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|First Newspaper Mention=1864/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|State=ME |City=Waldoboro

|Name=Club of Ellsworth, ME |State=ME

|State=ME |City=Topsham

...ned for, and he was to obtain $1,000 in advance, the largest sum ever paid a base-ball tosser. He expected that Cincinnati enthusiasts were disappointe

...ccident, but, of course, cannot tell what the future may have in store for me; however, I pray for the best...</p>

|Title=a conditional three year contract ...cond baseman of the Hartfords, has contracted to play with the Boston Club in ‘78, ‘79 and ‘80–the last two years conditionally. St. Louis Globe

...reat deal of pleasure last summer, so it gives me a great deal of pleasure in return to dismiss the case against him, as I understand he promises not to

...Club was in arrears to him to the amount of about $2100. Jones also told me that he was obliged to give the proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel, where

|Title=going to great lengths to sign a minor leaguer ...t Saginaw club was expelled, and wound up by saying I had only indulged in a little ‘practical base ball,’ which Caylor didn’t understand. He dec

|Name=In Hope Circa 1825 |State=ME

|State=ME |City=Biddeford

|Title=a hint that the blacklisted players will be reinstated ...e situation in its real light they will deal with me and my old players in a more kind and friendly spirit than they did before. (St. Louis) Missouri R

...e official averages I find that Philadelphia has the champion base runners in both associations.</p>

...failure. I'll tell you later what I am going to do with the bat and ball in '88.</p>

|City=Brandy Station ...on to use it. &nbsp;The library also passed on a link to an recent sale of a copy on eBay for about $425. (John Zinn)<br>

|State=ME |City=Lewiston

|Title=a wildly implausible argument for the ten-men ten-inning rule |Text=<p>[a letter to the editor from “A Convert] I am a constant reader of the Item, and find that it is beyond doubt the very best

|Headline=Game of Base was "A Peculiar Favorite" |State=ME

...hat now that Sullivan had given up his position he (Quinn) would have such a hard time of it that it would be politic of him to get out. Quinn wrote ba ...ave among its players fully thirty of the very best men at present engaged in the other associations.”</p>

|Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME |State=ME

|Headline=Bay Stater to Wife: “We had a gay old time playing ball . . . send me five dollars” |City=Wheeling

|Name=in Boston in 1725 |City=Boston

..., as it generally fell to me to obtain situations for all the unfortunates in the club, and as I had begun to lose heart for this wholesale drudgery, I r |Source=Philadelphia City Item

{{Other First |Name=First Baseball Tournaments

|State=ME |City=Bangor

|Name=First Idaho BBC Club of Lapwai |Club Name=First Idaho BBC

|Headline=Roundball Recalled in Maine |State=ME

|State=ME |City=Kents Hill

...of the League. So I suggested that he introduce some of the Clevelands to me, for then I was only acquainted with the older members of the League.</p> ...ances of better behavior on the part of the men, and as we intend that the first club shall receive $7000, the second $5000, the third $3000, the fourth $20

|Name=In Pownal on 5 May 1853 |State=ME

|Headline=Juvenile Book's Chapter: "A Game at Ball": 'Cheating play never prospers' |City=

|Title=a proposal for outfield bleachers ...against the fence, behind the out-fielders?” He adds, “the last game cost me, all told, $7.50, and I had to stand all the while.</p>

|State=ME |City=Waterville

...struck, but if he goes in for innings he is quite likely to be opposed to a man who knows the result of the matter on which he is arranging to rob the

|City=Savannah ...was on the Beating Side. Nothing can beat me and Sergeant. Jones. He is a first rate man.&rdquo;</p>

...ll add, instead of injure, the Bostons, and that the game has so increased in popular favor that two clubs can easily find support.</p>

|Headline=Lithograph Shows Ballplaying in City Hall Park, NY ...rogress in the distance. My best squint shows me pitcher, batsman, a close-in catcher, two distant fielders and three spectators (two seated). Old cat? S

|Headline="Round Ball" Played in Bangor ME: Cony&#39;s Side 50, Hunt&#39;s Side 49 |State=ME

|City=Flatbush ...yed by Colonel John Oakey, a former A.D.A., when he was a child growing up in Brooklyn and Flatbush [NY]. From 1837 he attended the Erasmus Hall Academy,

|Name=Queen City Club of Bangor |Club Name=Queen City

|City=west point ...erintendent of West Point]. He was a splendid fellow, most gentlemanly and a soldier every inch. . . .</p>

