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  • ProtoPix:Ball Playing at NYC City Hall c1838
    |Source Image=Ball Playing at NYC City Hall c1838.jpg |Title=Ball Playing at NYC City Hall c1838
    390 bytes (60 words) - 12:11, 23 June 2023
  • 1832.6
    |Headline=Reading Book Contains a Story, "Playing at Trap Ball" <p>1832.7 - Playing Ball on the Prairie</p>
    354 bytes (55 words) - 17:43, 6 September 2012
  • 1843.3
    |Headline=Playing Ball at Recess ...l the recess in play." But for now, studies come first, fellows: "Bat and ball is a very good play for the summer season."</p>
    488 bytes (84 words) - 17:48, 6 September 2012
  • 1847.19
    |Headline=Woodsfield fines ball players 25 cents |Game=Ball Playing
    740 bytes (102 words) - 06:09, 1 June 2022
  • ProtoPix:Civil War Soldiers Playing Foot Ball
    |Title=Civil War Soldiers Playing Foot Ball |Descriptors=Civil War Soldiers Playing foot-ball
    229 bytes (31 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
  • 1823.10
    |Headline=Hagerstown bans ball playing at the Court House |Game=Ball Playing
    712 bytes (93 words) - 06:37, 17 July 2022
  • Clipping:Reaction to the spread of Sunday baseball
    ...games absolutely necessary to the clubs which had hitherto abstained from playing on the first day of the week, at home, at least. [Goes on the discuss Wash
    686 bytes (103 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
  • 1863.98
    |Headline=Playing ball during a bombardment ...elling. Thursday afternoon several of the men of this brigade were playing ball just in the rear of our skirmishers, heedless of the shrieking of the shell
    806 bytes (120 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • 1795.3
    |Headline=Playing Ball Cited as Major New England Diversion ...s a favorite one of both sexes. Sleighing in winter, and skating, playing ball, gunning, and fishing are the principal."</p>
    486 bytes (72 words) - 17:34, 6 September 2012
  • ProtoPix:Monks Playing ball c. 1340?
    |Title=Monks Playing ball c. 1340? |Descriptors=Monks playing ball c. 1340
    300 bytes (39 words) - 05:47, 15 June 2023
  • Clipping:A schoolboy essay
    |Text=<p class="p1">BALL PLAYING</p> ...">&nbsp; </span>Two of the boys take the bats, and the other two throw the ball from one to the other past the boys who have the bats, at the same time one
    1 KB (208 words) - 07:50, 23 June 2019
  • 1861.15
    |Headline=First Sunday in the Army: "Ball-playing, Wrestling, and Some Card-Playing" |Game=Base Ball
    1 KB (176 words) - 05:09, 31 January 2023
  • 1844c.8
    |Headline=Base Ball Begins in Westfield MA? ...at the south end of the park. . . . [I have?] spent many a happy hour ball-playing on that ground . . . . I have known that ground for twenty-five years and
    965 bytes (154 words) - 17:49, 6 September 2012
  • 1821.3
    |Headline=Schenectady NY Bans "Playing of Ball Against the Building" |Text=<p>The Schenectady City Council banned "playing of Ball against the Building or in the area fronting the Building called City Hall
    486 bytes (71 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
  • 1846.26
    |Headline=Boys Play goal and ball |Game=Goal Ball
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  • ProtoPix:Cantigas de Santa Maria Ball Playing
    |Title=Cantigas de Santa Maria Ball Playing |Descriptors=Ball Playing Spain 1280s
    275 bytes (38 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
  • 1825.9
    |Text=<p>"BALL PLAYING: There will be Ball playing in Washington Street, a few rods South of the College, every Saturday after
    482 bytes (67 words) - 17:40, 6 September 2012
  • 1777.1
    |Headline=Revolutionary War Prisoner Watches Ball-Playing in NYC Area ...it [sic] a number of our Offrs . . . who were Zealously Engaged at playing ball . . . .</p>
    1 KB (172 words) - 12:06, 27 January 2020
  • Block:English Baseball in Oxfordshire on June 6 1891
    ...aying with a small ball,” and “one of the boys said they were playing base ball,” the newspaper added. Nevertheless, they were found to have abused “th
    772 bytes (114 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
  • 1773.3
    |Headline=Ball-Playing by Slaves Is Eyed in SC ...f Negroes in the Town [Beaufort, SC] on Sundays, and playing games of Trap-ball and Fives, which is not taken proper notice of by Magistrates, Constables,
    805 bytes (125 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
  • 1863.108
    |Headline=Ball playing popular in 1st Minnesota ...ry "Reading, writings, &amp; playing ball." March 23 entry notes that ball playing is very popular in the regiment. The regiment was stationed near Falmouth,
    762 bytes (109 words) - 10:08, 16 June 2019
  • 1862.62
    ...e Atlanta Southern Confederacy, April 11, 1862, editorializes against ball playing in the city streets:</p> ...the boys of their pleasure--particularly of the healthful exercise of ball playing--but it is inconvenient and dangerous in our streets."</p>
    907 bytes (130 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
  • 1841.18
    ...e formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>
    1 KB (169 words) - 06:06, 22 October 2012
  • 1849.17
    |Headline=Montpelier Threatens Ball Players with prosecution |Game=Ball Playing
    684 bytes (85 words) - 06:11, 1 June 2022
  • Clipping:Spring training by playing handball
    |Title=Spring training by playing handball ...ers of out national game. Of course, very little can be learned in a hand ball alley in regard to the very essential point of batting; but if the men bec
    1 KB (188 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
  • New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia
    #REDIRECT [[New Englander Confronts Impious Sunday Ball-playing in Virginia]]
    77 bytes (9 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2013
  • 1823.5
    |Headline=Providence RI Bans "Playing Ball" in the Streets |Text=<p>"The Town of Providence have passed a law against playing ball in any of their public streets; the fine is $2. Why is not the law enforce
    946 bytes (145 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
  • 1795.4
