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  • The Glynde Butterflies Stoolball Team, 1866-1887
    |Place Published=Lewes, England |Is in library=Yes
    275 bytes (33 words) - 08:12, 28 July 2019
  • Hambledon: The Men and the Myths
    |Place Published=Cambridge, England |Is in library=Yes
    317 bytes (40 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
  • The Early Sporting Press in New England 1.0
    |Title=The Early Sporting Press in New England |Article Category=New England Roots
    221 bytes (31 words) - 09:22, 20 April 2020
  • 1749.1
    |Headline=Early Cricket: Addington Club Takes On All-England, Five on Five ..., was won by All England, notwithstanding it was eight to one on Addington in the playing.'"</p>
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  • 1630.4
    |Headline=Stoolball Played in Sherston, England |Country=England
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  • Baseball
    ...the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;The term first appeared in the United States&nbsp;in 1791.</p> |Sources=<p><span>Gomme,&nbsp;<em>Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland, Volume 1</em>.2, page 146.</span></p>
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  • 1796.4
    |Headline=Early Geographer Sees Variety of Types New England Ballplaying |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:George Stovey in the New England League
    |Title=George Stovey in the New England League ...signed by Worcester, is the first colored man that ever played in the New England League. The Sporting Life June 6, 1888</p>
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  • Clipping:The City Item's reporter on the England tour
    |Title=The City Item's reporter on the England tour ...sent at the various base ball and cricket matches that are to be played in England by the Athletic and Boston clubs, and being an amiable gentleman and experi
    562 bytes (88 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
  • 1849.10
    |Headline=Ladies' Wicket in England? |Country=England
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  • None (Birmingham Amateur Base Ball Club)
    |First Newspaper Mention=1889/12/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month
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  • Clipping:Collegiate players in England
    |Title=collegiate players in England ...when they would otherwise be idle, as the English foot ball season begins in September and extends to late April.</p>
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  • In Gravesend on 15 June 1871
    |Name=in Gravesend on 15 June 1871 |Country=England
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  • Clipping:Baseball in England
    |Title=baseball in England |Text=<p>A game of base ball was recently played near Manchester, England, between a nine of students, including three Americans, and a nine of crick
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  • Clipping:Cricket matches planned for the baseball tour
    ...l eleven. These games will be played at Lord’s celebrated cricket ground, England, the charge for admission to which is an English shilling, special seats co
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  • None (Derby Baseball Club)
    |First Newspaper Mention=1889/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year
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  • 1840c.27
    |Location=New England ...which girls in school now [1905] take part, never was domesticated in New England."</p>
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  • 1795.3
    |Headline=Playing Ball Cited as Major New England Diversion ...New England people? "Dancing is a favorite one of both sexes. Sleighing in winter, and skating, playing ball, gunning, and fishing are the principal."
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  • Preston v Derby in Preston on 21 June 1890
    |Name=Preston v Derby in Preston on 21 June 1890 |Country=England
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  • Clipping:Chadwick now a contributor to New England Base Ballist
    |Title=Chadwick now a contributor to New England Base Ballist ..., editor of the late “American Chronicle,” and our New York correspondence in this edition is from his very able pen.</p>
    429 bytes (66 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
  • Boston Red Stocking players v Philadelphia Athletics players in 1874
    |Name=Boston Red Stocking players v Philadelphia Athletics players in 1874 |Country=England
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  • Clipping:The first fly game in New England
    |Title=the first fly game in New England ...ly game” played in Boston as previous to this, the bound catch was allowed in all games.</p>
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  • 1837.10
    |Headline=In Recession, Doughty Ex-Workers Play Ball, Leave Town for Home |Location=New England
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  • 1820c.6
    |Headline=Modified Version of Rounders Played in New England. |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:A scheme for a collegiate English tour
    ...would be made up of gentlemen, which would tend to boom our National game in another country. The Sporting Life May 16, 1888</p> ...ot send over a nine this year. Whether Yale would consider such a project in the future I could not say. There are some difficulties with the plan asid
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  • 1856.7
    |Headline=First Official Use of the Term "Rounders" Appears? |Location=England,
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  • 1860.28
    |Headline=New England Publication Admits New Dominance of NY Game |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:Visit to England abandoned
    |Title=visit to England abandoned ...letter, that a visit of American ball players would not pay expenses. So, in view of the circumstances, Wright has abandoned the idea of “going East�
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  • 1854.2
    |Headline=First New England Team, the Olympics, Forms to Play Round Ball |Location=New England,
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  • Clipping:The Boston Unions playing as a cooperative team
    ...h will make engagements with clubs in the western New England, eastern New England and Intercollegiate associations during April. Boston Herald March 25, 188
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  • 1777.2
    |Headline=Mass. Sailor Plays Ball in English Prison |Country=England
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  • 1872.16
    |Text=<p>[American base ball players] "propose to travel throughout England, playing against each other, or to play against any nine that will appear a |Sources=<p><em>'Jackson's Oxford Journal'</em>, Oxfordshire, England, November 2, 1872:</p>
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  • John and Kay Price, December 2008
    ...ds.&nbsp;&nbsp;In August, the Angmering club, from the south coast of&nbsp;England, won the Sussex League Championship, scoring 293 runs to outmatch the 106 r ...sp;John and Kay are also working with [[Beth Hise]] on including stoolball in the 2010 exhibition on early ballplay at Lord&rsquo;s.</p>
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  • Bandy-Wicket
    |Location=England ...a curved club) instead of a cricket bat. This name was evidently once used in Norfolk and Suffolk.</p>
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  • Balloon
    |Description=<p>A fungo-like game played in Elizabethan times in England. The ball was an inflated leather bag, and was knocked with the arm - somet <p>An illustration and description of "balloon ball" is in Hone, p. 96</p>
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  • Club-ball
    ...an>Joseph Strutt,&nbsp;</span><em>The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England</em><span>&nbsp;</span>(1801)<span>, pages 104-105.</span></p> <p><span>Hone, "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England..." (1831) p. 105</span></p>
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  • Clipping:Early talk of an England tour
    |Title=early talk of an England tour ...fection by the two leading clubs would, no doubt, attract paying audiences in London, Liverpool, and Manchester, at least.</p>
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  • 1858.23
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • Clipping:The origin of the Olympic Club of Boston
    ...and. It was formed in the Summer of 1854. Mr. Arnold took an active part in organizing the same.</p> |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • Athletic Sports in America, England, and Australia
    |Title=Athletic Sports in America, England, and Australia |Is in library=Yes
    292 bytes (49 words) - 18:46, 28 July 2019
  • 1850c.34
    |Headline=Tut-ball Played at Young Ladies School in England |Location=England,
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  • 1791.3
    |Location=New England ...gs covered with leather in quarters &amp; covered with double twine, sewed in Knots over the whole. The Bat is from 2 to 3 feet long, round on the back
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  • Clipping:The English opinion of baseball
    ...o it would appear that “Capt.” Spalding’s mission to England was a failure in more ways than one.</p>
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  • Whacks
    |Location=London, England |Description=<p>In Gomme's 1898 survey, she includes the following sentence in an account of the game of [[waggles]]:</p>
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  • Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 3 August 1874
    |Country=England ...rt of their 1874 tour, the Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia 24-7 at Lords, in London, Aug. 3.</p>
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  • 1836.2
    ...tive of the Gutsmuths text, or does it confirm "base-ball" play in England in the 1820s and 1830s?</p>
    762 bytes (116 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
  • Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth Century England
    |Title=Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth Century England |Is in library=No
    236 bytes (34 words) - 18:53, 28 July 2019
  • 1846.17
    |Headline=Cricketers Form All England Eleven ...Cricket: A History of Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game</u> (Faber and Faber, 2001), page 70. Another facilitating
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  • Block:English Baseball in London in 1888
    |Title=English Baseball in London in 1888 ...val form of blindman's buff, baseball and stool-ball, etc. are perpetuated in hockey, trap-ball and similar games, and even cricket was not unrepresented
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  • Boston Red Sox v Philadephis Athletics on 30 July 1874
    |Country=England ...delphia played in Liverpool July 30th and 31st, 1874. Philadelphia won the first game 14-11, Boston the 2nd, 23-18.</p>
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  • 1828.13
    |Headline=In Christian Story, a Young Girl Chooses Batting Over Tatting |Location=England,
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  • Girls Just Wanted to Have Fun: Stoolball Reports in Local Newspapers, 1747 to 1866
    |Title=Girls Just Wanted to Have Fun: Stoolball Reports in Local Newspapers, 1747 to 1866 |Place Published=Lewes, England
    248 bytes (35 words) - 18:54, 28 July 2019
  • Sport in England: A History of Two Thousand Years of Games and Pastimes
    |Title=Sport in England: A History of Two Thousand Years of Games and Pastimes |Is in library=Yes
    256 bytes (41 words) - 18:54, 28 July 2019
  • The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
    |Title=The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England |Is in library=Yes
    293 bytes (44 words) - 18:52, 28 July 2019
  • Pentoss
    <p>A picture in the W. W. Grantham collection at Lewes, England, shows a game seeming to resemble stoolball, but with wickets that look&nbs <p>A photographic image of&nbsp;a game in progress can be found with Google search of &lt;"joshua biltcliffe" "ladies
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on July 11 1863
    |Title=English Baseball in Hampshire on July 11 1863 ...swings, See-Saw, Rounders or Base Ball, Jumping Stocks, Mechanical Models in motion: -Windsor Park, a Railway Train, Musical Bells, &c., &c.”</p>
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  • Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 1 August 1874
    |Country=England |First in Location=Manchester, England
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  • New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802
    |Title=New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802 New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802
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  • Riverside Park, Boston
    |Description=<p>The Riverside Park (est. 1864) was used for the 1867 New England Baseball Tournament, as well as other baseball games.&nbsp;</p> <p>This was a Trotting horse race park, aka Beacon Park. It was situated in Allston, today a neighborhood of Boston, on the Charles River, bounded by C
    915 bytes (150 words) - 07:19, 11 February 2024
  • Ball-Bias
    |Location=England ...898, was evidently the name of a batting-running game in the south-east of England.</p>
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  • Marion Club of New England Village
    |Name=Marion Club of New England Village |Description=<p>New England Village is part of Grafton</p>
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  • Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1
    |Title=Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1 |Is in library=Yes
    298 bytes (42 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
  • 1795.2
    |Headline=Survey Reports Cricket in New England, Playing at Ball in TN ...nterbotham is sometimes credited with saying that bat and ball was popular in America before the Revolutionary War, and that adults played it, but report
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  • The Ball Players' Chronicle
    |Is in library=No also New England Base Ball Players Gazette.
    326 bytes (46 words) - 18:39, 28 July 2019
  • Waggles
    ...much in he same way as in cricket, except that the cat must be hit whilst in the air. &nbsp;The batter hits it as far away as possible, and whilst the f ...d</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 &ndash; reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 329.</p>
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  • 1801.1
    |Headline=Joseph Strutt Says Stoolball Still Played in North of England; But He Slights Cricket |Text=<p>Strutt, Joseph., <u>The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England</u> [London, 1801]. Need page reference [is on page 102 of 1903 edition].