...gambler when in Worcester, Mass.; and Manager Bancroft was also called as a witness. The Board of Directors decided by an unanimous vote to expel High ...our opinion the League did a very sensible thing, for Dick has been under a cloud for some time, and should never have been chosen as an umpire.</p>

...s the only addition advocated by any of the delegates and was incorporated in the instrument as the seventh article of the Agreement, which was shortly a

...d gaining for it a firm foothold as the great American sport. He informed me this morning that he desired to see the local club succeed and become penna

...a $10 reward for recovery of a hand roller - presumably one used to smooth a playing area - by the Star of the West Cricket Club.</p> ...$10 reward strikes me as downright extravagant. That must have been quite a piece of wood. Baseball clubs didn't need to fool with this sort of thing,

|Title=a country catcher and the chest protector ...ith a sharp foul tip. Once more he took a drop and has been catching with a mask ever since. St.</p>

|City=Boston ...wall's grandson, reportedly, and a Harvard '23 man -- (LMc)] got up betime in the morning, and took Ben Swett with him and went into the [Boston MA] Comm

|State=ME |City=Skowhegan

...d thus make their wagers in advance, so as to have the money in safe hands in New York. He has sold the following pools on the forthcoming contest betwe ...e their time and money, and how fortunate we are in staid old Philadelphia in having so such state of moral turpitude. Yours, truly, T.H.M.</p>

|Headline=Reader Catches "A Slight Error" - Base Ball is English, not American |Location=Greater New York City,

|Headline=English Gent in NYC Goes Off to a Ball Game ...to old Ferry point where we landed, and went in the mizzle to play at ball in the meadow, leaving our captain to cook Chowder for us."</p>

|City=Savannah ...The Savannah Base Ball Club shows as early as 1869, when it played a match in Charleston. See <em>Charleston Courier</em>, July 27, 1869, and Protoball's

|State=ME |City=Portland

|Name=In Saco Circa 1820 |State=ME

|Title=prospects of the Giants moving to Jersey City ...people across the river, and by the time the New Yorks are ready to locate in Jersey the patrons will have become familiar with the ferry trips.</p>

...om Philadelphia, to Frederick Long, dated September 3, 1875] [Boyd arrived in time to umpire the game.]</p> |Source=from a letter by Harry Wright, writing from Philadelphia, to Frederick Long

|Headline=Schoolboy Game of "Three Base Ball" Recalled in Brooklyn |City=Flatbush

|Name=Ballgame in Americus on 5 January 1865 |City=Americus

|City=Falmouth ...pay the expenses of an oyster supper.&rdquo; The Left Wing won, 24-21, in a game evidently played by NY rules &ndash; nine players played nine innings

|Headline=NY Game Shown to "Show Me" State of MO |City=Independence

|Title=a proposal for post-season interleague play ...er. I have no doubt whatever but what the eight series would generally be a great success, providing the weather was all right. This thought prompts t

|City= ...ctice, though I am not sure that any amount of practice would have made me a perfect ball-player.</p>

|State=ME |City=Portland

...e don’t want you to ‘sell’ the game, or anything of that kind, but just go in and play kinder mad, you know.”</p> ...g has since been tried both at Hoboken, where it was publicly exposed, and in Philadelphia.</p>

|City=Brooklyn ...o catch a fellow running bases, I sent the ball at him hot, and it hit him in the eye. Then I learned the new rule was to throw the ball to the base play

...nnual meeting at the Parker House to-morrow evening, after which they have a supper. New York Clipper April 8, 1882</p> ...be the regular short-stop of the Providence Club this season. He may play in one or two games during the Summer, but the demands of his business prevent

...representation. It is greatly to the advantage of the Association to have a representative there.</p> ...er of the convention and made himself as small as possible compatible with a legal representation (and you must know he can make himself very small, ind

|City=Philadelphia ...e &lsquo;tournament&rsquo;, which has awakened such a wide-spread interest in all parts of the country...&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>