    |Headline=Deerfield&#39;s Fine for Playing Ball: Six Cents ...one's room during study. In contrast, a one dollar assessment was made for playing cards, backgammon, or checkers, or walking or visiting on Saturday night or
    783 bytes (124 words) - 07:00, 29 May 2019
  • 1856.30
    |Headline="Ball playing" Schoolboy Essay |Tags=Ball in the Culture
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  • 1862.118
    |Headline=Ball Playing at Shiloh ..."engaging in a game of ball:" the day prior to the battle of Shiloh. Ball playing mentioned 2-20-63 and 1-20-1864 in Memphis, TN.&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1854.6
    |Headline=In Rome, Sculptor Fashions Statue of a Boy Playing Ball ...ble statue of Childhood, and has a fine statue of a boy engaged in playing ball, modeled in plaster. He is about returning to America."</p>
    523 bytes (83 words) - 18:27, 18 February 2013
  • Clipping:Rising stature of professional ballplayers
    ...highest degree commendable if a young man has the requisite skill to play ball so that it will command a financial return, and he is thus enabled to defra
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  • 1828c.4
    |Headline=NH Man Recalls Boyhood Habit of Playing Ball ..., born in 1818 in rural NH, refers in 1835 to his boyhood habit of playing ball.</p>
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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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  • 1812.3
    |Headline=NYC Council Finds Ball Playing Among "Abounding Immoralities" ...called Sunday, are . . . Horse Riding for pleasure . . . Skating ['] Ball playing, and other Plays by Boys and Men, and even Horse-racing." Minutes of the C
    653 bytes (94 words) - 17:51, 21 October 2012
  • In Harrisburg in October 1860
    ...wn for playing base ball and getting exercise, but complains that the ball-playing has broken windows on Mulberry Street.</p> ...se Ball Club--We understand that efforts are being made to organize a base ball club."</p>
    786 bytes (114 words) - 07:16, 31 October 2015
  • In Springfield in 1858
    ...ng men of our city have organized a club for playing this favorite game of ball."</p> ...gfield Wicket Club" which urges the players to "Weild [ic] club, weild the ball.."</p>
    897 bytes (134 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
  • 1861.22
    |Game=Base Ball, ...icester's Improved SELF-FASTENING BASES, and the PATENT CONCAVE PLATES for Ball Shoes, which are free from all the danger, and answer all the purposes, of
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  • Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813
    |Name=Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813 |Game=Playing ball
    941 bytes (127 words) - 08:43, 31 January 2022
  • 1813.1
    |Headline=Newburyport MA Reminder - "Playing Ball in the Streets" is Unlawful ...nd Guardians are also requested to forbid, those under their care, playing Ball in the streets of the town; as by this unlawful practice much inconvenience
    616 bytes (90 words) - 17:37, 6 September 2012
  • Clipping:Rowdy ball playing; breaking up a double play
    |Title=rowdy ball playing; breaking up a double play ...ouble would have ensued. Welch, in extenuation said: “Well, we’re playing ball to win.</p>
    1 KB (209 words) - 20:05, 29 February 2020
  • 1815c.5
    |Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...ng, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed."&nbsp;</p>
    1 KB (153 words) - 13:58, 29 January 2020
  • Town ball in TX in December 1861
    |Name=Town ball in TX in December 1861 ...ng unusual transpiring in Camp. The boys are passing the time playing Town-Ball."
    790 bytes (113 words) - 10:19, 10 February 2013
  • 1797.1
    |Headline=Daniel Webster Writes of "Playing Ball" While at Dartmouth |Text=<p>Daniel Webster, in private correspondence, writes of "playing at ball," while a student at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.</p>
    1 KB (175 words) - 21:10, 27 January 2020
  • Clipping:Grabbing the runner's belt
    ...ddenly Glasscock let go and Gore fell on all fours. When he recovered the ball had been fielded in.</p>
    805 bytes (140 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
  • In Springfield in May 1860
    |Game=Town Ball |Description=<p>Abe Lincoln is reported to have been playing "town ball... with a parcel of boys" in Springfield when he was notified of the GOP no
    636 bytes (97 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
  • 1849c.5
    ...ive ball are most common." <b>Note: "</b>Up-ball?" "Drive ball?" No town ball?</p>
    598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
  • 1828.2
    |Headline=Portland Newspaper Reports Boys Playing at "Bat-and-Ball." |Game=Bat-and-Ball
    957 bytes (137 words) - 11:42, 28 January 2020
  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on August 3 1850
    ...es by playing at cricket and other games, and the girls by playing at base ball, &c."</p>
    572 bytes (85 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • Tom Altherr, April 2013
    ...games, to the evolution of base ball.&nbsp; He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an
    969 bytes (157 words) - 07:21, 13 May 2013
  • 1864.69
    |Headline=Lithograph shows soldiers playing bat-ball game ...ol's. Near Brandy Station" published in 1864, shows soldiers playing a bat ball game.</p>
    594 bytes (86 words) - 10:19, 16 June 2019
  • Clipping:The decline of regular amateur clubs
    ...commercial nine matches have come to be the great feature of amateur ball playing in the metropolis; and by amateur play we do not mean that so called amateu
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  • Clipping:Dirty ball playing
    |Title=Dirty ball playing ...<p>[Chicago vs. Pittsburgh 8/30/1889] ...there was considerable dirty ball playing. Carroll collided with Pfeffer in stealing second in the third, and Anson
    701 bytes (112 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
  • New Englander Confronts Impious Sunday Ball-playing in Virginia
    |Title=New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia ...ile traveling around the Norfolk area, twice she mentioned witnessing ball playing.
