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|Name=Ballgame in Modlin on 30 May 1919 |Country=Poland

|Title=a catcher's glove manufacturer ...so that in the years which have followed the German and his wife have made a small fortune. Snyder's visit to that little room on that spring morning n

...g by a quarter of a mile broad–is to be placed in fielding condition early in April for the use of the school and academy clubs of Brooklyn, and amateur ...and will not only be the largest, but one of the best-kept grounds in the country. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch March 17, 1872</p>

|Country=United States ...rted fellows roll, one over another, in a wrestling match, a foot race, or a party at base ball are the leading variations on the more formal duties of

|Title=a German language baseball column ...s. It is done because a great many German citizens are taking an interest in the new Club.</p>

|Title=a description of the Cuban Giants ...playing, and, from a spectative point of view, it is one of the best teams in the city to see., quoting the New York Sun</p>

|Title=a proposed round robin tournament for the championship ...lity each year. National Chronicle March 12, 1870 [see also NC 4/2/70 for a refinement to this proposal.]</p>

...season) he was transformed while in the box from a cool-headed general to a nervous and excited amateur. He was afraid to use his deceptive inshoot fo

|Country=United States ...om Childress ...Less than a month later, in July, the Amarillo team hosted a series of games against Roswell [NM]."</span></p>

...e the nerve to keep it up all the season round. Een the Phillies weakened in sliding as the season advanced last year.</p>

|Name=Ball in Fort Smith in January 1864 |Country=United States

|Name=in Broadview in 1883 |Country=Canada

...e end of the season. Cincinnati Enquirer July 4, 1882 [N.B. The purpose in cutting the ball was to force its being replaced.]</p> ...000. The managers propose to double this next season in order to secure a first-class nine. Philadelphia Times July 9, 1882</p>

...of misfortune was one of the most esteemed and worthy ball-players in the country.</p>

|Headline=Stoolball Played, in Co-ed Form |Country=England

|Title=Tut Ball in Staffordshire on January 4 1924 ...precluded the possibility of providing other apparatus than a penny ball.” A description of the game then followed.</p>

|Name=Ballgame in Hualien in 1921 |Country=Taiwan

|Title=dissension in the Baltimore Club ...next, it is to be hoped that the Boston club will be sent home with a flea in its ear.</p>

|Headline="A Balk Is A Base" |Country=United States

|Name=Amarillo team v Childress team in 1899 |Country=United States

|Name=Midland v Colorado in Midland on 22 July 1890 |Country=United States

...1859 -- State Championship Wicket Game in Connecticut: A Hearty Hurrah for a Doomed Pastime |Is in library=Yes

|Title=a proposal to give a base hit on a sacrifice ...sacrifice hitting credits, would met the approval of every manager in the country.</p>

|Headline=Hawkeyes beat Suckers in Corinth, MS |Country=United States

|Title=Ted Sullivan a League scout ...ball organizations. He is probably the best judge of a ball player in the country...</p>

|Name=in Seoul on 23 October 1894 |Country=Korea

...on its outskirts runs a small stream which finds it way from the mountains in the distance. The Sporting Life November 3, 1886 [N.B. This appears to b

...hey would not support a picayunish management. We are free to say this is a mistake, and believe it will be corrected. Cincinnati Enquirer May 15, 187 ...simply carrying out a policy practiced in every other city where there is a Club. Cincinnati Enquirer May 16, 1877</p>

|Title=a country catcher and the chest protector ...ith a sharp foul tip. Once more he took a drop and has been catching with a mask ever since. St.</p>

|Country=United States ...s think it no harm to play Ball, Draughts, or play the Fiddle and dance of a Sunday . . . "</p>

|Title=a proposal for a minor league convention to reduce salaries ...hand at once, they will vote themselves the most royal band of “producers” in the land. The Sporting Life August 22, 1888</p>

|Name=in Jayapura in 1944 |Country=Indonesia

|Name=in Madrid on 5 July 1918 |Country=Spain

|Headline=Sunday Ballplaying Eyed Everywhere: "Is This a Christian Country?" ...e upper end of Pearl-street; and a third in the Park. Is this a Christian country? Are there no laws, human or divine, to enforce the religious observance o

