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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
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  • 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
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  • 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,
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  • 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
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  • Clipping:Prospects for Sunday baseball
    ...Windsor Beach, the Sunday grounds of the Syracuse and Rochester clubs, the games have been stopped.</p>
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  • 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
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  • 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>
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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>
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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>
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  • 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>
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  • 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,
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  • 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>
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  • 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
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  • 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>
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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,
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  • 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
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  • 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>
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  • 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
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  • 1856.11
    ...aying&nbsp;<em>theque?</em>&nbsp;Is it significant that this book features games for adolescents, not younger children?</p>
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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&
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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>
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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?”
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  • 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>
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  • 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
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  • Clipping:Early indoor baseball
    ...ways. Among the most popular methods employed in the playing of burlesque games of base ball. The bases are marked in the gymnasium as the regular diamond
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  • Clipping:The League softens on Sunday ball
    ...ined the League they might be accorded the privilege of playing exhibition games on Sunday. The League wants St. Louis. There can be no mistake in this.</
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  • Clipping:Athletics lobby to have Sunday games in Gloucester legalized
    |Title=Athletics lobby to have Sunday games in Gloucester legalized ...day, Friday or Tuesday scheduled games will be transposed and championship games played throughout the season whenever the Athletics are at home. The new a
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  • Clipping:Corcoran practicing pitching left-handed
    ...tion record is interesting to a certain extent, but team work is what wins games and championship.</p> ...credited with but 2,097, and Chicago and Detroit played the same number of games. Chicago Tribune October 14, 1886</p>
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  • Long Ball (US Batting Game)
    <p>Do we know know if this and other fungo style batting games were known elsewhere in the US?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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  • German Ball Game
    ...” [runs] wins the contest.  The game resembles the family of "battingball" games reported by Maigaard.</p> ..., et al., </span><em>One </em><span>Hundred</span><em> and Fifty Gymnastic Games</em><span> (G. H. Ellis, Boston, 1902), pages 22-23.</span></p>
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  • Block:Pize Ball in South Yorkshire on July 25 1904
    |Block Data=<p>“Pise-ball” was named as one of the games played at the annual excursion for children of the St. Philip's Church of S
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  • 1864.74
    ...he weather was favorable, those not on duty took exercise by playing a few games of "town ball."</span></p>
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  • Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 7 August 1860
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • Clipping:Fisler, Reach playing with multiple clubs
    ...member of the National Association–play Reach of the Eckford club in their games with their brother clubs; the Keystone club, also of the National Associati
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  • 1860.45
    ...clubs. The common format for these games was a best-two-of-three match of games played to 25 "tallies" [not runs]. A purse of $25 was not uncommon. Teams e
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  • 1810c.10
    |Text=<p>"The sorts and entertainments were very simple [around 1800] . . . games of ball, not base-ball, as is now [1880s?] the fashion, yet with wickets . ...days than now.&nbsp; We had more holidays, more games in the streets -- of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling."</p>
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  • 1863.14
    ...h VA, excerpts from the diary of Sgt Earle of the 15<sup>th</sup> MA notes games of ball with the 34<sup>th</sup> NY on March 18 and again on April 16, 1863 ...en wouldn&rsquo;t even have the shucks.&rsquo; The interest taken in these games in the army as a whole almost rivaled that taken in the races, sparring mat
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  • 1583.1
    ...</em> or hurling the Ball," - that no mannor person shall play at the same games, being above the age of seven years, wither in the churchyard or in any of
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  • Eagle v Em Quad in CA on 11 October 1860
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2
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  • Clipping:Beer and Sunday games in the Northwestern League
    |Title=beer and Sunday games in the Northwestern League
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  • 1849.3
    |Query=<p>Is Tom saying that there were no prior safe-haven ball games [cricket, town ball, wicket] out west, or just that the NY game hadn't arri
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  • Clipping:Umpire must call a ball or a strike
    ...ween the nines belonging to Turin and Constableville, who are playing five games for the championship of the county. … The first man was called to the ba
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  • 1853.4
    ...&nbsp; Is it possible that may other "plaing ball" references denote fungo games?&nbsp;</p> <p>Do we know of any other fungo games in which more than a single bat is used?</p>
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  • In New York on 29 November 1855
    ...clubs were out last Thursday week, and in spite of the cold, played their games out. “ [See separate descriptions below.])</p> <p>(NYC: “There seemed t |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • Block:English Baseball in East Sussex on July 26 1884
    ...f the male teachers played matches of cricket, and indulged in other manly games."</p>
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  • Baseball5
    ...with any ties being broken by playing extra innings&nbsp;as necessary, and games generally lasting 15 to 20 minutes. Unlike baseball/softball, there is no p
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  • Clipping:A new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games
    |Title=a new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games ...trong game. Afterwards they fell into “the sere and yellow leaf” of their ball-playing age, as it were, and resolved themselves into a committee of the whole on r
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  • Clipping:Benefits of mixing baseball and cricket
    ...ve their play, both at the bat and in fielding, by practicing each other’s games. In batting, at base-ball, the cricketer learns a free use of his shoulder
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  • Clipping:Giving workers Saturday afternoons off
    ...of going to the games on Saturday instead of Sunday. The object of Sunday games mainly is to give the hard-working classes, who cannot see the game, which
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  • 1862.34
    ...1863, &ldquo;the officers and men enjoyed themselves much in the innocent games of cricket and base-ball.&rdquo; [page 290]. In May 1863, at a temporary ca
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  • Clipping:The benefit of good drainage
    |Text=<p>[New York vs. Philadelphia PL 5/8/1890] Many games are called sloppy on acdount of the poor fielding, but yesterday's was not
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  • Clipping:Attendance in Louisville 2
    ...resident Parsons and Manager Chapman is the splendid attendance at all the games. Tuesday there were 1252 people present; Wednesday there were 725; Thurs
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  • 1857.7
    |Headline=Daily Base Ball Games Found in Public Square in Cleveland ...appealed to, he quietly informed the players that there was no law against ball-playing there . . . The crowd sent up a shout and renewed the game, which continued
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  • 1872.11
    |Text=<p>"AMATEUR GAMES -- The Manhattan Cricket Club played baseball with the Knickerbockers on th ...ng baseball. Cricket and baseball clubs playing one another in one or both games was an established practice in this era. Generally the baseball team won at
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  • Clipping:A minor league club with a reserve team
    ...which will play on the home grounds the days the regular team are playing games in other cities in the semi-professional Inter-State League.</p>
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  • Clipping:Reduced attendance from the old days
    ...ith allowing first or second games to go by default in order to have third games, the Atlantic club have so lowered their playing status as to have ceased t
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  • Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on May 3 1879
    ...re playing about the streets, and who as a rule are allowed to enjoy their games of whip-top, base-ball, and other pastimes in the middle of the public stre
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  • Clipping:Poor support for a minor league team in Chicago
    ...e most prosperous towns in the West and Northwest, the Western Association games in this city draw hundreds only where the League team attracts thousands.</
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  • 1855.47
    <p>https://protoball.org/Club_of_Newark, which includes 21 of the club's games, 1855-1864</p> ...o applying some criteria to the limited information we have about the 1855 games and see if I can come up with a systematic approach to identifying the firs
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  • Clipping:George Wright's history
    ...essional of the St. George Club, getting off now and then to play in match games of base-ball. In 1865 I was professional to the Philadelphia Cricket Club