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  • 1859.13
    |Headline=First Tour of English Eleven to US and Canada ..., October 10-13, 1859. England overtook the US, 155-154 with seven wickets in hand. The US side comprised 13 Philadelphians and 9 New Yorkers.</p>
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  • Clipping:Proposed separation of professional and amateur players
    ...any other club than the one he plays with, shall be competent to take part in any match game. The penalty for an infringement of this rule shall be the <p>the New England Base Ballist</p>
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  • Clipping:An open criticism of Chadwick; his rebuttal
    ...is Mercury-Union articles, we have no fears on that account, however. New England Base Ballist November 5, 1868, quoting the New York Sunday News.</p> ...ime, too, when it was obtaining a foothold for a permanent existence. New England Base Ballist November 19, 1868 [from a piece signed “H. Chadwick, Editor
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  • Boston Red Sox v Philadelphia Athletics on 15 August 1874
    |Country=England |First in Location=Sheffield, England
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  • 1538.1
    |Headline=Easter Ball Play at Churches Ends in France |Country=France, England
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  • 1857.31
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • Clipping:A proposed European tour
    ...ccomplish this splendid result. It is possible that the Cricketers of Old England will so arrange exhibition games, that the receipts will pay the expenses.
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  • 1859.16
    |Location=England, |Country=England
    847 bytes (119 words) - 18:37, 9 May 2015
  • 1778.1
    |Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison |Location=New England
    998 bytes (149 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2020
  • 1802.3
    |Headline=New England Woman Sees Ballplaying in Virginia, Perhaps by "All Colors" ...bitants employed as they usually are on Sundays,&nbsp; some taking the air in coaches, some playing at ball, at nine pins, marbles, and every kind of gam
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  • Joe Gray
    |First Name=Joe |Location=England
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  • 1859.44
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2
    |Title=The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2 |Is in library=Yes
    356 bytes (48 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
  • 1854.8
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • 1858.37
    |Headline=In English Novel, Base-Ball Doesn&#39;t Occupy Boys Very Long |Location=England,
    937 bytes (142 words) - 18:35, 9 May 2015
  • 1854.3
    |Headline=Organized Round Ball in New England Morphs Toward the "MA Game" |Location=New England
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  • 1828.18
    |Headline=In Brighton England, 'Women of the Mill' Play Stool Ball Alongside Cricketers |Country=England
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  • 1754.2
    ...one?" <u>Smithsonian Magazine</u>, October 2006. The excerpt can be found in the seventh paragraph of the article [as accessed 10/19/2008] at:... ...sufficiently interested in the game [cricket] to bring back with him from England a copy of the laws of cricket, for it was this very copy which was presente
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  • 1828.7
    |Headline=Ballplaying in Pawtucket RI |Location=New England
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  • 1829 -- The Rise and Fall of New England-Style Ballplaying
    |Title=1829 -- The Rise and Fall of New England-Style Ballplaying |Is in library=Yes
    320 bytes (43 words) - 07:31, 28 July 2019
  • 1778.6
    |Headline=NH Loyalist Plays Ball in NY; Mentions "Wickett" |Location=New England
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  • 1787.2
    |Location=New England ...24. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball
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  • Before the Curse: The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918
    |Title=Before the Curse: The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918 |Is in library=Yes
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  • Stoolball
    |Location=England (in the past century, predominantly in Sussex and other south east counties) ...1600&rsquo;s; there are many more references to stoolball than to cricket in these early years.&nbsp; For Protoball's listing of over 60 specific (but m
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  • 1800c.9
    ...nd by the end of the century cricket had been recorded in most counties in England." John Ford, <u>Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835</u> [David and Charles
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  • 1863.85
    |Headline=New England rules game in camp ...giment played a match game of base ball, according to the rules of the New England Association of Base Ball Players, with eleven members of the 18th Mass. reg
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  • Base is Not Always Baseball: Prisoner's base from the 13th to 20th Centuries
    |Is in library=Yes |Country=USA, England
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  • Clipping:Spalding appointed agent in England for the Athletic Club
    |Title=Spalding appointed agent in England for the Athletic Club ...ed the idea, both as concerned the great prestige to be acquired, and also in a pecuniary point of view. The directors were instructed to pay a portion
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  • Clipping:A late example of the Massachusetts game
    ...ictors. [The game lasted 28 and a half innings, final score 24 to 23.] New England Base Ballist August 20, 1868 |Source=New England Base Ballist, Aug. 20, 1868
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  • Clipping:Word of Von der Ahe planning a European tour
    ...er. In the first place, the championship season here would interfere, and in the second place it would not pay. It was tried once before and failed fin ...t to say that there has been a great change in England regarding base ball in the last fifteen years, and there are great numbers of Americans over there
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  • Clipping:An early proposal for a European tour 2
    ...ould like to meet the Atlantics, or any other first class organization, in England, there to play for the championship of the world. The Committee on Europea
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  • 1744.3
    |Text=<p>The match it describes: All England vs. Kent, played at the Artillery Ground. The same year, admission at the ...Ground the greatest Cricket-Match even known, the County of Kent again all England, which was won by the former [the score was 97-96 - LM] . . . . There were
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  • Trunket
    ...person striking the ball must be caught out, or the ball must be deposited in the hole before the stick or cudgel &nbsp;can be placed there."</p> ...d</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 &ndash; reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 310.</p>
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  • 1586c.1
    |Location=England |Country=England
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  • 640s.1
    |Country=England ...tt reports "the author of a manuscript in Trinity College, Oxford, written in the fourteenth century and containing the life of Saint Cuthbert, says of h
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  • Brian Sheehy, February 2013
    ...trong>&nbsp; Players from the expanding number of VBB clubs in eastern New England will comprise a good share of conference attendees.</p>
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  • 1830s.6
    |Headline=Players Drink Egg-Nog in Base Ball Intervals in Portsmouth NH |Location=New England
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  • 1788.3
    |Country=England ...anages her whip with utmost skill, &hellip;she sings most charmingly, and, in fine, is not above playing a game of baste-ball with her attendants."</p>
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  • Clipping:A rejected proposal to play championship games in England
    |Title=a rejected proposal to play championship games in England ...is city and Boston have a right to see them, and hence they will be played in this country. The English games will be exhibitions. Philadelphia Sunday
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  • 1850.22
    |Location=England, ...blue collar base ball in England. A union journal described a May 21 march in which "hundreds of good and true Democrats" participated. Boating down the
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  • 1866.9
    |Headline=New England Association Forms , Intends to "Ignore the New York Game" ...ngland game, was held at the Parker House this morning, to organize a 'New England Association,' which shall ignore the New York game.&nbsp; Twenty gentlemen
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  • 1805.8
    |Headline=Yale Grad Compares Certain English Ballgames to New England's |Location=New England
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  • 1865.10
    |Headline=New England Association Formed ...influence and endeavors to secure the formation and organization of a New England Convention of National Baseball Players."&nbsp;</p>
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  • Kersa
    ...ssinia mentions this game, taken to be “the same game we call bat ball” in England.</p> |Sources=<p><em>Prospective Missions in Abyssinia</em><span> (Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Boston, 1834)
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  • 1834.1
    |Location=New England ...But I believe that 'base' or 'goal ball' are the names generally adopted in our country." The bases are "stones or stakes." According to Carver, runn
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  • 1858.34
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • 1685.1
    ...Gloucestershire adjoining." From A. B. Gomme, <u>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</u>, 1964 reprint of 1898 text [New York, Dover], pa
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  • Round Ball
    ...n to the game played in Massachusetts . . . and possibly beyond that . . . in the years before the Dedham rules of 1858 created the [[Massachusetts Game] ...-- all in New England and especially the state of Massachusetts.&nbsp; New England also has references to goal, or goal ball, base, or base ball, and bat-and-
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  • 1859.33
    |Location=New England, ...ng, shooting, and baseball mean, namely that there is a joyous spontaneity in human beings; and thus Nature, by means of the sporting world, by means of
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  • Clipping:Bond umpiring behind the pitcher
    |Text=<p>Tom Bond is doing some fine umpiring in the New England League. Like Gaffney he takes his position behind the pitcher when the cat
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  • Electric Club of Brighton
    ...ht" [Brighton?] was represented at the November 1865 convention of the New England Association.</p> <p>The Boston Journal, March 10, 1868, reports on a meeting of the New England Association of the National Base Ball players. The article mentions the Low
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  • 1806.4
    |Headline=Minister from New England Plays Ball in Western Reserve [OH] ...e via Google Books as of 11/15/2008. To view Volume 2, which has later New England references, use a Google Books "'robbins d. d.' diary" search.</p>
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  • 1852.5
    |Headline=Religious Chapbook Shows Action in Ball Play at Recess |Location=New England
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  • 1820.2
    |Headline=Round Ball played in Upton, MA |Location=New England
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  • 1859.46
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • Moncton Club of New Brunswick
    |Date Note=First Organized ...lipper</em>, June 7, 1862 reports the formation of this club under the New England rules.&nbsp;[ba]</p>
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  • Clipping:An early bunter?
    ...68] [second inning] Record hit a short one in front of the plate, made his first, Bush [the catcher] throwing to third over Smith’s head to catch Crosby, ...to third, and Crosby to second. Record gave another of his “little ones” in front of plate, O’Brien scoring his run.</p>
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  • 1841.2
    |Location=New England ...ck, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 206. The image first appeared in Carver's <u>Book of Sports</u> (see 1834 entry).</p>
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  • 1825.9
    |Headline=Ballplaying Planned on Saturdays in Hartford CT |Location=New England
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  • British Baseball (Welsh Baseball)
    |Location=Wales and England ...cket features, it is known in Liverpool England and in Cardiff and Newport in Wales.</p>
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  • 1810s.11
    ...hed, then the same boy mast take his chance again. Its great amusement was in being a trial of speed. Strutt says that it was known as early as the time
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  • Hand-in-Hand-Out
    |Term=Hand-in-Hand-Out |Location=England
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  • 1819.4
    |Headline=In Hartford CT: Legislative Session Associated with Ball-playing? |Location=New England
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  • 1828c.4
    |Location=New England |Text=<p>Cyrus Bradley, born in 1818 in rural NH, refers in 1835 to his boyhood habit of playing ball.</p>
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  • Clipping:Cricket vs. baseball fielding and throwing
    ...im, but the others run sideways with the ball, coax it up and then jerk it in from under their arm with much show but little effect.</p>
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  • 1816.5
    |Headline=In "The Year Without a Summer," CT Lads Play Ball on Christmas Day |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:Collegians travel to England
    |Title=collegians travel to England ...>Mr. Chadwick's pet notion that the proper way to introduce base ball into England would be through gentleman amateur channels apparently has fallen into frui
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  • Block:English Baseball in Cumbria on February 1 1884
    |Title=English Baseball in Cumbria on February 1 1884 ...cut and dried exercise. Let all our old sports and pastimes be encouraged in schools.” </p>
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  • Baste Ball
    ...;s diary entry for 1786 (5 years before the first known use of "base ball" in the US), which reveals only that the game involves catching and hitting. &n ...of President Benjamin Harrison's teen years around 1850, and in Tennessee in 1874. &nbsp;Further input is welcome.</p>
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  • Crekettes
    ...he 14th Century. A German scholar thinks that this earlier game originated in the Franco-Flemish border area as early as 1150. We have no faint notion of
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  • 1205.1
    ...dn't use "ball" in those days.] The source does not say whether people in England used some other term for their rolling playthings prior to 1205.</p>
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  • Clipping:Types of football
    ...s, originally consisting of two mobs of men and boys trying to kick a ball in opposite directions.</p> ...rotopix) of soldiers playing football. The game of foot ball was banned in England and Scotland by King Richard II (1389), James II (1458) and Elizabeth I (15
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  • Clipping:The Beacon Club to disband?
