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- |Title=Baseball's ubiquity; Sunday ball playing ...ort was made to satisfy the numerous complainants, and about fourteen base ball players, mostly under age, and all belonging to the ward, were arrested dur2 KB (268 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813 |Game=Playing ball941 bytes (127 words) - 08:43, 31 January 2022
- |Title=Playing "Ball" In Canada In 1803 ..., along with the United States. The following article lays out proof of a “ball” game in Canada as early as 1803.8 KB (1,312 words) - 14:32, 12 September 2021
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- |Headline=Ball playing popular in 1st Minnesota ...ry "Reading, writings, & playing ball." March 23 entry notes that ball playing is very popular in the regiment. The regiment was stationed near Falmouth,762 bytes (109 words) - 10:08, 16 June 2019
- ...e Atlanta Southern Confederacy, April 11, 1862, editorializes against ball playing in the city streets:</p> ...the boys of their pleasure--particularly of the healthful exercise of ball playing--but it is inconvenient and dangerous in our streets."</p>907 bytes (130 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
- ...e formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>1 KB (169 words) - 06:06, 22 October 2012
- |Headline=Montpelier Threatens Ball Players with prosecution |Game=Ball Playing684 bytes (85 words) - 06:11, 1 June 2022
- |Title=Spring training by playing handball ...ers of out national game. Of course, very little can be learned in a hand ball alley in regard to the very essential point of batting; but if the men bec1 KB (188 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- #REDIRECT [[New Englander Confronts Impious Sunday Ball-playing in Virginia]]77 bytes (9 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2013
- |Headline=Providence RI Bans "Playing Ball" in the Streets |Text=<p>"The Town of Providence have passed a law against playing ball in any of their public streets; the fine is $2. Why is not the law enforce946 bytes (145 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Deerfield's Fine for Playing Ball: Six Cents ...one's room during study. In contrast, a one dollar assessment was made for playing cards, backgammon, or checkers, or walking or visiting on Saturday night or783 bytes (124 words) - 07:00, 29 May 2019
- |Headline="Ball playing" Schoolboy Essay |Tags=Ball in the Culture1 KB (199 words) - 19:00, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Ball Playing at Shiloh ..."engaging in a game of ball:" the day prior to the battle of Shiloh. Ball playing mentioned 2-20-63 and 1-20-1864 in Memphis, TN. </p>624 bytes (96 words) - 14:03, 14 December 2023
- |Headline=In Rome, Sculptor Fashions Statue of a Boy Playing Ball ...ble statue of Childhood, and has a fine statue of a boy engaged in playing ball, modeled in plaster. He is about returning to America."</p>523 bytes (83 words) - 18:27, 18 February 2013
- ...highest degree commendable if a young man has the requisite skill to play ball so that it will command a financial return, and he is thus enabled to defra717 bytes (125 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=NH Man Recalls Boyhood Habit of Playing Ball ..., born in 1818 in rural NH, refers in 1835 to his boyhood habit of playing ball.</p>544 bytes (80 words) - 17:41, 6 September 2012
- |Title=New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802 New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 18022 KB (244 words) - 14:58, 8 April 2013
- |Headline=NYC Council Finds Ball Playing Among "Abounding Immoralities" ...called Sunday, are . . . Horse Riding for pleasure . . . Skating ['] Ball playing, and other Plays by Boys and Men, and even Horse-racing." Minutes of the C653 bytes (94 words) - 17:51, 21 October 2012
- ...wn for playing base ball and getting exercise, but complains that the ball-playing has broken windows on Mulberry Street.</p> ...se Ball Club--We understand that efforts are being made to organize a base ball club."</p>786 bytes (114 words) - 07:16, 31 October 2015
- ...ng men of our city have organized a club for playing this favorite game of ball."</p> ...gfield Wicket Club" which urges the players to "Weild [ic] club, weild the ball.."</p>897 bytes (134 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
- |Game=Base Ball, ...icester's Improved SELF-FASTENING BASES, and the PATENT CONCAVE PLATES for Ball Shoes, which are free from all the danger, and answer all the purposes, of982 bytes (142 words) - 17:12, 19 July 2018
- |Name=Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813 |Game=Playing ball941 bytes (127 words) - 08:43, 31 January 2022
- |Headline=Newburyport MA Reminder - "Playing Ball in the Streets" is Unlawful ...nd Guardians are also requested to forbid, those under their care, playing Ball in the streets of the town; as by this unlawful practice much inconvenience616 bytes (90 words) - 17:37, 6 September 2012
- |Title=rowdy ball playing; breaking up a double play ...ouble would have ensued. Welch, in extenuation said: “Well, we’re playing ball to win.</p>1 KB (209 words) - 20:05, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...ng, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed." </p>1 KB (153 words) - 13:58, 29 January 2020
- |Name=Town ball in TX in December 1861 ...ng unusual transpiring in Camp. The boys are passing the time playing Town-Ball."790 bytes (113 words) - 10:19, 10 February 2013