    2 KB (251 words) - 08:58, 18 November 2013
  • 1659.1
    |Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...ice on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di
    760 bytes (105 words) - 21:03, 21 October 2012
  • Clipping:Playing points
    |Title=playing points ...ength of teams nowadays. Nearly all professional ball players can catch a ball when it is thrown to them, and he is a poor one, incd3eed, who cannot make
    759 bytes (138 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
  • 1837.7
    |Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. ...cket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in any public place, shall . . . " [be fined one dollar].</p>
    2 KB (233 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
  • 1830s.21
    |Headline=Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball ...rs call playing. He much preferred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."
    1 KB (176 words) - 20:18, 29 January 2020
  • 1656.1
    |Headline=Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands. ...Law in New Netherlands, including fine of a one pound Flemish for "playing ball," . . . cricket, tennis, ninepins, dancing, drinking, etc.</p>
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  • 1832.3
    ...<u>Mary&#39;s Book of Sports</u> [New Haven CT] Has Drawing of "Playing at Ball" ...y! I should not think you could see at play. Oh, it is too late to play at ball, my lads. The sun has set. The birds have gone to roost. It is time for you
    733 bytes (122 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
  • 1857.10
    |Headline=Rib-and-Ball Game in the Arctic: Baseball Fever Among the Chills? |Game=Bat and Ball
    876 bytes (124 words) - 18:33, 9 May 2015
  • 1863.73
    |Headline=CT soldiers indulging in ball playing and swimming ...VA: "The soldiers are delighted with the position--were indulging in ball playing and swimming."</p>
    635 bytes (86 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • 1863.72
    |Headline=Soldiers confront idleness with ball playing ...Cleveland) saying that on the 25th "the day was spent in idleness and ball playing" because needed quartermaster supplies had not yet arrived.</p>
    706 bytes (97 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • 1761.1
    |Headline=Princeton Faculty [NJ] Disparages "Playing at Ball" ...te of the Princeton faculty of May, 1761, frowns upon students "playing at ball."</p>
    772 bytes (104 words) - 05:20, 24 October 2015
  • 1778.1
    |Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison ...t by chance happened to lodge n the eave spout. One climbed up to take the ball out, and a sentry without the wall seeing him, fired at him, but did no har
    998 bytes (149 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2020
  • 1862.76
    |Headline=Ball playing, running and jumping ...left and to spare for them to enjoy themsleves as they wish, such as ball playing, running, and jumping."</p>
    656 bytes (93 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
  • 1846.23
    |Headline=New Jersey Youths Spotted "playing 'base ball'" |Game=Base Ball,
    963 bytes (149 words) - 13:18, 7 January 2020
  • 1861.69
    |Headline=Pitching Quoits and Playing Ball ...ecreation are generally employed by the men in pitching quoits and playing ball."</p>
    646 bytes (92 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
  • 1811.7
    |Headline=Cause of Death: "Surfeit of Playing Ball" |Text=<p>"DIED.&nbsp; Last Evening of surfeit, playing ball, M[r] John McKibben, merchant of this city."</p>
    1,014 bytes (136 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
  • Clipping:A description of the Cuban Giants
    ...it among them, which carries the spectators back a good many years in ball playing, and, from a spectative point of view, it is one of the best teams in the c
    1,011 bytes (178 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
  • 1861.66
    |Headline=Ball Playing popular in Wisconsin Camp ...p.....Chess constitutes an agreeable and profitable pastime. Card and ball playing are more general favorites in which a large proportion of the men engage."<
    835 bytes (119 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
  • 1832.5
    |Headline=Boston Spelling/Reading Book Describes Cricket and "Playing at Ball" ...chool house in Boston. It is now recess time, and some lads are playing at ball on the green lawn before the portico of the brick building."</p>
    942 bytes (139 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
  • Clipping:Prospects for Sunday baseball
    ...ball playing has been pretty generally successful in the East, and Sunday playing in this section will for some time to come be only tolerated in spots. …
    601 bytes (92 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Stalling; the wait game
    ...latterly was well supported by his worthy coadjutor, one of whom, when the ball was about to be thrown tot he first base, called out to “throw high way, ...hole of the Champion nine had become impregnated with Slatterly’s style of playing, they all came in from the field before one of the Stars had been put out,
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  • 1863.79
    |Headline=Thousands of soldiers playing ball ...osite Fredericksburg, VA: "...in camp the man are out by thousands playing ball, pitching horseshoe quoits, running foot races and indulging in other athle
    730 bytes (101 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • Clipping:Players who won't play on Sunday
    ...revival here, has been a conscientious Christian and believes that playing ball is not the proper way of keeping the commandment – ”Remember the Sabbat
    736 bytes (124 words) - 20:12, 29 February 2020
  • Niagara Grounds, Buffalo
    ...tion=<p>At Main and Virginia Sts. "Opposite the Medical College." Also the ball grounds of the early Frontier BBC.</p> ...65 the Niagaras were playing at the Arsenal (which see). By 1867 they were playing at York (now Porter) and 6th (now Busti).</p>
    554 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 21 August 2020
  • 1863.95
    |Headline=Rebels seen playing ball ...etter from the 27th CT: "From Falmouth, the rebels are daily seen, playing ball and apparently enjoying themselves."</p>
    763 bytes (100 words) - 08:25, 19 March 2022
  • 1862.71
    |Headline=Confederate Surgeon encourages ball-playing <pre>"The manly play of ball, with its invigorating exer-
    1 KB (175 words) - 07:12, 1 July 2018
  • Bandy
