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1836c.4
|Headline=The Ballgames "Old Cat" and "Base" Played in Concord MA ...lt than the modern games. Chief were four old-cat, three old-cat, two old-cat, and base."

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1878.1
|Headline=Nostalgia for old games of Two Old Cat, Three Old Cat, Bull Pen, Run Around |Game=Two Old Cat

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1800c.4
|Headline=Four Old Cat and Three Old Cat Well Known in MA ...players. . . . The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod

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1850s.47
|Headline=Boys and Girls Play Old Cat at Recess in Wisconsin |Game=Old-Cat Games

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Round Cat
|Term=Round Cat |Description=Round Cat is a game noted by Tom Altherr in September 2009. We find several brief men

708 bytes (111 words) - 20:07, 25 May 2022
In HI in 1866
|Game=Two O'cat ...s that the bat-ball games in Hawaii at the time were two-o-cat and three-o-cat. Castle was born n 1849.

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Hornebillets
...bsp;batters run to the next hole, placing the stick in the hole before the cat can be retrieved and be put into the hole. The number of holes depends ...span style="text-decoration: underline;">Francis Willughby’s Book of Games (Ashgate, 2003), page 182.

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1840c.27
|Headline=New Hampshire Farm Boy Plays Baseball, Two Old Cat, Drive ...e old cat,' 'two old cat,' and 'drive,' played with balls . . . . In such games girls did not join; and the game of cricket, which has long prevailed in En

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1850s.43
|Headline=South Carolina College Students Make Do with Town Ball, "Cat" |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games

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ProtoPix:Tip-Cat
|Source Image=Tip Cat.pdf |Title=Tip-Cat

345 bytes (47 words) - 09:18, 28 June 2023
1859.16
|Headline=Boy's Own Toy-Maker Covers Tip-cat and Trap-ball |Game=Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball,

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In Concord in 1836
|Game=base, old cat ...1 (Chaarles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905), page 52. Hoar was ten years old in 1836. Per Seymour, Harold – Notes in the Seymour Collection at Co

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1709.3
|Headline=Cat and Trap-ball Seen as Boys' Games [The Men Play Foot-ball] ...me away so passes:/ Here men at foot-ball they do fall;/ There boys at cat and trap-ball."

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1583.1
...rson so playing being imprisoned in the Doungeon for the space of two hours; or else every person so offending to pay 6 [pence] for every time. A ...retrosheet.org/Protoball/Glossary.htm</a>], tip-cat could be played with a cat or a ball, and could involve running among holes as bases. Caveat:<

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1853c.13
...vard, Most Students Played Baseball and Football, Some Cricket or Four-Old-Cat |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Old-Cat Games

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1850.6
|Headline=Article in The Knickerbocker Mentions "Bass-ball," Old Cat, Barn-ball ...chance of any sort in the world, save the "bass-ball," "one" and "two-hole cat," and "barn-ball" of our boyhood . . . "

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1652.1
|Headline=Traveler in Wales Reports "Laudable" Sunday Games of "Trap, Cat, Stool-ball, Racket &c" ...cise and edify in the churchyard at the lawful and laudable games of trap, cat, stool-ball, racket, &c., on Sundays."

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In Peekskill in 1845
|Game=Two Old Cat ...in Peekskill, stated that he wasn't very good at one old cat or other cat games as a youth.

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Waggles
...'  The batters act much in he same way as in cricket, except that the cat must be hit whilst in the air.  The batter hits it as far away as poss ...Scotland, and Ireland (New York; Dover, 1964 – reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 329.

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In MA in 1800
|Game=Old Cat ...Base Ball now. The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod

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1839.4
...dline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...3. "Games with a Ball" treats stool-ball, trap-ball, tip-cat, among other games, and owes much to Strutt (see 1801 entry, above). The writer advises, "[St

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1672c.2
|Headline=Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described |Game=Stoolball,Horne-Billets,Kit-Cat,Tutball

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La Batonet
...en. It is illustrated as “La Batonet” in the charming series of children’s games designed by Stella and published in Paris, 1657, as “Les Jeux et Plaisiri

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Cat i’ The Hole
|Term=Cat i’ The Hole ...son. All but one player stands by a hole, holding a stick [called a “cat.”] The last player, holding a ball, gives a signal, and the others ru

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1866.10
|Headline=Throwback Game of Cat-and-Dog Seen in Pittsburgh |Game=Cat-and-Dog

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Cat's Pallet
|Term=Cat's Pallet ...for the space of two hours . . . . Thus, Gidigadie may be another name for Cat’s Pallet. The rules of this game are as yet unknown.