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  • 1849.14
    |Text=<p>"BALL-PLAYING -- Westfield vs. Granville --</p> ...sterday.&nbsp;There were 30 on each side, and the winners in three of five games were to be awarded the victory.&nbsp; On the first game, the Westfield boys
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  • 1860.13
    ...span> of August 11, 1860, page 132, carries accounts of two July town ball games in Philadelphia PA, [1] one involving the Olympics and [2] another involvin
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  • Clipping:Uniform rules under the National Agreement; official balls
    ...se rules. This is done so as to prevent the use of light or dead balls in games between the clubs of different bodies, a has frequently been the case in th
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  • Clipping:Indoor baseball in Brooklyn 2
    ...one obstacle to the success of the scheme seems to be in the fact that the games will be played by gaslight. Those directly interested, however, stated tha ...l be regulation size, but will be made as light as possible. Championship games will consist of as many innings as can be played in one hour and thirty min
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  • Clipping:Caylor comes out against Sunday baseball; Pritchard's response
    ...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>
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  • First Nine v Second Nine on 8 September 1859 - 2
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • 1833c.12
    ...amed club merged in 1833, but only after they had, apparently, played some games against one another. "Since . . . there weren't any other ball clubs, eithe ...that "both sides had existence outside of that game." He dates one of the games to July 4, 1833, as the Olympic club had been formed to play a game on the
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  • Olympic Base Ball Club of Syracuse
    ...seball clippings collection of the Onondaga Hist Assn adverts to 5 Olympic games played in 1859 and one in 1860. They played the SyrBBC twice and the Chitt
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  • 1823.6
    ...sp; years before Jahn came forward.&rdquo;&nbsp; (Gutsmuths&rsquo; book on games provided David Block with the 1796 rules and diagram of a game called &ldqu ...ent parts, are altogether unessential and a matter of choice.&rdquo; &nbsp;Ball-playing, Beck wrote, &ldquo;unites various exercises: throwing, striking, running a
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  • Phillips Academy Club of Andover
    ...t Phillips Academy) has a lot on early baseball here. Evidently "bat-ball" games were popular here in 1811.By 1852-53 they were playing "base ball,' but the <p>The 1853 games were played in an open field in the rear of the Seminary buildings. One gam
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  • 370c.1
    |Headline=Saint Augustine Recalls Punishment for Youthful Ball Games ...re punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown up games are known as 'business. . . . Was the master who beat me himself very diffe
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  • Clipping:What Constitutes an Amateur Base Ball Club
    ...d be a pecuniary loss were he not paid for his time spent in playing match games. If the opinion of your New York correspondent was to prevail, and be acce
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  • Clipping:An openly professional picked nine match; hundreds of baseball professionals
    ..., etc. The design of the National Association is to limit all contests to games in which the simple trophy of the ball is the incentive. If prizes are to
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  • 1807.1
    |Text=<p>"A hermit who had been watching some children playing ball games approved of their play and promised 'to provide bats, balls, &amp;c' at his
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  • 1860.49
    |Headline=Troy NY Writer: "Every Newspaper" Covers Base Ball Games, Some Showing Regrettable "Petty Meanness" ...ery branch of the game should be played in a friendly spirit. Many are the games which have been played, the beauty of which have been spoiled by the spirit
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  • 1860.24
    ...l game of ball on Saturday afternoon. Ball-playing was one of the favorite games with the boys. . . . [Nat comes to bat.] 'I should like to see a ball go by
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  • Clipping:A failed hidden ball trick
    ...e heart of the town [Cleveland] by his tricks and antics. He plays to win games, and that's the kind of playing that pays. In last Monday's game he taught
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  • 1853.18
    ...nbsp;<em>Mercury</em> necessarily was referring to the group of safe-haven games under various names played throughout the United States since colonial time
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  • Clipping:The relationship between the Excelsiors and the Knickerbockers; social games
    ...le=the relationship between the Excelsiors and the Knickerbockers; social games ...t from year to year in friendly rivalry. The matches are not “first nine” games, but are gotten up for the sake of social enjoyment, and a good time genera
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  • 1863.90
    ...ying ball games cross the river. "We would sit on the bank and watch their games, and the distance was so short we could understand every movement and would
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  • 1859.29
    ...all shrunk slightly in weight and size. Matches would be decided by single games.&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1842.1
    |Text=<p>A group of young men begin to gather in Manhattan for informal ball games. The group plays ball under an evolving set of rules from which emerges as
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  • 1855.16
    ...s too advanced and too institutionalized for a society that lacked a manly ball-playing tradition.&nbsp; Americans drew from the only heritage they had -- that of ...=<p>Adelman bases his analysis on the premise that base ball's predecessor games were played mainly be juveniles.&nbsp; This premise can be questioned.&nbsp
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    ...off. It does not seem possible that they will sacrifice upwards of twenty games for the purpose of playing two or three with Detroit. The two Clubs can pl ...and Metropolitans have a contest, then the latter nine is barred from any games with the American nines.</p>
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  • Clipping:A raid on Sunday ball players
    ...d fined one dollar each and costs, and at the same time were informed that ball-playing in the city limits on the Sabbath hereafter would not be allowed. There wa
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  • White Lot south of the White House
    ...s Savage, who worked in DC) later recalled Pres. Lincoln watching the ball games played there, See the <em>Rock Island Argus</em> and other newspapers, Feb.
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  • Clipping:Resistance to Sunday games in Queens; single admission double header
    |Title=resistance to Sunday games in Queens; single admission double header ...remark the position lines. Only one admission will be charged for the two games.</p>
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  • Club of Detroit v Early Risers Club of Detroit on 8 August 1859
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  • Clipping:Joe Leggett absconds
    ...Geer, who is announced to play in Cincinnati next season is playing Sunday games in San Francisco this winter. One paper has an idea that he should be expe
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  • In New Orleans on 14 October 1860
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  • Clipping:Don't break the windows
    ...y, from the vast amount of glass broken, in the club houses, by organizing games in front of the buildings, and the proprietors justly complain of this usel
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  • 1749.2
    ...was there a two-player version of the game then (in the 1800s competitive games of cricket were similarly reported with only two named players)?</p>
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  • 1818c.7
    ...in-the-foreground-(pen-and-ink-and-wc-on-paper).html" target="_blank">Ball Games at Atzenbrugg with Franz Schubert (1797-1828... (#219422) (meisterdrucke.us ...l.org/Modern_rules_of_Schlagball.&nbsp; We don't know much about the other games, nor when they were played.</div>
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  • Three Man Ball -- Hit It Out
    ...ed,&nbsp;additional hits beyond the end-line are registered as outs.&nbsp; Games take 45 minutes, or an unclear number of innings.</p> <p>This game bears a resemblance to other non-running fungo-type games listed on this website, including [[Indian Ball]] (Missouri), [[Line Ball]]
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  • 1862.20
    <p>&middot; Huntsville, 3/64: "Games daily in camp, ball, etc." [p. 184]</p> ...ying ball with our neighbors, Buckeyes, this afternoon. We beat them three games of four.</p>
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  • Union Club of Medway v Massapoag Club of Sharon on 19 September 1857
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  • Clipping:Playing baseball for money, and a call for boycott of 25 cent games
    |Title=playing baseball for money, and a call for boycott of 25 cent games ...large crowds of people who have been attracted to witness the championship-games this fall, and the profits arising therefrom which have been realized by th
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  • 1844.5
    ...this work pictures a scene of children on a village green playing various games including baseball."</p>
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  • Excelsior v Rough and Ready in Batavia on 4 June 1858
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  • 1843.2
    <p>Reeve, Arthur B., <i>Beginnings of Our Great Games</i>, <u>Outing Magazine</u>, April 1910, page 49, per John Thorn, 19CBB pos
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  • Clipping:Winter ball in the South
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  • Pepper
    ...whatever, you would use in a professional baseball game. . . . But pepper games are gone. . . . It would still be worth putting every player through a pepp
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  • Atwater Club of Westfield, MA v Nonotuck Club of Northampton on 11 August 1858
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  • 1849.9
    ...Granville MA on Thursday, at which the Westfield boys won the first three games by 10, 20, and 40 runs."</p>
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  • 1862.13
    |Headline=Government Survey: Athletic Games Forestall Woes of Soldiers Gambling ...six, there were none. Where there were none, card playing and other indoor games took their place. This invited gambling abuses, it was inferred.</p>
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  • Norr and Spell
    |Sources=<p><em>Ball Games</em><span>., page 56.</span></p> <p><span><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>., pages 421-423.<
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  • Clipping:Overtures from the League
    ...ve all the games they can play from now until the close of the season, and games in which the lions share of the receipts go into their own cash boxes and n
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  • 1872.7
    ...en internalized by the baseball community generally as How It Is Done. The games are explicitly to be played under the Professional Association rules. This
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  • 19CBB Highlights, August September 2013
    ...re Anglicized because, among other things, of the recent craze for English games like base ball.