    ...he Beacons. They have always caught in their net the best college players in this vicinity.</p>
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  • 1858c.57
    |Location=New England, ...was perhaps more responsible than anyone else for bringing the game to New England."</p>
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  • Tip-Cat
    ...nce. Failing that, another player replaces him. (A similar version appears in <em>The Boy&rsquo;s Handy Book</em>, but adds the feature that the fielding ...nd,&rdquo; whereas in about 1850 it had been confined to &ldquo;rustics on England.&rdquo; Richardson (1848) notes Tip-Cat&rsquo;s resemblance to [[Single-Wic
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  • 1755.5
    |Headline=Authoritative Rules of Cricket Published Nationally in England ...led by the Several Cricket-Clubs, Particularly that of the Star and Garter in Pall Mall</u> (London, 1755). </p>
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  • 1859.62
    |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Baseball Professionalism, Business of Baseball, Newspaper Cove ...s any more than professional card-players. We trust that the Eleven of All England are to have no imitators on this side of the ocean."</p>
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  • 1680.1
    ...of this tract sees the pamphlet as a tool used to trigger civil unrest in England, calling it "a mere <i>trap-stick</i> to bang the <i>Phanaticks</i> about."
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  • 1835c.16
    |Headline=Graduate Grimly Recalls Rounders at Greenwich School in England ...much curtailed, a poor game of rounders being the only source of amusement in that line."</p>
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  • Alpine Club of Bradford
    ...tion=Haverhill annexed Bradford in 1897.&nbsp; Bradford had 2014 residents in 1870. |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'',&nbsp; Oct. 29, 1868
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  • Jellal
    ...esembling “in some of its parts our old game of Rounders” as he knew it in England. There was hitting and “getting home,” but a difference that he noted w ...span>G. T. Lowth, </span><em>The Wanderer in Arabia; or, Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks</em><span> (Hurst and Blackett, London, 1855), pages 108-11
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  • In MA in 1815
    |Name=In MA in 1815 ..., and Was Confined First, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, on England, and Last, at Dartmoor Prison [Rowe and Hooper, Boston, 1816], p. 186. Per
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  • Beth Hise, February 2013
    ...d a paper on the English response to exhibition base ball games in England in the early 1900s.</p>
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  • 1829.2
    |Headline=Round Ball Played in MA |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:A condemnation of hippodroming; and a retraction
    ...somewhere, and the aforesaid dispatch opens the bag, and shows th “animal” in plan view. Gate money is what is the matter, as the following dispatch wil ...ome mere tools in th hands of speculators and the betting fraternity. New England Base Ballist October 22, 1868</p>
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  • 1200s.1
    |Headline=Bat and Ball Game Illustration Appears in English Genealogical Roll ...from a genealogical roll of the Kings of England up to Henry III, who died in 1269."</p>
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  • 1840s.30
    |Location=New England ...and bootmakers, of whom there were some in most villages, were the leaders in these games."</p>
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  • Clipping:Sending out of town for an umpire
    |Text=<p>Of late years, [John A. Lowell] has officiated as Umpire, in prominent games all over this section of the country, and several times he |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • Clipping:Horace Phillips goes to England
    |Title=Horace Phillips goes to England ...ects to return to Philadelphia during the Centennial, providing his duties in Liverpool do not detain him. He will be accompanied by J. J. Dunn, of Star
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  • 1784.2
    |Headline=Seymour Notation Adverts to Evidence that Town Ball Was Exported to England |Text=<p>"Rounders not a serious game until 1889 in Britain. But at least close resemblance. Evidence Town Ball introduced by
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  • Cat's Pallet
    |Location=England ...rd or in any streets of the this town, upon pain of . . . being imprisoned in the Doungeon for the space of two hours . . . . Thus, Gidigadie may be anot
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  • Clipping:The Bowdoin Club reconnoiters the New York play for updates
    ...then in their prime, to visit Boston and give our players a lesson or two in the game.</p> |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • 1793.1
    ...arly form of cricket, given the tall wicket which is not known for the New England pastime of wicket.</p>
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  • Elm Club of East Hartford
    |Description=East Hartford had 3007 residents in 1870 |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Aug. 27, 1868
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  • 1824.5
    |Location=New England ...the playing at ball or any game in which ball is used on the public common in front of Dartmouth College, set apart by the Trustees thereof among the pur
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  • Bittle-Battle
    ...[as such?]]]&nbsp; (but not described) in the famous 1086 Domesday Book in England. Some have claimed that this game resembled Stoolball:</p> <p>[A] In fact, Gomme [1894, ] describes Bittle-Battle as &ldquo;the Sussex game of &
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  • 1830.4
    |Location=New England ...</em> titled "Origin of Baseball. Mr. Mendum Played the Game in Portsmouth in 1830."<em> XXX request scan from John Thorn</em></p>
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  • Tribet
    |Location=Lancashire, England ...as the Lancashire version of [[Trap Ball]]. A game named Trypet is listed in a English-Latin dictionary from the 1300s.</p>
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  • Clipping:The manager of the colored Mutuals absconds
    ...rlow had all the funds in his keeping, and last night paid the hotel bills in Webster, where the nine played yesterday, and then dusted, leaving his fell
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  • The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball
    |Is in library=Yes |Is in main bibliography=No
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  • 1775.1
    |Headline=Soldier in CT "Played Ball All Day" |Location=New England
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  • 1813.1
    |Headline=Newburyport MA Reminder - "Playing Ball in the Streets" is Unlawful |Location=New England
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  • 1815c.2
    |Headline=US Prisoners of War in England Play Ball - at Great Peril, It Turned Out |Country=England
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  • 1790.9
    |Country=England ...elch. An All England club played in 5 matches, and the Mary-Le-Bone played in 9 matches. Three matches took 4 days, 8 took 3 days, 13 took two days, and
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  • In West Point in 1863
    |Name=in West Point in 1863 |Description=<p>Baseball was played by some cadets in 1863, according to army baseball historian Barrett Haight.</p>
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  • 1861.8
    |Location=New England |Text=<p>A club formed in Chester, VT.</p>
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  • Winnehassett Club of Woburn
    |Description=<p>In 1860 they played the New England game, 14 a side.</p> <p>Woburn had 8,560 residents in 1870.</p>
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  • Predecessor Games
    ...."&nbsp; You will note that he finds no pattern of prior use of 'rounders' in the US, even though many writers had suggested that that English pastime wa * First player to bat in an inning follows the player who made the third out last inning.
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  • Volunteer Club of Peabody
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Nov. 5, 1868 |First in Location=Peabody, MA
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  • Mystic Club of Marshfield
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Oct. 1, 1868 |First in Location=Marshfield, MA
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  • Minot Club of Cohasset
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Oct. 22, 1868 |First in Location=Cohasset, MA
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  • Spartan Club of Winthrop
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Nov. 5, 1868 |First in Location=Winthrop, MA
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  • 1861.2
    |Headline=Stoolball Played, in Co-ed Form |Country=England
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  • Monitor Club of West Amesbury
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Oct. 1, 1868 |First in Location=Amesbury, MA
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  • Clipping:Another defense of the New York game
    ...of the Massachusetts Convention are only acknowledged by some twenty clubs in Massachusetts. I give you a few of the points of the Massachusetts game, t ...ed dumpling. The New York ball weighs six ounces, and measures ten inches in circumference, and is nearly as hard as a cricket ball, as the crooked fing
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  • 1744.2
    |Country=England ...t-decoration: underline;">A Little Pretty Pocket-Book</span>, published in England, contains a wood-cut illustration showing boys playing "base-ball" and a rh
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  • Lightfoot Club of Enfield
    |Sources=<p>''New England Base Ballist'', Sept. 17, 24,&nbsp; 1868</p> |First in Location=Enfield, MA
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  • Clipping:Fitzgerald and the Athletics reconcile 2
    ...Umpire, which he did with the thorough impartiality and with but one error in interpreting the rules.</p> |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • Philadelphia Athletics v Boston Red Stockings on 24 August 1874
    ...eland took place in Dublin on 24 August 1874. Following a 12-game tour of England, two of America's most prominent clubs [Boston and Philadelphia] traveled t </p><p>Josh Chetewynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 206.
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  • 1790s.7
    |Headline=In Boston, "Boys Played Ball in the Streets?" |Location=New England
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  • Pecunet Club of Canton
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Sept. 24, 1868 |First in Location=Canton, MA
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  • National Club of Malden
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Aug. 27, 1868 |First in Location=Malden, MA
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  • Union Club of Belchertown
    |Sources=<p>''New England Base Ballist'', Sept. 17, 1868</p> |First in Location=Belchertown, MA
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  • Farmers Club of Falmouth
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Nov. 5, 1868 |First in Location=Falmouth, ME
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  • Clipping:An international match
    ...formerly pitcher in the Athletic Club, of Harlem, played his old position in this international affair.</p>
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  • Ocean Club of Swampscott
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'',&nbsp; Dec. 24, 1868 |First in Location=Swampscott, MA
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  • Wyoming Club of Nelson
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'',&nbsp; Dec. 3, 1868 |First in Location=Nelson, NH
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  • 1796.1
    |Headline=Gutsmuths describes [in German, yet] "Englische Base-Ball" |Location=England,
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  • Wide Awake Club of Sutton
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Sept. 24, 1868 |First in Location=Sutton, MA
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  • Most Wanted: A Special Chronology for Early Female Play?
