-decoration: underline;">A Little Pretty Pocket-Book</span>, published in England, contains a wood-cut illustration showing boys playing "base-ball" and a rh
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  • Lightfoot Club of Enfield
    |Sources=<p>''New England Base Ballist'', Sept. 17, 24,&nbsp; 1868</p> |First in Location=Enfield, MA
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  • Clipping:Fitzgerald and the Athletics reconcile 2
    ...Umpire, which he did with the thorough impartiality and with but one error in interpreting the rules.</p> |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • Philadelphia Athletics v Boston Red Stockings on 24 August 1874
    ...eland took place in Dublin on 24 August 1874. Following a 12-game tour of England, two of America's most prominent clubs [Boston and Philadelphia] traveled t </p><p>Josh Chetewynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 206.
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  • 1790s.7
    |Headline=In Boston, "Boys Played Ball in the Streets?" |Location=New England
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  • Pecunet Club of Canton
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Sept. 24, 1868 |First in Location=Canton, MA
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  • National Club of Malden
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Aug. 27, 1868 |First in Location=Malden, MA
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  • Union Club of Belchertown
    |Sources=<p>''New England Base Ballist'', Sept. 17, 1868</p> |First in Location=Belchertown, MA
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  • Farmers Club of Falmouth
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Nov. 5, 1868 |First in Location=Falmouth, ME
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  • Clipping:An international match
    ...formerly pitcher in the Athletic Club, of Harlem, played his old position in this international affair.</p>
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  • Ocean Club of Swampscott
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'',&nbsp; Dec. 24, 1868 |First in Location=Swampscott, MA
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  • Wyoming Club of Nelson
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'',&nbsp; Dec. 3, 1868 |First in Location=Nelson, NH
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  • 1796.1
    |Headline=Gutsmuths describes [in German, yet] "Englische Base-Ball" |Location=England,
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  • Wide Awake Club of Sutton
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Sept. 24, 1868 |First in Location=Sutton, MA
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  • Most Wanted: A Special Chronology for Early Female Play?
    ...War.&nbsp; In contrast, there are nearly 30 cases of known female play in England for this period.&nbsp;</p> ...sp; One goal might be to fashion a Chronology on early women's ballplaying in the US.</p>
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  • Liberty Club of Litchfield, ME
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Nov. 5, 1868 |First in Location=Litchfield, ME
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  • 1858.35
    |Headline=New York Game Seen in Boston: Portland [ME] 47, Tri-Mountains 42. |Location=New England,
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  • ProtoPix:English Cricket Club in North America 1859
    |Source Image=English Cricket Club in North America 1859.jpg |Title=English Cricket Club in North America 1859
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  • Clipping:No money made in English; Athletic finances
    |Title=no money made in English; Athletic finances ...f the treasurer, Mr. Cragin, by which it appears that no money was made in England, but that the expenses were realized from different sources. The club now
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  • 1808.2
    |Headline=First Cricket Club in Boston is Established, Then Fades |Text=<p>The first formally organized cricket club is established in Boston, Massachusetts.</p>
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  • 1815.6
    |Location=New England ...the subject of nocturnal <i>cowhunting</i>, and the society was unanimous in condemning it." John King Lord, <u>A History of Dartmouth College 1815-190
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  • 1860c.26
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • Elm Tree Club of Boston
    ...n=<p>The Elm Tree Club of Boston was formed in 1855, playing under the New England/MA rules.</p>
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  • Base ball in Worcester in 1849
    |Name=base ball in Worcester in 1849 ...<p>"[O]utdoor amusements consist in the game of quoits, base ball, walking in parties . . . "
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  • 1825.3
    ...ock, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 191. Aspin's book reappeared in 1835 as <u>Ancient Customs, Sports, Pastimes of the</u> English, with the s
