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|Name=Bluemont Club of Manhattan |City=Manhattan

|Name=Harlem v Manhattan Club of New York in Harlem on 29 August 1860 |Borough=Manhattan

|Name=Charter Oak Club of Brooklyn v Manhattan Club of New York on 29 June 1860 |City=Brooklyn

|Name=Manhattan Club of New York v Baltic on 6 September 1859 |Borough=Manhattan

|Name=First Ward Of New York |Club Name=First Ward

|Name=Harlem Club of New York v Manhattan Club of New York on 11 July 1860 |Borough=Manhattan

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Name=Metropolitan Club of New York v Manhattan Club of New York on 21 July 1858 |Borough=Manhattan

|Headline=Nicholson Map shows Possible Ball Grounds on Manhattan Island |City=New York

|Name=Manhattan Club of Troy |City=Troy

|Is in library=Yes |Is in main bibliography=Yes

|Headline=In Rare Extramural Game, Knickerbockers Fade, Lose 26-17 in Base Ball Game with Cricketers |City=Manhattan

...itizing the game results from the entirety of the Knickerbocker Game Books in the Spalding Collection at the New York Public Library.</p>

|Headline=Loss of "Fine Grassy Fields" for Base Ball and Quoits is Decried in Manhattan |City=Manhattan

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens

|City=Hoboken ...ase ball&rdquo; is a fine, healthy game, but should not be allowed in such a crowded thoroughfare, where women and children are constantly passing and l

|Name=New York XI v London XI in 1751 |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Title=a national amateur association ...ecutive committee chosen is composed of members of the Adelphia, American, Manhattan, New York and Williamsburg clubs. The executive committee meets on the sec

|Headline=Knicks Begin the Year's Play Days at Hoboken, Cricket Club Chooses Manhattan. |City=Hoboken

|City=New York ...ion=<p>From Protoball Entry #1859.2 &ndash; Elusive Intercollegiate Game [First Played by NY Rules] Pits St. Francis Xavier and Fordham College

|Name=Resolute v Constellation in New York on 18 September 1858 |City=New York

|Location=Greater New York City, ...p>At the end of the 1854 season, there were evidently only three organized Manhattan clubs, and they had only played seven match games all year.&nbsp; Most game

|City=Manhattan ...ation they have ever been foremost in altering or modifying the rules when in their judgment it would tend to make the game more scientific."</p>

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Headline=First Recorded US Cricket Match Played, "For a Considerable Wager," in NYC; New Yorkers Win, 167-80 |City=New York

...oup will organize formally as the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York City.</p> <p>Peverelly, Charles A., <u>The Book of American Pastimes</u> [New York, 1866], p. 368. Per Hende

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

|Title=word of the Players League in New York; projection for the Polo Grounds ...r] “A syndicate had been formed in this city with a view to running a club in opposition to the New Yorks, and that it was after the plot of ground on Ei

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Yorkville

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Headline=Numerous Base Ball Clubs Now Active in NYC |Location=Greater New York City,

|Name=Friendship v Independent Ex-Volunteers in New York on 26 November 1857 |City=New York

|Name=First Nine v Second nine on 21 April 1860 |City=New York

|Headline=New Yorkers Beat London Players in "Great Cricket Match", 167-80 |City=New York

|City=New York ...The company "of any Gentleman to join the set in the exercise" is invited. A large Booth is erected for the accommodation of spectators:" <em>New York M

|Name=Albion v Favorita in New York on 25 October 1859 |City=New York

|Name=Enterprise v Niagara in New York on 31 August 1859 |City=New York

|Name=Mohawk v Nassau in New York on 10 August 1860 |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|City=Paterson <p>The Olympic Club of Paterson NJ is listed as an NABBP member in 1866: M. Wright, The NABBP, page 123.</p>

|City=New York ...the Enterprise, who played in a masterly manner, the Eckford nine showing a disposition to play as badly as they knew how, …”)</p>

|Name=Lafayette v Oneida in New York on 9 June 1860 |City=New York

|Name=National v Pacific in New York on 6 November 1858 |City=New York

|Name=Contest v Young America Club of New York in New York on 19 June 1858 |Borough=Manhattan

|Name=Independent v Sylvan in New York on 20 August 1859 |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Name=in New York on 29 November 1855 |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Headline=Knicks Prepare for 1846 Season: Early Match Game in Brooklyn Rained out. |City=Manhattan

|City=New York ...nds. There was a large attendance of ladies, who seemed as much interested in the result of the game as did the players themselves.”)</p>

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

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|City=Poughkeepsie ...ty Club. Article cites the roster of the club, and by-laws. Cogswell later a Union army captain.</p>

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|City=sf ...e Plaza has been filled with full grown persons engaged very industriously in the game known as 'town ball.' The amusement is very innocent and healthful

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

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

...nutes from the City depot, and it presents a fine field for the purpose of a permanent inclosed ball ground. New York Sunday Mercury December 8, 1872</ <p>numbered reserved seats; a seating chart</p>

|Name=Hamilton v Vigilant in New York on 17 October 1860 |City=New York

|Name=Neosho v Good Intent in New York on 9 November 1859 |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|City=New York ...‘the Croton was the challenging club in the late game,’ and that “they had a ball worth about 121/2 cents, and wanted it paid for because one of the Nep