<p>Deacon White wears a mask</p> ...in the Grand Stand Saturday, as Jim White put on his wire mask, “Mercy on me; they've got him muzzled!” Jim did look fierce. Cincinnati Enquirer Ap

|Title=another account, from a correspondent |Text=<p>A Philadelphia correspondent, who seems to have had an eye on the proceedings

|Title=Florida as a spring training site ...lub, and if they could get good local material so much the better. With a first-class club, arrangements could easily be made with Northern teams to come d

|State=ME |City=Portland

|Title=the umpire charged with having a pecuniary interest ...hey could get any one lese to serve, but finally Higham was induced to act in the position and the game went on. New York Clipper June 7, 1873</p>

...stirred up a year ago. Do sit down, H. P., and give the world a chance. First thing you know, Sir Isaac Newton, Professor Morse, Edison and the like will ...at 250 people, in order that I might consult Mr. Mark Wallace and yourself in order to have Cincinnati represented.</p>

|Title=stealing a player on a technicality ...ewhere. … [quoting Day:] “He was not a member of the club 31 days after he first agreed to play for it. The Metropolitans' management had to file his contr

...land ME Bans "Playing at Bat and Ball in the Streets" in 1805, Retains Ban in 1824 |State=ME

...vit on Wednesday against five of the players, and alleges that in one game in which he was umpire one player approached him and stated that he had $300 b <p>[see also Philadelphia All-Day City Item 9/6/1874 for an interview of McLean.]</p>

...mail in getting the consent of the other League clubs to the deal, and in a few days we shall know whether or not Baltimore is to bid the Association g ...e, as it might be very difficult to drop Baltimore because it was a strong city. The Sporting Life November 27, 1889</p>

|City=Mount Vernon ...rest were gone.&nbsp; I have not played with your bat and ball as you bid me."</p>

...r any weight upon his right leg, and he had to be carried from the cars to a carriage, and was taken to Harry Wright’s residence, at the Highlands.</p |Source=Evening City Item

|Headline=Game With Plugging of Runners Later Recalled in Jersey City |City=Jersey City

|Headline=Michigan Colonel Plays Ball in Tennessee, Still Rebuffs Rebs |City=Middleburg

|Name=White Caps Club of Sioux City v Railroad Club of Cherokee in July 1870 |City=Sioux City

|Name=In Newtonville in 1823 |City=Newtonville

...ed into with Mr. Jeff D. Bernstein, Miss Jarbeau's manager, and culminated in the “coon's” desertion of the theatrical stage for the base-ball field. <p>“I hear you've lost your 'snowball,'” said a reporter to Miss Jarbeau last night.</p>

|City=Americus ...prisoner of war at Andersonville POW camp, says &ldquo;Capt. Wirz gives me a pass to go to hospital. Have been down there all afternoon playing ball.&rd

|City=Harrisonburg ...ub is known as the Lone Star&hellip;&rdquo; See Scott H. Sale, &ldquo;Take Me Out to the ballgame: Exploring the 19th Century Roots of Valley Baseball,&r

|Name=In Upton in 1820 |City=Upton

|City=New Madrid ...out that way. Well, the boys are getting up a game of ball and yelling for me and recon I must go.</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Headline=“Sky-ball”, “Cat and Ball” Remembered in Southern PA |City=

...attract, and the destruction that would result to the turf. Philadelphia City Item April 7, 1867, citing the Tribune</p> ...c.; they also check bases, shoes, caps, balls, bats, &c.; and it well pays a person to visit the grounds while the clubs are playing. Ball Players Chro

...hen they returned, just after the thirty-fourth ballot had been announced, a thunderbolt was thrown into the convention by the reading of the resignatio ...the step I did . If any man can blame me for leaving the company of such a set of men I want to know who he is.” The Sporting Life November 20, 188

|Headline=Round Ball Played in MA |City=

|City=Cambridge ...as played in the reign of Charles the First [1625-1649 - LMc]. The bat was a heavy oak thing and they trundled the ball along the ground, the ball being

|Title=rumor of a League club in Indianapolis ...t Kansas City possess and then talk to—well, talk to the League and Kansas City at the same time. The latter will sell you its team and franchise and the

|Name=in MA in 1800undefined |City=

...of cricket and base-ball came from. The first cricket match I ever played in was with the Third Eleven of New York Club against the Second Eleven of Man ...Gotham Juniors, from which I was taken into the Gotham Seniors, playing my first match with them at the age of 15 against the Star Club of Brooklyn, I playi

|Headline=Belfast ME Had Ballplaying as Early as 1805 ...r, it was voted 'that the game of ball, and the pitching of quoits within [a specified area] be prohibited."</p>

|Name=In MA in 1800 |City=

...had given Ward the proper answer, and that a meeting should be held later in the season. I apprised Ward of the committee's decision, and his answer wa