|Name=in Illiopolis in 1868 |Country=United States

|Title=organization and finances of a western tour ...en let the remainder of the nine travel around and have their fun with the country clubs.</p>

|Is in library=No |Is in main bibliography=No

|Title=a resume of Wright & Ditson ...d his firm has control of nearly all lawn tennis appurtenances of any note in the United States and Canada.</p>

|Name=in Djibouti in 2004 |Country=Djibouti

|Title=desparate for a catcher ...tinger says he will give any manager in the country a bonus of$1,000 for a first-class catcher, and will pay the catcher himself an increase on present sala

...anufacture a ball of the kind. We hope to learn that the name on the ball in question has been fraudulently used; if not, we shall feel called upon to e

|Headline=Scottish Dictionary Calls "Cat and Dog" a Game for Three |Country=Scotland

...s services. It is a great deal easier to win games in the fall and winter in the imagination and on paper than it is on the field during the next season

|Headline=First Known Picture of Cricket Appears ...2 feet wide and 1 foot tall, with two stumps and a single bail." Received in an email from John Thorn, 2/1/2008. Source:</p>

|Headline=Base Ball in Melbourne? |Country=Australia

|Title=the Mutuals can't buy a pennant; managing a professional nine ...he organization he plays with. Until this is done, no club may expect tow in with their nine, no matter who the players are or what their celebrity who

...am at home and abroad. They are in use in all the base-ball cities in the country.</p>

...ccordingly laid his wires to get even on the St. Louis gentleman. He kept a sharp lookout for his players while at home.</p> ...reatened with expulsion. He had been doing the town the night before with a young friend from Philadelphia and did not care to play any ball.</p>

..."indoor baseball." There is a single&nbsp;base to run to, scoring by runs, a three-out-side-out rule, and no foul ground. Plugging is allowed.</p> ...nd England, <em>Schlagball</em> in Germany and Silesia and <em>Palant</em> in Poland.</p>

|Title=A Century of Philadelphia Cricket |Author=Lester, J. A.

|Headline=11th MA and 26th PA Play by Mass Game Rules for $50 a Side. ...oted: &lsquo;we have four clubs in our brigade, and there are several more in the division.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>

...$1000 rule is abominable. For instance, a $2500 player an be reserved by a club for $1000, and if he is dissatisfied he has no redress whatever, and i

|Name=Old Cat?? in Milwaukee in 1836 |Country=United States

|Name=in Kenitra in 1943 |Country=Morocco

|Title=Pize Ball in West Yorkshire on August 9 1879 ...en played according to rule—and it is seldom played otherwise—it is a game in which spectators take almost an equal interest with the participants.”</p

|Name=in Tama on 4 July 1871 |Country=United States

|Name=Ballgame in Spain in 1889 |Country=Spain

|Title=a proposal to eliminate the recording of errors ...y beat the record of the best catcher in the country. The error column is a constant source of jealousy among players, and causes more internal dissens

|Country=United States ...on running must be put out by being hit with the ball when he is more than a pace from his pace, etc."</span></p>

{{Other First |Name=First Known Interstate Challenge of a Men's Team by a Female Team

...d a herculean game in which a cannonball was hurled into one of nine holes in the ground.&rdquo;</p> ...ment involved.<strong> Note:</strong> can we locate the article? There was a juvenile English game called None Holes.</p>

|Country=United States ...fair, provided full pitched balls be sent in, as it is neither a jerk nor a throw, and what is neither one nor the other is fair pitching, according to

|Country=United States ...l on the comon, their would be an other class piching quaits, an other set a wrestling."&nbsp;</p>

|Title=a proposal for a professional championship tournament ...The idea is to have a week’s play in which the four leading clubs of the country would meet each other, thereby playing six games, the winner of the greates