    ...War.&nbsp; In contrast, there are nearly 30 cases of known female play in England for this period.&nbsp;</p> ...sp; One goal might be to fashion a Chronology on early women's ballplaying in the US.</p>
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  • Liberty Club of Litchfield, ME
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Nov. 5, 1868 |First in Location=Litchfield, ME
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  • 1858.35
    |Headline=New York Game Seen in Boston: Portland [ME] 47, Tri-Mountains 42. |Location=New England,
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  • ProtoPix:English Cricket Club in North America 1859
    |Source Image=English Cricket Club in North America 1859.jpg |Title=English Cricket Club in North America 1859
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  • Clipping:No money made in English; Athletic finances
    |Title=no money made in English; Athletic finances ...f the treasurer, Mr. Cragin, by which it appears that no money was made in England, but that the expenses were realized from different sources. The club now
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  • 1808.2
    |Headline=First Cricket Club in Boston is Established, Then Fades |Text=<p>The first formally organized cricket club is established in Boston, Massachusetts.</p>
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  • 1815.6
    |Location=New England ...the subject of nocturnal <i>cowhunting</i>, and the society was unanimous in condemning it." John King Lord, <u>A History of Dartmouth College 1815-190
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  • 1860c.26
    |Location=England, |Country=England
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  • Elm Tree Club of Boston
    ...n=<p>The Elm Tree Club of Boston was formed in 1855, playing under the New England/MA rules.</p>
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  • Base ball in Worcester in 1849
    |Name=base ball in Worcester in 1849 ...<p>"[O]utdoor amusements consist in the game of quoits, base ball, walking in parties . . . "
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  • 1825.3
    ...ock, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 191. Aspin's book reappeared in 1835 as <u>Ancient Customs, Sports, Pastimes of the</u> English, with the s
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  • 1780c.4
    |Headline="Round Ball" Believed to be Played in MA |Location=New England
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  • 1857.5
    |Headline=The Tide Starts Turning in New England - Trimountain Club Adopts NY Game |Location=New England,
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  • 1821.6
    |Headline=Fifty-cent Fine in New Bedford for Those Who Play at Ball |Location=New England
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  • 1658.1
    ...ls, John, <u>Illustrations of the Manners and Expences of Ancient Times in England</u> [London, 1797], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, pag
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  • 1837.11
    ...line="Wide Strike Zone" Fails to Level Lords-vs-Commoners Cricket Match in England ...s Folly," and notwithstanding the great odds against them, the Players won in a single innings by ten runs."</p>
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  • Active Club of Great Falls2
    |Sources=''New England Base Ballist'', Sept. 3, 1868 |First in Location=Great Falls, NH
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  • 1860.50
    |Location=New England ...to meet for a purse of $1000 in September at the Agricultural Fair Grounds in Worcester.</p>
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  • 1837.3
    |Location=New England ...er. I can't see where the ball is coming soon enough to put the ball-club in its way."</p>
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  • 1847.12
    |Location=New England ...that the boys attending the school, of the average age of seven years, had in their play of bat and ball, broken one of the neighbors windows, but no clu
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  • Green Mountain Club of Boston
    ...he Green Mountain Club of Boston was formed in 1856, playing under the New England/MA rules.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Leicestershire on August 19 1882
    |Title=English Baseball in Leicestershire on August 19 1882 ...rge outdoor gathering in Leicester, this time at a well-attended Church of England Sunday School Festival: “On arriving at the grounds, games of various kin
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  • 1615.1
    ...in the fall of 1615. <b>Note:</b> Ascertain the month, which is obscured in the online copy. Was location of play near what is now known as Baffin Isl
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  • 1859.23
    |Headline=Base Ball Would be Welcome in Lowell MA, Town of Factories |Location=New England
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  • Kickapoo Club of Thomaston
    ...ces=<p>Bangor ''Times-Record''/Bath ''Daily'', Aug. 31, 1868;&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>, Sept. 17, 1868</p> |First in Location=Thomaston, ME
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  • 1833.3
    |Country=England ...underline;">Sports and Pastimes of the People of England</span>, published in 1801.</p>
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  • 1768.1
    |Headline="Old Boys of Westminster" Play Harrow in Cricket |Country=England
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  • Clipping:Payment for freelance scouting
    ...then with Lynn, was about the heaviest batting infielder in New England. In a few days I received a telegram asking what his release would cost. I did ...gure for all I know, but I didn't care, as I said before, to waste my time in trying to find out. I considered my services wroth at least $100 for namin
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  • Bittle-Bat
    |Location=Sussex, England ...[Bittle-Battle]], also listed in this Glossary, which some see referred to in the hjistoric Domesday Book of 1086.</p>
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  • Clipping:A disagreement over when a foul ball is live
    ...een hit “foul,” to place it again in play, and that Mr. Rogers is slightly in error.</p>
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  • 1857.11
    |Location=New England, ...entry), this book uses a different illustration of boys playing ball than in the earlier book.</p>
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  • 1805.1
    |Location=New England ...all not be permitted to play at ball, or use any other sport or diversion, in or near the College Edifice, by which the same may be exposed to injury."</
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  • Sweden v US Olympic Club in Sweden in 1912
    |Name=Sweden v US Olympic Club in Sweden in 1912 ...al match, versus a team of Americans drawn from that country's competitors in the Olympics."</p>
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  • Clipping:Minor league club finances
    ...[Eastern New England League] pennant, has done better than all her rivals in the matter of dollars and cents. The manager of the Brocktons made a cost
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  • Clipping:Renewed talk of a Europe tour
    ..., they are earnestly discussing it, and, possibly, they may go over in May in a Philadelphia steamer!</p> ...nst them; they will also play cricket, as there are some very good players in the two nines.”</p>
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  • Wyoming Club of Melrose
    ...cription=<p>The&nbsp;<em>New York Clipper</em>, June 2, 1866;&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>, Sept. 10, 1868</p> |First in Location=Melrose, MA
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  • In Roxbury in 1850
    |Name=In Roxbury in 1850 |Description=A 1 on 1 SWC match in Roxbury, on the grounds of the New England Cricket Club
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  • Block:English Baseball in Northumberland on May 19 1894
    |Title=English Baseball in Northumberland on May 19 1894 ...upcoming North of England Temperance Festival to be held on the Town Moor in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland: “...it appears there will be military
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  • Trap Ball
    ...sing back of the ball toward the batter. Trap ball persists today in Kent, England, as a tavern game.</p> ...usland_Valley&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Rusland Valley</a><span>&nbsp;in North&nbsp;</span><a title="Lancashire" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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  • 1790s.6
    |Headline=Cricket as Played in Hamburg Resembled the U.S. Game of Wicket? ...overing cricket in England, the British Isles, or in Europe than there was in weights and measures." Rowland Bowen, <u>Cricket: A History of its Grown a
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  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 16 1881
    |Title=English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 16 1881 ...d the usual games, while the boys adjourned to a meadow . . . and indulged in cricket, base ball, races, and other rustic sports.”</p>
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  • 1840s.4
    |Location=New England ...the eastern academies introduced a version of baseball to college campuses in the 1840s and 1850s."</p>
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  • 1533.1
    ...> the first written reference to cricket was nearly 70 years in the future in 1533. Contributed by Beth Hise, January 12, 2010. <strong>Query:</strong>
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  • Round Cat
    ...played. One account identifies it as similar to [[Scrub]] as played in New England.</p>
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  • Olympic Club of Boston
    ...he game accounts from 1853, 1855 and 1856. Earliest match game is reported in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Boston Daily Bee</em>, Sept. 8, 1853. [ba]</p> ...ummer of 1854. Mr. Arnold took an active part in organizing the same. [New England Base Ballist, Aug. 27, 1868--see Hershberger clippings]</span></p>
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  • Club of Hudson, WI
    |Sources=<p>Prescott (WI)&nbsp;<em>Journal</em>, May 29, 1868;&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>,&nbsp; Dec. 24, 1868</p> |First in Location=Hudson, WI
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  • Clipping:Baseball and rounders; the upcoming English tour
    ...requiring manly pluck and endurance, and mental judgment and intelligence, in as many hours as cricket requires days.</p>
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  • Clipping:Scouts
    ...him Anson may be able to pick out the best man in this League. Then, out in the Western League, “Ans” gets his tips from orator Shaffer.</p>
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  • 1797.4
    |Country=England ...ool-ball, between 11 Ladies of Sussex, in Pink, against 11 Ladies of Kent, in Blue Ribands."</p>
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  • 1793.5
    |Headline=Lady Cricketers Play Again in Sussex |Country=England
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  • 1806.1
    |Country=England ...in Baltimore,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Children in the Wood</span>, wanndered into a Briotish town where children were playing
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  • 1859.12
    |Headline=MA Championship: Unions 100, Winthrop 71, in 101 Innings |Location=New England
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  • 1858.64
    ...was undoubtedly the descendant of the game of the same name long played in England.</p>
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  • 1815.8
    ...ine=Eyewitness On the Massacre of Seven U.S Soldiers at Dartmoor Prison in England |Country=England
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  • Goal Ball
    ...l but two are found before 1850.&nbsp; A new reference to the game "gould" in 2020 may denote the same game (see [[1854.23]]).</p> ...l" for "base" is consistent with Robin Carver's 1834 inclusion of the term in&nbsp;</span><em>The Book of Sports</em><span>. One must be cautious about a
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  • 1786.2
    |Headline=Game Called Wicket Reported in England
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  • 1824.7
    |Country=England |Text=<p>"on Sunday, after afternoon service, the young people joined in foot-ball and hurling, bat and ball, or cricket."</p>
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  • 1856.17
    |Headline=Letter to "Spirit" Describes Roundball in New England |Location=New England
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  • Touch-Ball
    ...ands; the “touch” was the base. Writing in 1922, Sihler that in Fort Wayne IN from 1862 to 1866 (when base ball arrived) “the favorite game was ‘touc <p>E. G. Sihler, “College and Seminary Life in the Olden Days,” in W. Dau., ed., <em>Ebenezer: Reviews of the Work of the Missouri Synod Duri
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  • 1836.8
    |Location=New England |Text=<p>In June the town wrote new by-laws:</p>
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  • 1811.1
    |Headline=Book Printed in Philadelphia Gives Details of Trap Ball in England ...ndorsement of trap ball . . . the most detailed description pf [trap ball] in the period."&nbsp; - Tom Altherr</p>
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  • 1850s.21
    |Location=England, ...his instinctive Luddism suffered a reverse with the death of George Summer in 1870 and that year a heavy roller was at last employed on the notorious Lor
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  • 1836.1
    |Headline="Old-fashioned &#39;Ball&#39;" Popular in Waterville ME |Location=New England
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  • Rybnik (club name unreported)
    ...is close to the town of Rybnik, which&nbsp; Polish official sources states in the early 1960s was the headquarters of the Polish Baseball Union.&nbsp; Th ...y</em>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Mercury</span> (England, William Morgan, ed.) Issue 13, August 1976, page 4.&nbsp; Accessed 6/24/20
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  • John W. Dickens
    |First Name=John W. ...e, Kentucky. See http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/f4bd13cc for his biography in the SABR Baseball Biography Project</p>
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  • In Cambridge in 1850
    |Name=In Cambridge in 1850 ...w England (Boston) Cricket Club played a 2-day match at Cambridge Crossing in late September 1850.
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  • Quinsigamond Club of New England Village
    |Name=Quinsigamond Club of New England Village |First in Location=
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  • Planters Club of south Windsor
    |Sources=<p>Hartford&nbsp;<em>Courant</em>, Oct. 17, 1868;&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>, Oct. 29, 1868</p> |First in Location=South Windsor, CT
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  • 1823.2
    |Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...ngland], p. 238. Per RH ref 123 and Chadwick 1867. The listed games played in Suffolk include cricket, base-ball, kit-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes.