    ...modern field hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> ...the playing of bandy in the streets. In 1858 boys were arrested in DC for playing bandy on the streets (Washington Star, Nov. 27, 1858).</p>
    1 KB (202 words) - 06:01, 14 October 2023
  • 1365.1
    |Headline=Edward III Prohibits Playing of Club-Ball. ...f . . . ." Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. The actual term for "club-ball" in the proclamation was, evidently, "bacculoream."</p>
    1 KB (219 words) - 13:25, 3 November 2012
  • 1795.2
    |Headline=Survey Reports Cricket in New England, Playing at Ball in TN ...ock notes that Winterbotham is sometimes credited with saying that bat and ball was popular in America before the Revolutionary War, and that adults played
    1 KB (160 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1856
    ..., the chief enjoyment of which appears to consist in sending a hard wooden ball into the face of every stray passenger they can hit...”</p> ...all, rather than baseball, because of the mention of a bat and because the ball is described as being hard and made of wood.</p>
    1 KB (175 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • BC750.1
    ...s that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the playing of a complicated form of catch, one that involved feints to deceive other p ...ng to milder forms of ball play, he said "I believe that in this form ball playing is also superior to all the other exercises." His partiality to ballplaying
    2 KB (310 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
  • Three-Base Ball
    |Term=Three-Base Ball ...le its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two Old Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p>
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  • 1795.5
    |Headline=Playing At Ball in the Untamed West (Now Kentucky?) |Text=<p>"Wrestling, jumping, running foot races, and playing at ball, are the common diversions."&nbsp;</p>
    1,018 bytes (142 words) - 14:10, 29 January 2020
  • 1864c.56
    |Headline=Confederate Prisoners Play Ball in Chicago |Game=Town Ball,
    2 KB (244 words) - 08:57, 14 July 2018
  • Clipping:Rumors of professionalism in the Atlantics; a situation does not make a man a professional
    ...on’t think I have done anything on the “square,” either. But this playing ball for so much a week, or for a suit of clothes, or for “license fees,” or
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  • 1865.12
    |Headline="Professional" Players? Yes. Playing For Money? No |Game=Base Ball,
    1 KB (209 words) - 19:15, 14 October 2015
  • 1841.12
    |Headline=Fond OH Editor on Youthful Ball-playing: "We Like It" |Game=Base Ball
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  • In Westfield in 1844
    |Game=Play ball ...eptember 1869, written by "1843." As cited in Genovese, Daniel L, The Old Ball Ground: The Chronological History of Westfield Baseball (2004), pages 1-2.
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  • Clipping:Spread of the game among boys
    ...the boys. Even when no engaged in a game, they are practicing throwing a ball from one to the other; and after schoolhours, every vacant lot or suitable
    973 bytes (169 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
  • 1859.28
    |Headline=New Yorker Dies Playing Base Ball |Game=Base Ball,
    967 bytes (143 words) - 19:04, 14 October 2015
  • 1812.2
    |Headline=Soldier Van Smoot&#39;s Diary Notes Playing Catch at New Orleans LA ...ound a soft ball in my knapsack, that I forgot I had put there and started playing catch with it."</p>
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  • 1863.35
    |Headline=Correspondent Sees Playing Base Ball and Cricket As Common Pastimes ...other amusements between parades and drills, pitching quoits, playing base ball and cricket, and horse racing are their every day pastimes.”</p><p>“Pen
    901 bytes (129 words) - 18:10, 6 September 2012
  • Clipping:The Columbia grounds
    ...men of our country. The following clubs have secured the ground for ball playing:</p> <p>Swiftfoot Base Ball Club, Tuesday and Friday.</p>
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  • 1802c.1
    |Headline=South Carolina Man Lists Ball-Playing Among Local Amusements |Text=<p>"[A]musements are few: consisting of dancing, horse racing, ball playing and rifle shooting."</p>
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  • Clipping:The condition of the Beacon Club
    ...eur playing, will soon set the ball rolling in their annual revival, first playing an opening game, new nine versus old. With several of the strongest of the
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  • Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856
    |Name=Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856 |Description=<p>"The match game of Base Ball between the Empire and Excelsior Clubs, came off yesterday on the Cricket G
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  • 1790s.2
    |Headline=Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast" ...p>" [Five of us] were playing ball on the common before breakfast: and the ball fell into a hole where one of the booth's stakes had been driven the day be
    1 KB (166 words) - 06:55, 29 January 2020
  • 1755.6
    |Headline=NYS Traveler Notes Dutch Boys Playing "Bat and Ball" |Game=Xenoball, Bat and Ball
    1 KB (188 words) - 15:40, 9 November 2012
  • Corner Ball
    |Term=Corner Ball |Game Family=Hat ball
    481 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 6 January 2016
  • 1861.49
    |Headline=Playing Ball in Racine Camp ...ave until two o'clock to rest, which time is generally occupied in playing ball, jumping, throwing dumb bells, running foot races, and wrestling."</p>
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  • Clipping:Al Reach discusses base ball versus town ball
    |Title=Al Reach discusses base ball versus town ball ...nd related one or two humorous instances of his experience in playing town ball.</p>
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  • Clipping:Early professionalism hinted at; political patronage
    ...f the several party leaders and committees have begun to see that the base ball community are sufficiently numerous and influential to be looked after.</p>
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  • 1832.8
    |Headline=Buffalo NY Council and "Playing at Ball" ...to make laws regulating the rolling of hoops, flying of kites, playing at ball, or any other amusement having a tendency to annoy persons passing in the s
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  • Most Wanted: How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games?