...District - dating back centuries and, by the 1920s, the game of Palant had a popular following.”</p> ...t [Pilka Palantowa] as the Silesian game played in Jamestown VA in 1609 by a small group of Polish craftsmen.</p>

|Title=winter baseball in Florida ...fe of ease and comfort in a beautiful climate with expenses guaranteed and a good profit assured. Besides base ball, the park will be used for bicycle,

|Name=in Tbilisi in 1987 |Country=Georgia

...es as the older players grow rust and drop out, as they invariably must in a certain number of seasons. St.</p>

|Name=Athlete Club of Princeton, IN |Country=United States

|Title=a record crowd; clearing the field ...The excitement was intense throughout and it appeared to be bordering on a riot at one time.</p>

...hronicle of Sports and Pastimes March 12, 1868 (see issue of 3/19/1868 for a long description of the scoring method.)</p>

|Title=a pickpocket at the Fashion Course game ..., alias Jackson, alias “Squib Nickson,” was discovered on the ground, with a professional companion, and both were arrested on suspicion.</p>

|Name=In Boston in 1854 |Country=United States

...icap shall bring them on an equality. ... The League, as it now stands, is a powerful and self-asserting minority. The League should be an overwhelming

|Title=A Short History of Baseball in Miami and Miami Beach |Is in library=No

|Country=United States |State=IN

...dom carry with them the sympathy or good wishes of the lovers of base ball in any city which they may visit.</p>

|Title=the definition of a home run ...o the in field. We have thus explained this matter for the benefit of our country readers.</p>

|Headline=12th Kansas plays ball in Fort Smith ...trong writes about camp entertainment in his journal on January 14th, 1864 in Fort Smith, AR:</p>

...en let the remainder of the nine travel around and have their fun with the country-clubs.</p>

|Name=in Sulaymaniyah Circa 1970 |Country=Iraq

|Title=A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870 |Author=Adelman, M. A.

|Name=Predecessor Game in Lowell in 1859 |Country=United States

...be four cities in the country which can pay the salaries and retain a team in the League.</p>

|Headline=Town-ball in IN Later [and Vaguely?] Recalled |Country=United States

...some points. The Sporting Life October 22, 1884 [see also TSL 841029 for a response that the problem was Thompson’s mismanagement.]</p>

|Name=in Guyana in 2012 |Country=Guyana

|Headline=President's Peace Medal Depicts Baseball Game in Background |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Famous, Images,

|Country=England ...xt-decoration: underline;">The Children in the Wood</span>, wanndered into a Briotish town where children were playing at trap and ball.</p>

|Text=<p>"BASE BALLS. Manner and Extent of the Manufacture in this Country - How they were Made Fifty Years Ago - Gradual Progress of the Business," < ...s. A blow with the bat would not drive them so far as one of the balls now in use can be driven with the same force, but when they struck the ground they

|Headline=Indiana Regiment plays Town Ball in NC ...engaged in a game of town-ball, and exhibiting as much spirit and dash as a young blood of twenty five..."</p>

|Name=in Wrangell on 4 July 1915 |Country=United States

|Headline="Struck a Ball Over the (163-foot) Weather-cock" in New York |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1988/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|First Newspaper Mention=1860/04/02 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Headline=Soldier in TN asks sister to send him a baseball ...going to send the Ball." I have another letter to document this is clearly in regard to baseball!</p>

|Country=United States ...a gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied; a bar or rod, used in playing wicket."</p>

|Title=1755 -- 'The Bat and Ball;' A Distinct Game or a Generic Term? |Is in library=Yes

|Is in library=No |Is in main bibliography=No

|Title=a correction to Rule Ten ...adopted, the whole of Rule 10, as printed, being thrown out. The Doctor, in his communication, says:–“The rule, as adopted by the Convention, and w

|Title=a collegiate professional ...country nine, which defeated some of the best amateur clubs of the country in 1885 and 1886., quoting the Baltimore Herald</p>

|Title=A Grassroots History of Baseball: Days of the Rosewood Bat and teh Silver Bal |Is in library=No