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  • Clipping:Preparing for the England tour
    |Title=preparing for the England tour ...have the other. [from a letter from Harry Wright to Frederick Long written in Philadelphia May 18, 1874]</p>
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  • 1842.8
    <p>"the poor fellow could only look through the window, in perfect misery, upon the sports without - his favorite game of 'wicket,' or <p>"Schoolboy Days, "<i>The New-England Weekly Review</i> (Hartford, CT), Issue 5, column D, January 29, 1842. Pos
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  • 1858.72
    ...the game is seldom played in the US, but is popular in the Staffordshire (England) Potteries. It suggests that the players here were from Staffordshire and w
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  • 1823.5
    |Headline=Providence RI Bans "Playing Ball" in the Streets |Location=New England
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  • 1600.3
    |Headline=Stooleball popular in 1600 |Country=England
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  • Williams River Club of Bartonsville
    <p>Bellows Falls "Times," Sept. 26, 1868;&nbsp;New England Base Ballist, Oct. 8, 1868</p> |First in Location=Bartonsville, VT
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  • 1755.3
    |Headline=Young Diarist Goes to "Play at Base Ball" in Surrey |Country=England
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  • 1744.4
    ...he poem, it may surprise you to learn, turns on the muffed catch by an All England player [shades of Casey!] that, I take it, allows Kent County to win a clos ...icket! Glorious manly, British Game! / First of all Sports! be first alike in Fame!" [lines 13-14]</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Suffolk on July 25 1868
    |Title=English Baseball in Suffolk on July 25 1868 ...ual picnic of the Church of England Young Men's Christian Association held in Woolverstone Park near Ipswich, Suffolk. A newspaper article reported that
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  • Clipping:Fifty cents admission
    ...s, on 15th Street and Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia, on Monday, Aug. 31st, in the presence of an immense assemblage of spectators, some three or four tho |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • 1086.1
    |Headline=Form of Stool Ball Possibly Found in Domesday Book in Norman England? |Country=England
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  • Skelleftea Club
    ...>Skelleftea (pop. about 33,000) is about 750 kilometers north of Stockholm in the northern reaches of the Baltic Sea.</p> ...pan style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Mercury</span>, Issue 13 (England, August 1976, William Morgan, ed.), page 4.&nbsp; Accessed 6/24/2013 at <a
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  • 1818.1
    |Location=New England ...ester notes that wicket involved sides of 30 to 35 players, and was played in an alley 75 feet long, and with oversized bats.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Shropshire on August 17 1900
    |Title=English Baseball in Shropshire on August 17 1900 ...le Green under the charge of [the assistant matron], and were soon engaged in cricket, base-ball, tennis and foot racing.”</p>
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  • 1782c.2
    |Text=<p>"We passed muster [late in the war] and layed about in Albany about six weeks . . . . The officers would bee a playing at Ball on <p>-- Joel Shepard, a farmer in Montague MA.</p>
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  • ProtoPix:Trap Ball 1300s
    |Description=Trap Ball in the 1300s. From The Saturday Magazine, March 16, 1839 |Pic Location=England
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  • In Lawrence in April 1863
    |Name=in Lawrence in April 1863 ...>1863. On “fast day”—a day of fasting and prayer observed primarily in New England*—a<br>“match game of base ball will be made up at the Eldridge House.�
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  • In Vasteras in 1910
    |Name=in Vasteras in 1910 ...teras and, according to one source, provided rules and equipment for games in the capital of Stockholm."</p>
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  • 1860.1
    |Headline=75 Clubs Playing Massachusetts Game in MA |Location=New England
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  • 1831.2
    |Headline="Base" and Cricket Listed in Book of US Pastimes ...ball . . . ," is the first known book reference to the play of "base" ball in the US. [David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Be
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  • 1856.9
    |Location=New England, ...New York Clipper</span>, July 19, 1856 [page?] Per Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of R
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  • 1820s.25
    |Headline=In Western MA, Election Day Saw Town vs. Town Wicket Matches |Location=New England
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  • Eagle Club of Attleboro
    <p>Aka Eagle of East Attleboro. See&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>, Nov. 19, 1868</p> |First in Location=Attleboro, MA
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  • 1828c.5
    |Location=New England ...by their grandson Albert Prescott Paine, 1923. Per Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of R
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  • In Chicago in 1850
    |Name=In Chicago in 1850 ...June 22, 1859 says the Chicago (or Prairie) CC defeated the St. George's, in Cleveland, 118 to 60.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in West Yorkshire on August 21 1873
    |Title=English Baseball in West Yorkshire on August 21 1873 ...h may be seen in operation on the nearest and most juvenile playground) is in his opinion the most appropriate game for a go-ahead people"</p>
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  • 1867.28
    |Headline=First Detailed Set of Rules for Stoolball Appear |Location=England,
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  • Hunyou-Shinyou
    |Location=Sheffield County, England ...l Addy, A<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Glossary of Words Used in the the Neighborhood of Sheffield</span> (English Dialect Society, London,
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  • Clipping:Baseball and the Saturday half-holiday
    ...se-ball games. There was no “Blud Monday” in this country as there was in England, and if a Saturday half-holiday were gained ll the base-ball playing, etc.,
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  • 1816.9
    |Location=New England ...house &amp; Mr. Vaugh's mill . . . or any who shall play at ball or quoits in any of the streets . . . shall, on conviction, pay a fine of fifty cents fo
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  • Saxons Club of St. Paul
    |Description=<p>Said to have held the state championship in early 1870</p> <p>St. Paul Press, Oct. 30, 1866;&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>,&nbsp; Dec. 24, 1868</p>
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  • 1859.3
    |Headline=24,000 Attend US-England All-Star Cricket Match at Elysian Fields |Text=<p>In 1859, over 24,000 attended a cricket match at Elysian Fields in Hoboken between an al-star American team and a touring English eleven.</p>
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  • Base Ball Club of Chester
    ...>, Sept. 18, 1867 where the Chester Club of Chester played in a tournament in Keene, NH, against the Lowell of MA and the Star of Greenfield.</p> |Sources=<p>The Middlebury Register, June 18, 1867;&nbsp;New England Base Ballist, Oct. 8, 1868&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1790.8
    |Country=England <p>Their best batter, C. Foxton, does not live in Middlesex, but in Surrey, which is unknown to the Noblemen."</p>
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  • 1856.25
    |Headline=Boston Paper Reports 192-187 Squeaker in Western MA |Location=New England
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  • 1849.6
    |Location=New England ...l, "[O]utdoor amusements consist in the game of quoits, base ball, walking in parties . . . "</p>
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  • 1743.2
    ...lery Ground. Three of Kent - Hodswell, J. Cutbush, V. Romney vs. Three of England - R. Newland, Sawyer, John Bryan. Kent won by 2 runs."</p> <p>Cited in Thomas Moult, "The Story of the Game," Thomas Moult, ed., <u>Bat and Ball:
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  • 1778.3
    |Location=New England ...<p>Benjamin Gilbert, a Sergeant from Brookfield MA, mentioned ball-playing in his diary several times between 1778 and 1782.&nbsp; The locations included
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  • 1805.9
    |Location=New England <p>"<i>Ball-</i>playing seems to have been extensively practiced in 1820. At the town meeting that year, it was voted 'that the game of ball, a
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  • Block:English Baseball in London, Yorkshire on September 7 1883
    |Title=English Baseball in London, Yorkshire on September 7 1883 ...was also a favourite game for this day, and in some parts of the North of England it is customary for the girls to occupy some part of the festival by the ga
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  • Block:English Baseball in Leicestershire on August 12 1882
    |Title=English Baseball in Leicestershire on August 12 1882 ...tly after two o'clock in the afternoon a large number of persons assembled in Mr. Spencer's fields on the Burton-road, where games of various kinds were
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  • 1810s.9
    ...e: medium;">&rdquo; played in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he was born in 1804. </span></span></p> ...hough we played this [cricket] in the same or nearly the same manner as in England, which would make it probable that the &lsquo;bat and </span><em><span styl
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  • 1859.27
    ...e game of "base ball" is an American game. It is played in every school in England, and has been for a century or more, under the name of "Rounders," and is e
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  • 1859.47
    ...e game was the old-fashioned one, which calls for more muscle than the New England game."</p> ...e games were played in the region at the time - the New York game, the New England game, and this game. Alden NY is 20 miles due east of downtown Buffalo.&nbs
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  • 1801.3
    |Country=England ...his play requires more strength than some boys possess, to manage the ball in a proper manner; it must therefore be left to the more robust lads, who are
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  • Target Ball
    ...have strongly resembled stoolball, and thus cricket.&nbsp; An illustration in its rulebook shows a paddle-shaped bat, a round "target" not much larger th ...irls' schools of a summer game which will take the place that cricket does in boys' schools."</p>
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  • 1792.1
    |Headline=<u>Sporting Magazine</u> Begins Its Cricket Reports in England |Text=<p>Ford reports that this 1792 saw "First publication of the <i>Sporting Magazine</i> which featured cricket scores a
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  • Independent Club of Brookline
    ...Boston Daily Advertiser</em>, May 21, 1866 lists the clubs attending a New England Junior club meeting: Active of Chelsea, Independent of Brookline, Aetos of |First in Location=Brookline, MA
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  • 1850.32
    |Location=New England ...n a first rate, tall time on Fast Day. It seemed as if al the water valves in the clouds were opened, and we dare assert that rain never fell faster. The
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  • 1862.11
    |Headline=Banned in Boston&#39;s Public Garden: "Games of Ball, Foot-ball" |Location=New England
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  • First Interscholastic Ball Game
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  • Clipping:Lively League balls
    ...many years, and until three years ago, the rubber balls were imported from England, but there was complaint that the rubber was too dense, and an American rub
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  • 1672.1
    ...stool-ball, cricketts, and many other sports openly and publicly indulged in on the Lord's Day." </p> ...ck [page 173ff] describes how "base ball" was substituted for "stool-ball" in later accounts of Wilson' s biography, which he cites as Swinnick, George,
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  • Olympic Club of Providence
    <p>The&nbsp;New England Base Ballist, Nov. 26, 1868 says they organized in April 1867.</p> <p>Disbanded in early 1870. See&nbsp;Providence&nbsp;<em>Evening Press</em>, May 5, 1870</p
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  • 1828.1
    ...The entry for northern spell describes a game without running or fielding, in which the object is to hit the ball farthest - "this pastime possesses but ...rough the 1880s, and also identifies this book as Henderson's key evidence in his refutation of the Doubleday theory of baseball's origin 11 years later.