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  • 1854.7
    |Comment=<p>We have no record of the Empire Club playing match games in 1854, but the following April, they took the field.</p>
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  • Clipping:John Morrill opens a sporting goods store
    ...ield street. It is centrally located in the business district, and as the games of the Brotherhood and League Clubs are to be displayed, it cannot fail to
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  • 1820s.22
    ...and over broad acres, playing 'one old cat,' and base ball (no scientific games or balls as hard as a white oak boulder in those days) excepted when presse ...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 38. The b
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  • 1867.11
    ...dozen accounts of "old fashioned base ball" games in Paterson in 1867. The games typically lasted six innings with eleven on a side."</span></p>
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  • 1860.34
    |Headline=Disparate Ball Games Seen in New Hampshire |Comment=<p>Intramural games are described for two clubs. In one, appearing on May 19, "the stars of the
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  • Clipping:Allegheny Club ownership, finances
    ...$30,000 had been received at home games. This amount and that gained from games played in other cities, together with the starting investment, a total of $
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  • 1827.7
    ...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 36 and re
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  • Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport v Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport on 3 October 1858undefined
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  • Clipping:Rule changes increase batting
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  • 1815.8
    <p>[Bates then described the killing of the ball-playing prisoners and concluded that seven&nbsp; were killed and sixty wounded.]&nb ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 39.</p>
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  • Clipping:Baseball and the Saturday half-holiday
    ...oring population turned out en masse Sunday to the parks and the base-ball games. There was no “Blud Monday” in this country as there was in England, a
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  • First Game Played on Ice Skates
    ...opular winter pastime before the Civil War. The first of several base ball games played on ice occurred in 1860, and involved members of the Atlantic and th
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  • Bull Pen
    |Sources=<p><span>Paul G. Brewster,&nbsp;</span><em>American Nonsinging Games&nbsp;</em>(U Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1953)<span>, page 82-83.</span></p>
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  • 1863.10
    ...se ball from March 1863 to February 1864. Two soldiers&rsquo; diaries note games on March 11, March 29, and April 11 1863 in Falmouth VA. A Captain Phillips
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  • Wolverines Club of Benton Harbor
    </p><p>"In Benton Harbor the games were played on the Morton ball ground on Morton Hill." ...ld Congregational Church on East Main Street. . . . When playing practice games on this ground a few of the players would occasionally bat the ball to the
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  • 1864.88
    ...s that a few weeks ago at James City, VA "the boys got about all manner of games [including] the old school-boy game of base-ball."</p> <p>Craft, "141st Pennsylvania" p. 168 says that "ball-playing" in camp at James City was popular in March 1864.</p>
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  • 1685.1
    ...hire and Gloucestershire adjoining." From A. B. Gomme, <u>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</u>, 1964 reprint of 1898 text [New York,
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  • Elysian Fields Sub-topics -- 2022
    ...pectators' Roles --'''What more can we find out about the spectators at EF games -- and also about the Stevens family's attitude toward fans and baseball as
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  • Clipping:How the game is played on ice
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  • 1775.2
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 39.</p>
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  • 1839.4
    |Headline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...3. "Games with a Ball" treats stool-ball, trap-ball, tip-cat, among other games, and owes much to Strutt (see 1801 entry, above). The writer advises, "[St
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  • BC1460.1
    |Text=<p>Wall inscriptions in Egyptian royal tombs depict games using bats and balls.</p> ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 20.</p>
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  • Brian Turner, April 2013
    ...thampton) in 1791 and another thing in other towns (such as the names ball games were known by Pittsfield).&nbsp;</p>
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  • Belding Base Ball Club of Piermont
    ...t clubs around New York in what now has become one of the most fashionable games of the day. What say you young gentlemen, shall we have more Base Ball Club
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  • 1796.4
    ...in winter, and skating, playing ball (of which there are several different games), gunning and fishing . . . "</p>
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  • Clipping:Types of football
    ...his fact, for it was evolved from one of the crudest and most primitive of games, originally consisting of two mobs of men and boys trying to kick a ball in
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  • 1812c.1
    |Text=<p>[At age four] "he spent many hours at games with boys of the neighborhood, his favorite being 'Cat and <strong>Bass Bal
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  • Clipping:Junior players playing the fly game
    ...ting the fly game as it appears they have done for the regular first class games. The McClellan, Burnside, Ironside and Carroll clubs will play a first cla
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  • Enterprise Club of Bedford v Young America Club of Harlem on 5 October 1857
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  • 1800c.1
    ...was commonplace, according to a historian of that school.&nbsp; 'The only games seem to have been old-fashioned 'bat and ball', which, in the spring, was p
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  • Putnam Club of Brooklyn v Charter Oak Club of Brooklyn on 9 July 1860
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  • 1363.1
    ..., "forbidding, all and single, on our orders, to toy in any way with these games of throwing stones, wood, or iron, playing handball, football, "stickball," ...s prohibited by proclamation in the reign of Edward III., exclusive of the games of chance, are thus specified; throwing of stones, wood, or iron….” The
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  • Ballgame in Cleveland in 1857
    |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1857.7 – Daily Base Ball Games [NY-Style] Found in Public Square in Cleveland? ...appealed to, he quietly informed the players that there was no law against ball-playing there . . . The crowd sent up a shout and renewed the game, which continue
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  • Vernon Club of Brooklyn v Neptune Club of Brooklyn on 18 May 1859
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  • 1850.22
    ...l Tavern," where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."</p>
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  • Clipping:Stalling a game to give the pitcher rest
    ...ck was pitching and I was catching. McCormick had pitched in two or three games that week with a pretty sore arm. He was tired in the last inning and Anso
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  • 1830s.12
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38.</p>
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  • Clipping:Cleveland NL players jump to Cincinnati UA; talk of a lawsuit
    ...tion, and it is a serious question whether we can play out the schedule of games for which we are obligated. I have received a number of dispatches from pl
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  • Block:English Baseball in Sutherland (Scottish Highlands) on September 25 1894
    ...oon was spent in skipping, playing base-ball, running exercises, and other games.”</p>
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  • Clipping:Detectives follow Phillies and Pittsburgh players
    ...two of the players didn’t go to bed at all. On the Fourth they played two games with the Pittsburg team and both clubs played wretchedly. ...</p>
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  • Game with wickets in Sheffield in 1800
    ...days than now. We had more holidays, more games in the street, &ndash; of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling. [p.21]" ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. Accessed 11/16/200
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  • 1797.5
    ...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 29.</
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  • Clipping:A challenge to Chadwick on playing 'social' games to evade eligibility rules
    |Title=a challenge to Chadwick on playing 'social' games to evade eligibility rules ...this game and the circumstances attending it are precisely similar to the games played by the Athletic Club in Boston, we insist that he assumes the same p
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on May 13 1886
    ...ll" was reported, this time in the Fratton area of Portsmouth, Hampshire: "Games in the Street.--George Lean, William Vesey and John Baker, youths, were sum
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  • 1861.23
    |Tags=Championship Games ...the Committee on Championship have resolved to postpone the proposed match games for the championship...Among the reasons...is the fact that quite a number
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  • Clipping:The condition of the Beacon Club 2
    ...rain or practice. All the ball-playing indulged in by members is in match games.</p>
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  • Knock-Out
    ...ican baseball players in England practice by playing a game of "knock up." Games of "Knock up and catch" is mentioned in the Chicago Tribune, July 5, 1879,
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  • Clipping:The condition of the Olympic Club 4
    ...has been maintained simply for exercise, and has not engaged in any match games. At present it has under lease a handsome ground at Eighteen and York stre
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  • In Jefferson OH in July 1859
    ...y Sean Lahman describes 1959 play in Jefferson that uses teams of 14, with games decided at 100 runs, noting that base-ball had been played by "early settle
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  • Clipping:The ill effects of cricket hitting
    ..., especially by so much cricket playing, as to this is the loss of so many games plainly to be attributed. Those who notice their batting will see how apt
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  • Clipping:Disagreement over what rule are operative
    <p>Only three out of the eleven games were marked by double-figure scores, while four were won by socres of five
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  • 1834.1
    ...hem, which I believe to be the most popular with boys." [Page 37.] Other games describes are Fives, Nine-Holes, or Hat-Ball [a game with running/plugging
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  • Browns Club of Albuquerque
    ...raction park in Albuquerque. The Browns won 17 to 7. They won the next two games 20-16 and 36-12. An online source says, without citation, that the Browns s
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  • Clipping:The Mutuals ground situation
    ...als will, therefore, practice at Hoboken as heretofore, but play all match games upon the Union Ball grounds in Brooklyn, Eastern District.</p>
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  • Clipping:The official scorer in Detroit
    ...n of official scorer for the purpose of getting dead-head admission to the games, and obtained both. His “official” report of Saturday's game gives the
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  • Up-Ball
    ...ound an 1849 chapbook printed in Connecticut: “there are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b
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  • In Danville in 1857
    ...e of Danville IN spend a lot of time playing "bull pen," and suggests that games such as "town ball" or "bull pen" are healthy exercises.</p>
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  • 1863.20
    ...ound all the officers with Colonel Edwards at their head out playing ball. Games are all the rage now in the Army of the Potomac. [page 78]&rdquo; A few lat
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  • Overmeyer’s side v McPherson’s side on 31 July 1860
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  • In Cambridge in 1829
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. The text of the au
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  • Ballgame in Troy in June 1860
    ...ry branch of the game should be played in a friendly spirit. Many are the games which have been played, the beauty of which have been spoiled by the spirit
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  • Cuck-ball
    |Sources=<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>, page 83.</span><
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  • Cincinnati Townball
    ...bout the same as early baseball, yet in looking over the old score-book of games of townball played in Cincinnati during the war, we find one of 146 to 21.