    |Title=How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? ...n juvenile games in Britain.&nbsp; Which of the Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>
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  • 1862.67
    |Headline=Playing Ball near Yorktown ...ty, they engage in almost every variety of exercise and amusement, playing ball, pitching quoits, and other athletic sports."</p>
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  • 1861.51
    |Headline=Ball Playing competes with fencing in camp ...leisure hours "in great part to athletic exercises--fencing, boxing, ball playing--while their evenings are passed in singing."</p>
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  • 1817.2
    |Headline=Riddle Game Cites "Fourteen Boys at Bat and Ball" |Game=Bat-Ball
    538 bytes (82 words) - 17:37, 6 September 2012
  • 1863.71
    |Headline=Ball Playing a "Favorite Amusement" ...h NY) datelined St. Helena Island [near Port Royal], March 21, 1863: "Ball playing is a favorite amusement with them. They, however, are tired of inactivity,
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  • 1823c.9
    |Headline=Kentucky Abolitionist Recalls Playing Base-ball ...athletic sports - riding on horseback . . . playing base-ball, bandy, foot-ball and all that - so I had confidence in my prowess."</p>
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  • Clipping:A critique of pitching for strike outs
    ...se out the catcher, himself, and the audiences. It may be more scientific playing, but it is not nearly so satisfactory to the crowd. Spectators enjoy the s
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  • ProtoPix:Drive Ball at Camp Doubleday
    |Title=Drive Ball at Camp Doubleday ...76th NY Soldiers at Camp Doubleday playing bat-ball game that may be drive ball
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  • 1863.91
    |Headline=Confederate soldiers play ball near Fredericksburg ...rom Virginia." "The amusements of the army are rational and generous. Ball playing is a common game when the weather is pleasant..."</p>
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  • 1858.8
    |Headline=Harvard Student Magazine Notes "Multitude" Playing Base or Cricket There |Game=Cricket, Base Ball,
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  • 1840.35
    |Headline=Carlisle PA Bans Playing Ball ...persons . . . to frequent and use the market-house as a place for playing ball or any other game."</p>
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  • Clipping:Gambling will Destroy Baseball
    ...has brought on horse-racing and billiard playing will attach to base ball playing which will lose its popularity with the better class of our citizens. It is
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  • 1865.38
    |Headline=Ball Playing at Andersonville POW Camp ...es me a pass to go to hospital. Have been down there all afternoon playing ball.&rdquo;</p>
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  • Clipping:The season in the South; Sunday baseball
    ...ball-playing day in New Orleans is Sunday; and every fine Sunday, all the ball grounds are occupied, except those of the best social status. New York Sun
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  • Clipping:A barnstorming team to play exhibitions with the PL
    ...and I am pleased to say that I have this day completed the entire circuit, playing two games in each city with each club as follows...</p> ...y with men of honor, such as those who compose the Brotherhood, instead of playing against contract jumpers, oath violators, etc.? For good practice for any
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  • 1870c.17
    ...little afraid, from [what] Uncle says, that overexertion and excitement in playing baseball will injure your hearing.&nbsp; Now, you are old enough to judge o
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  • Clipping:A 4-3 line drive double play; second baseman playing off the bag
    |Title=a 4-3 line drive double play; second baseman playing off the bag ...he assemblage. New York Herald June 29, 1869 [Thus implying that Pike was playing on the first base side of the bag]</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
    ...children's access to this traditional ball playing venue: "Rounders, base ball, bat and trap, games as old as cricket, will be forbidden under irksome reg ...as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball playing.</p>
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  • 1856.11
    ...nbsp;&nbsp;This elementary school book has an illustration of boys playing ball in a schoolyard.&nbsp;</p> |Query=<p>What are the "other sources" for playing&nbsp;<em>theque?</em>&nbsp;Is it significant that this book features games
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  • 1852.9
    ...ar practices in the public streets . . . . [Three were nabbed] for playing ball in front of the church, corner of Butler and Court streets, during divine s
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  • Clipping:Indoor baseball in Brooklyn 3
    ...ts, and considering the defective light, which fault will be remedied, the playing was of a passable order. Owing to a time limit, only four innings were pla ...eived quite an ovation on the occasion. The armory is not fitted for ball playing as that of the Twenty-third Regiment is. The Sporting Life January 22, 189
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  • 1790s.1
    |Headline=Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing ...nth yeares were spent in youthfull folley.&nbsp; Fidling, frolicking, ball playing and hunting . . . .&nbsp; These are called inocent amusements and were not
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  • 1779.5
    |Headline=Army Lieutenant Cashiered for "Playing Ball with Serjeants" ...s of war "unofficer and ungentlemanlike conduct in associating and playing ball with Serjeants on the 6<sup>th</sup> instant."</p>
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  • 1805.6
    ...ay [Sunday] for amusement &amp; great numbers are seen about, some playing ball, some with things for sale &amp; some dressed up going to meeting."&nbsp; & ...Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 29-30. Tom [ibid, page 29]
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  • Games Tab:Louisville
    ! City/Town Playing Field ...Louisville Base Ball Club intra-club game with score of 52-42</p> <p>(base ball)</p>
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  • Games Tab:New York State, Northern
    ! City/Town Playing Field | <p>(1) “Base Ball at Ogdensburg, N.Y.,” <i>New York Clipper,</i> [?] Jun 1860</p>
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  • Clipping:Reduced attendance; high admission fee
    ...can scarcely pay their traveling expenses. There is either too much ball playing or else the admission fee is more than the public can afford to pay during
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  • Clipping:Switching a live and a dead ball
    |Title=switching a live and a dead ball ...ores were playing with two balls, the live one for themselves and the dead ball for their competitors. Intense excitement and confusion ensued. Four or f
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  • 1781.1
    |Headline=Teen Makes White Leather Balls for British Officers' Ball-Playing ...p; One amusement in which they indulged much, was playing at ball.&nbsp; A Ball-Alley was fitted up at the Court-House, where some of them were to be seen
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  • 1860.83
    |Headline=Long Ball |Game=Base Ball
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on June 22 1907
    ...ding to a newspaper notice, a policeman “found the defendants playing base-ball in the long grass in a field near to the Worting-road allotments.”</p>
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  • Games Tab:Miscellaneous
    ! City/Town Playing Field | <p>W.D.’s side 43</p><p>P.B.’s side 19</p><p>(town ball – 2 innings)</p>
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  • Clipping:A lawsuit over a trophy ball
    |Title=a lawsuit over a trophy ball ...ummer. The Buckeyes put in among its defences the plea that playing for a ball was gambling under the laws of New Jersey. The court refused to allow the
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  • 1779.2
    |Headline=Lieutenant Reports Playing Ball, and Playing Bandy Wicket ...2, 1779; 'until the 22<sup>nd</sup>, the time was spent playing shinny and ball.'&nbsp; Incidentally, Shute distinguished among various sports, referring e
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  • Clipping:George Wright retires
    ...nal base-ball. He will devote himself to his business, and what base-ball playing he does will be with the Beacons, a local amateur club.</p>
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  • In Springfield in 1834
    |Game=Town Ball ...ricket, cat, town ball, corner ball, over ball, fives or any other game of ball..." under pain of a $1 fine.</p>
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  • In Boston in 1854
    ...lged in to a great extent all over the land. The first regularly organized Ball Club in this section was doubtless the Olympic Club, of Boston, which was f ...records a game of "base ball" with the "Olympic Club" playing the "Aurora Ball Club"</p>
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  • 1672.1
    |Headline=Rev. Wilson Decries Sunday "Stool-Ball" and "Cricketts" Playing ...ane town, in as much as I have seen morrice-dancing, cudgel-playing, stool-ball, cricketts, and many other sports openly and publicly indulged in on the Lo
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  • 19CBB Digest, April-May 2013
    [] Another base ball court. Bob Tholkes posted an 1860 note about a base ball practice facility operator in Paterson, N.J.; the only previous notes about ...hose days- Richard Hershberger posted an 1858 note about a player who kept playing after injuring his finger-- which later required amputation.