{{Other First |Name=First Interscholastic Ball Game

|Country=United States ...pan>"behind," three basemen, a shortstop (the inventor Adams himself), and a</span><br /><span>pitcher, their opponents elected to use no shortstop and

|Title=a wager that there is no such thing as a curve ball ...t of the ball, this gentleman says , the laws of philosophy teach him that a curve can not be produced, and as the pressure of the air is equal on every

|Name=in Miles City in 1884 |Country=United States

|Title=Thorner on putting a NL club in Cincinnati ...acsimile of the Lucas Union Park in St. Louis, for which we have the plans in our possession. The Sporting Life September 16, 1885</p>

|Name=round or base ball in Barre in 1848 |Country=United States

...and next season these clubs will be able to hold their own with any in the country. Philadelphia Times September 10, 1882</p> <p>a high delivery</p>

|Title=a late assessment of cricket as a threat to baseball ...ct that cricket threatens, and dangerously threatens, its supremacy in the country.</p>

...game of base ball, and that not forty eight hours after they stood hemmed in by the rebels..."</p> |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1871/06/17 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

...ston," and for a long while they were the only club in this section of the country. It seemed hard to give up the old game, but the motto of the Tri-Mountain

|Name=in West Point in 1863 |Country=United States

|Headline=A Pitcher, a Catcher and a Batter in a Golf History Book? |Country=Belgium

|Name=In Pownal on 5 May 1853 |Country=United States

|Headline=Confederate POWs in Indianapolis play base ball |Location=IN

|Country=England ...ikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed. <strong><br /></strong></p>

|Name=In Dalton in April 1864 |Country=United States

|Name=In Brooklyn in 1838 |Country=United States

...e capable of seating comfortably 5000 or 6000 persons. There will also be a handsome green-house upon the grounds, where visitors will be able at all t ...grounds will be a first-class restaurant, which will be conducted in such a manner as to gratify the most fastidious taste, and nothing objectionable w

|Headline=Wicket Described in February <u>Porter&#39;s</u> |Country=United States

...ess of the game, and it was a pity that he could not have been arrested as a tramp, and removed to this proper apartments., quoting the Cincinnati Enqui

|Name=YMCA Team from Prague v YMCA Team from Pilsen in 1920 |Country=Czech Republic

...listed men. They played ball in the morning and in the afternoon organized a burlesque parade which was very comical&rdquo; [page 56].</p> ...xperienced and skillful base ball player and took the lead in inaugurating a series of games of base ball&rdquo; [page166].</p>

|Country=United States |Text=<p>"The Newburg boys excel in running bases with bottles of soda-water, sucking<br />as they run."</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1872/06/22 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Name=in New Albany in February 1861 |Country=United States

...ds, an alliance, offensive and defensive, between them was organized. The country is big enough and rich enough for both to exist.</p>

...on of Keystone Park, they promise to put the strongest nine in the country in that city next season. St.</p>

...ganization in the country, by the way, which has not adopted the stockings in their “make up.</p>

|Name=In Fredericton in 1845 |Country=Canada

|Title=English Baseball in Lancashire on July 23 1890 ...lves in a variety of games--including football, cricket, and base ball--in a field kindly placed at their disposal by the host and hostess."</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1859/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Country= ...ctice, though I am not sure that any amount of practice would have made me a perfect ball-player.</p>

|Country=United States ...Otherwise the very first time he happens to be unfortunate in his play at a match, he can, under the by-laws of his club, be either suspended or expell

|Country=United States ...emocrat</em> says Sparta "has a good base ball club--the Eagle Club. It is a new organization and came near to beating the Intrepids of this city, on th

|Name=Ballgame in Denmark in 1978 |Country=Denmark

|Headline=A Form of Cricket |Country=United States

|Name=in Natal in 1944 |Country=Brazil

|Name=In Logansport in 1859 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...ty, and the "Stars," of Lockport. Our boys, though of a tender age, played a splendid game and came off victorious."</p>

|Title=A Manly Pastime -- A Blog by John Zinn |Is in library=No

|Country=England <p>A cricket historian describes an early attribute of cricket"</p>