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  • Clipping:Talk of excluding co-op clubs from the NA
    ...erience of the present season that the co-operative system of professional ball-playing is a failure and an injury to the regular clubs.</p>
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  • Clipping:Talk of crooked play in the League
    ...formation to the League, especially in relation to the Athletic-Cincinnati games in Cincinnati last July, and that Seybert, of New York pool-selling notorie
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  • Base Ball Association of Manchester v Base Ball Association of Manchester on 5 May 1860
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...s in the Mears Collection (dated "May 1860" by hand), disparate intramural games are described for two clubs. In one, "the stars of the East" played an in-h
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  • Clipping:The Elysian Fields
    ...gular organization. The western field has been set apart for the Saturday games of the newspaper nines, and these are all the clubs which will play on the
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  • Clipping:A telegraphed theatrical display of games
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  • 1330.1
    |Headline=Vicar of Winkfield Advises Against Bat/Ball Games in Churchyards; First Stoolball Reference? ...instructions to parish priests, advising them to forbid the playing of all games of ball in churchyards: "Bats and bares and suche play/Out of chyrche-yorde
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  • Harlem v Eureka in Hoboken on 14 September 1860
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  • Clipping:A uniform ball for all championship games
    |Title=a uniform ball for all championship games ...r. Smith of the Maryland Club introduced a rule regarding all championship games to be played with a Ryan “dead” ball, which was adopted. So but one ba
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  • Clipping:High pitch delivery
    ..., and governed by two sets of rules and constitutions, the umpire in these games has no control of the visiting pitchers. Derby took advantage of this fact <p>This is not base ball, but in these exhibition games it can not be helped. The League Clubs are instructed by their Directors t
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  • 1818.3
    |Text=<p>"Although playing ball games near the barracks was prohibited, cadets could play 'at football' near Fort
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  • BC2000 to 1000ADc.1
    ...Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians&mdash;play primitive ball games for recreation, as fertility rites and in religious rituals.</p> ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 8-21.</p>
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  • Western Empire Base Ball Club of Springfield
    ...and much wine, the party dispersed with the general understand that match games of Base Ball are good things, however they result.</p>
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  • Club of Paris, IL
    ...ription=<p>The Coles County Historical Society website has a list of early games in the local newspapers. The first game listed for&nbsp;Paris was played Au
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  • Hole-Ball
    ...cription=<p>H. J Philpott used the names "hole-ball and "wibble-wobble" as games that seem consistent with hat-ball.  One player would place the ball in a
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  • Seventh Section Freshman v Sixth Section Introductory on 7 June 1861
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  • Clipping:Negotiating the rules
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  • Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Cricket Club on 1 August 1859
    ...dice that seems to exist on both sides in regard to the merits of the two games.  Every Base Ball player would improve his play by a knowledge of cricke |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • 1830s.32
    ...err, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine
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  • 1840s.32
    ...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.</
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  • Club of Sherman
    ...73, writes that the “Denison and Sherman base ball clubs are playing match games of base ball.”
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  • Lincoln Club of New Britain
    ...tions the Mansfields of Middletown playing the Lincolns of New Britain two games in 1866.
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  • 1837.2
    ...runner was put out, he would replace the fielder who made the putout. Some games would last for days.</p>
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  • Welsh Baseball
    ...ven-player teams, no foul ground, an all-out-side-out rule, and two-inning games.</p>
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  • 1852.17
    ...ine=Dickens Names Cricket, but not Stoolball or Rounders, Among "Merriest" Games ...played . . . They were active afoot, and on horseback; at cricket and all games of ball; the prisoners base, hare and hounds, follow up leader, and more sp
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  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on September 2 1865
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  • 1862c.54
    |Text=<p>"Camp Games.&nbsp; Every volunteer who has been in service, has realized the tedium of
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  • Niagara Club of Lockport v Fillmore Club of Buffalo on 6 August 1860
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  • Clipping:A call for reform
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  • 1450.1
    ...anned games "tenessyng handball, fott ball stoil ball and all manner other games out churchyard." <b>Note:</b> can we determine when the "other author" wro
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  • 1385.1
    ...ey play ball inside and outside the church and engage in other destructive games there, breaking and greatly damaging the glass windows and the stone images
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  • 1494c.1
    ...er the smoke of palm nuts. A discovery which improved the delights of ball games was noteworthy." 350 years later, after Goodyear discovered vulcanization [
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  • Club of Denison
    ...ites that the &ldquo;Denison and Sherman base ball clubs are playing match games of base ball.&rdquo;</p>
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  • 1861.37
    ...se Ball after 1854" (draft), October 2012.&nbsp; Data from the Protoball [[Games Tabulation]] (version 1.0) compiled by Craig Waff.</p>
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  • Alton Base-Ball Club v Upper Alton Base Ball Club on 19 June 1858undefined
    ...wn 5 miles north of St. Louis. Missouri. Jeff Kittel in his "This Game of Games' website thinks that this team probably played town ball, having fund a ref
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  • Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 5 October 1860
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  • Clipping:Morrill opens a sporting goods store
    ...field street. It is centrally located in th business district, and as the games of the Brotherhood and League clubs are to be displayed it cannot fail to b
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  • Atwater Club of Westfield, MA
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  • Clipping:Brooklyn and Cincinnati prospects of jumping to the NL
    ...ing fixed so that our regular schedule can be played out by playing Sunday games in Kentucky, as everything can be run wide open over there.”</p> ...ey remaining in the Association, charging 25 cents, and playing his Sunday games in Kentucky.</p>
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  • Excelsior Club of Upton v Union Club of Medway on 3 October 1860
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  • 1863.59
    ...starting in August 1861. A General Hayes is mentioned as watching several games, sometimes along with his wife.</p> ...day. The men continued to engage in different sports, and there were ball games, jumping, putting the shot, and other amusements.&rdquo;</p>
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  • 1840c.17
    |Text=<p>"Among the favorite games engaged in my the larger boys, special mention may be made of 'Three Corner
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  • Gothams Club of New York v Eagle Base Ball Club of New York on 24 October 1856
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  • Town Ball
    ...d generically to denote, in substantially later years, any of a variety of games that preceded the New York game in a particular area. [[Philadelphia Town B ...try [[1831.1]] and [[Philadelphia Town Ball]] in the Protoball Glossary of Games.</p>
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  • Clipping:The state of hippodroming and revolving
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  • 1744.2
    ...1762. He also notes that a 1767 revision features engravings for the four games.</p>
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  • Resolute v Constellation in New York on 18 September 1858
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  • Whirl
    ...d to think that whatever game it was would have been very similar to other games more familiar to participants, especially if they were able to field a team
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  • 1500s.1
    ...n College of St Bernard contemplated that permission might be obtained for games, though not before dinner or after the bell rang for vespers. A sixteenth
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  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on April 11 1903
    ...paper report, he proposed that “no football, hockey, cricket, or dangerous games be allowed on the Church Hill.” He argued that these game endangered moth
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  • Fair Play Club of Easton MD v Fair Play Club of Easton MD on 20 April 1867
    ..., and enjoyed the first game on Wednesday. This is one of the most popular games now in the country and is very wholesome exercise. The society have appoint ...Fair Play' Club was organized some time since, and have played a number of games, the members are all deeply interested, and the club promises to be equal t
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    ...“they commenced playing at cricket, foot and base-ball, &c., and the usual games resorted to on such occasions.”</p>
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  • 1854.3
    ...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
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  • 1863.115
    ...which relates the soldiers in camp are playing "the sports sof boyhood in games of "Prison ball," "Bull pen," etc."&nbsp;</p>
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  • Clipping:Negotiations in Cleveland
    ...unday games on the old Brotherhood Grounds? No one can object. The Sunday games will pay all expenses, for I shall not have fifteen or eighteen stars on th ...f gate receipts, each club hustling for itself. I am sure that the Sunday games will pay the expenses of the club.</p>
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  • Union Jr. Club of Newburgh v Olympic Jr. Club of Poughkeepsie on 24 July 1860
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  • Rules of the Massachusetts Association of Base Ball Players
    16. In playing all match games, when one is out, the side shall be considered out. 17. In playing all match games, one hundred tallies shall constitute the game, the making of which by eith
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  • 1805.3
    |Headline=<u>Book of Games</u> Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball |Text=<p>Among the games described in this book are cricket and trap-ball, which has this concise ac
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  • 1836c.4
    ...hese games of ball were much less scientific and difficult than the modern games. Chief were four old-cat, three old-cat, two old-cat, and base."</p>
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  • Tom Altherr, May 2011
    ...rn Ball-Games" href="../1850_--_Southern_Ball-Games">1850 -- Southern Ball-Games</a>."&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>. <st
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  • Clipping:The state of the professional game
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  • Clipping:A Sunday ground outside Baltimore
    ...the Atlantic Association. No beer is sold on the grounds at the week-day games.</p>
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  • 1857.28
    ...DWAY. . . . The game commenced at 1 o'clock, and was to be the best 3 in 5 games, of 25 tallies each. A large crowd collected to witness the game, among who
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  • Eagle Base Ball Club of New York
    ...ous explanation is that the Eagle club were playing different bat and ball games until 1854, supported by a member's later memoirs and by mention in the Kni ...the Eagle Hose Cart No.1 in 1840, played other baserunning (plus plugging) games before adopting Knickerbocker rules in 1854.&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1852.4
    |Headline=Bass-ball "Quite Too Complicated" for Children's Book on Games <p>As for other games, the book grants that Little Charley "also plays at cricket and bass ball,
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  • 1857.42
    ...ity poised for the explosive growth which followed the Fashion Race Course games of 1858.&nbsp;</p>
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  • Halfball
    <p>For these games, oncoming traffic was marked by a common shriek -- "Carrr!!!" --&nbsp; that ...kies" sometimes did.&nbsp; A floppy half-Pinkie could be employed in fungo games, but not in a continuation of a stickball game.&nbsp; (Email of 1/1/2020).<
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  • Clipping:A uniform ball adopted for championship games
    |Title=a uniform ball adopted for championship games ...The strongest argument in its favor lay in the fact of its requiring all games to be played with a regularly authorized ball, instead of having continued
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  • Fillmore Club of Buffalo v Metropolitan Club of Buffalo on 24 September 1860
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  • Hook-em-snivy (Family of Games)
    {{Family of Games ...e that are commonly encountered by researchers but that are not safe-haven games (including shinty, bandy, and stow-ball).