- |Headline=Daniel Webster Writes of "Playing Ball" While at Dartmouth |Text=<p>Daniel Webster, in private correspondence, writes of "playing at ball," while a student at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.</p>1 KB (175 words) - 21:10, 27 January 2020
- ...ddenly Glasscock let go and Gore fell on all fours. When he recovered the ball had been fielded in.</p>805 bytes (140 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- |Game=Town Ball |Description=<p>Abe Lincoln is reported to have been playing "town ball... with a parcel of boys" in Springfield when he was notified of the GOP no636 bytes (97 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
- ...ive ball are most common." <b>Note: "</b>Up-ball?" "Drive ball?" No town ball?</p>598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Portland Newspaper Reports Boys Playing at "Bat-and-Ball." |Game=Bat-and-Ball957 bytes (137 words) - 11:42, 28 January 2020
- ...es 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
- ...games, to the evolution of base ball. He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an969 bytes (157 words) - 07:21, 13 May 2013
- |Headline=Lithograph shows soldiers playing bat-ball game ...ol's. Near Brandy Station" published in 1864, shows soldiers playing a bat ball game.</p>594 bytes (86 words) - 10:19, 16 June 2019
- ...commercial nine matches have come to be the great feature of amateur ball playing in the metropolis; and by amateur play we do not mean that so called amateu1 KB (193 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Dirty ball playing ...<p>[Chicago vs. Pittsburgh 8/30/1889] ...there was considerable dirty ball playing. Carroll collided with Pfeffer in stealing second in the third, and Anson701 bytes (112 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- |Title=New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia ...ile traveling around the Norfolk area, twice she mentioned witnessing ball playing.2 KB (251 words) - 08:58, 18 November 2013
- |Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...ice on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di760 bytes (105 words) - 21:03, 21 October 2012
- |Title=playing points ...ength of teams nowadays. Nearly all professional ball players can catch a ball when it is thrown to them, and he is a poor one, incd3eed, who cannot make759 bytes (138 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. ...cket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in any public place, shall . . . " [be fined one dollar].</p>2 KB (233 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball ...rs call playing. He much preferred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."1 KB (176 words) - 20:18, 29 January 2020
- |Headline=Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands. ...Law in New Netherlands, including fine of a one pound Flemish for "playing ball," . . . cricket, tennis, ninepins, dancing, drinking, etc.</p>3 KB (388 words) - 19:35, 25 January 2020
- ...<u>Mary's Book of Sports</u> [New Haven CT] Has Drawing of "Playing at Ball" ...y! I should not think you could see at play. Oh, it is too late to play at ball, my lads. The sun has set. The birds have gone to roost. It is time for you733 bytes (122 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Rib-and-Ball Game in the Arctic: Baseball Fever Among the Chills? |Game=Bat and Ball876 bytes (124 words) - 18:33, 9 May 2015
- |Headline=CT soldiers indulging in ball playing and swimming ...VA: "The soldiers are delighted with the position--were indulging in ball playing and swimming."</p>635 bytes (86 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Soldiers confront idleness with ball playing ...Cleveland) saying that on the 25th "the day was spent in idleness and ball playing" because needed quartermaster supplies had not yet arrived.</p>706 bytes (97 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Princeton Faculty [NJ] Disparages "Playing at Ball" ...te of the Princeton faculty of May, 1761, frowns upon students "playing at ball."</p>772 bytes (104 words) - 05:20, 24 October 2015
- |Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison ...t by chance happened to lodge n the eave spout. One climbed up to take the ball out, and a sentry without the wall seeing him, fired at him, but did no har998 bytes (149 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2020
- |Headline=Ball playing, running and jumping ...left and to spare for them to enjoy themsleves as they wish, such as ball playing, running, and jumping."</p>656 bytes (93 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=New Jersey Youths Spotted "playing 'base ball'" |Game=Base Ball,963 bytes (149 words) - 13:18, 7 January 2020
- |Headline=Pitching Quoits and Playing Ball ...ecreation are generally employed by the men in pitching quoits and playing ball."</p>646 bytes (92 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Cause of Death: "Surfeit of Playing Ball" |Text=<p>"DIED. Last Evening of surfeit, playing ball, M[r] John McKibben, merchant of this city."</p>1,014 bytes (136 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
- ...it among them, which carries the spectators back a good many years in ball playing, and, from a spectative point of view, it is one of the best teams in the c1,011 bytes (178 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020