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  • Clipping:The obligation to try to steal a base; batter swinging to protect the runner
    ...playing for his club and not for a record, will never miss striking at the ball as the base runner starts.</p>
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  • 1803.1
    |Headline=Ontario Diarist Reports Joining Men "Jumping and Playing Ball" ...rio] . . . walk'd out and joined a number of men jumping and playing&nbsp; Ball, perceived a Mr. Joseph Randle to be the most active."&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
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  • 1855.23
    |Headline=Modern Base Ball Rules Appear in NYC, Syracuse Papers |Game=Base Ball,
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  • 1861.44
    |Game=Base Ball ...11th New York Infantry) while in camp "are kicking foot-ball, playing base ball..."
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  • 1865.31
    ...9th Corps, thousands of our boys threw down their arms and engaged in ball playing with the rebel soldiers. The utmost good feeling prevailed..."</p> <p>If true, this would be perhaps the first verified instance of ball playing between the two sides, in a battlefield situation. The story was printed in
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  • Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on March 27 1869
    ...atedly cautioned the defendants and other young men of their playing 'base ball,' and their general bad conduct on Sunday afternoon, but to no effect. The
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  • Clipping:Catching technique
    ...ke the opening and closing of a clam; his hands fly open and close on the ball with a wrist movement.</p>
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  • 1820.1
    |Headline=Bat/Ball Game Depicted in <u>Children&#39;s Amusements</u> ...'s Amusements</span>&nbsp;. The book&nbsp;contains an illustration of ball playing (page 9) and this text (page 10):</p>
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  • 1858.30
    |Headline=Playing Rules Given for New Britain CT Wicket Ball Match |Text=<p>"The great game of Wicket Ball between a party of the married and unmarried men of New Britain, came off o
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  • Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 5 October 1858
    |Name=Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 5 October 1858 |Home Team=Syracuse Base Ball Club
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  • 1861.30
    |Headline=Confederate Soldier’s Diary Reports on Town Ball Playing, 1861-1863 ...ng unusual transpiring in Camp. The boys are passing the time playing Town-Ball.&rdquo;</p>
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  • Clipping:The Central Park ball grounds
    |Title=the Central Park ball grounds ...d it well pays a person to visit the grounds while the clubs are playing. Ball Players Chronicle July 25, 1867</p>
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  • 1840s.42
    |Headline=Town Ball Club Finds Spot in NYC For Playing |Game=Town Ball
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  • Clipping:St. Louis Maroons frozen out by the League
    ...m is out of the question. For him to play in the league with a weak club, playing no Sunday games and charging 50 cents admission, is bound to prove a losing
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on June 11 1900
    ...Albert Ball, 15, George Smart, 17, and George Eisey, 17, were charged with playing baseball in Willis-road on the 3rd, and were mulcted in a penalty of 1s. ea
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  • ProtoPix:Bat-Ball game, 1300s
    |Title=Bat-Ball game, 1300s |Source Image=Men-playing-a-game-from-bl-royal-10-e-iv-f-94v-10ec2f.jpg
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on June 21 1880
    ...er he believed that Hyde Park was too heavily used by the public to permit ball play.</p> ...The speaker might have been uncertain which of the sports the boy had been playing; or he mentioned both names because he thought the sport could be identifie
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  • In Marietta Circa 1841
    |Game=Town Ball ...ll, a game of fives on ball battery ..."Judge Green invariably won playing ball.
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  • 824.1
    |Headline=15-Year-Old Chinese Emperor Criticized for Excessive Ball-Playing ...peror's couch and eat his dinner, 'for nowadays he is always away, playing ball or hunting.'" The prank was carried out, but those prankish dyers . . . wel
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  • 1862.44
    |Headline=Ohio Soldier Sees “Most of Our Company “ Playing Pre-battle Bat Ball ...t Ball and perhaps in less than half an hour, they may be called to play a Ball game of a more serious nature.&rdquo;</p>
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  • Clipping:Fan interference does not give a base; block ball
    |Title=fan interference does not give a base; block ball ...player claims that it gives him one base. I claim by Sec. 24 that if the ball is settled in the pitcher’s hands and then passed to the base before he r
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  • In Philadelphia in 1822
    |Game=Trap Ball |Description=Ad for trap ball playing in Philadelphia
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  • In Dedham in 1837
    |Game=Round Ball ...g "base" and "round" ball as a youth. Assuming his memory of playing round ball dated to when he was around 10 in 1837, his recorded memory would be ninete
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  • Clipping:Caylor doesn't understand economics
    ...when a player demands $3,000 or $3,500 for seven months’ services at ball playing, and it is patent to him and his feinds that he couldn’t earn a thousand
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  • Clipping:Catchers playing close to the bat
    |Title=catchers playing close to the bat ...there is one chance for a sharp fly-tip, there are three at least for foul-ball catches, either high flies or low bounds.</p>
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  • First Female Play of Modern Base Ball?