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  • Clipping:Using two balls to avoid delays
    ...nal vs. St. Louis (Union) 10/11/1884] For the past two weeks, to hurry the games through as quickly as possible, two balls have been used at the Union groun
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  • Clipping:A claim that AA clubs asked to join the NL
    ...t during the first two weeks in October the Cleveland Club will play three games here, the Chicago two and the Providence Club four. One of the requirement
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  • Clipping:The new Newington grounds
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  • Block:1823 Glossary Lists "Base-ball" as Local Suffolk Game
    ...have&hellip;a great variety of games, active and sedentary&hellip;Omitting games so universal as Cricket, Leap-frog, Marbles, etc., we have...Bandy, Bandy-w
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  • Clipping:California and organized baseball
    ...ers in the League and Association have been going to California for winter games of late, and their presence has proved a source of no little revenue to Cal
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  • Gothams Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 30 June 1854
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...ol. 25, no. 32 (22 Sep 1855), p. 373, col. 3 [list of Knickerbocker-Gotham games]</p>
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  • Exercise v Vigilant in New York on 28 September 1860
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  • Clipping:The composition of balls; illegal balls; skillful batting
    ...years past “heavy batting nines” have made it a “point” in making up their games to secure the privilege of selecting the ball, and having had balls special
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  • Doutee Stool
    |Sources=<p><em>Ball Games</em><span>,</span><span>  </span>(London: George Routledge and Sons, 1860
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  • 1866.17
    |Text=<p>BASE BALL--MORE MATCH GAMES--DESCRIPTION OF THE MODE OF PLAYING IT.</p> ...the elite and beauty of Shockoe Hill. We call especial attention to these games, from the fact that the exercise is healthy and inspiring; and we truly hop
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  • Clipping:Ten-men exhibition games
    |Title=ten-men exhibition games ...hort, it confuses the first and second basemen and induced them in regular games to play too near their bases, and not cover ground enough. We believe that
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  • Clipping:Playing a 'social' game
    ...ome prominent clubs are willing to risk on what they style merely “social” games. The Mutual Club have a powerful reserve force which one would suppose wou
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  • Bower City Club of Janesville
    ...d and third games." The scores were 25 to 18, 25 to 7, 25 to 14. The three games occupied three hours, and the players runs scored and outs made totals are
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  • Wibble-Wobble
    ...cription=<p>H. J Philpott used the names "hole-ball and "wibble-wobble" as games that seem consistent with hat-ball.  One player would place the ball in a
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  • Clipping:Ten-men exhibition games 2
    |Title=ten-men exhibition games 2 ...hort, it confuses the first and second basemen and induced them in regular games to play too near their bases, and not cover ground enough. We believe that
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  • Clipping:An experimental game in Cincinnati
    ...and in a fortnight the Athletics will return, and several very interesting games may be looked for. The Athletics are a fine looking and manly set of fello
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  • 1851.2
    ...ed by&nbsp;Knickerbocker rules . . .&nbsp; at a time when in New York most games were still intramural affairs within the one or two base ball clubs playing
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  • Ulster Club of Saugerties v Hudson River Club of Newburgh on 31 July 1861
    ...organized less than a year, and have, during that time, played five match-games, won four, and one was declared a tie.  The Ulster now claims the Champion |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2
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  • Clipping:Dismissing talk of hippodroming
    ...ment thought a local defeat would bring increased attendance at succeeding games, but there are few so gullible as to comply with the request. St. Louis Po ...l the way from $18,000 to $30,000 per season. Each club plays fifty-eight games on its own grounds, so that the club that pays $30,000 salaries must take i
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  • Clipping:The new professional system
    ...season's interest in base-ball will not culminate hereafter in a series of games between the Mutuals, Atlantics, and Athletics. The club which shall claim
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  • Clipping:Minor league club finances 2
    <p>Say we play eight games at home in a month at</p> ...order to pay expenses. This, of course, is on the basis of playing eight games at home in a month. We cannot figure any profit to ourselves when the club
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  • Clipping:Professional baseball teachers
    ...onal ball players, and yet excluding them from all match games–except such games as those in which professionals will play professionals only–we give the ...cupation a legitimate one, and exclude them from taking part in club match games. By this means every club will stand upon the merits of its legitimate mem
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  • Block:English Baseball in Berkshire on July 24 1895
    ...ough town to the Crauford College meadow, the children played a variety of games and then had tea. Afterwards, according to a newspaper report, “cricket,
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  • Melpomene Base Ball Club of New Orleans v Melpomene Base Ball Club of New Orleans on 16 September 1859
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>(base ball &ndash; two Melpomenia Base Ball Club intra-club games)</p>
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  • Clipping:Harry Wright on Sunday baseball
    ...g Mr. Wright’s mild insinuation that such action permitting Western Sunday games between Western clubs will be taken by the League ere the opening of the se
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  • Clipping:Baseball isn't like it was in the good old days
    ...games if you want to understand what I’m driving at, and then think of the games which were played in Brooklyn and Hoboken ten years ago. Look at the class
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  • 1869.13
    ...25 of its first 30 games, and undertook a tour to the West, including two games against his brother Harry's Cincinnati club.</p> ...1868) He played for the Union Club in NYC. &nbsp;The club won 39 of its 45 games, and undertook a 20-game tour of the west, including Cincinnati.</p>
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  • Clipping:Debating the ten man rule, exhibition games
    |Title=debating the ten man rule, exhibition games ...played its championship game to a close, except when clubs play exhibition games under the ten-men rule, so that, after all, the new game has received a sem
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  • 1821.5
    ...quoits and other amusements; and all the apparatus necessary for the above games will be furnished to clubs and parties."</p> ...es" may indicate that some local groups were forming to play the mentioned games long before the first base ball clubs are known to have played.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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  • 1861.35
    ...ours are devoted in great part to athletic exercises, fencing, boxing, and ball-playing, while their evenings are passed in singing, a glee club having been formed ...nd skillful base ball player and took the lead in inaugurating a series of games of base ball&rdquo; [page166].</p>
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  • 1862.37
    ...ur first Thanksgiving in camp. Passed very pleasantly. A good dinner, with games of foot and base-ball.&rdquo;</p>
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  • Clipping:The Elysian Fields for amateur practice games; the old clubs
    |Title=the Elysian Fields for amateur practice games; the old clubs ...ds, and more are to come; the probability being that Hoboken–the only free ball-playing locality almost we have left to us–will be as lively with amateur clubs p
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  • Base Ball Association of Manchester
    |Description=<p>See games tabulation.</p> ...ames of the companies of this club, 7, 8 and 10 a side, the latter being a games played to 100 runs.</p>
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  • Victory Club of Troy v Excelsior Club of West Troy on 27 September 1860
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  • Batavia players v Alexander players on 6 July 1858
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  • Clipping:Louisville record, transferring home games
    |Title=Louisville record, transferring home games ...bit the transfer of scheduled games except in the case of single postponed games which it may be impossible to play off in any other way.</p>
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  • Sam Marchiano, January 2008
    ...&nbsp;<em>Base Ball.)&nbsp;</em>The MLB.com crew spent a damp week filming games of stoolball, rounders, cricket, and trapball.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were times
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  • Games Tab:California
    ...made, but as a whole, both clubs have done much better heretofore at their games for practice.  Quite a number of spectators witnessed the contest, and con
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  • Clipping:A rubber-free ball; the home club provides the ball
    ...<p>The all-yarn ball will be optional to the home nine in all professional games this year, under the new association. Not more than one ounce of rubber wi
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  • 1835c.5
    |Text=<p>"The games of bat-and-ball in former years were various, but most popular were "four o ...e 83. <b>Caveat</b>: The section in which this excerpt resides evidently games played half a century earlier, but other interpretations are possible.</p>
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  • Call Ball
    |Sources=<p><span>William Wells Newell, </span><em>Games and Songs of American Children</em><span> </span>(New York: Dover [1963 re
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  • A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball
    ...60]), pp. 54-56), the father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more like ...he air, and any one on the other side caught it, he was “out.” I find that ball-playing changes some, and is different in different parts of the country, but it wa
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  • Young Eagle Club of San Francisco v City College Club of San Francisco on 4 July 1861
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 ...made, but as a whole, both clubs have done much better heretofore at their games for practice.&nbsp; Quite a number of spectators witnessed the contest, and
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  • Nations
    |Sources=<p><span>Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>.</span></p>
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  • Clipping:The ill effects of Sunday games
    |Title=the ill effects of Sunday games ...git them down on you, you’re gone. And just so sure as you go to playin’ games on Sunday them knock-kneed old dads won’t let their girls go of a week da
