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...f the leading merchants and their clerks, had a game of good old-fashioned base ball on Sheriff Brown's premises, makai..."</p> ...(Castle) introduced the new baseball game to Hawaii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".</p>

|Headline=Chadwick Agrees: The Parent of Base Ball is Two-Old-Cat . . . Not English Rounders, After All? |Game=Base Ball,Two-Old-Cat,Cricket

...e pic-nic ground, makai of the Stone Church, where, after a few appetizing games of ball, they sat down to a sumptuous repast..."</p> ...xander Cartwright. It is likely, but not certain, that the game played was base-ball and not some predecessor game such as wicket, which was known in the I

...description&nbsp;closest to base ball and cricket -- resembling the o'cat games with two or four or six players -- but it employs a&nbsp;section of animal ...illughby</span>'s Book of Games: A Seventeenth Century Treatise on Sports, Games, and Pastimes</span> [Ashgate Publishing, 2003], p. 182; see item [[1672c.2

|Description=<p>From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat"</p> ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

...will have to get along without the services of O'Rourke for three or four games. The great catcher will have more important business on hand than ball pla ...Bridgeport as soon as the season closes next Fall, but he will not give up base ball for a year or two yet. When he does he expects to go into politics.</

...ith the ball he was crossed out, the ball being thrown between him and the base. In other respects it was similar to the present popular and national game.

|Sources=<p><span>Stewart Culin, "Street Games of Boys in&nbsp;</span>Brooklyn,&nbsp;N.Y.<span>,"&nbsp;</span><em>Journal ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

...o last season beat all records by making fifteen home runs in championship games... The Philadelphia Evening Item March 29, 1884</p> ...ere are several of them that are excellent. The one giving the batter his base when hit by the pitcher is a good one I suppose I suffered more in this re

...the grand stand, and boys in unfiroms will sell the sweetmeats during the games. The Sporting Life February 16, 1887</p> ...Mr. Caylor. O. P. Continues to be a member of the staff and will dispense base ball comfort from New York as the season wears on. The Sporting Life Febru

|Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 1867 volume,&nbsp;a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel

|Game=Base Ball |Text=<p>[A] "BASE BALL. A closely contested game of base ball was played in Grafton on Friday afternoon last, between the Hassanamis

...n the children sat down to tea on the lawn. The repast being finished, the games resumed."</p>

...idge House in Hertfordshire: "After tea, various games, including croquet, base-ball, &c., were indulged in, and the excursionists left Aubray for their re

|Headline=Halliwell&#39;s 960-Page Dictionary Cites Base-ball, Rounders, Tut-ball ...ll was not a fan of sport. <b>Note:</b> can a list of the other safe-haven games be made?</p>

...ll also be canoe and boat races, Quoits and base ball, foot ball and other games and amusements too numerous to mention."</p>

...rting the various out-door games usual on such occasions, such as cricket, base-ball, swinging, jumping, &c., which were kept up with great spirit till abo

...ned to the field, where they again joined in the games, including cricket, base-ball, swings, &c., until eight o'clock.”</p>

|Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 10 November 1854 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Description=<p>"Base Ball Club-The Second Nine of the 'Fair Play Club,' of Easton has challenged ...lub.-Lovers of health-giving exercise have now an opportunity of joining a Base Ball Club, proposed to be formed in this town. A meeting will be held this

|Title=a passed ball less discreditable than a stolen base for the catcher ...er has no choice in the matter. Such drops are passed balls, and a stolen base cannot be scored on such a battery error.</p>

...ced here that the franchise would be sold and the players as well, and the base ball business, so far as Cleveland is concerned, closed out. Baltimore dec

...hird when he saw his mistake. The big hit, therefore, availed Orr only one base.</p>

|Name=Stonewall Base Ball Club of Edgefield ...dealer, on Church street. This promises to be one of the most interesting games of the season."</p>

...up as such against a pitcher. In one of the recent Cleveland or Brooklyn games this very play came up. O'Neill and White allowed a ball to come down betw

...the name of common sense the public should be bored with long accounts of games between companies of boys I can't imagine. The mass of the people care jus

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 ...of Whitehall, N.Y., who do not consider a prize match as tending to reduce base ball to &ldquo;the level of the prize ring,&rdquo; me to play for a prize b

...at “arrived at the meadow, various games such as archery, cricket, racing, base ball, &c. were freely indulged in, and at four o'clock the children were re

|Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 17 November 1854 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Field=Medway, Mass. (other four games)

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball,&rdquo; PSOT, vol. 1, no. 10 (8 Nov 1856), p. 165, col. 2</p>

|Title=Mullane charged with throwing games; the status of the Cincinnati Enquirer; Mullane's unpopularity ...cle charging five players of the Cincinnati Base Ball Club with “throwing” games. The only player against whom direct evidence is offered is “Tony” Mul

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball,&rdquo; SOT, vol. 25, no. 43 (8 Dec 1855), p. 511, col. 3</p>

|Title=Cincinnati Club ownership; reasons for selling; Caylor, Sunday games |Text=<p>The Cincinnati Base-Ball Club has been sold to Aaron Stern, a wealthy merchant in this city, wh

...the Jenny Lind, “the grounds being reached, cricket, base ball, and other games were engaged in until five o'clock, when the ample tea provided was found b

|Game=Base Ball, ...DWAY. . . . The game commenced at 1 o'clock, and was to be the best 3 in 5 games, of 25 tallies each. A large crowd collected to witness the game, among who

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball at Oberlin, O.,&rdquo; NYC, [?] July 1860.&nbsp;Tholkes RIM</p>

...gs. The game is played without gloves and, perhaps unique among safe-haven games, batted balls caught in the air are not outs.</p> ...stic sheaths, the layout of the pitch, especially the location of the last base; and the bowler's arm motion, which is an underarm pendulum action, as in s

...flap worthy of a gymnast, and when he got his breath he saw Foutz on third base and the ball at his side. Welch performed the third act. He was heading a

...anagement produces. There is seldom less than 2500 people at these Sunday games, and generally more. President Wallace is a hard working compositor in the

|Name=Nashville Base Ball Club |Club Name=Nashville Base Ball Club

...ram, “toys were plentifully distributed, and cricket, base ball, and other games enjoyed, till between eight and nine o'clock when the fete terminated.”</

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball,&rdquo; SOT, vol. 25, no. 43 (8 Dec 1855), p. 511, col. 3</p>

...cky and Fifth Streets."</p><p>This is the same grounds that early baseball games were played on.</p> ...t=<p>The Courier of the 9th calls wicket "a far more interesting game than base ball"</p>

...lad event. The school children were engaged in games of cricket, rounders, base-ball, &c., with their teachers for the morning, and at 12 o'clock some very

|Headline=NY Atlas Advises: THE OLD GAME OF BASE REVIVED |Game=Base

...is ankles, and balls that should have been fielded had to be chronicled as base hits.</p> ...of playing condition. The infielders had plenty of fun skating around the base lines, but notwithstanding these disadvantages the fielding, as a whole, wa

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball,&rdquo; SOT, vol. 25, no. 43 (8 Dec 1855), p. 511, col. 3</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) O. P., &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Star vs. Sylvan,&rdquo; PSOT, vol. 5, no. 5 (2 Oct 1858), p. 68, col.

...eral instances of it during the last few weeks. … [examples of low-hitting games follow] So it goes. If any batter gets an average of 300 per cent. this y