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  • 1853.12
    |Location=England, ...eater degree of attention and emulation, each being ashamed to lose credit in the eyes of he other.</p>
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  • 1830c.2
    |Headline=Thoreau Associates "Fast Day" with Base-Ball Played in Russet Fields |Location=New England
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  • Stockholm club (club name unreported)
    <p>"Arising out of this interest, a club was formed in Stockholm in 1949."</p> ...the game probably died out, and it&nbsp;appears to have been reintroduced in 1945."</p>
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  • Monday, Tuesday
    ...Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unspecified.&nb
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  • Clipping:A detailed claimed betting scheme
    ...lovers of our national game to know that none of the first class contests in New York can be relied upon.</p> |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • Batters' "Hits" First Appear in a Game Report
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  • 1854.22
    |Headline="Greatest Game of Base Ball Ever Played in this Country" ...to the minds of those present the events of the greatest game ever played in this country. &nbsp;It was the game between the Kearsarge and Ashland clubs
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  • Webster Club of Salem
    |First Newspaper Mention=1860/05/22 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day
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  • 1858.45
    |Headline=1000 Watch November Base Ball in New Bedford MA. Brr. |Location=New England
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  • 1853.11
    |Headline=Catcher Felled in ME |Location=New England
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  • 1816.2
    |Location=New England |Text=<p>"[S]uch regulations as will prevent the playing Ball and Hoops in the public Streets&nbsp; . . . a practice so frequent and dangerous, that h
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  • 1850c.36
    |Headline=Wicket Ball in Amherst MA |Location=New England
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  • 1858.32
    |Location=New England, ...e are requested to state that the members challenge any of the other clubs in the city to a trial either of New York or Massachusetts game."</p>
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  • 1850s.33
    |Headline=Round Ball, Old Cat Played in Northwest MA Town |Location=New England
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  • 1859.19
    |Headline=Phillips Exeter Academy Used Plugging in "Base-ball?" |Location=New England,
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  • 1823c.4
    |Location=New England ...lapsed since meeting with our neighboring boys, we . . . engaged ourselves in the more active sorts of "playing ball" or "goal."</p>
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  • 1817.4
    |Headline=In Brunswick ME, Bowdoin College Sets 20-Cent Fine for Ballplaying |Location=New England
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  • 1704.2
    ...more blood-stirring excitement for the Londoner. Particularly at Hockley-in-the-Hole, one could find bear-baiting, bull-baiting and cock-fighting to hi <p>Chamberlayne, Edward, <u>Anglia Notitia: The Present State of England</u> [London, 1704 and 1748], page 51. Submitted by John Thorn, 7/9/04.</p>
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    |Text=<p>The Auburn N.Y. Journal in commenting upon the revolving system, says:–</p> ...hn Morrissey if they choose to do so, but don’t you in any way assist them in bringing the game into disrepute. “Play ball for the fun of it,” and p
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  • 1803.4
    |Location=New England ...l or use any other sport or diversion in or near the College-building." [A first offense brought a fine, a second offense brought suspension.]</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in East Sussex on September 6 1890
    |Title=English Baseball in East Sussex on September 6 1890 ...here stoolball, cricket, swinging, baseball, and other games were indulged in until five o'clock, when the company, numbering about 80, sat down to an ex
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  • 1858.43
    |Location=New England, ...serable thirteen, who constitute the rest of this [unnamed] club. Best two in three, no grumbling, were the conditions . . . [The Worsts won, 48-40, 35-1
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  • 1840s.31
    |Location=New England, ...king technique. Lem is, alas, sidelined for the season when he is plugged "in the hollow of the leg" while gool-running [Page 97] Other references:</p>
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  • In Boston in 1854
    |Name=In Boston in 1854 ...n this section was doubtless the Olympic Club, of Boston, which was formed in 1854, and for a year or more this club had the field entirely to themselves
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  • University Club of Minneapolis
    <p>There's a University Club of St. Anthony, mentioned in the Minnesota Tribune, June 7, 1869. Same club? (St. Antony was later annex |Sources=<p>Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 19, 1868;&nbsp;<em>New England Base Ballist</em>,&nbsp; Dec. 24, 1868</p>
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  • Orient Club of East Boston
    ...e <em>Boston Herald</em>, Nov. 9, 1865 mentions a convention to form a New England Baseball Association. Among the teams represented was the orient of East Bo <p>This is probably the Orient club that lost to Harvard 97-11 in May 1866 (Peverelly, 1866).</p>
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  • 1822.1
    |Headline=Round Ball Played in Worcester |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:Traditional Easter Ballplaying . . . Where Fast Day Play was Born?
    ...ball on Easter Monday.&nbsp; This has survived the the Fast Day games, but in some villages twelve old women were always chosen for the yearly game.&nbsp
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  • 1851.1
    |Headline=Sport of Cricket Gets its First Comprehensive History Book |Country=England
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  • New York XI v London XI in 1751
    |Name=New York XI v London XI in 1751 ...game which was stricter than the rules governing the contemporary game in England. The match was won by the New Yorkers, the scores being 80 and 86 against 4
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  • 1859.21
    ...t, and the Massachusetts game will surely die a natural death when the New England clubs come to realize the superiority of base ball, "The New York Game," as |Warning=<p>Not found in&nbsp;<em>Porter's Spirit of the Times</em>, Oct. 1 - Oct. 8, 1859)</p>
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  • Monlinier's Nine v Wyatt's Nine in August 1891
    |Name=Monlinier's Nine v Wyatt's Nine in August 1891 <p>Another game, "US" v. "England" in Rio News Oct. 20, 1891</p>
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  • 1669.1
    ...ion: underline;">The Royal Shepherdess</span> was produced before the king in 1669. It included country folk who danced and sand of a list of genuine Eng ...nald, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rise and Fall of Merry England: the Ritual Year, 1400-1700</span> (Oxford U Press, Oxford, 1994), page 235
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  • 1859.8
    |Location=New England <p>Tolland CT is about 20 miles NE of Hartford, and New Marlborough MA is in the SW corner of MA, about 25 miles S of Pittsfield. Looks like this was a
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  • 1773.1
    |Country=England ...ntleman" penned a reply, "Kentish Cricketers." This exchange is amply told in H. T. Waghorn, compiler, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cricket
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  • Block:English Baseball in Devonshire on March 16 1909
    |Title=English Baseball in Devonshire on March 16 1909 ...onal opportunities for members who might otherwise be tempted to seek them in less wholesome locales: "...he has expressed the hope to see the day when e
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  • 1820c.13
    |Location=New England <p>In Dorian mood, with academe and temple on each hand,</p>
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  • 1866.18
    |Headline=Stoolball in Selmeston |Country=England
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  • Block:Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on October 23 1872
    |Title=Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on October 23 1872 ..., requiring no thought, soon over, and at which one can talk, is preferred in this superficial land.”</p>
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  • 1860.34
    |Headline=Disparate Ball Games Seen in New Hampshire |Location=New England,
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  • Clipping:The English cricketers watch a baseball game; Americanized rounders; pre-game warm-up
    ...All-England Eleven, who expressed themselves much pleased with the manner in which the game of rounders had been Americanized, and intimated a desire to ...evident interest, and when the game was underway, occupied reserved seats in the pagoda. New York Sunday News September 20, 1868</p>
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  • 1793.3
    |Headline="Curious Cricket Match" Planned in England Among Tripeds ...r he intends to back the legs or the wings - but the odds are considerably in favour of the latter."</p>
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  • 1860.23
    |Location=New England, ...t=<p>"The first <em>documented</em> game of baseball to actually be played in Maine took place on October 10, 1860. . . . that October saw the Sunrise Cl
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  • 1820.29
    |Country=England |Text=<p>"In 1820, another girl-oriented book, entitled <span style="text-decoration: un
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  • 1796.2
    |Headline=Williams College Student Notes Ballplaying in Winter Months |Location=New England
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  • 1733.1
    |Headline=Long Poem Describes Stool-Ball in Some Detail; First Evidence of Use of a Bat? |Country=England
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  • Hornie-Holes (also Kittie-Cat)
    ...Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unspecified.&nb
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  • 1856.37
    |Country=England ...Henry Labouchere's estate at Stoke Park (near Slough, in Buckinghamshire) in which "some betook themselves to cricket, some to archery, base-ball and ot
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  • Invincible Club of Saint John
    ...England" rules and started playing local teams. They played Bangor, Maine in 1873.</p>
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  • Dictator Club of Newton
    ...Club of Newton was represented at the November 1865 convention of the New England Association.</p> |First in Location=Newton, MA
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  • 1858.31
    |Headline=Bristol CT Bests Waterbury in Wicket |Location=New England,
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  • 1780s.6
    |Headline=Newell Sees Baseball&#39;s Roots in MA |Text=<p>Writing on early baseball in the year 1883, W. W. Newell says:</p>
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  • 1800c.4
    |Headline=Four Old Cat and Three Old Cat Well Known in MA |Location=New England
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  • 1791.2
    |Location=New England ..., especially to their windows by ball playing in the streets, consequently in 1791, a by-law was enacted by which 'foot ball, hand ball, bat ball and or
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  • Massachusetts Game
    |Location=New England, WNY, Upper Midwest ...&nbsp;-- were to round ball,&nbsp;goal ball, and/or base&nbsp;games played in MA for the previous 50-75 years.</p>
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  • 1694.2
    ...and hard labour; insomuch, that after 12 hours of hard work, they will go in the evening to foot-ball, stool-ball, cricket, prison-base, wrestling, cudg .... . ;' Culture, Hegemony, and the Literaturisaton of Cricket," <u>Sport in History</u>, v. 23, 1 (Summer 2003), page 30. </p>
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  • Bowlywicket
    ...il, and may have evolved from a game played by workers from English cities in the late 1800s.</p> |Sources=<p>Alan Powers, "Bowlywicket: The Provenance of a New England Street Game," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Folklore</span> (UK
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  • Block:Ball Bias in London in 1875
    |Title=Ball Bias in London in 1875 ...ion, and if struck he and his side are 'out;' and hence you have the 'run' in cricket as the standard of success.”</p>
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  • Larry McCray, May 2011
    ...Activity=<p>&nbsp;[[Larry McCray]] participated in several short articles in the <em>Special Protoball Issue</em> of <span style="text-decoration: under ..._Cricket">1672 -- The Amazing Francis Willughby, and the Role of Stoolball in the Evolution of Baseball and Cricket</a>."&nbsp; <span style="text-decorat
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  • Clipping:Running outside the lines
    ...s again, slips past B, and now stands between 2d and 1st and soon succeeds in touching 2d. Nevertheless, A is decided out, although at no time has he be |Source=New England Base Ballist
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  • Clipping:Umpire out signal
    ...thumb over his shoulder to indicate that the man should get off the base. In not a single instance did any of the players attempt to question Umpire Sul ...oying him. He could not find that it would make the slightest difference (in a pecuniary point of view) to the persons who were suing whether Campbell p
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  • 1795.4
    ...w on a book, tearing a page of a book, or leaving one's room during study. In contrast, a one dollar assessment was made for playing cards, backgammon, o |Sources=<p>Marr, Harriet Webster,&nbsp;<span>The Old New England Academies Founded Before 1826</span>&nbsp;[Comet Press, New York, 1959], pa
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  • 1790s.3
    ...ses, a ball, and one or more sticks. The modern game is played especially in New York City on the streets where such fixtures as a fire hydrant or an ab
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  • Clipping:The Boston reserve club
    ...ubs at home. When it is away [sic], the reserves will tour throughout New England. The admission to the games of the reserves will be 25 cents.</p>
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  • Baseball Discovered -- A one-hour Emmy-nominated Documentary on Baseball's Beginnings
    |Is in library=No |Is in main bibliography=No
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  • In The Netherlands in 1905
    |Name=in The Netherlands in 1905 ...led 'tripball,' which had been played by American colonists. Holland, like England, Poland, Russia, Germany and others, can lay claim to the roots of baseball
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  • 1847.20
    |Headline=In Harlem, Men Play 330- Minute Game of Single Wicket for $100 Stake |Comment=<p>In 2022, Bruce Allardice is collecting single wicket games in the US for the PrePro data base.</p>
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  • 1310c.2
    |Headline=A Drawing of "A Game of Ball," with a Player in a Batting Pose ...nt with broad horizontal stripes. Both players hold clubs, and the player in stripes appears ready to swing at a melon-sized ball. The other player app
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  • 1830c.7
    |Location=New England |Text=<p>T. King wrote to the Mills Commission in 1905. "Just a word in regard to the old game of Massachusetts Run-around. We always pronounced th
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  • 1861.29
    |Headline=3rd NH Celebrates Thanksgiving in SC “In Playing Ball, Turkey Shooting” ...ssing, but &ldquo;the day was passed in playing ball, turkey shooting, and in the afternoon a pole was erected and the regimental flag run up, amid a tho
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  • 1858.52
    |Headline=Grand Wicket Match in Waterbury CT |Location=New England,
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  • In Toowoomba in 1895
    |Name=in Toowoomba in 1895 ...ounders, known as base ball" and has just been introduced by a person from England.</p>
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  • 1858.29
    |Headline=First Recorded College Game at Williams College |Location=New England
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  • 1842.13
    |Headline=Cricket and Bass Long Played in Pittsfield MA <p>[excerpt comes in a discussion of Pittsfield MA] --</p>
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  • 1820s.22
    |Headline=MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood ...and base ball (no scientific games or balls as hard as a white oak boulder in those days) excepted when pressed into service to ride the horse to plough
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  • Eureka Club of East Cambridge
    ...East Cambridge was represented at the November 1865 convention of the New England Association.</p> |First in Location=
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  • Game of ball in Bellingham in 1840
    |Name=Game of ball in Bellingham in 1840 ...and bootmakers, of whom there were some in most villages, were the leaders in these games."