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  • Washington Club of Brooklyn v Washington Club of Brooklyn on 3 August 1855
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  • Hat ball (Family of Games)
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  • 1872.19
    ...the betting centralized, there is more temptation to pay players to throw games. The logic is not entirely clear. Setting this up would be the actions of i
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  • Continental v Baltic in Harlem on 27 August 1857
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  • 1827.1
    ...err, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine
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  • 1853.7
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  • Flour City Club of Rochester v University Club of Rochester on 18 June 1858
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...ctators, who anticipated a much closer game.&nbsp; There are several other games on the tapis, and if the lovers of the game continue as they have commenced
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  • Eckford Club of Brooklyn v Gotham Club of New York on 22 July 1859
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  • Clipping:A proposal for an amateur national championship
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  • Agallian Club of Middletown
    ...n a nearby vacant plot of land on Washington Street. Later photos exist of games being played on the Wesleyan campus on what is now Andrus Field, which at t
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  • Clipping:A second nine at Harvard
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  • Clipping:Bobby Matthews's endurance
    <p>exhibition games trading batteries</p> ...used a great deal of dissatisfaction to the public. The truth was that the games were experimental: a trial whether the public would take interest in a game
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  • Keystone Club of Philadelphia v Continental Club of Philadelphia on 4 July 1860
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  • 1862.11
    |Headline=Banned in Boston&#39;s Public Garden: "Games of Ball, Foot-ball" ...ns shall, without the consent of the mayor or board of aldermen, engage in games of ball, foot-ball, or other athletic sports, upon the public garden."</p>
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  • 1850.6
    ...spelling "bass-ball," it is one of the earliest references to the old-cat games."</p> ...>Note:</strong> Is the author hinting that boys commonly bet on their ball-games? Isn't this a rare mention of barn-ball?</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Bedfordshire on July 26 1881
    .... A newspaper reported that, following some further speeches, “the various games and amusements were then again indulged in, including cricket, swings, base
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  • 1836.5
    ...me of the English found their way down to us and we have since had several games."<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p> ...e one trait in which they differ widely from us; they keep up their boyish games through life.&nbsp; [. . .] Cricket and Ball of all sorts is played in Engl
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  • Clipping:A condemnation of beer and Sunday baseball; the brewery influence
    ...followed by hundreds of others. The beer riots of Cincinnati at base ball games, where the umpire is made the target of the heavy and deadly beer glasses,
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  • Indian Ball
    ...Unlimited swings are permitted. Three-out-side-out innings and five-inning games are prescribed.&nbsp; The playing field is represented in a figure showing |Sources=<p><span>Brewster,&nbsp;</span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em> (U of Oklahoma Press, 1953) page 80.&nbsp;https://www.chrisoleary.com/
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  • "A Good Many Different Kinds of Ball"
    ...arming 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel ...he air, and any one on the other side caught it, he was “out.” I find that ball-playing changes some, and is different in different parts of the country, but it wa
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  • Play ball, baseball (retro) in Cambridge in 1830
    ...dash; at ten he knew many Harvard students &ndash; "their nicknames, their games, their individual haunts, &ndash; we watched them at football and cricket [ ...bridge school "there was perpetual playing of ball and fascinating running games [page 20]".
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  • Clipping:James O'Rourke takes his law degree
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  • 1847.13
    ...ll [p. 28], Northern Spell [p. 33] and Trap, Bat, and Ball [p 33]. The cat games and barn ball and town ball are not listed. In feeder, the ball is served f
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  • Base (Prisoner's Base)
    ..." (1852) in which Dickens writes: "They were active ... at cricket and all games of ball; the prisoners base, hare and hounds, follow up leader, and more sp <div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">See also Bancroft, "Games for the Playground" (1922) p. 156:</div>
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  • Harlem Club of New York v Lexington Club of New York on 17 October 1860
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  • 1859.51
    ...dents at the Eagleswood School in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.&nbsp; Among the games both male and female students were playing was base ball.&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1840s.47
    ...tributor, "Fogy," who writes that on a recent hiking trip "We spoke of the games we played [as boys]: 'ball;' 'goal' (we pronounced it 'gool' when we mentio
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  • Monday, Tuesday
    |Description=<p>per Games and Sports. Each player is assigned the name of a day of the week. A player |Sources=<p><em>Games and Sports for Young Boys</em><span>,</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span>
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  • Putnam Club of Brooklyn v Union Club of Morrisania on 17 July 1860
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  • Club of Eagle Rock
    ...es...the boys are getting excited on base ball. they have played two match games, the stakes being beer, bats and balls."</p>
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  • Clipping:A proposed English tour
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  • 1850s.47
    |Game=Old-Cat Games ...ee, in his completely lower-case autobiography, recounted mixed-gender cat games at his southern Wisconsin school in the 1850s: 'a&nbsp; little before 10:30
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  • 1830s.22
    <p>- at ten he knew many Harvard students - "their nicknames, their games, their individual haunts, we watched them at football and cricket [page 40] ...bridge school "there was perpetual playing of ball and fascinating running games [page 20]".</p>
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  • Clipping:Indianapolis Club's removal to St. Louis; talk of Pittsburgh
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  • Aleut Baseball
    ...n 2010.&nbsp; The game is associated locally with Easter Sunday, with some games played in the dawn light after Easter services.</p> <p>[] games can last several hours.&nbsp; Some games end when one side passes an agreed number of points (runs).</p>
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  • Clipping:The new Cincinnati Club owner; suspension of Sunday games in Cincinnati
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  • 1000c.1
    |Headline=America Sees First European "Games?" ...easant things about each other, and they fell out with each other, and the games came to an end. The people in the two houses stopped going to see each othe
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  • 1871.16
    ...ay that for 1872 they will switch to every team playing the same number of games, at least in theory."&nbsp;</span></p>
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  • Base Dodge Ball
    |Sources=<p><span>Emily W. Elmore, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span>, (Macmillan, NY, 1922), pages 19-20.</span></p>
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  • Clipping:The Clipper backs Fitzgerald
    ...isiting New York this fall, to gain a little practical experience, such as games with our leading clubs alone yield.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on June 5 1880
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  • Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Excelsior Club of Brooklyn on 16 November 1858
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  • Clipping:The provision of a trophy ball
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  • 1863.42
    |Sources=<p>&nbsp;[A]Michael Zitz, &ldquo;Soldiers Recount Stafford Baseball Games,&rdquo; carried on the Fredericksburg.com website, accessed 6/14/2009. Goog
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on April 30 1859
    ...erhaps implying that the visitors were trapped by the fun of playing these games. Or not. In any case, he exhibited some democratic enthusiasm by stating th
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  • Wapello Club of Rock Island
    ...Wapello BBC, and gives a roster. Same Aug. 1, 1866 and Aug. 27, 1866 notes games of the Wapello against the Pioneer of Geneseo and the Hawkeye of Davenport,
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  • 1820s.14
    |Headline=New England Lad Recalls Assorted Games, Illicit Fast Day Ballplaying
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  • Tri-Mountain Club of Boston v Bowdoin Club of Boston on 6 August 1859
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  • Pioneer Club of Jersey City v Pioneer Club of Jersey City on 23 June 1855
    ...his sporting club in Jersey City, who enter into the game much zest. Three games came off yesterday. The following gentlemen were the winners by 2 on the fi
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  • Clipping:The state of the game in Philadelphia
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  • 1819.6
    |Headline=Ball Games Recalled in Southwestern WI ..., at Prarie du Chien, Crele was one of the most active participants in the games of base ball, town ball foot races, horse races, &amp;c, and yet at that ti
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  • 1863.22
    |Headline=Chaplain Reports Many Games of Ball in 16th New York ...=<p>Chaplain Frank Hall of the 16<sup>th</sup> New York Infantry mentioned games of ball 10 times in his journal and letters home. [<strong>Note: </strong>w
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  • Kekivar
    |Sources=<p><span>Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>.</span></p>
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  • 900c.1
    |Headline=Mayan Games Played at Chichen Itza, Mexico |Text=<p>Mayan Indians play stick and ball games in ceremonial courts in Chichen Itza, Mexico</p>
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  • Hat Ball
    |Sources=<p><span>Newell,&nbsp;</span><em>Games and Songs of American Children</em><span>. page 183.</span></p> <p><span><span>Paul G. Brewster,&nbsp;</span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>&nbsp;</span>(University of Oklahoma Press, 1953)<span>, page 85.
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  • Putnam Club of Brooklyn v Putnam Club of Brooklyn on 29 November 1855
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  • 1836.2
    |Headline=German Book of Games Copies Gutsmuths&#39; Base-ball Piece ...id Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 200. This survey of 300 games, called "notably unoriginal" by Block, repeats Gutsmuths' (see entry #1796.
