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  • Clipping:Reaction to the spread of Sunday baseball
    ...t which professional base ball is being conducted making such remunerative games absolutely necessary to the clubs which had hitherto abstained from playing
    686 bytes (103 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
  • Tom Altherr, April 2013
    ...pean games, to the evolution of base ball.  He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an
    969 bytes (157 words) - 07:21, 13 May 2013
  • File:Gutsmuths Figure 2.jpg
    "Figure 2" from Johann Gutsmuths' ''Games for Exercise and Relaxation'', showing the bat and playing field for Englis
    (197 × 338 (10 KB)) - 11:40, 5 March 2016
  • 1773.3
    |Headline=Ball-Playing by Slaves Is Eyed in SC ...t assembling of Negroes in the Town [Beaufort, SC] on Sundays, and playing games of Trap-ball and Fives, which is not taken proper notice of by Magistrates,
    805 bytes (125 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
  • 1849c.5
    |Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls ...aying Ball" section is the observation that "[t]here are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b
    598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
  • Clipping:Prospects for Sunday baseball
    ...Windsor Beach, the Sunday grounds of the Syracuse and Rochester clubs, the games have been stopped.</p>
    601 bytes (92 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
  • 1841.18
    ...ve the formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>
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  • Clipping:Spring training by playing handball
    ...t awakened to the importance of thorough training before playing any match games, and accordingly has put his men through a pretty thorough course of exerci
    1 KB (188 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
  • Most Wanted: How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games?
    ...e 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? ...e Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>
    659 bytes (101 words) - 12:29, 13 December 2018
  • 1830s.21
    ...referred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"<em>&nbsp;Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32. Cleme
    1 KB (176 words) - 20:18, 29 January 2020
  • BC750.1
    ...all. Pollux [ca 180 AD] lists a number of children's ball games, including games that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the pl <p>As far as we are aware, Greek ball games did not include any that involved running among bases or safe havens, or an
    2 KB (310 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on August 3 1850
    ...ay: "After tea, the boys amused themselves by playing at cricket and other games, and the girls by playing at base ball, &c."</p>
    572 bytes (85 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • 1659.1
    |Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...service on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di
    760 bytes (105 words) - 21:03, 21 October 2012
  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
    ...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> ...p>This reference is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball p
    961 bytes (150 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
  • 1815c.5
    |Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...and simple kinds, such as hunting, fishing, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed."&nbsp;</p>
    1 KB (153 words) - 13:58, 29 January 2020
  • Bandy
    |Sources=<p>Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, etc. "&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>&nbsp;(Spring 2011).</p ...at "bandy" was in the 1800s sort of a generic name for ice or field hockey games. [ba]</p>
    1 KB (202 words) - 06:01, 14 October 2023
  • Clipping:The decline of regular amateur clubs
    ...ound at Prospect Park affords, presenting excellent facilities for playing games between extemporized nines, while regular club grounds are not at command,
    1 KB (193 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:A barnstorming team to play exhibitions with the PL
    ...ased to say that I have this day completed the entire circuit, playing two games in each city with each club as follows...</p>
    1 KB (235 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
  • 1837.7
    ...inating that one of the first things they did, upon incorporation, was ban ball-playing on the Sabbath."</p>
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  • Corner Ball
    ...ription=<p>A plugging game that is closer to dodge ball than to safe-haven games. Some players, standing at designated corners or the perimeter of the playi
    481 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 6 January 2016
  • Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 5 October 1858
    <p>This intramural game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation (WNY table) as compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by Porter ...now." It thus seems that other games may have preceded the 1858 intramural games, 'though they were not necessarily played by Associaton rules.</p>
    1 KB (227 words) - 06:24, 8 July 2020
  • Three-Base Ball
    ...source as &ldquo;Sports in Old Brooklyn: Colonel John Oakley Tells of the Games of His Boyhood: How Some Well-Known Men Amused Themselves in Bygone Days &n
    984 bytes (150 words) - 06:08, 5 June 2022
  • 1795.5
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 30-31
    1,018 bytes (142 words) - 14:10, 29 January 2020
  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1856
    ...r complaining that the police were not cracking down on youngsters playing games on the street in front of his business. “...a considerable army of young
    1 KB (175 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • 1365.1
    ...ns prohibited by proclamation in the reign of Edward III, exclusive of the games of chance, are thus specified; the throwing of stones, wood, or iron; playi