    |Name=First Female Play of Modern Base Ball? |Description=<p>Girls, as well as boys, are reportedly playing base ball at the Eagleswood School in Perth Amboy, NJ.</p>
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  • 1824.7
    |Headline=Bat and Ball, Cricket are Sunday Afternoon Pastimes |Game=Bat and Ball,Cricket
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  • Clipping:Backing up plays; playing the outfield in
    |Title=backing up plays; playing the outfield in ...der's head, the bases so gained will be comparatively few, while the close playing will enable the field to support the diamond and hold runners on short hits
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  • 1863.13
    ...dquo; [p. 113], and that for September 22, &ldquo;Played leap frog. Played ball.&rdquo; He called the game &ldquo;baseball&rdquo; in the 1864 entry.</p> ...t it hardly seems a mortally risky game, and it seems possible that &ldquo;playing wicket&rdquo; has a military meaning here. Input from readers on this issue
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  • Clipping:Murnane on infielder positioning
    ...f he was fifteen feet back of the line, as most other men play it. If the ball was not hit and the runner tried to steal second he was sure to be in front
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  • 1704.1
    |Headline=Traveler Observes Ball-Playing in CT ...itable journal of her ride from Boston to New York in 1704, speaks of ball-playing in Connecticut."</p>
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  • 1861.20
    |Headline=Confederate Soldier&#39;s Diary Reports on Town Ball Playing, 1861-1863 |Game=Town Ball
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  • 1833.11
    ...Fast. Meetings well attended . . . . A part of the people were off playing ball, according to their usual practice . . . . Am very much fatigued. The after ...tt he wrote "Very pleasant. Thermometer rose to 70 [degrees]. Some playing ball."</p>
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  • 1869.10
    |Headline=In Reconstruction SC, Riot Follows a Ball Game |Tags=African Americans, Ball in the Culture,
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  • Block:English Baseball in Kent on September 8 1888
    ...ishap: “On Friday afternoon, some visitors to Canterbury were playing base ball on the Dane John, when one of the gentlemen accidentally fell and broke his
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  • Amateur Base Ball Club of Lewiston
    |Name=Amateur Base Ball Club of Lewiston ...Eugene Rowley, captain 2nd nine. Same Jan. 13, 1877 "On Saturday the Base Ball Club of this place had several brisk games upon their grounds," which impli
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  • Clipping:A game on ice broken up by competition from outside skaters for the pond
    ...disconcerted them very much in their playing, they being afraid to bat the ball and skate swiftly to the bases, lest they might come in contact with the la
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  • Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 7 August 1860
    ...erity of the game, will promply [sic] put a veto on all such spurious ball playing.&nbsp; Blackball the &lsquo;waiting game.&rsquo; &ldquo;)</p> |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Local Matters: Base Ball,&rdquo; <em>Troy Daily Whig,</em> vol. 26, no. 8044 (9 Aug 1860), p. 3, col
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  • 1863.29
    |Headline=Print of artillerymen playing ball |Game=Base Ball
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  • 1816.2
    |Headline=Worcester MA Ordinance Bans "Frequent and Dangerous" Ball Playing and Hoops" |Text=<p>"[S]uch regulations as will prevent the playing Ball and Hoops in the public Streets&nbsp; . . . a practice so frequent and dang
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  • 1863.25
    |Headline=Men in 59th NY Play Ball, Run, Pitch Quarters, Etc ...sist the temptation of joining with the men in there sports. After playing ball for some time I changed the sport by running a foot race with Lt. Murphy, w
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  • 1823c.4
    |Headline=Young Man Recalls "More Active Sports of &#39;Playing Ball&#39; or &#39;Goal.&#39;" ...ring boys, we . . . engaged ourselves in the more active sorts of "playing ball" or "goal."</p>
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  • 1841.17
    |Headline=Clevelanders Play Ball at Sunset on Water Street ...e pleasant afternoon towards 'set of sun' and see the 'Bachelors' make the ball fly.</p>
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  • 1830s.37
    |Headline=Cat, Town and Corner Ball recalled in Pittston |Game=Cat Ball
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  • 1862.109
    |Headline=Kershaw's SC Brigade Plays Base Ball and Snow Balling |Game=Base Ball
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  • Central Park
    ...has been set apart at Central Park, but the Commissioners are not allowing ball games to be played there, although it appears they allow cricket.</p> <p>The park commission continued to resist baseball playing by organized clubs, even though the original plans for the park included a
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  • In Poultney Circa 1823
    |Game=Ball |Description=Horace Greeley described playing ball in VT in the early 1820s.