...d a salary limit would have been needed. Now the big operators are pushed in fairness and agree to give the weaker clubs 40 per cent. of small profits,

|City=Poultney ...he practice, though I am not sure that any amount of it would have made me a perfect ball-player."</p>

|Title=a premises liability judgment against the Syracuse club ...received through the breaking of the railing during a game at Star Park...in the summer of 1885, the jury yesterday [3/18] awarded the plaintiff $3,516.

|State=ME |City=Brunswick

|City=Cape May ...; and to see a game of "town ball" played, awakens a desire to participate in the enjoyment . . . ."</p>

|Headline=Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing |City=Cannon's Ferry

...nd direct expenses of said club, shall be for the sole purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of our lamented Cato [sic.]. We have six months to |Source=Philadelphia All-Day City Item

|City=Cleveland ...s custom, until the umpire, Mr. Hanna, reminded him of his duty by calling a strike."</p>

|Title=Fitzgerald has second thoughts about a Europe tour ...to the trip to Europe. The argument runs in this way: The club is already in debt. Under the most favorable circumstances this debt cannot be paid befo

|City=New York ...embers are asked to attend which indicates to me the club existed at least in 1854.</p>

|Title=a vagaries of the baseball business ...teen dollars for telegraphing and advertising. From the nature of things, a great portion of this base ball business must be transacted by telegraph, a

|Title=Wiman threatens legal action, and a competing league ...team in every American Association city, even if it cost him $500,000(?) [in original].</p>

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=Brooklyn

|Title=trouble finding a city to take the AA franchise ...the tail of a rat.” From which it may be inferred that Buffalo will stay in the new International Association. The Sporting Life December 21, 1887</p>

|City= ...the young working people amusing themselves after the labours of the day. A village green, with its girls and boys playing at bass-ball, and its grown-

|Headline=Upstate Author Carried Now-Lost 1828 Clipping on Base Ball in Rochester |City=Rochester

|State=ME |City=Augusta

|City=Hamburg ...any." The Oct. 18 report specified that the recipient club was the Gorham, ME, Base Ball Club, and that the challenge was received on Oct. 16.</p>

|Title=early word of the Giants to be in Hoboken or Jersey City ...retain the Polo Grounds this season, but otherwise they will go to Hoboken in July, and anyway next year. The Sporting Life July 4, 1888</p>

|Headline=A Cool Treat for Kansas Fans |City=Fort Scott

|Title=The Story of George Thompson’s 1823 Find -- "Base Ball" in NYC! ...know that Thoreau thought that having no money was liberating, but he was a crank.) The next-best solution? Time-travel. And so I set forth.

|Name=Forest City Club of Ithaca v Mechanic Club of Groton on 5 September 1866 |City=Ithaca

|Title=The Story of George Thompson’s 1823 Find -- Base Ball in New York City |Description="One evening in the spring of 2001 . . . "

|City=Fairfax ...n sang patriotic songs, laughed and chatted, or danced jig to the sound of a violin.&rdquo;</p>

...en Western clubs will be taken by the League ere the opening of the season in 1887. St.</p>

...lle Club, we believe him a man who would not, even for the club in his own city, give the slightest favor inimical to any other club, and we determined tha ...tained about Toledo so as not to scare off Detroit if Toledo will not come in. The Sporting Life November 20, 1889</p>

|City=Peoria ...number of young men met at Roswell Bills' office last night and organized a base ball club under the name Olympic Base Ball Club. The following officer