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  • First Known Use of "Homer" to Reference a Home Run
    {{Other First |Name=First Known Use of "Homer" to Reference a Home Run
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  • Knock-Out
    |Description=<p>A fungo game in which a player who catches the ball on the fly qualifies to become the hitt ..."Knock out" is mentioned in the Cairo IL Bulletin, Feb. 24, 1878. Nothing in the newspapers.com or Genbank databases pre-1860.</p>
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  • 1858.28
    |Location=New England ...easure not less than six and a half, nor more than eight and a half inches in circumference, and must be covered with leather."</p>
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  • 1820s.12
    |Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME |Location=New England
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  • 1830.1
    ...e. The writer of this, beside other sad hurts which he has been witness of in the use of clubs, knew a youth who had his skull broke badly with one, and
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  • 1768.2
    |Headline=Baseball in English Dictionary |Country=England
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  • 1820s.31
    |Location=New England, ...ad an 1860 copyright registration, so the author penned it in that year or in the 1850s).&nbsp;The detail of this recounting merits full excerpting:</p>
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  • Clipping:Isolating the PL clubs
    ...club will also be debarred from playing with any national agreement clubs in the future.</p>
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  • 1732.1
    |Headline="Struck a Ball Over the (163-foot) Weather-cock" in New York ...high. He had half a Day allow'd him to perform it in, but he did&nbsp; it in less than half the Time."<br />&nbsp;</span></p>
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  • 1844.6
    |Headline=Novel Cites "the Game of Bass in the Fields" ...whoopin' like mad with pleasure, and the playground, and the game of bass in the fields, or hurly on the long pond on the ice, . . . "</p>
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  • Star Base Ball Club of Sing Sing (Ossining)
    <p>Made up of pupils at the Mt. Pleasant Academy, in Ossining (aka Sing Sing).</p> <p><span><em>New England Base Ballist</em>, Nov. 5, 1868</span></p>
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  • 1523.1
    |Country=England ...eo, author and date unspecified], page 2. This wording is reportedly found in "an extract from the rolls of the Court Baron of the Royal Manor of Kirklin
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  • 1859.34
    |Location=New England, ...and Provincial Words</span>: '<em>Base-ball.</em> A country game mentioned in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moor's Suffolk Words</span>, p. 2
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  • 1344.1
    ...th a curved stick and ball, starting with <i>la soule</i>, and evolving in England through stoolball . . .".</p>
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  • Clipping:An early attribution of town ball as an intermediate game between rounders and baseball
    ...National Game of base ball is an English game, or if it was ever played in England under the title of Rounders. Yours, truly, Jas. K. McAlees.</p>
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  • Clipping:The Mohawk Club reverts to amateur
    ...old amateur footing, when they ranked as high in social status as any club in the city. Their professional experiment has been a dead failure. New York ...ictors. [The game lasted 28 and a half innings, final score 24 to 23.] New England Base Ballist August 20, 1868</p>
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  • 1300s.3
    ...es back to the 14<sup>th</sup> century, originating in Sussex [in southern England]. It may be an ancestor of cricket (a game it resembles), baseball, and ro
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  • 1858.14
    |Headline=Adult Play [Finally!] Signaled in New Manual for Cricket and Base Ball |Location=New England,
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  • Clipping:A pickpocket at the Fashion Course game
    ...n in the crowd of spectators was robbed of his pocketbook, containing $700 in promissory notes, and some money. An English pickpocket, named William Day ...were informed of the affair, but nothing was heard of the ruffianly thief in this vicinity, till last evening, when detective officer Lynch recognized t
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  • Flyaway Club of East Boston
    ...oston Post</em>, Aug. 4, 1860 reports that at a special meeting of the New England Association of Base Ball Players, William H. Lawrence of the Flyaway Club o <p>East Boston was annexed by Boston in 1836.</p>
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  • The New England Roots Project of SABR
    ...he conditions of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, this project was suspended in late spring of 2020. ...the early roots of base ball and similar baserunning games in the six New England states. The page serves as something of a homepage for that project.
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  • 1861.4
    ...and is every way adapted to the tastes of all who love athletic exercises in the country."<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> |Sources=<p>Chadwick article in&nbsp;<span>The New York Clipper</span>&nbsp;(October 26, 1861).&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1845.22
    |Location=New England ...y 30, 1845. Accessed via subscription search, 2/14/2009.<b> </b> Barre is in central MA, about 25 miles NW of Worcester. Great Barrington MA also assoc
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  • Orion Base Ball Club of Milford, MA
    ...the New England Association of Base Ball Players on the Excelsior's Ground in Upton on Thursday Oct 18th 1860</p>
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  • Clippers Club of Lowell
    |Description=<p>Morris says this club started in March 1866.</p> <p><em>New England Base Ballist</em>, Dec. 31, 1868 says this club formed Oct. 25, 1866</p>
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  • In MA in 1780
    |Name=In MA in 1780 ...he ball was formerly known except "Hockey." There was great local variety in these sports."</p><p><br /> </p><p>Newell, William W., Games and Songs of A
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  • King Phillip Club of East Abington
    ...f East Abington was represented at the November 1865 convention of the New England Association.</p> |First in Location=East Abington, MA
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  • 1790.10
    |Country=England ...same time a game called simply&nbsp;'bat and ball' began to be&nbsp;appear in English writings.&nbsp; A 1790 book listed a young man's amusements&nbsp;as
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  • 1820s.14
    |Headline=New England Lad Recalls Assorted Games, Illicit Fast Day Ballplaying ...et, Cincinnati, 1885), includes youthful memories that would have occurred in the 1820s.</p>
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  • 1750s.3
    |Headline=1857 Writer Reportedly Dates New England Game of "Base" to 1750s ...e back to so far as [cricket],&nbsp;but the game has no doubt, been played in this country for at least one century.&nbsp; Could we only invoke the spiri
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  • Lobber
    <p>one is out if the stick or ball lodges in the hole or hits the stone; or</p> <p>if the ball or stone is caught; or if it can be put in the hole or hits</p>
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  • 1855.26
    |Headline=Tolland CT 265, Otis-Sandisfield MA 189 In Wicket Match |Location=New England
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  • 1797.1
    |Location=New England |Text=<p>Daniel Webster, in private correspondence, writes of "playing at ball," while a student at Dar
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  • 1846.19
    |Location=New England ...t players think of as their regular playing grounds. A throw hits the man in the pit of his stomach [now remember, wicket balls were darned heavy]. Nat
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  • 1830c.26
    |Location=New England ...ith good, tightly spun twine. Attempts were occasionally made to play ball in the streets, but the by-laws of the town forbidding it were rigidly enforce
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  • 1500s.2
    |Location=England |Text=<p>According to a manuscript written in the 1600s, Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester and his "Trayne" "came to W
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  • Sun and Planet
    |Description=<p>In describing an indoor form of Stool Ball played in case of wet weather, an 1891 source adds:&nbsp; "It is sometimes called Sun ...mes there are scouts, but as a rule, the players all take stools [arranged in a circle] except the bowler, who is allowed to bowl out, catch out, and thr
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  • 1858.16
    |Headline=Four Jailed for "Criminal" Sunday Play in NJ ...ng ball on Sunday, 4, felonious assault, 1 . . . . Nativity - Ireland, 84; England, 12; Scotland, 4; Germany, 7; United States, 16; colored, 1. Total, 124." O
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  • 1794.2
    ...or his passage on ball games, but I can not make it out from the photocopy in my possession."</p>
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  • A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball
    ...ad an 1860 copyright registration, so the author penned it in that year or in the 1850s). The detail of this recounting merits full excerpting: ...throw. Then there was “base-ball,” when there were a good many to play. In base-ball we chose sides, and we might have as many as we pleased on each s
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  • In Rio de Janeiro on 30 June 1867
    |Name=in Rio de Janeiro on 30 June 1867 ...formerly pitcher in the Athletic Club, of Harlem, played his old position in this international affair.</p>
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  • 1555c.1
    |Country=England ...sp; Cited in&nbsp;Thomas L. Altherr, &ldquo;There is Nothing Now Heard of, in Our Leisure Hours, But Ball, Ball, Ball,&rdquo; <span style="text-decoratio
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  • In Exeter in 1853
    |Name=In Exeter in 1853 ...modern baseball. For a description of a typical contest, which took place in 1853, we are indebted to Dr. William A. Mowry:"</p>
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  • 1857.25
    |Headline=Season Opens in Boston with May Olympics Victory, Best-of-Three Format |Location=New England,
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  • Long Ball (European baserunning game)
    ...was to remain at bat for a long period. A 1914 US text describes Long Ball in generally similar terms, but one that uses a regular "indoor baseball." The ...nd England, <em>Schlagball</em> in Germany and Silesia and <em>Palant</em> in Poland.</p>
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  • Clipping:Baseball's ubiquity; Sunday ball playing
    ...esented by the police that between four and five hundred were participants in base ball matches there during the day. A more successful effort was made
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  • "A Good Many Different Kinds of Ball"
    |Description=In 1867 story, a father recollects boyhood ballplaying ...ad an 1860 copyright registration, so the author penned it in that year or in the 1850s). The detail of this recounting merits full excerpting:
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  • 1827.10
    |Country=England ...well known&nbsp;</span><span>nor so much practised in London, perhaps, as in the county, we have had for&nbsp;</span><span>ages..."</span></p>
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  • 1330.1
    |Headline=Vicar of Winkfield Advises Against Bat/Ball Games in Churchyards; First Stoolball Reference? ...o 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 put away."