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  • Brian Turner, May 2011
    <p>The article surveys base ball's the many predecessor games before the New York game was established.</p>
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  • Clipping:A call for the return of straight arm pitching
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  • 1709.3
    |Headline=Cat and Trap-ball Seen as Boys&#39; Games [The Men Play Foot-ball]
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  • Predecessor Games
    ...me help to new Origins diggers who were looking for search terms for local games that may have morphed into base ball.&nbsp; We thought is those days to loo == List of Predecessor Games ==
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  • In Leavenworth Circa 1840
    |Description=The old-fashioned games of three-cornered cat, round town ball, long town ball, hat ball, baseball
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  • Canning’s Side v M’Kenna’s Side on 12 November 1859
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  • 1820s.31
    |Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 1867 volume,&nbsp;a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel
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  • Osceola Club of Brooklyn v Hiawatha Club of Brooklyn on 17 July 1858
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  • Club of Geddes
    ...ll." The baseball clippings of the Onondaga Hist. Assn. have no reports of games involving Geddes clubs until 1865.</p>
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  • 1831.2
    ...er sections of the United States. The young men are expert in a variety of games at ball - such as cricket, base, cat, football, trap ball . . . ," is the f |Comment=<p>The cited lines were from an appendix to Smith's book on American games, written by Samuel Woodworth c. 1835. ][ba]</p>
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  • Clipping:Foul tip outs eliminated
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  • Winona Club of Philadelphia v Winona Club of Philadelphia on 24 November 1859
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  • 1859.47
    ...games of this period. Taken at face value, this account implies that three games were played in the region at the time - the New York game, the New England
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  • 1857.25
    ...underline;">Daily Chronicle</span> report described a best of three games, games decided at 25 tallies, twelve-man, one-out-side-out match between the Olymp
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  • Square Ball
    <p><span><span>Emily W. Elmore, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span>, (Macmillan, NY, 1922), pages 17-18.</span></span></p>
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  • Clipping:Baltimore Club finances; Sunday games
    |Title=Baltimore Club finances; Sunday games ...ey to be made on Atlantic Association ball in Baltimore is from the Sunday games. It is a great pity that this should be so, but it is a fact.</p>
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  • Club of Janesville
    ...and third games." The scores were 25 to 18, 25 to 7, 25 to 14. The three games occupied three hours, and the players runs scored and outs made totals are
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  • Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
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  • Powhattan Club of Brooklyn v Quickstep Jr. Club of Bergen on 25 July 1860
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  • Clipping:Indoor baseball 7
    ...would not be much left of the inside beauty of the armory after one or two games. As it is, the ball must be hit with great force to send it to the “outf
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  • Clipping:The Mullane injunction made permanent
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  • Walnut Club of Alton
    <p>At Jeff Kittel's "This Game of Games" website are references to the Active BBC of Alton, organized July 1866, pl
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  • Excelsior Club of West Troy v Rearguard Club of West Troy on 14 October 1859
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  • Pride of the South Club of Memphis
    <p>A July 1868 article notes that the club was playing in a series of games for the championship of West Tennessee.</p>
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  • Charter Oak (Jr.) Club of Rochester
    <p>See games tabulation.</p>
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  • 1866.4
    |Tags=Championship Games ...duled matches for the championship of 1866; admission was charged for both games.</p>
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  • Champion Club of New York v Champion Club of New York on 25 August 1860
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  • Clipper Club of Charleston
    ...ription=<p>The Coles County Historical Society website has a list of early games in the local newspapers. The first game listed for Charleston was played Au
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  • 1862.1
    |Headline=Brooklyn Games Organized as Benefits for Sick and Wounded Soldiers |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball, Championship Games, Civil War, Holidays,
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  • Kappenspiel
    |Sources=<p><span>Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>.</span></p>
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  • Clipping:Double umpire system and player discipline
    ...l believe to be the best possible method of satisfactorily conducting ball games. In the Players' League the conditions were not altogether favorable becau
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  • Block:Pize Ball in Northumberland on April 28 1865
    ...hence a beautiful view of the sea was obtainable, in a variety of innocent games, such as foot-ball, kite-flying, pie-ball, and the like.”</p>
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  • In Dorchester in 1775
    ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 39</p>
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  • Enterprise Club of Bedford v Excelsior Club of Brooklyn on 22 August 1857
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  • Clipping:Trade unions on the Brotherhood
    ...games of the respective interests. The people care little who manages the games or who makes the money. They go to see good ball playing; therefore, as t
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  • Club-ball
    ...tt. Strutt speculates that Club-ball was the ancient ancestor of many ball games. Its rules of play are not known. Hone book has 2 illustrations.</p> ...club ball,&nbsp;</span><span>cambuc</span><span>, cockfighting, and other games of no value.&rdquo; "club ball" and "cambuc" are not further defined, but i
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  • Clipping:Prospects for the National League; rating the various cities
    ...y is a poorer ball town than ever, and positively worthless without Sunday games; and it is pretty certain that the National League, no matter what its str
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  • Enterprise Club of Bedford v Ashland Club of Hoboken on 19 June 1858
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  • 1778.4
    ...game of wicket in early May after a dinner with General Knox! . . . Other games included cards and dice . . . gambling in general, although that was frowne ...err, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." <spa
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  • In Salisbury in 1862
    |Description=<p>Baseball games were played in 1862 and 1863 at the Salisbury POW camp. See &ldquo;Base Bal ...efer to a number of base ball games [by New York rules; Millen infers that games occurred 'almost daily'] at Salisbury prison in NC. Charles Gray, a Union d
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  • Independent Rangers of New River Landing
    <p>This newspaper reports on numerous games between the Burnside and the Rangers in the next two years.</p>
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  • Ball-Bias
    ...Ball]] that was mostly found in the vicinity of Leeds.&nbsp; These latter games were&nbsp;played without a bat, like English base-ball, whereas . . . ball-
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  • 1858.52
    ...rest in wicket is seen has having crested in 1858 in western Connecticut. "Games were played annually with clubs from other towns in the state, and the day
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  • Don't Forget the Girls
    ...to warm our blood not long since.” “Good old bat and ball” was one of the games. Tom Altherr located a fictional story in The Child’s Friend (Jan 1848) ...ball” and play base ball on the grounds of schoolyards or in local pick-up games with boys. In 1859, feminist and abolitionist Frances Dana Barker Gage com
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  • Clipping:Baseball an American invention; early claim of town ball as origin
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  • 1794.2
    ...Andrews, in his history of England, cites a source for his passage on ball games, but I can not make it out from the photocopy in my possession."</p>
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  • Clipping:A match between two professional nines; the ideology of professionalism
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  • 1850 -- Southern Ball-Games
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  • Gothams Club of New York
    ...1851 this Washington Base Ball Club challenged the Knickerbockers to match games that have been preserved in the historical record. In 1852 the club reverte <p>The 19thcbaseball website says this club played two games against the Knickerbockers in 1852. No score is given.</p>
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  • Clipping:The switch from town ball to base ball in Cincinnati
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on July 13 1901
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  • Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport v Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport on 10 September 1859
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  • Champion Club of Albany v Priam Club of Troy on 24 August 1860
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    |Title=UA-AA games ...Association clubs at the close of the regular contract season, and several games have been agreed upon, we believe. There has been a difference of opinion
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  • 1694.2
    ...curity with the printed word beginning to define it, along with other folk games, as an element of the national culture. Edward Chamberlyne's <u>Anglia Not ...played. We find no reference to club ball, stick ball, trap ball, or other games suggested as precursors of baseball. The full title of Chamberlayne is <u>A
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  • 1864.17
    ...her written by Archie Livingston on April 24, further describe a series of games involving the 1<sup>st</sup> FL, the 3<sup>rd</sup> FL, the 4<sup>th</sup>
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  • Clipping:Washington Club finances, ownership
    ...that the League's professed abhorrence and position prohibition of Sunday games is not due at all to principle, but is merely a matter of business policy.