{{Other First |Name=First Known Example of a Table-top Base Ball Game

|Headline=Recollections of a Jersey City Boy -- And A Different Rule for Plugging |City=Jersey City

|State=ME |City=Portland

|Headline=Southern Girls Play Town Ball and Cat in Clarksville |City=Clarksville

|Headline=Late Surge Lifts Douglas&#39; over Abe Lincoln&#39;s Side in Chicago IL |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Famous,

|Headline=A Drawing of Ballplaying in New York -- in the area where Central Park would later be, possibly?? |City=New York

|City=San Francisco ...the city of San Francisco [CA] on the 10^th day of Nov., 1858." A box score is included. It shows W. V. Babcock as batting leadoff, pitching,

|City=Natick ...exact shape now in universal use. &nbsp;About twenty years ago I showed to a nephew of mine the cover of my boyhood. &nbsp;He was working for Harwood, t

...interests of our noble game. Let the hired men take notice. Philadelphia City Item June 30, 1866 [citing the New York Tribune]</p> ...until he could obtain work. “Only this, and nothing more!” Philadelphia City Item July 14, 1866</p>

|Headline=Sgt. in the 6th Maine Reports “Huge Game of Ball” in VA |City=Falmouth

...bs win, but only when ‘tis fairly done. By inserting this you will oblige a large number of readers of your excellent and reliable sporting journal, an

|Title=the Atlantics backing out of a match ...erkenstock and Reach both played at great disadvantage from the same cause in Atlantic matches. Our boys refused to entertain the proposition to postpon

|City=Joliet |Description=<p>&ldquo;The first game in IL was in 1851 between Joliet and Lockport.&rdquo;</p>

|Title=a players' relief association proposednot a brotherhood or union ...ve no hesitancy in signing, as the scheme is a grand one and is sure to be a success. The Sporting Life March 10, 1886</p>

|Region=Portland, ME ! City/Town Playing Field

|City=NYC ...e ball be &ldquo;pitched, not thrown&rdquo;, pitchers by 1860 were finding a way to get not just movement, but predictable movement, on their deliveries

...for Johnson. These are the two organs of the Brotherhood. All the other city papers, which are non-partisan, scored it 14 and 3 and 3 and 7.”</p> ...rtisanship with a vengeance. There are no strong National League shouters in America than the base ball editors of the Star, Sun, Tribune, Journal, and

|State=ME |City=Portland

...n the National game–and he asked me what I thought was the actual value of a bas ball club as property. I replied that the various clubs would have var ...notice. I think, however, there would be no trouble whatever in securing a sum as high as $10,000 for the right. Let us split the different and say $

...ine=1883 Account Reflects on Details of "Town Ball" Played Decades Earlier in PA |City=Pittsburgh

|State=ME |City=Lewiston

|Headline=Very Early Game in Illinois Involves Joliet, Lockport? |City=Joliet

...e boat. These four cities figured out that by letting these two outsiders in it would mean the bouncing of them later on. So before they would agree to ...r. The Sporting Life March 5, 1890 [N.B. This agreement does not appear in the League minutes.]</p>

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=Jamaica

|Headline=First Known Table-top Base Ball Game Appears |City=NY

|City=Granville Corners ...r, which soon cleared off, and before the close of the game the ground was in excellent condition.&rdquo;</p>

...e, and Thursday night refused duty on the ground that his brother was dead in Paterson, N.J., and he wanted to go to the funeral. It appears from the be ...had no brother of that name. A Catholic priest of Patterson, in answer to a telegram, says that Nolan has no brother William, that none of the family a

! City/Town Playing Field | <p>Hector (Fort Edward Institute) 44</p> <p>Eureka (Granville) 19</p> <p>(first game of home-and-home match)</p>

|City=Independence ...playing base-ball. I have the ball and book of Rules with me that we used in forming the Knickerbocker Base-ball Club back home."</p>

...ness at Falls River, Mass., which nets him each year more than he can make in the base ball profession.</p> <p>Carpenter as a rule devotes the winter months entirely to hunting and fishing.</p>

|City= ...=<p>"Then comes a sun burnt gipsy of six . . . . her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage do

|Name=in Independence on 23 April 1849 |City=Independence

|Title=a rumor of the Players League ...sky business, but he is a man who has nerve enough to do anything to carry a point. Of course, the scheme will never work, and it only remains to be se

|City=Lewiston ...orts: "Base Ball Club--Several of the young men of the town have organized a base-ball club..."</p>

...enlisted, and the Boston Club’s stock was taken up by the home people with a rush. This ended Mr. Lucas’s labors so far as the whole organization was