...sal is not carried out now, we'll move it at the next Base Ball Convention in New York.</p>

|Title=the pecuniary aspect of a grand tour ...d, which cost the club several thousand dollars, but they neither received a cent of the receipts at the gate on any one occasion, nor allowed any club

|Name=Ballgame in Luxembourg in 2002 |Country=Luxembourg

|Name=Franklins v picked nine in Clarendon Hills on 16 June 1874 |Country=United States

|Title=a dissent on the prevalence of underhand throwing ...otherwise impart the peculiar movement to the ball that he does, and it is a clean toss, having very little “pitch” about it.</p>

...=Team of the American legation in Budapest v Team of the American legation in Belgrade on 4 July 1922 |Country=Hungary

|Title=that Atlantics place a man at the ticket office while on tour ...d to allow the Nationals to handle the gate money by placing their own men in the office and at the gate. quoting the Albany Express</p>

{{Other First |Name=First Black-White Game

...sly, but the fact remained that he soaked more men than any pitcher in the country.</p>

|Title=A History of Scranton Professional Baseball 1865-1953 |Is in library=No

|Country=United States ...turn game. "The game was 31 points, best two in three. There were eight on a side."</p>

|Name=in Nome in 1908 |Country=United States

|Name=in Kearney in 1875 |Country=United States

|Headline=Town Ball club formed by Ohio Regiment in West Virginia ...es hugely. We have a town-ball club organized and a splendid field to play in. ..."</p>

|Headline=Soildiers play "Baste ball" in Virginia |Country=United States

|Title=the 'crank' as a dangerous lunatic ...until he had safely lodged him in the hands of the police, when he made to a looking-glass to see the color of his hair. St., quoting an unnamed exchan

|Country=United States ...on Joplin baseball history, mostly 1890s on. In the first mention, in 1883 a tornado destroyed Joplin's Cox Baseball Park. Team owner (and local banker)

|Title=excitement over a Mutual-Atlantic match ...ered to witness a base-ball contest, numbering from 18,000 to 20,000, were in attendance.</p>

|Country=United States ...otting horse race park, aka Beacon Park. It was situated in Allston, today a neighborhood of Boston, on the Charles River, bounded by Cambridge St. on t

|Country=United States <p><strong>First Game Between Opposing Clubs</strong></p>

|Name=in Brandon in 1884 |Country=Canada

|Country=United States <p>(Attributed to a visiting editor of the&nbsp;<em>Cleveland Banner.)</em></p>

...we have before us the prospect of a revival among amateur organization on a par with the brilliant amateur season of 1860.</p>

|Title=a proposal for a joint stock Cincinnati Club; Chicago's advances on Jones and Hallinan ...of this from no knowledge, and state it only as a possibility, and not as a probability; for it seems impossible that the Club can go through the seas

|Country=United States |State=IN

{{Other First |Name=First Known Lady Umpire

|Name=in Helena in August 1873 |Country=United States

...or the double play, but by taking it on the fly, they give a man on a base a chance of running for another after the fly is taken, which would be stoppe

...ularly noticeable, and this is one of the most puzzling peculiarities that a batter can encounter. Indianapolis Journal June 27, 1878</p> <p>a home run through the fence; ground rule double for balls over the fence</p>

|Country=Cayman Islands |Description=<p>In the 2010 Little League Caribbean Regional, a club from George Town, Cayman Islands, competed.</p>

|Name=Ballgame in Rockford in June 1859 |Country=United States

|Title=Cleveland NL players jump to Cincinnati UA; talk of a lawsuit ...ue will back us up. It looks now, however, as if Cleveland would not have a base-ball club next year. St., quoting the Cincinnati Enquirer</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1865/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Name=in Lakeland Circa 1885 |Country=United States

