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|Headline=Lithograph shows soldiers playing bat-ball game ...ol's. Near Brandy Station" published in 1864, shows soldiers playing a bat ball game.</p>

...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 amateu

|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 Anson

|Title=New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia ...ile traveling around the Norfolk area, twice she mentioned witnessing ball playing.

|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 di

|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 make

|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>

|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."

|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>

...<u>Mary&#39;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 you

|Headline=Rib-and-Ball Game in the Arctic: Baseball Fever Among the Chills? |Game=Bat and Ball

|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>

|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>

|Headline=Princeton Faculty [NJ] Disparages "Playing at Ball" ...te of the Princeton faculty of May, 1761, frowns upon students "playing at ball."</p>

|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 har

|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>

|Headline=New Jersey Youths Spotted "playing 'base ball'" |Game=Base Ball,

|Headline=Pitching Quoits and Playing Ball ...ecreation are generally employed by the men in pitching quoits and playing ball."</p>

|Headline=Cause of Death: "Surfeit of Playing Ball" |Text=<p>"DIED.&nbsp; Last Evening of surfeit, playing ball, M[r] John McKibben, merchant of this city."</p>

...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 c

|Headline=Ball Playing popular in Wisconsin Camp ...p.....Chess constitutes an agreeable and profitable pastime. Card and ball playing are more general favorites in which a large proportion of the men engage."<

|Headline=Boston Spelling/Reading Book Describes Cricket and "Playing at Ball" ...chool house in Boston. It is now recess time, and some lads are playing at ball on the green lawn before the portico of the brick building."</p>

...ball playing has been pretty generally successful in the East, and Sunday playing in this section will for some time to come be only tolerated in spots. …

...latterly was well supported by his worthy coadjutor, one of whom, when the ball was about to be thrown tot he first base, called out to “throw high way, ...hole of the Champion nine had become impregnated with Slatterly’s style of playing, they all came in from the field before one of the Stars had been put out,

|Headline=Thousands of soldiers playing ball ...osite Fredericksburg, VA: "...in camp the man are out by thousands playing ball, pitching horseshoe quoits, running foot races and indulging in other athle

...revival here, has been a conscientious Christian and believes that playing ball is not the proper way of keeping the commandment – ”Remember the Sabbat

...tion=<p>At Main and Virginia Sts. "Opposite the Medical College." Also the ball grounds of the early Frontier BBC.</p> ...65 the Niagaras were playing at the Arsenal (which see). By 1867 they were playing at York (now Porter) and 6th (now Busti).</p>

|Headline=Rebels seen playing ball ...etter from the 27th CT: "From Falmouth, the rebels are daily seen, playing ball and apparently enjoying themselves."</p>

|Headline=Confederate Surgeon encourages ball-playing <pre>"The manly play of ball, with its invigorating exer-

...modern field hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> ...the playing of bandy in the streets. In 1858 boys were arrested in DC for playing bandy on the streets (Washington Star, Nov. 27, 1858).</p>

|Headline=Edward III Prohibits Playing of Club-Ball. ...f . . . ." Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. The actual term for "club-ball" in the proclamation was, evidently, "bacculoream."</p>

|Headline=Survey Reports Cricket in New England, Playing at Ball in TN ...ock notes that Winterbotham is sometimes credited with saying that bat and ball was popular in America before the Revolutionary War, and that adults played

..., the chief enjoyment of which appears to consist in sending a hard wooden ball into the face of every stray passenger they can hit...”</p> ...all, rather than baseball, because of the mention of a bat and because the ball is described as being hard and made of wood.</p>

...s that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the playing of a complicated form of catch, one that involved feints to deceive other p ...ng to milder forms of ball play, he said "I believe that in this form ball playing is also superior to all the other exercises." His partiality to ballplaying

|Term=Three-Base Ball ...le its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two Old Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p>

|Headline=Playing At Ball in the Untamed West (Now Kentucky?) |Text=<p>"Wrestling, jumping, running foot races, and playing at ball, are the common diversions."&nbsp;</p>

|Headline=Confederate Prisoners Play Ball in Chicago |Game=Town Ball,

...on’t think I have done anything on the “square,” either. But this playing ball for so much a week, or for a suit of clothes, or for “license fees,” or

|Headline="Professional" Players? Yes. Playing For Money? No |Game=Base Ball,

|Headline=Fond OH Editor on Youthful Ball-playing: "We Like It" |Game=Base Ball

|Game=Play ball ...eptember 1869, written by "1843." As cited in Genovese, Daniel L, The Old Ball Ground: The Chronological History of Westfield Baseball (2004), pages 1-2.

...the boys. Even when no engaged in a game, they are practicing throwing a ball from one to the other; and after schoolhours, every vacant lot or suitable

|Headline=New Yorker Dies Playing Base Ball |Game=Base Ball,

|Headline=Soldier Van Smoot&#39;s Diary Notes Playing Catch at New Orleans LA ...ound a soft ball in my knapsack, that I forgot I had put there and started playing catch with it."</p>

|Headline=Correspondent Sees Playing Base Ball and Cricket As Common Pastimes ...other amusements between parades and drills, pitching quoits, playing base ball and cricket, and horse racing are their every day pastimes.”</p><p>“Pen

...men of our country. The following clubs have secured the ground for ball playing:</p> <p>Swiftfoot Base Ball Club, Tuesday and Friday.</p>

|Headline=South Carolina Man Lists Ball-Playing Among Local Amusements |Text=<p>"[A]musements are few: consisting of dancing, horse racing, ball playing and rifle shooting."</p>

...eur playing, will soon set the ball rolling in their annual revival, first playing an opening game, new nine versus old. With several of the strongest of the

|Name=Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856 |Description=<p>"The match game of Base Ball between the Empire and Excelsior Clubs, came off yesterday on the Cricket G

|Headline=Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast" ...p>" [Five of us] were playing ball on the common before breakfast: and the ball fell into a hole where one of the booth's stakes had been driven the day be