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  • 1780c.4
    |Headline="Round Ball" Believed to be Played in MA |Location=New England
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  • 1857.5
    |Headline=The Tide Starts Turning in New England - Trimountain Club Adopts NY Game |Location=New England,
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  • 1821.6
    |Headline=Fifty-cent Fine in New Bedford for Those Who Play at Ball |Location=New England
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  • 1658.1
    ...ls, John, <u>Illustrations of the Manners and Expences of Ancient Times in England</u> [London, 1797], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, pag
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  • 1837.11
    ...line="Wide Strike Zone" Fails to Level Lords-vs-Commoners Cricket Match in England ...s Folly," and notwithstanding the great odds against them, the Players won in a single innings by ten runs."</p>
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  • Active Club of Great Falls2
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Sept. 3, 1868 |First in Location=Great Falls, NH
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  • 1860.50
    |Location=New England ...to meet for a purse of $1000 in September at the Agricultural Fair Grounds in Worcester.</p>
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  • 1837.3
    |Location=New England ...er. I can't see where the ball is coming soon enough to put the ball-club in its way."</p>
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  • 1847.12
    |Location=New England ...that the boys attending the school, of the average age of seven years, had in their play of bat and ball, broken one of the neighbors windows, but no clu
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  • Green Mountain Club of Boston
    ...he Green Mountain Club of Boston was formed in 1856, playing under the New England/MA rules.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Leicestershire on August 19 1882
    |Title=English Baseball in Leicestershire on August 19 1882 ...rge outdoor gathering in Leicester, this time at a well-attended Church of England Sunday School Festival: “On arriving at the grounds, games of various kin
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  • 1615.1
    ...in the fall of 1615. <b>Note:</b> Ascertain the month, which is obscured in the online copy. Was location of play near what is now known as Baffin Isl
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  • 1859.23
    |Headline=Base Ball Would be Welcome in Lowell MA, Town of Factories |Location=New England
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  • Kickapoo Club of Thomaston
    ...ces=<p>Bangor ''Times-Record''/Bath ''Daily'', Aug. 31, 1868;&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>, Sept. 17, 1868</p> |First in Location=Thomaston, ME
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  • 1833.3
    |Country=England ...underline;">Sports and Pastimes of the People of England</span>, published in 1801.</p>
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  • 1768.1
    |Headline="Old Boys of Westminster" Play Harrow in Cricket |Country=England
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  • Clipping:Payment for freelance scouting
    ...then with Lynn, was about the heaviest batting infielder in New England. In a few days I received a telegram asking what his release would cost. I did ...gure for all I know, but I didn't care, as I said before, to waste my time in trying to find out. I considered my services wroth at least $100 for namin
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  • Bittle-Bat
    |Location=Sussex, England ...[Bittle-Battle]], also listed in this Glossary, which some see referred to in the hjistoric Domesday Book of 1086.</p>
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  • Clipping:A disagreement over when a foul ball is live
    ...een hit “foul,” to place it again in play, and that Mr. Rogers is slightly in error.</p>
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  • 1857.11
    |Location=New England, ...entry), this book uses a different illustration of boys playing ball than in the earlier book.</p>
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  • 1805.1
    |Location=New England ...all not be permitted to play at ball, or use any other sport or diversion, in or near the College Edifice, by which the same may be exposed to injury."</
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  • Sweden v US Olympic Club in Sweden in 1912
    |Name=Sweden v US Olympic Club in Sweden in 1912 ...al match, versus a team of Americans drawn from that country's competitors in the Olympics."</p>
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  • Clipping:Minor league club finances
    ...[Eastern New England League] pennant, has done better than all her rivals in the matter of dollars and cents. The manager of the Brocktons made a cost
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  • Clipping:Renewed talk of a Europe tour
