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<p>Second. For lease of grounds for Sunday games during the base-ball season of 1880.</p> <p>Bids must be sealed and addressed “Board of Directors Cincinnati Star Base-Ball Association,” care C. T. Blackburn, Secretary, City Auditor's Offic

|Headline=NY and MA Regiments Play Two Games Near the Civil War Front |Game=Base Ball,

..."The Aurora Ball Club and Olympic Ball Club will play best 3 in 5 games at Base ball on Tremont street mall on Friday next at half past 5 o'clock for 10 bo ...A and upstate NY; the "best-of" format may have been common in the game or games that evolved into the Mass Game.&nbsp;</p>

...n Chicago] this week in the shape of a system of reproducing here the ball games played by our team abroad. A couple of enterprising fellows from Nashville ...the name of Seery disappeared from the home plate and reappeared at first base, while that of Glasscock showed up at the home plate. “One strike,” tw

...it related, or relates, to base ball, long ball, or other early safe-haven games.</p> |Sources=<p>Ado<span>&nbsp;Gini, "Rural Ritual Games in&nbsp;</span>Libya<span>,"&nbsp;</span><em>Rural Sociology</em><span>&nbs

|Name=Star Club of Brooklyn v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 13 September 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Title=a prize fight under cover of being baseball games ...squads of about ten or twenty each, all of whom carried sticks resembling base ball bats, while one athletic individual displayed a ball of the latest and

...A.M.&nbsp; Tickets one dollar.<br /> <br /> P.S. - An interesting game of base ball to be played on the occasion."</p> ...St. Louis]<em> Missouri Republican</em>, August 2, 1864. Cited in Games of Games website.</p>

|Headline=Vermonters Play Manly Sport of Football, (and Base Ball) in Virginia ...micry of actual warfare &ndash; were played. . . . Many joined in games of base ball; others formed rings and watched friendly contests of the champion wre

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Matches to Come,&rdquo; PSOT, vol. 4, no. 19 (10 Jul 1858), p. 293, c

|Headline=Base Ball Games Reach Really Modern Duration; Score is 52-38 |Game=Base Ball

|Game=Base-Ball ...e playing was as follows: [<em>Mirror </em>members won two of three 25-run games, 25-3 "points", 17-25, and 25- 3.]</p>

|Name=Mauch Chunk Base Ball Club v Athletic Club of Philadelphia on 14 November 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Headline=Pre-modern Base Ball in Michigan ...nbsp; Old time rules of course governed the game, one of them being that a base runner could be put out if hit by a thrown ball anywhere between the bases.

...am not willing to make. The League has lived twelves years without Sunday games, and it is in pretty good health now. And wherever there are two clubs rep ...his Sunday question, and that is this:--St Louis is obliged to have Sunday games or do without a crack club. The Sporting Life October 5, 1887</p>

|Headline="Old Game of Base" Planned -- New York vs. Brooklyn |Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, Throwback Games,

...anding in his position, that first touches the ground, first base or third base, any part of the person or a player, umpire or any other objects that is in ...n leatned of the mistake he had made, as Collins was, of course, given his base on the hit. The difference lies in a ball hit direct from the bat to the g

<p>The Enterprise will play no match games for thirty day. Members of the club will assemble at Montague Hall to-morr ...lls, occasioned, partly, by the shortness of the field in rear of the home base. Wilkes Spirit of the Times July 28, 1868</p>

|Game=Base Ball |Text=<p>"BASE BALL -- A match game of Base Ball was played between&nbsp;the St. John's and Union Clubs (colored) yeste

...le="">[1]</a></sup> The following week, the paper reported "The Janesville Base Ball Club is now fully organized and in good operations. The �boy's propo ...e_note-5" title="">[6]</a></sup>, and issued a challenge to the Bower City Base Ball Club &ndash; also of Janesville &ndash; for a July 4th match, which wa

|Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>CDJ Sept. 14, 1858: "Base Ball--the match between the Union and Excelsior Club comes off this (Monday

|Name=Washington Base Ball Club of Olympia v Olympics Club of Victoria on 3 July 1872 |Home Team=Washington Base Ball Club of Olympia