...o. He has evidently got his hands full to keep the western section of the country into line.</p>

|Headline="Poisoned Ball" Appears in French Book of Games |Country=

{{Other First |Name=First Games Played by Unsighted Players

...is strength commences to fail, he is batted heavily. Bob needs to keep in first-rate physical condition to do himself justice, and he seems to have been so ...ground was there under a false impression, viz., that they were to witness a championship game. The real nature of the affair had not been made known v

{{Other First |Name=Batters' "Hits" First Appear in a Game Report

|Name=Ballgame in Tainan in 1910 |Country=Taiwan

|Title=a question from a country club about fly balls |Text=<p>WHEN A FLY BALL CEASES TO BE A FLY BALL</p>

|Name=in St. Louis in 1875 |Country=United States

...n the United States. The paths will not be slippery and nothing less than a genuine flood will wet them so as to make the unfit for use. By this arran ...ere we expect to gain on the other clubs, “says Lew Simmons. “We can play in the rain just as well as the best of weather, and we do not intend to disap

|Headline=Drawing Shows 1st NJ Artillery Playing Ball Game on a Diamond ...1^st NJ Artillery formed at Hoboken NJ in 1861. It fought mostly in Virginia, and its winter camp for &rsquo;63-&rsquo;64 was near Brandy Stati

|Title=English Baseball in London/Suffolk on August 29 1874 ...goes on to explain how the game was played in Suffolk, an account that is, in some aspects, plausible.</p>

|Headline=Fictional Mom Recalls Liking to Bat Ball as a Girl |Country=United States

|Country=Argentina ...f the Argentina capital, and the were visited for a series of six games by a team from Sao Paolo, Brazil."</p>

|Name=Ballgame in Panama in 1946 |Country=Panama

|First Newspaper Mention=1874/06/11 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Name=in Cedar Lake in 1884 |Country=United States

|Headline="Homer" Used to Reference A Home Run in Baltimore Paper |Country=United States

.... For Barkley to win would be the death blow to the greatest sport in the country.</p>

|Country=United States ...a game of base ball at Anaheim, yesterday, beat the club of that place by a score of 33 to 7."</p>

|Name=in Waltham in August 1857 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ...turn game. "The game was 31 points, best two in three. There were eight on a side."</p>

|Country=United States ...of the gentlemanly apothecary, who had not anticipated such unceremonious a carronade."</p>

|Name=In Belle Plaine in 1863 |Country=United States

|Name=in Winter Park in May 1887 |Country=United States

|Name=In Washington in 1862 |Country=United States

|Country=United States ..."a hurriedly picked nine of Las Cruces", only recently organized, lost to a visiting El Paso club 41-14.</p>

|Title=Spalding appointed agent in England for the Athletic Club ...d also in a pecuniary point of view. The directors were instructed to pay a portion of Mr. Spalding’s expenses, and await the result of his report.

|Title=a proposed championship tourney ...ctor of the week's play be proclaimed the champion club, and provided with a symbol which it will retain.</p>

{{Other First |Name=First Reported Scholastic Cricket Clubs

|Name=In Exeter in 1853 |Country=United States

...On the 25th ult., two muffin nines of the [Excelsior and Putnam] clubs had a match together...</p>

|Country=United States |Text=<p>A detailed comparison of base ball and cricket appeared in the&nbsp;</p>

|Tags=Ball in the Culture, |Country=United States

|Name=In Wilkes-Barre in 1834 |Country=United States

|Country=Bosnia ...ports that a little league team was started in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1999.</p>

|Headline=Played ball "in a new way" ..." p. 170, entry of March 23, 1863, Falmouth: "Played ball with the 26th in a new way."</p>

|Title=English Baseball in Kent, Surrey on July 19 1890 ...cricket, base ball, cocoanuts, quoits, and many other games being indulged in by the company.” </p>

|Headline=The First Uniforms in US Baserunning Games? |Country=United States

|Name=in Riverdale in 1881 |Country=United States

{{Other First |Name=First mention of Negro Baseball in Arkansas

|Country=United States ...p. 333, says that Oakland had a Live Oak BBC in 1866, and a Wide Awake BBC in 1867.</p>