    ..., they are earnestly discussing it, and, possibly, they may go over in May in a Philadelphia steamer!</p> ...nst them; they will also play cricket, as there are some very good players in the two nines.”</p>
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  • Wyoming Club of Melrose
    ...cription=<p>The&nbsp;<em>New York Clipper</em>, June 2, 1866;&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>, Sept. 10, 1868</p> |First in Location=Melrose, MA
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  • In Roxbury in 1850
    |Name=In Roxbury in 1850 |Description=A 1 on 1 SWC match in Roxbury, on the grounds of the New England Cricket Club
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  • Block:English Baseball in Northumberland on May 19 1894
    |Title=English Baseball in Northumberland on May 19 1894 ...upcoming North of England Temperance Festival to be held on the Town Moor in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland: “...it appears there will be military
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  • Trap Ball
    ...sing back of the ball toward the batter. Trap ball persists today in Kent, England, as a tavern game.</p> ...usland_Valley&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Rusland Valley</a><span>&nbsp;in North&nbsp;</span><a title="Lancashire" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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  • 1790s.6
    |Headline=Cricket as Played in Hamburg Resembled the U.S. Game of Wicket? ...overing cricket in England, the British Isles, or in Europe than there was in weights and measures." Rowland Bowen, <u>Cricket: A History of its Grown a
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  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 16 1881
    |Title=English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 16 1881 ...d the usual games, while the boys adjourned to a meadow . . . and indulged in cricket, base ball, races, and other rustic sports.”</p>
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  • 1840s.4
    |Location=New England ...the eastern academies introduced a version of baseball to college campuses in the 1840s and 1850s."</p>
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  • 1533.1
    ...> the first written reference to cricket was nearly 70 years in the future in 1533. Contributed by Beth Hise, January 12, 2010. <strong>Query:</strong>
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  • Round Cat
    ...played. One account identifies it as similar to [[Scrub]] as played in New England.</p>
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  • Olympic Club of Boston
    ...he game accounts from 1853, 1855 and 1856. Earliest match game is reported in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Boston Daily Bee</em>, Sept. 8, 1853. [ba]</p> ...ummer of 1854. Mr. Arnold took an active part in organizing the same. [New England Base Ballist, Aug. 27, 1868--see Hershberger clippings]</span></p>
    2 KB (319 words) - 07:24, 8 January 2022
  • Club of Hudson, WI
    |Sources=<p>Prescott (WI)&nbsp;<em>Journal</em>, May 29, 1868;&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>,&nbsp; Dec. 24, 1868</p> |First in Location=Hudson, WI
    498 bytes (74 words) - 13:37, 10 November 2023
  • Clipping:Baseball and rounders; the upcoming English tour
    ...requiring manly pluck and endurance, and mental judgment and intelligence, in as many hours as cricket requires days.</p>
    2 KB (380 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Scouts
    ...him Anson may be able to pick out the best man in this League. Then, out in the Western League, “Ans” gets his tips from orator Shaffer.</p>
    1,014 bytes (173 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
  • 1797.4
    |Country=England ...ool-ball, between 11 Ladies of Sussex, in Pink, against 11 Ladies of Kent, in Blue Ribands."</p>
    729 bytes (99 words) - 20:47, 5 December 2018
  • 1793.5
    |Headline=Lady Cricketers Play Again in Sussex |Country=England
    909 bytes (126 words) - 06:59, 22 June 2022
  • 1806.1
    |Country=England ...in Baltimore,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Children in the Wood</span>, wanndered into a Briotish town where children were playing
    1,018 bytes (149 words) - 06:12, 28 January 2020
  • 1859.12
    |Headline=MA Championship: Unions 100, Winthrop 71, in 101 Innings |Location=New England
    978 bytes (141 words) - 21:37, 14 October 2015
  • 1858.64
    ...was undoubtedly the descendant of the game of the same name long played in England.</p>
    709 bytes (103 words) - 18:36, 9 May 2015
  • 1815.8
    ...ine=Eyewitness On the Massacre of Seven U.S Soldiers at Dartmoor Prison in England |Country=England
    2 KB (373 words) - 09:31, 31 January 2020
  • Goal Ball
    ...l but two are found before 1850.&nbsp; A new reference to the game "gould" in 2020 may denote the same game (see [[1854.23]]).</p> ...l" for "base" is consistent with Robin Carver's 1834 inclusion of the term in&nbsp;</span><em>The Book of Sports</em><span>. One must be cautious about a
    3 KB (456 words) - 08:33, 8 July 2022
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