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|City=New Orleans |Field=Delachaise grounds in the upper part of the city"

|City=Harlem ...ery pleasant one, and quite a large number of the residents of Harlem were in attendance to witness the playing of their favorite club.”)</p>

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Name=Vigilant v Hamilton in New York on 20 September 1860 |City=New York

|City=Harlem ...by the first two blows, and the game had to be delayed half an hour while a ball was being got from the Harlem Club.”)</p>

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

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

|City=New York ...nday next . . . the Wickets to be pitched at Two O'Clock." We seem to lack a report of the outcome of this match.</p>

|City=Nashua ...ed to pews exhibiting a beggarly emptiness, upon the sins of the nation -- a frightful subject enough, heaven knows.&nbsp; The b-hoys smoked cigars, kic

|City=Hoboken ...layed in Hoboken NJ or Manhattan NY?&nbsp; Did baseballchronology.com give a source for this game?&nbsp; Was it played at Elysian Fields?</p>

|City=New York ...all players from other clubs, were invited by the conquerors to partake of a collation, which was provided by Mr. Wild, the popular purveyor to the Atla

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

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

|Name=Atlantic v Henry Eckford in New York on 19 November 1861 |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|City=San Francisco ...r from a pair of overshoes, teams battled to a 33-33 tie over nine innings in the Washington's birthday holiday contest."</p>

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

...dline=Report: "Groups of Full Grown Players At Base and Cricket" Recalled in New York |City=Manhattan

|City=New York ...ed the reputation, the week previously having defeated the Charter Oaks by a large score.”)</p>

|Title=the Metropolitans revived as a cooperative club ...s get only salaries. What money is made will go to the players themselves in equal proportion. There will be no stars or favorites, and all will share

|City=Hoboken ...in four games this season. &hellip; The game was played in the presence of a large number of persons, with the most perfect good temper.&rdquo;)</p>

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

|City=New York ...months. <span> </span>We have played but two matches, and been victorious in both, with clubs older and more experienced.”)</p>

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|City=New York ...The ground is now one of the best of the city, and in a few weeks will be in fine condition.  These grounds are occupied by the Atlantics on Mondays an

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

...0–$100,000 of which has already been paid in cash. The Brooklyn Club have a lease on their Washington Park property which may be renewed almost indefin ...the Polo Grounds they will leave Manhattan Island, unless they can secure a plat further up, exempt from street invasion which they can buy outright.

|City=Harlem ...s, ….  The decisions of the umpire were impartially given; he did not have a very pleasant position of it at one time, the prejudices of the crowd on on

|City=New York |Text=<p>A cricket match is advertised to be played on this day, and continued every M

|City=Harlem ...Club, the first which has been acquired by any Base Ball Club of this city in the present season.</p>

...in was with the Third Eleven of New York Club against the Second Eleven of Manhattan, I being about 14 years of age, and not much taller than the wickets.</p> ...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=Newark Club Hosts Jersey City -- Earliest Knick-rules Tilt in NJ? |City=Newark

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

|Location=Manhattan? |City=New York

|City=New York ...of the sudden shower, leaving the grounds unfit for play, and resulting in a draw game.”)</p>

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

{{Other First |Name=First Intercollegiate Game by Association Rules

|Field=Young America grounds at 116th St. and First Ave. |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Yorkville

|City=New York |Text=<p>"THE CONVENTION OF AMATEUR CLUBS IN BROOKLYN</p>

|Borough=Manhattan |City=New York

|Borough=Manhattan |City=Harlem

|City=Kingston? Manhattan? ...kanic Anti Renters had apparently aroused the people of Columbia County to a true sense of their position and duty every friend of good order rejoiced."

...group, on EF's influence on how base ball evolved.&nbsp; It concludes with a range of 4 alternative speculative but plausible assessments.&nbsp; We seek ...e not restricted to EF itself, but might&nbsp;treat&nbsp;issues that arose in the EF postings -- like the availability of playable grounds, etc.<br></p>

...>'''Issue One -- EF and the Early Spread of the Game Beyond Manhattan ( '''In Preparation)</span> ...possible explanations of how the game got started in Newark, will also be a way to evaluate Elysian Field's impact."

...center;">''''''''''''''''''​Initial Protoball Thread on EF and the Lack of Manhattan Playing Space (13 Posts, October 2022)''<br></p> ...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

...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

<p>Hoboken Public Library (HPL) Online History Collection: City Directories, old newspapers, maps, scrapbooks, oral histories.</p> ...Other HPL Hoboken History Holdings: Books, Photos, Jersey City and Hoboken City Directories, Jersey Journal (May 2,1867-&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

...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;'''

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

<p>Hoboken Public Library (HPL) Online History Collection: City Directories, old newspapers, maps, scrapbooks, oral histories.</p> ...Other HPL Hoboken History Holdings: Books, Photos, Jersey City and Hoboken City Directories, Jersey Journal (May 2,1867-&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

...e website. If SABR does not desire to post the material we will post it to a site related to the Origins or Nineteenth Century Committees, for example,

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

...text-decoration: underline;">Finding Elysian Fields Data on Protoball.org (In preparation</span>)'''</p> ...="text-align: left;">[] ''Baseball at Hoboken's Elysian Fields, 1845-1865: A Visual History,''</p>

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

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