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|First Newspaper Mention=1864/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|State=ME |City=Waldoboro

|Name=Club of Ellsworth, ME |State=ME

|State=ME |City=Topsham

...ned for, and he was to obtain $1,000 in advance, the largest sum ever paid a base-ball tosser. He expected that Cincinnati enthusiasts were disappointe

...ccident, but, of course, cannot tell what the future may have in store for me; however, I pray for the best...</p>

|Title=a conditional three year contract ...cond baseman of the Hartfords, has contracted to play with the Boston Club in ‘78, ‘79 and ‘80–the last two years conditionally. St. Louis Globe

...reat deal of pleasure last summer, so it gives me a great deal of pleasure in return to dismiss the case against him, as I understand he promises not to

...Club was in arrears to him to the amount of about $2100. Jones also told me that he was obliged to give the proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, where

|Title=going to great lengths to sign a minor leaguer ...t Saginaw club was expelled, and wound up by saying I had only indulged in a little ‘practical base ball,’ which Caylor didn’t understand. He dec

|Name=In Hope Circa 1825 |State=ME

|State=ME |City=Biddeford

|Title=a hint that the blacklisted players will be reinstated ...e situation in its real light they will deal with me and my old players in a more kind and friendly spirit than they did before. (St. Louis) Missouri R

...e official averages I find that Philadelphia has the champion base runners in both associations.</p>

...failure. I'll tell you later what I am going to do with the bat and ball in '88.</p>

|City=Brandy Station ...on to use it. &nbsp;The library also passed on a link to an recent sale of a copy on eBay for about $425. (John Zinn)<br>

|State=ME |City=Lewiston

|Title=a wildly implausible argument for the ten-men ten-inning rule |Text=<p>[a letter to the editor from “A Convert] I am a constant reader of the Item, and find that it is beyond doubt the very best

|Headline=Game of Base was "A Peculiar Favorite" |State=ME

...hat now that Sullivan had given up his position he (Quinn) would have such a hard time of it that it would be politic of him to get out. Quinn wrote ba ...ave among its players fully thirty of the very best men at present engaged in the other associations.”</p>

|Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME |State=ME

|Headline=Bay Stater to Wife: “We had a gay old time playing ball . . . send me five dollars” |City=Wheeling

|Name=in Boston in 1725 |City=Boston

..., as it generally fell to me to obtain situations for all the unfortunates in the club, and as I had begun to lose heart for this wholesale drudgery, I r |Source=Philadelphia City Item

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|State=ME |City=Bangor

|Name=First Idaho BBC Club of Lapwai |Club Name=First Idaho BBC

|Headline=Roundball Recalled in Maine |State=ME

|State=ME |City=Kents Hill

...of the League. So I suggested that he introduce some of the Clevelands to me, for then I was only acquainted with the older members of the League.</p> ...ances of better behavior on the part of the men, and as we intend that the first club shall receive $7000, the second $5000, the third $3000, the fourth $20

|Name=In Pownal on 5 May 1853 |State=ME

|Headline=Juvenile Book's Chapter: "A Game at Ball": 'Cheating play never prospers' |City=

|Title=a proposal for outfield bleachers ...against the fence, behind the out-fielders?” He adds, “the last game cost me, all told, $7.50, and I had to stand all the while.</p>

|State=ME |City=Waterville

...struck, but if he goes in for innings he is quite likely to be opposed to a man who knows the result of the matter on which he is arranging to rob the

|City=Savannah ...was on the Beating Side. Nothing can beat me and Sergeant. Jones. He is a first rate man.&rdquo;</p>

...ll add, instead of injure, the Bostons, and that the game has so increased in popular favor that two clubs can easily find support.</p>

|Headline=Lithograph Shows Ballplaying in City Hall Park, NY ...rogress in the distance. My best squint shows me pitcher, batsman, a close-in catcher, two distant fielders and three spectators (two seated). Old cat? S

|Headline="Round Ball" Played in Bangor ME: Cony&#39;s Side 50, Hunt&#39;s Side 49 |State=ME

|City=Flatbush ...yed by Colonel John Oakey, a former A.D.A., when he was a child growing up in Brooklyn and Flatbush [NY]. From 1837 he attended the Erasmus Hall Academy,

|Name=Queen City Club of Bangor |Club Name=Queen City

|City=west point ...erintendent of West Point]. He was a splendid fellow, most gentlemanly and a soldier every inch. . . .</p>

...gambler when in Worcester, Mass.; and Manager Bancroft was also called as a witness. The Board of Directors decided by an unanimous vote to expel High ...our opinion the League did a very sensible thing, for Dick has been under a cloud for some time, and should never have been chosen as an umpire.</p>

...s the only addition advocated by any of the delegates and was incorporated in the instrument as the seventh article of the Agreement, which was shortly a

...d gaining for it a firm foothold as the great American sport. He informed me this morning that he desired to see the local club succeed and become penna

...a $10 reward for recovery of a hand roller - presumably one used to smooth a playing area - by the Star of the West Cricket Club.</p> ...$10 reward strikes me as downright extravagant. That must have been quite a piece of wood. Baseball clubs didn't need to fool with this sort of thing,

|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>

|City=Boston ...wall's grandson, reportedly, and a Harvard '23 man -- (LMc)] got up betime in the morning, and took Ben Swett with him and went into the [Boston MA] Comm

|State=ME |City=Skowhegan

...d thus make their wagers in advance, so as to have the money in safe hands in New York. He has sold the following pools on the forthcoming contest betwe ...e their time and money, and how fortunate we are in staid old Philadelphia in having so such state of moral turpitude. Yours, truly, T.H.M.</p>