...ason, and several games have been agreed upon, we believe. There has been a difference of opinion as to whether this could be legally done without infr ...leans, &c. They have had letters from the St. Louis Union-Club asking for a game about November 1. I would respectfully ask, will the National Agreeme

|City=New Bern ...n M [Marlboro NH] . . . the Boys have bases up &amp; are in a stem to have me play ball I supose I must go. . . [resuming later:] My side got 10 tales. T

|Headline=A "Badly Defined" and Soggy April Game, In Brooklyn Alongside Star Cricket Club? |City=Brooklyn

|Headline=A. G. Mills and Boyhood Friend Recall "Base Ball" at a Brooklyn School |City=Jamaica, Brooklyn

...should be an additional proviso that no local Umpire should officiate for a local nine. This will avoid all tendencies to raise any claim of being rob ...lub, which pays his expenses, but his salary is paid by the association as a body. Philadelphia Times July 6, 1882</p>

|Title=renewed talk of a Europe tour ...hey are earnestly discussing it, and, possibly, they may go over in May in a Philadelphia steamer!</p>

...osition, and to save themselves umpires had to stop fining players, except in very aggravated cases. This being the existing condition of things it is n ...ith players so offered, and to play the club or players in question in any city they may deem best, such games counting as championship games. … [This

|Title=the incorporation of the Champion Club of Jersey City is vetoed ...06, entitled “An act to incorporate the Champion Base Ball Club, of Jersey City, Hudson County,” without my approval.</p>

|Headline=New York Game Seen in Boston: Portland [ME] 47, Tri-Mountains 42. |City=Boston

...chéd catchphrase and you conjure up an image of some old curmudgeon, stuck in the past. ...ever would have found a tenth of that material. The U. of Pennsylvania has a great website that lists online newspapers by state, and includes newspaper

|Headline=Yanks and British Play Baserunning Game with Plugging . . . in Canton, China |City=Canton

|City= ...>Rhapsodizing about old organ-ground music, a father writes: "Oh! It makes me feel young again to hear it - for I cannot forget how I used to throw down

|City=Cleveland |Text=<p>"THE FOREST CITY CLUB -</p>

|Headline=First Reference to Change-of-Pace Pitching? |Location=Greater New York City,

|City=Baltimore ...controlling costs, by which I mostly mean player salaries. This will take a while for them to figure out. The great breakthrough will be the reserve sy

...was a simple fungo game played in the 1850s in which a fielder who caught a hit ball on the fly or on one bounce became the fungo batter.</p> |Sources=<p><span>F. M. Gilbert,&nbsp;</span><em>History of the City of Evansville</em><span>&nbsp;(Pioneer Publishing, 1910), page 106-108.</sp

|City=Roxbury ...“The match game … is to be played … on Friday, commencing at ten o’clock A. M.”)</p>

|Title=the Excelsiors engage a steamer ...asure parties only too frequently do; and secondly they arrange things in first-rate style, and with an eye to thorough gentlemanly pleasure.</p>

|Headline=Military Unit Plays "Bat and Ball" in Northern NYS |City=Ticonderoga

...sixty or a hundred feet away, while the second baseman did not come within a foot of him. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette May 20, 1888</p> <p>a pick off throw to the right fielder</p>

|Headline=Letter to "Spirit" Describes Roundball in New England <p>"I have thought, perhaps, a statement of my experience as to the Yankee method of playing 'Base,' or 'R

...ton, A. Hindle; Active, of Reading, J. J. King; Neshannock, of New Castle, A. W. Culbertson; Baltimore, Hugh Kennard; Stars, of New Haven, H. Brethauer, ...at “owing to pressing business engagements which it will be impossible for me to neglect, I regret my inability to preside over the deliberations of your

|Headline=Men's Stool Ball Match Set in Kent: Winner to Receive 150 Guineas . . . and Some Roasted Lamb! |City=Lynsted Park, Boughton

|City=Philadelphia ...e Athletics, as it always has been the custom for the club on whose ground a match is played to furnish the ball."</p>

|Headline=A Ball Club Forms in Philadelphia; It Later Adopts Base Ball, and Lasts to 1887 |City=Philadelphia

|State=ME |City=Portland

|City=Boston ...urn home to-day.&nbsp; They were entertained by the Tri-Mountain Club with a supper at the Cummings House, last evening.&rdquo;)</p>

|Title=a special meeting to sort out the championship rules ...for the transaction of other important business. Every professional club in the country should be represented, if they are alive to their own interests

|City=New York ...severe and well maintained contest, Victory, which had at times fluttered a little form one to the other, settled down on the heads of the Gymnastics,

|Title=the NL-AA war opens; prospects in Washington; the notorious Phillips ...not advise Simmons to take any action, but simply referred him to the law in the case, and told him that I would refer the matter to the President of th