..., Troy and Cleveland, there is scarcely a toss up as regards a choice: but in reference to the degree of training, discipline and harmonious work, the Bo ...at 12 o’clock, and the beneficial result of this regime is so marked that in games with undisciplined clubs, although comprised frequently of much older

|Country=United States ...ns College played a baseball game against Stetson University of DeLand, FL in 1890.</p>

...ball they can get, leaving to muffer batsmen the boyish sport of knocking a lively ball over the heads of out-fielders.</p> ...Mutual and all the first-class clubs, and is the most durable and the best in the market.</p>

...The Chicago club is the only one in the country that furnishes any kind of a score-card free.</p>

|Headline=Too Cold for Baseball in Confederate Camp ...Infantry: "Up to a week ago ball playing was quite in vogue, but it is now a little too cold for this kind of recreation..."&nbsp;</p>

|Headline=Baseball in English Dictionary |Country=England

|Country=United States ...=<div dir="ltr">The Story of a Cannoneer under Stonewall Jackson by Edward a. Moore.</div>

...nnot succeed in taking out pick of our present players with us, it will go a long ways towards keeping us just where we are.</p>

|Name=In Lafayette in 1869 |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1873/04/18 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Country=United Arab Emirates ...01">https://gc.com/t/fall-2017/abu-dhabi-phoenix-59263541921e0e91c4000001</a></p>

|Title=a pitch machine ...with those thrown with the spring. The inventors will probably apply for a patent.</p>

...ball has taken a firm hold upon the American people, and it is has become a necessity to publish full scores and ample descriptions of contests to sati

|Headline=In NC, Negroes Face 15 Lashes for Ballplaying |Country=United States

|Name=in Montgomery in May 1865 |Country=United States

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/05/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

...the matter whether advancing to the outmost base results in the scoring of a run.&nbsp;</p> ...blished over many years in the local paper, which were themselves based on a series of oral-history interviews conducted at the behest of the school sup

...of a couple of thousand people. On days when games were played he invited a number of friends from the city and at the conclusion of the game they were

|Country=United States ...quo; match game a few days since. Will come up and have you bump our shins a &ldquo;half string,&rdquo; some day.</p>

|Title=London Dictionary Defines "Baseball" in 1768 ..."base": "A rural play, called also Baseball; as, Lads more like to run the country base. Shakesp."</p>

|Title=English Baseball in Suffolk on August 30 1924 ..., cricket, skipping, base ball, and racing for money, were freely indulged in, the hunting for hidden treasures causing much fun.”</p>

|Title=a player dishonorably working a base on balls? ...in that manner. There is an honorable and honest way of playing ball, and a dishonorable, tricky style. We must say that we prefer the former. New Yo

|Country=United States ...bring;/ Come, my brave Yankee boys, there's room enough for all,/ So join in Uncle Samuel's sport - the pastime of base ball."</p>

|Country=United States ...a good old fashioned game of base ball, and then a capital dinner at which A. M. C. Smith presided."</p>

|Country=United States ...of a rudimentary type of base-ball, a crooked stick was used as a bat and a&nbsp; ball made of yarn took the place of the common ball now used."&nbsp;<

|Headline=British POWs Linger in Colonies -- Did They Help Sew Base Ball's Seeds? |Country=United States

...to make, and if the club has as good a year as last it will show a balance in the club's favor of from $10,000 to $12,000 at the end of the season, espe

|Country=Guatemala ...ccer team in 1910. When the Hercules Club shifted its emphasis to baseball in 1910, Arturo also took up this foreign sport ..."</p>

|Title=a scheme for a collegiate English tour ...ade up of gentlemen, which would tend to boom our National game in another country. The Sporting Life May 16, 1888</p>

|Country=United States ...ing team. The Boise team played on the 18th and lost to Baker City 7 to 2. A team from Pendleton, Oregon also competed.</p>

|Headline=In Recession, Doughty Ex-Workers Play Ball, Leave Town for Home ...laughed at their misfortunes, marched through the streets, played ball for a day and as soon as possible exchanged the shoe-shop for the farm house."</p