    1 KB (219 words) - 13:25, 3 November 2012
  • Clipping:A critique of pitching for strike outs
    ...iven for exhibitions of good fielding a base running. Strictly scientific games, where the scores are kept down, never were and never can be very popular,
    793 bytes (125 words) - 19:11, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Reporting juvenile games
    |Title=reporting juvenile games ...e most pleasurable emotions, and we consider it our duty to encourage them games by every means in our power, even to the publication of the scores of their
    1 KB (227 words) - 07:56, 13 March 2022
  • Central Park
    ...een set apart at Central Park, but the Commissioners are not allowing ball games to be played there, although it appears they allow cricket.</p> ...1863 purports to show informal baseball playing in the park. Formal match games seem to be allowed by 1868.</p>
    1 KB (212 words) - 05:04, 3 October 2022
  • 1860.83
    <p>[B] Three other games that year for which game times were published last five to six hours.</p> |Comment=<p>By 1860, most Massachusetts Rules games were being played to 75 runs, instead of the 100 specified in the rules ado
    1 KB (219 words) - 15:25, 12 March 2021
  • 1856.11
    ...aying&nbsp;<em>theque?</em>&nbsp;Is it significant that this book features games for adolescents, not younger children?</p>
    778 bytes (114 words) - 18:59, 14 October 2015
  • Clipping:The season in the South; Sunday baseball
    ...n for playing champion-games in Louisiana and adjoining States. The great ball-playing day in New Orleans is Sunday; and every fine Sunday, all the ball grounds a
    895 bytes (144 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:St. Louis Maroons frozen out by the League
    ...estion. For him to play in the league with a weak club, playing no Sunday games and charging 50 cents admission, is bound to prove a losing venture. It wo
    1 KB (223 words) - 19:58, 29 February 2020
  • 1840.35
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 37 and re
    1 KB (158 words) - 19:35, 30 January 2020
  • 1870c.17
    ...s.&nbsp; I like to have my boys enjoy and practice all athletic sports and games, especially riding, towing, hunting, and ball playing.&nbsp; But I am a lit
    1 KB (212 words) - 08:26, 26 March 2021
  • 1779.2
    ...nt: originally published in 1894), volume I.&nbsp; [Page not shone; listed games are presented alphabetically]</p>
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  • 1823c.9
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 31.&nbsp; |Comment=<p>Clay's book, which seems to make no other reference to ball-playing, was accessed 11/15/2008 via a Google Books search for &lt;life of cassius&
    1 KB (204 words) - 05:31, 18 July 2022
  • 1805.6
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 29-3
    1 KB (166 words) - 13:33, 29 January 2020
  • 1840s.42
    |Text=<p>"In the early '40s a town ball club arranged to hold its games on a vacant plot across from the Harlem Railroad depot on 27<sup>th</sup> a
    575 bytes (102 words) - 17:52, 21 October 2012
  • Clipping:Enforcement of the territorial limit
    ...oncluded to enforce his five-mile privilege and is going to stop all these games. From what Mr. Byrne says, he can not only stop all national agreement clu
    1 KB (174 words) - 20:35, 29 February 2020
  • 1840c.34
    |Headline=Ball-Playing at Marshall College in PA ...eations they needed . . . . [In addition to local excursions], [s]ometimes ball-playing was the recreation, and sometimes it was leaping or jumping, that brought t
    1 KB (194 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2020
  • 1800c.3
    <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 150. No ref given. Also referenced in Pe
    459 bytes (72 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
  • In Boston in 1854
    ...owever. In 1856 a new club arose, the 'Green Mountains,' and some exciting games were played between this Club and the Olympics. Up to this point the game a
    1 KB (230 words) - 14:11, 27 February 2024
  • 1845.10
    |Headline=German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game |Text=<p>Included among the games is <em>das Giftball</em> (the venomball, roughly). Block observes that this
    938 bytes (143 words) - 11:01, 21 August 2015
  • 1852.12
    |Headline=Ball-playing Prohibited Near UNC Buildings ...games, such as fives, but it could have as easily targeted base ball-type games."</p>
    1 KB (192 words) - 06:11, 20 June 2022
  • Clipping:The Central Park ball grounds
    ...e Central Park grounds are used only by the schools in the vicinity, match-games by senior clubs being prohibited on account of the crowds which they attrac
    1 KB (211 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Comparing the playing strength of the NL and AA
    ...hough the Association usually got the best of the the League in exhibition games, where the carelessness of the older body, its known prestige, and the pron
    1 KB (185 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
  • Amateur Base Ball Club of Lewiston
    .... 13, 1877 "On Saturday the Base Ball Club of this place had several brisk games upon their grounds," which implies a club existed here prior to 1877.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on June 21 1880
    ...er he would consider if it would not be for the public advantage that such games should be allowed in some part of the Park appropriated for the purpose?”
    1 KB (248 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
  • 1816.2
    ...err, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." <em>
    1 KB (166 words) - 11:52, 28 January 2020
  • Block:Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884
    |Block Data=<p>“Ball-bias” was one of the games enjoyed by 200 children at the annual treat for students of the Wesleyan Ch
    705 bytes (106 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
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