...irst appearance at Shalford, need we add she was warmly received—and other games were carried on with immense vivacity, till dinner was announced. . .”</p

|Name=Olympics Club of Victoria v Rainier Base Ball Club of Olympia on 25 May 1869 |Away Team=Rainier Base Ball Club of Olympia

...rs downwards became suddenly imbued with the taste for base ball and other games, keeping them alive till after 7 o'clock.”</p>

|Headline=NY <i>Herald</i> Previews Several June Games for Five Area Clubs |Game=Base Ball

...--The Aurora Ball Club and the Olympic Club will play best 3 in 5 games at Base Ball, on Tremont Street mall, on Friday morning next, at 1/2 past 5 o'clock ...10, 1853 reports that the Olympic won "45 to 35 rounds in three successive games" "witnessed by a great concourse of spectators." The cigar wager was prompt

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 <p><span>This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [MA table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was played by New York rul

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...or countenanced by any clubs in New York or Brooklyn; and we hope that all base ball organizations, wherever they may be located, who desire the prosperity

|Name=Olympics Club of Victoria v Rainier Base Ball Club of Olympia on 4 July 1869 |Field=Olympia Base Ball Grounds

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;City News and Gossip: Base Ball,&rdquo; BDE, vol. 18, no. 118 (19 May 1859), p. 3, col. 1</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Base-Ball at Buffalo,&rdquo; <em>Porter&rsquo;s Spirit of the Times,</em> vol. 5

...town is today a part of Philadelphia), see Richard Hershberger article in "Base Ball" and on ourgame.mlblogs.com. Hershberger adds the Balsch and Charter O ...rshberger article at ourgame.mlblogs.com</p><p>Iroquois, “Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: Town Ball at Germantown, Pa.,” Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times, vol.

...ed the latter. Mr. Wiman quoted statistics to show that the attendance at base ball matches in certain cities throughout the season approached 350,000 per ...attraction to the average public. A glance at the newspapers showed that base ball matters occupied the attention o the public to a greater extent than t

|Game=Base Ball,Old-Cat Games ...e changes they introduced. "We had to have a good outdoor game, and as the games then in vogue didn't suit us we decided to remodel <strong>three-cornered c

|Game=Base Ball, ...em> reported that prominent player George Wright had joined the Cincinnati base ball club as its highest-paid player.</p>

|Headline=In Milwaukee, Base Ball is [Cold-] Brewing |Game=Base Ball,

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...<p>(1) &ldquo;City News and Gossip: Match Game of Base Ball,&rdquo; &ldquo;Base Ball,&rdquo; BDE, vol. 17, no. 189 (11 Aug 1858), p. 3, col. 1</p>

...ame” indulged in. He then gives short accounts of the Athletic and Unions games, which clearly demonstrated the fact that they were lost and won solely on

...e Ball. &ndash; On Saturday last, the match between the Pulaski and Galaxy Base Ball Clubs, both of our city, was played at the Arsenal grounds. There were ...inly not the first in Arkansas, but was one of, if not the, first recorded games. The Arsenal Grounds are still around, though without a baseball diamond an

|Headline=Games Between NY and MA Regiments Punctuated by Artillery |Game=Base Ball,

|Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Gothams Club of New York on 8 September 1857 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Warren vs. Pentucket,&rdquo; <em>Porter&rsquo;s Spirit of the Times,<

|Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>(2) Treasurer, &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Manhattan vs. Metropolitan,&rdquo; PSOT, vol. 4, no. 23 (7 Aug 1858),

|Title=mimic games telegraphed to an auditorium ...tly wired, and the pin so moved as to indicate exactly what has happened. Base hits, errors, runs, fly catches, assists—everything, in short, is exactly

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...asion in which they defeated their rivals, the Olympics, in three straight games.&nbsp; They had borrowed red flannel shirts from the Stoughton Fire Departm

|Headline=Base-ball Cited as a Suitable "Nonsuch for Eyes and Arms" of Australian Ladies |Game=Base-ball

|Headline=Earliest Base Ball in Colorado Territory |Game=Base Ball

|Game=Base Ball,Town Ball ...he Unions and the Excelsiors to be playing on August 19.&nbsp; A few other games ere mentioned during the same year."</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>(2) &ldquo;Base Ball: Excelsior, of Brooklyn, vs. Empire, of New York,&rdquo; NYT, vol. 9,