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  • Clipping:The umpire's discretionary powers in calling balls and strikes; high and low
    |Title=the umpire's discretionary powers in calling balls and strikes; high and low ...the pitcher. Last season the Umpire had far too much discretionary power in this respect. Now he is bound to call all balls not within the legitimate
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  • Lightfoot Club of Neponset
    ...of Neponset MA was represented at the November 1865 convention of the New England Association.</p> |First in Location=Neponset, MA
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  • 1867.25
    <p><span><span>In a 5/9/2021 search, Protoball doesn't find one after 1866 either.</span></sp ...ight the&nbsp;<em>New England Base</em> <em>Ballist,</em>&nbsp;still alive in 1868, show more about the final passing on the game?<span style="text-decor
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  • New Englander Confronts Impious Sunday Ball-playing in Virginia
    |Title=New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia Ruth Henshaw, a Massachusetts native, moved to southeast Virginia in 1801. The next spring, while traveling around the Norfolk area, twice she m
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  • 1832.11
    |Country=England ...had recourse to their favourite game of stool ball, and the only drawback in the general amusement was the absence of the musician which obliged them to
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on October 24 1874
    |Title=English Baseball in London on October 24 1874 ...in some of the southern counties--should be beyond the reach of young men in our large towns."</p>
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  • Block:"Englische Base-ball" Described in 1796 German Book
    |Title="Englische Base-ball" Described in 1796 German Book ...of a game called "Ball mit Freyst&auml;ten (oder das englische Base-ball)" in a German book on games and sports. This is the earliest description of a ga
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  • 1747.1
    |Location=England ...in this line. Steel and Lyttelton note that this poem was first published in 1747.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in North Yorkshire on August 18 1874
    |Title=English Baseball in North Yorkshire on August 18 1874 ...'s (sic) wicket keeper part also. The Yorkshire party was all out with the first person, the American's (sic) with the third. All the other rules are the sa
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  • 1550c.2
    |Headline=Very Early Cricket Play Recalled at Southern England School. ...run and play there at cricket and other plays.' This is believed to be the first recorded mention of cricket."</p>
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  • Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856
    |Name=Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856 ...to a best-of-three arrangement not uncommon in round ball as played in New England and upstate New York.
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  • Kearsarge Club of Stoneham
    ...Alpha of Ashland on the Boston Common for the MA Rules Championship of New England. The Kearsarge were leading 18-9 when the game was called, due to a dispute ..."Base Ball Founders" pp. 304-308. The club switched to the national rules in 1868.</p>
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  • 1820c.24
    |Location=New England ...con Porter, should show on such an occasion so much levity as to take part in the game."</p>
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  • Run-Around
    ...Round Ball. Our single reference to this game comes from a letter written in 1905 by a Boston man, T. King.</p> ...kes at the ball. In my younger days it was extremely popular, and indulged in by everyone, young and old."</p>
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  • Sam Marchiano and the 1755 Bray Diary Find
    ...ally did), the earliest appearance of the term “base ball” was to be found in a 1796 description of “Englische base ball” by the German writer Johann ...d a sharp-eyed English lady who lived snugly in a 1500’s house in southern England.
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  • English Rounders, 1828
    ...d player begins; as they get home, that is to ''a'', they play at the ball in rotation, until they all get out; then, of course, the out players take the
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  • 1864.18
    |Headline=RI Soldier Cites “:A Game in Our Regt, Nine Innings a Side” ...t is pleasant the boys are at their games of ball. Yesterday we had a game in our Regt 9 innings to a side. One side got 34 tallies the other 28. There w
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  • 1852.2
    ...bat and base-ball</strong>!/ Thinking that the world was only made to play in, -/ Made for jolly boys, tossing, throwing balls!&nbsp;</p> ...hat 'bat and ball" may have been a distinct game played in easternmost New England.</p>
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  • Tri-Mountain Club of Boston
    ...ion=<p>From Protoball Entry #1857.5 &ndash; The Tide Starts Turning in New England &ndash; Trimountains Adopt NY Game</p> ...cker. . . . "The New York Clipper (June 13, 1857 [per handwritten notation in clipping book]). Facsimile provided by Craig Waff, September 2008.</p>
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  • Stoolball Today -- The Rejuvenation of an Ancient Pastime
    ...en of this country were drawn into many bloody battles. Seven years later England was learning to cope with many injured, some permanently, ex-soldiers and o ...re wounded ex-soldiers and his social dignitary friends would play matches in aid of the “not forgotten”. With this image, stoolball blossomed as vi
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  • 1860.24
    |Location=New England, ...me to run round the whole circle of goals, turning a somersault as he came in."</p>
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  • 1850c.26
    |Location=New England, ..."[T]hey committed a radical error in abolishing all the Papal holidays, or in not substituting something therefore. We have Thanksgiving, and the Fourth
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  • Clipping:Overhand delivery
    ...ully test the merits of throwing the ball. Under the old rules of the New England game of twenty odd years ago, the ball was always thrown straight from the
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  • 1816c.11
    |Headline=Jane Austen Writes of "Baseball" in <u>Northanger Abbey</u><i>.</i> |Country=England
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  • 1857.28
    |Location=New England ...OF MEDWAY. . . . 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, a
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  • 1750s.2
    |Headline=Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands? |Text=<p>"Of formalized games, choices for males [in NC] appear to have been 'town-ball, bull-pen,' 'cat,' and 'prisoner's base,
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  • 1872.4
    <p>We propose having our first game played on Fast Day, weather permitting</p> ...oposes a date just two and a half weeks out. This is typical of scheduling in this era, done on the fly. It also was a major pain. A lot of Wright's corr
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  • 1809.1
    |Headline=Americans in London Play "A Game Called Ball," Seen as a "Novelty" By Locals |Country=England
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  • 1844.1
    |Headline="Round Ball" Played in Bangor ME: Cony&#39;s Side 50, Hunt&#39;s Side 49 |Location=New England
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  • Clipping:Drainage problems at the Tremont grounds
    ...impossible for a week afterward. We have not seen them really dry and in first-class condition once this season, and unless more perfect drainage can be e ...Tremont, and rain the night previous had nearly the field a swamp... New England Base Ballist October 29, 1868</p>
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  • Pize Ball
    ...four &lsquo;tuts,&rsquo; or stopping-places. The first cited use appeared in 1796. Gomme (page 45) adds that if the batter-runner is hit before reaching ...an><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland<em>, </em></span>Volume 2&nbsp;(New York:
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  • Clipping:The big game was not postponed due to poor attendance; denial of hippodroming
    ...ame, which shows for itself that there was no “throwing the game” indulged in. He then gives short accounts of the Athletic and Unions games, which clea
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  • 1855.7
    |Headline=Cricket Becoming "The National Game" in US: "Considerable Progress" Seen ...of a June match between St. George's second eleven and the New York clubs first string [which won by 74 runs], this upbeat assessment was included: "We sha
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  • Clipping:The host club's responsibility for crowd control
    ...ction of the crowd was in such striking contrast to the Norwich assemblage in the Uncas match, that all of the Unions noticed it. We thus comment on the
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  • 1810s.10
    |Location=New England ...precise time referenced here is hard to specify; but the authors graduated in 1813 and 1816, and the context seems to suggest the 1810-1830 period.</p>
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  • 1860.43
    |Headline=Three Ball Clubs Form in VT Village |Location=New England
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  • 1858.24
    |Location=New England, ...usters, pugilistic feats, cock-fighting &amp;c; all of which are nuisances in no small degree."</p>
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  • 1862.19
    ...ularly skillful in the throwing of balls." [page 64]. The regiment was now in Poolesville MD, about 30 miles NW of Washington.</p>
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  • 1858.60
    |Location=New England, ...t) became the first factory to produce baseballs. They also were the first in the production of the two-piece figure-eight stitch cover baseball, the sam
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  • 1827.1
    |Location=New England |Text=<p>Brown College (Providence, RI) student Williams Latham notes in his diary:</p>
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  • Leik Mjul
    ...uml; University, reports that in studying the isolated island of Run&ouml; in the Baltic Sea, he found a game called "leik mjul" ["play ball"] among the ...e suggests that the game came to the island in the 1840's when a ship from England was stranded, and that perhaps the game evolved from rounders.</p>
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  • 1857.30
    |Location=New England |Text=<p>The Olympic Ball Club's rules, adopted in 1857, appear in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Porter's Spirit of the</span></p>
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  • 1841.13
    |Location=New England <p>"The is one great point in which the English have the advantage over us: they understand how to take c
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  • Touch-ball
    ...of rounders; or, as it is called in West Riding, touch-ball. The children in these districts play it without a bat or club; they strike the ball with th ...iding was, until 1986,&nbsp; a large subsection of&nbsp; Yorkshire County, England.&nbsp;</p>
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  • Chronologies
    ...otoball Chronology is [[Tom Altherr Dedication|Dedicated to Tom Altherr]] in appreciation of his work on early American ballplaying''' ...efine:exclusions|Comma Separated Values,Alabama,Brooklyn,CA,Connecticut,CT,England,Europe,France,Indiana,Hawaii,Kentucky,MA,Maine,Massachusetts,Michigan,NY,NY
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  • Sam Marchiano, January 2008
    ...g adults playing "base ball." &nbsp;(David describes this lucky disclosure in the Fall 2007 issue of&nbsp;<em>Base Ball.)&nbsp;</em>The MLB.com crew spen
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  • Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on June 19 1858
    |Title=English Baseball in Norfolk on June 19 1858 ...spirit, which has continued to maintain the glory of England in India, and in the Crimea, and on the broad blue ocean, under a less sounding title than �
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  • 1802.2
    ...e that curls, that sound/Of bells; those boys that in yonder meadow-ground/In white-sleev'd shirts are playing; and the roar/Of the waves breaking on the <p>From Wordsworth's sonnet "Composed in the valley near Dover on the day of Landing," [1802 and 1807] <u>The Comple
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  • Nassau Giants cricket team v American tourists in January 1915
    |Name=Nassau Giants cricket team v American tourists in January 1915 ...n on Eastern parade." Same, Jan. 31, 1915 makes clear that England won the first game, "last Tuesday", 13 to 11, against a pickup bunch of aged tourists sta
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  • 1846.7
    |Location=New England ...was completely ours, a result different from what I expected. Got a lesson in Demosthenes and went to recitation." On October 3, the MA diarist had writ
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  • 1821.8
    |Country=England <p>The location of the village play in not given.</p>
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  • 1744.1
    |Headline=First Laws of Cricket are Written in England <p>The 5-ounce ball is, likely, heavier than balls used in very early US ballplaying.</p>
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  • 1850s.50
    |Headline=Benefits for Adults Seen in Ballplaying in English Shire: Tutball Rules Described |Location=England,
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  • 1851.5
    ...to play cricket. . . . The cadets played no games at all. . . . It was the first time that I had a glimpse of Colonel Robert E. Lee [who was to become Super ...ome Superintendent of West Point in September 1852; and had been stationed in Baltimore until then; can Calthrop's date be reconciled?</p>
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  • 1825c.4
    |Headline=John Oliver Plays Base Ball in Baltimore ...at, Two Old Cat, Three Old Cat have seen played, but never have taken part in it myself."</p>
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