...of Strike Four: The Evolution of Baseball (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). A frequent (and exacting) contributor to SABR's 19CCB list-serve, he is also ...into the field in a fog of idle curiosity. You seem to have arrived with a pre-fabricated mission of reading primary baseball material, year-by-year.

...the Rochester proper, as of August 2014.&nbsp; Other data for nearby play in Western New York has not been tabulated</em></p> <p><em>&ldquo;People ask me what I do in winter when there&rsquo;s no baseball. I&rsquo;ll tell you what I do. I sta

...demands admission to the League, and the League seems willing to take him in, while it will strictly enforce the punishment of the poor players whom he ...also SLPD 1/19/85 for a long statement by Von der Ahe and SLR 1/23/85 for a long statement by McKnight]</p>

...f professional league baseball in 1871. This article will offer some items in that history. ...have been sold at sporting events since ancient Rome built its Colosseum. In early 19th Century America, horse-racing was the most popular spectator spo

|Headline="Antiquated Base Ball Club" Plays Throwback Game in Newark |City=Newark

|Headline=In Paterson NJ, Old Fashioned Game Played After Civil War |City=Paterson

...pending. The sale, they say, was to have been completed to-day, but up to a late hour to-night no message has been received from President Brush</p> ...idt went to Chicago to see President Spaulding. Last night they left that city for the East, presumably for New York.</p>

|City=Duxbury? |Text=<p>"I well remember when baseball made its first appearance in our quiet little community."</p>

|City=Hoboken <p>Ingraham, having the first choice, selected Messrs Malbrun, Bouts, McConnell, Watson, Wells, and our f

|Headline=Very Early Knicks Game Washed Out . . . in Brooklyn |City=Brooklyn

|City=Springfield ...ent . . . playing billiard a little, town ball a little, and story-telling a little."</p>

|City=Cooperstown ...edited by historians who proclaim the "Doubleday Invention" to be entirely a myth.</p>

|Title=The First Baseball Game In Mexico ...ssional baseball leagues began. The article below was originally published in John Thorne’s MLB history blog, “Our Game.”

...all games such as cricket and town ball, which featured 360 degree fields. In fact this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played thei ...nd 1850s? Or was it instead because the open space was so far north of the city center that it was easier to take the ferry across the Hudson to Elysian Fi

{{Subtitle|A compilation of {{#ask: [[Category:Games Tab]] | ?Entries | format=sum }} ba ==== '''A Note About Dr. Craig B. Waff, 1946-2012''' ====

...ntroduction on the current knowledge about the Elysian Fields and its role in base ball history.&nbsp; '''(3)&nbsp; Discussion Thread A: Did EF Change Base Ball?&nbsp;'''

...all games such as cricket and town ball, which featured 360 degree fields. In fact this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played thei ...nd 1850s? Or was it instead because the open space was so far north of the city center that it was easier to take the ferry across the Hudson to Elysian Fi

|Related Pages=Chronology:Civil_War, Chronology, Ballplaying in Civil War Camps ...the Civil War (Millen 2001; Kirsch 2003)<ref>George B. Kirsch, <u>Baseball in Blue and Gray</u> (Princeton U., 2003); Patricia Millen, <u>From Pastime to

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=Brooklyn

! City/Town Playing Field | <p>Green Mountain Boys (W)</p> <p>Olympic (L)</p> <p>(first match)</p>

|Description=A Source-Based Description of Town Ball Play ...tial December 2012 draft. Send us information on omissions and errors for a second draft.'''

Editors Note: Each issue we plan to highlight a bat-ball game that preceded baseball. A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744)

|Title=A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball ...fore another military man, one Abner Doubleday allegedly invented the game in the sleepy east central New York village of Cooperstown.</p>

|Region=Greater New York City ! City/Town Playing Field