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  • Atlantic Club of Jamaica v Osceola Club of Brooklyn on 21 July 1858
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...llage and from Brooklyn was large, a fair proportion being ladies, &hellip;Ball-playing is a fine, healthy, enlivening, manly sport; and when conducted, as between
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  • 1845c.13
    |Text=<p>"Town-ball is one of the old games from which the scientific but not half so amusing "national game" of base-b ...story about boys tarrying at recess, and can be dated 1845-1850. In other games, a "cross-out" denotes the retiring of a runner by throwing the ball across
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  • Massapoag Club of Sharon v Old Colony Club of North Bridgewater on 17 July 1858
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  • Clipping:The parity argument for six clubs
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  • 1834.9
    |Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |Game=Cricket, Old-Cat Games, Town Ball
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  • 1852.2
    ..." reads: "How they poured the soul of gay and joyous boyhood/ Into roaring games of marbles, <strong>bat and base-ball</strong>!/ Thinking that the world wa |Query=<p>John Thorn interprets this phrase to denote two games, [[bat-ball]] and base-ball. Others just see it as a local variant&nbsp;of
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  • 1750s.2
    |Text=<p>"Of formalized games, choices for males [in NC] appear to have been 'town-ball, bull-pen,' 'cat, ...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 32.</p>
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  • 1857.17
    ...t=<p>"The first recorded baseball event in Australia was a series of three games between Collingwood and Richmond. The scores were astronomical, with Collin
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  • Local-Origins Project Old
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  • Chermany
    ...layed chermany 40 years ago (i.e., 1850). See also Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, Etc." <em>Base Ball</em> (Spring 2011).</span></p>
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  • 1827.4
    |Headline=Poisoned Ball Listed in French Manual of Games ...underline;">Manuel complet des jeux de societe (Complete manual of social games) [Paris, Roret], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 1
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  • Petjeball
    |Sources=<p><span>Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>.</span></p>
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  • Boston Ball
    ...es=<p><span>E. Perrin, et. Al., </span><em>One Hundred and Fifty Gymnastic Games</em><span> (G. H. Ellis, Boston, 1902), pages 59-63.</span></p>
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  • Newark v Newark Jr. in East Newark on 5 September 1855
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  • Local-Origins Project
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  • Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games
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  • 1862.114
    |Headline=Some interesting games of ball ...ow have not finished this letter yet. By the way, we have some interesting games of ball down here in &ldquo;Dixie,&rdquo; to pass away these beginning to b
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  • Portland Base Ball Club v Tri-Mountain Club of Boston on 9 September 1858
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  • 1866.6
    <p>For a short history of table-top games, see</p> ...p;are there other reliable published sources of the evolution of table-top games, besides John's 2011 blog?</p>
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    |Title=the finances of exhibition games ...eague clubs on the grounds of the latter. The Chicago receipts from these games were $5,184.40, or an average of $115.20 per game. The expense account of
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  • 1847.5
    ...ll was not a fan of sport. <b>Note:</b> can a list of the other safe-haven games be made?</p>
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  • Ball and Bases
    ...es=<p><span>E. Perrin, et. Al., </span><em>One Hundred and Fifty Gymnastic Games</em><span> (G. H. Ellis, Boston, 1902), pages 58-59.</span></p>
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  • 1830s.20
    |Text=<p>"Men as well as boys played the competitive games of 'Long Bullets' and 'Fives,' the latter played against a battery built by ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>, Volume 2
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  • 1830s.19
    |Headline=NH Lad Had Happy Games of Ball |Text=<p>"I had many happy hours with the village boys in games of ball and I spy. "&nbsp;</p>
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  • Roley Poley
    |Sources=<p><span>Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn<span>, N.Y.." page 234.</span></p>
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  • Clipping:History of baseball; the antiquity of the game
    <p class="p1">The exercise games are now governed by the Rules and Regulations adopted at the Convention of
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  • 1830c.8
    ...ball Before We Knew It</u>, page 193. The book describes "several popular games," including trap-ball, with poetry and woodcuts.</p>
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  • 1858.51
    |Headline=At Harvard, Two Clubs Play Series of Games by New York Rules ...and the nature of that club as not known, but accounts exist of intramural games in 1858.</p>
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  • BC2000c.3
    ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], page 19; the image itself is reproduced oppo
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  • Balslaen
    ...of Pamela Bakker, we find that "balslaen" can be taken as a description of games like hand-ball, or a team game like volleyball in which players propel a ba ...is related to American handball and tennis with the first team to score 6 games winning the match. The game is played on a rectangular field which measures
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  • 1795.6
    ...ed at ball self and son John vs. Messrs Aitken and Anderson beat them four Games."</p> ...#73 (1919?): "'Played at ball.' Sevier and son beat their antagonists four games.&nbsp; There were not enough (players?) for town-ball, nor for baseball, ev
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  • Tom Altherr Dedication
    ...ring nearly 2000 points in the evolution of baseball and other baserunning games, is dedicated to [[Tom Altherr]]. ...'s own search was not limited to base ball and its predecessor baserunning games -- there are a lot of ballgames that resemble field hockey, hand-ball, etc.
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  • 1834.7
    |Text=<p>An article on what appear to be Scottish games refers to the "report of the guns or the rattle of the ball-clubs," and con ...would be good to know more about this event. I think that the Caledonian games became popular in the US later in the century, and I don't recall that they
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  • Constellation Club of Brooklyn v Resolute Club of Brooklyn on 20 August 1859
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  • 1847.14
    |Game=Round Ball,Long Ball,Old-Cat Games
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  • 1864.34
    |Headline=Tenth MA Plays Inter-regimental Games of Base Ball and Wicket in VA
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  • Debbie Shattuck
    ...em>, and is also collecting data on female play of base ball's predecessor games.</p>
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  • 1858.45
    ...regular Ball season is considered to close with Thanksgiving, though many games will doubtless be played through the winter when the weather will permit."&
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  • Block:Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on February 13 1875
    ...e a law of nature, the boys and girls being as sure to resort to the usual games as the early lambs are to be seen beside their dams.”</p>
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  • 1862.17
    ...efer to a number of base ball games [by New York rules; Millen infers that games occurred "almost daily"] at Salisbury prison in NC. Charles Gray, a Union d ...l Game at Salisbury, NC", in&nbsp;<em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century&nbsp;</em>(SABR, 2013), pp. 36-38</p>
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  • Lone Star BBC Club of Rochester v Live Oak Club of Rochester on 22 September 1859
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  • Games Tab:Connecticut
    ...w Haven) 16</p> <p>(<i>Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times:</i> “Both of the above games were played according to the rules of the ‘New York National Association.
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  • In Montgomery in May 1865
    |Description=The 1865 Henry Clay Fike diaries relate several games of ball by the Union army occupying Montgomery.
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  • 1840.9
    ...ball Before We Knew It</u>, page 204. The book's slight treatment of ball games states: "There are few of us of either sex but have engaged in base-ball si
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  • 1846.25
    |Query=<p>Were there many known modern games played in Brooklyn prior to this rainout?</p>
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  • Alton Baseball Club
    <p>Jeff Kittel in his "This Game of Games' website thinks that this team probably played town ball, having fund a ref
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  • Ashland Club of New York v Ashland Club of New York on 7 November 1857
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  • Clipping:Riot and revelry of Sunday baseball
    ...ty on Sunday, but at Ridgewood Park, just over the line, in Queens County, games are played regularly. However, all the demoralizing effects and influences ...ny disorder there by the crowd would cause the Brooklyn Club to stop their games there, and in self protection and to insure the continuance of their Sunday
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  • Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Pastime Club of Brooklyn on 2 September 1859
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  • Champion Club of Albany v National Club of Lansingburgh on 20 September 1860
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  • 1850s.42
    |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games |Text=<p>"There were several games of ball played when the weather would permit.&nbsp; The first was town ball
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  • Wicket
    ...erline;">The Book of Sports </span>(Boston, 1834).&nbsp; See chapter III, "Games with a Ball.&nbsp; The simpler game appears on pages 48-49."&nbsp; Carver d
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  • Atlantic Club of Chicago v Excelsior Club of Chicago on 26 August 1860
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  • Clipping:Indoor baseball
    ...ding, Boston, are quite enthusiastic over the prospect of indoor base ball games. The inclosure is about 100 yards long by 30 wide, amply large enough for
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  • Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 23 October 1846
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>While undated, these pages appear between the games of October 20 and October 27. As game days were usually Tuesday and Friday,
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  • Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Eagle Base Ball Club of New York on 19 November 1861
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  • Clipping:Cincinnati Club ownership; reasons for selling; Caylor, Sunday games
    |Title=Cincinnati Club ownership; reasons for selling; Caylor, Sunday games ...ng a church member he was much worried over the talk concerning the Sunday games and he also imagined that the rumors concerning them damaged his private bu
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  • 1823.2
    |Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...Woodbridge, England], p. 238. Per RH ref 123 and Chadwick 1867. The listed games played in Suffolk include cricket, base-ball, kit-cat, Bandy-wicket, and ni
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  • Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York in June 1848
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  • 1820s.5
    |Text=<p>"In the early times, fifty or sixty years ago, when the modern games of croquet and base-ball were unknown, the people used to amuse themselves
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  • Western Club of Indianapolis
    ...this State belonging to the association of base ball players to play three games.... for the championship of the State of Indiana."</p>
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  • Most Wanted: Contribute by adding new data on early ballplaying in your area
    |Title=Contribute by adding new data on early ballplaying (games, clubs) in your geographical area ...g to document the local origins of modern base ball -- and the baserunning games than may have preceded base ball -- throughout the US.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1857.30
    ...as uniform practice for the Massachusetts game in earlier years. Examples: games are decided at "say 25" tallies, not at 100; minimum distance from 1B to 2B
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  • About the Pre-Pro Data Base
    Protoball's "Pre-Pro" data base serves as a reservoir for information on games, clubs, and other information on the evolution of base ball, almost all of ...ames, drawn from more than 3300 published accounts, in version 1.0 of his "Games Tab." The portal for this initial version, uploaded in 2008, is at http://p
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  • Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 6 November 1846
    |Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>While undated, these pages appear between the games of October 30 and November 10. Based on the usual game days of Tuesday and
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  • Strike-Out
    ...2022, we are seeking additional information on local "strike-zone-on-wall" games.</p> <p>What names were used for such games in different areas?&nbsp; Did any involve actual base-running?</p>
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  • Clipping:The Hartford on a 'spree'
    ...teur ball clubs of Massachusetts have expressed a willingness to engage in games with the Hartford. The Fall River, Taunton and New Bedford clubs stand rea
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