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Tip-Cat
|Term=Tip-Cat ...ok, but adds the feature that the fielding player tries to return the cat to the hitter’s circle such that the hitter does not hit it away agai

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Cat-and-Dog
|Term=Cat-and-Dog ...ers the hole, defender and thrower switch places. Gomme, who uses the name Cat and Dog Hole, describes a game using a ball in which a stone replaces the h

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1850s.42
|Headline=Indianans Play Town Ball, Two Old Cat |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games

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In Cambridge Circa 1853
|Game=Old Cat |Description=Students at Harvard playing old cat games?

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Hornie-Holes (also Kittie-Cat)
|Term=Hornie-Holes (also Kittie-Cat) ...d their holes with a sticks, described as like a walking sticks, against a cat (“a piece of stick, and frequently a sheep’s horn”) throw

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In MA in 1800undefined
...Base Ball now. The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod

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1863.151
|Headline=Alabama soldiers play bull-pen, cat and town ball |Game=Town Ball, Two Old Cat

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1850s.45
|Game=Barn Ball, Old-Cat Games, American Cricket, ...iful Mohawk Valley, and while I played barn ball, one old cat, and two old cat in my  early boyhood days, cricket was my favorite game, and until I e

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1820s.22
|Headline=MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood |Game=Base Ball, One Old Cat

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1750s.2
|Headline=Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands? ...mes, choices for males [in NC] appear to have been 'town-ball, bull-pen,' 'cat,' and 'prisoner's base,' whatever exhibitions of dexterity they may have in

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BC2500c.1
...ointed on each end, were used in an ancient form of the game later know as Cat. |Sources=Culin, Stewart, “Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.,” Journal of American Folklore, Vo

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1850c.35
|Headline=U. of Michigan Alum Recalls Baseball, Wicket, Old-Cat Games |Game=Wicket, Base Ball, American Cricket, Old-Cat Games

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1850s.37
|Headline=Near Richmond VA, Games of Round Cat and Chermany ...old home where he and the other boys, black and white, had played "[[round cat]]" and "[[chermany]]" in the summers before the war and had set their rabbi

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David Nevard, March 2007
...: he will try to understand, and explain, what those “old-cat” games were all about.

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1850s.41
|Headline="The Popular Game" For Boys in NY State: Old Cat |Game=Old-Cat Games

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In Greencastle
|Game=Town Ball, Three Cornered Cat ...e students played town ball, three cornered cat and anthony-over, all ball games.

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Bunting
...to Gomme, a Lincolnshire glossary specifies that Bunting is a name for Tip-Cat. |Sources=Gomme, Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1., page 53.

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1871.20
|Headline=Chadwick Agrees: The Parent of Base Ball is Two-Old-Cat . . . Not English Rounders, After All? |Game=Base Ball,Two-Old-Cat,Cricket

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1834.9
|Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |Game=Cricket, Old-Cat Games, Town Ball

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Three-Base Ball
...not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two Old Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article. ...elves in Bygone Days – Duck-on-the-Rock, Three Base Ball and Two Old Cat Good Enough for Them,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Volume 54,

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1830c.26
...: "After the hoop came, as now, the ball games, skip, one old cat, two old cat, hit or miss, and round ball. We made our own balls, winding yarn over a co |Query=Query: do we know the nature of the ball games of "skip" and "hit or miss?"

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1789.2
|Headline=New York Children's Pastimes Recalled: Old Cat, Rounders Cited ...vacant lots, and nearby fields resounded with the immemorial games of old cat, rounders, hopscotch, I spy, chuck farthing and prisoner's base . . . . Th

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1853.2
|Headline=Dutch Handbook for Boys Covers "Engelsch Balspel," Trap-ball, Tip-cat ...l. Also [[De kat]], which Block identifies as English tip-cat.

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Trippit and Coit (Trippets, Trip-Cat)
|Term=Trippit and Coit (Trippets, Trip-Cat) |Sources=Alice B. Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Davit Nutt, London, 1898)

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