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  • 1845.9
    |Headline=Cover of Children&#39;s Book Depicts Ball Play ...The cover of this children's book has a small illustration of boys playing ball.</p>
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  • In La Crosse in 1860
    |Game=Town Ball ...ing" reports that some young boy played "a good old fashioned game of base ball" yesterday.</p>
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  • 1805.9
    ...t=<p>"High Street, at Hopkins's Corner, was the favorite battle-ground for ball-players, as early as 1805."</p> ...ced in 1820. At the town meeting that year, it was voted 'that the game of ball, and the pitching of quoits within [a specified area] be prohibited."</p>
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  • Block:Tut Ball in West Sussex on August 1 1898
    |Title=Tut Ball in West Sussex on August 1 1898 |Block Game=Tut Ball
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  • Clipping:The runner kicking the ball
    |Title=the runner kicking the ball ...e must be given out. It lies with the umpire to judge of the intention of playing foully or not.</p>
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  • Games Tab:Minnesota
    ! City/Town Playing Field | <p>Nininger Base Ball Club intra-club game (score not reported)</p>
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  • 1821.8
    |Headline=English Essayist Praises Youth Playing Bass-ball and Cricket |Tags=English Base Ball, Females, Fiction,
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  • 1864.16
    |Headline=14th Louisiana Plays Ball in Virginia ...006. Snakenberg was from Louisiana, and had been a member of the Hope Base Ball and LaQuarte Club, which played weekly in Gretna [across the river from New
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  • 1800c.3
    |Headline=Col. Jas. Lee Recalls Playing Baseball as a Youth. <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 150. No ref given. Also referenced
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  • In Westfield in 1831
    |Game=Ball ...and the letter writer had a sore hand from the play.This is clearly a bat-ball reference, but we cannot be more exact as to the game.&nbsp;
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  • Clipping:Blocking a runner from third
    ...as soon as the ball is hit the entire infield, except the man to whom the ball is batted, will start for home, ostensibly to back up the catcher, but real
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  • Clipping:An early use of 'ball-tosser'
    |Title=an early use of 'ball-tosser' ...r hand, the Unions, as soon as they found themselves unable to bat the new ball-tosser, became demoralized...</p>
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  • 1755c.7
    |Headline=Prominent Patriot Regrets Wasting Time Playing Cat (and Fives) ...hamed, likewise, in recollecting how much time I have wasted when a boy in playing cat and fives and steal-clothes, &amp;etc . . . . that might have been been
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  • Town Ball in Newport on 31 August 1858
    |Name=Town Ball in Newport on 31 August 1858 |Game=Town Ball
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  • 1796.2
    ...irst such entry, from April 22, 1796, is "I exercise considerable, playing ball."&nbsp;</p> ...2, 106, and 128. Per Thomas L. Altherr,<em> "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball,"</em> reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span><span style="text-decoration: u
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  • 1840c.34
    |Headline=Ball-Playing at Marshall College in PA ...ns they needed . . . . [In addition to local excursions], [s]ometimes ball-playing was the recreation, and sometimes it was leaping or jumping, that brought t
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  • Clipping:The UA playing rules
    |Title=the UA playing rules ...eague rules, and batsmen have to run on a missed third strike. As for the ball and rules book, Wright and Ditson of Boston were awarded the contract to fu
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  • Clipping:Bill Parks umpires a game
    ...ame as it is now played. At any rate, what Parks does not know about ball playing would fill a book.</p>
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  • 1829.1
    |Headline=Philadelphians Play Ball |Game=Town Ball
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  • Clipping:Early indoor baseball
    ...ight Indian club, and, in striking, the batter is not allowed to block the ball, but must hit it fairly and squarely. Nine innings constitute a game.</p>
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  • 1837.3
    ...ball player. I can't see where the ball is coming soon enough to put the ball-club in its way."</p> ...flin, Boston, 1909. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 50.</p
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  • In Worcester in 1816
    |Game=Ball Playing |Description=<p>"Ball-playing" in the streets of Worcester, Massachusetts is forbidden by ordinance.</p><
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  • 1832.9
    |Headline=Norwich CT Sets $2 Fine for Playing Ball ..., page 1. Provided by John Thorn, email of 1/14/2008. <b>Note: </b> "Sky ball?"</p>
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  • 1815.3
    |Game=Bat-Ball ...section of this yearly book has an engraving of children playing a bat-and-ball game. <b>Note:</b> Does the game appear to use bases?</p>
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  • Clipping:Reporting juvenile games
    ...urther remarks that these youngsters form themselves into sides, and after playing their games, send the scores to the Clipper for publication, in order to se
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  • New Marlboro Rules Baseball
    ...ield and all-out innings. The mere fact that the New Marlboro club was not playing the Massachusetts Game is perhaps the most significant finding." (Richard H ...inting the Richard Hershberger article on the New Marlboro Rules in ''Base Ball'', Spring 2010. See Rule Sets, Protoball.</p>
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  • 1849.13
    |Headline=Did Cartwright Play Ball on His Way to California? |Game=Base Ball
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  • 1830.1
    |Headline=<u>Children&#39;s Amusements</u> Describes Bat/Ball Play for Brits and Yanks ...an illustration of ball playing (page 9) and this text (page 10): "Playing ball is much practised by school boys and is an excellent exercise to unbend the
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  • Block:English Baseball in Cumbria on November 15 1879
    ...of work. He also alleged that his master had often played marbles and base ball during working hours, and had encouraged [the apprentice] to play with him.
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  • Clipping:More on called balls as dead
    ...line of his position before a called ball can be in play? 1. Yes, if the ball is not struck at. 2. No. New York Clipper August 10, 1867</p> ...ase Ball Club for violation of section 21 of the Rules and Regulations, in playing Messrs. Wm. Dorsay and D. Clinton, of the Alert club, in a game against the
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  • Clipping:Fisler, Reach playing with multiple clubs
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  • 1828.8
    ...t Washington Parade, and he will find large groups of men and boys playing ball and filling the air with shouts and yells."</p> ...</u>editorial no date given. This quote comes from Berger, Meyer, "In the Ball Park Every Man's a King," <u>New York</u><u>Times</u>, April 14, 1935. Sub
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  • Eagle v Em Quad in CA on 11 October 1860
    ...is composed exclusively of printers, and is one [of the] best playing Base ball organizations of the ‘Golden State.”)</p> ...(20 Nov 1860), p. 197, col. 1</p> <p>(2) “Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: Base Ball in California,” <i>Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times,</i> vol. 3, no. 13 (1 D
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  • 1856.36
    |Text=<p>"BALL PLAYING.</p> ...four<br />boys. Two of the boys take the bats, and the other two throw the ball from<br />one to the other past the boys who have the bats, at the same tim
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  • Clipping:The new League playing rules
    |Title=the new League playing rules ...for some sharp points when the fielder as the preference between letting a ball bound or not in the outfield when it drops foul again, a sharp tip gives a
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  • Block:Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884
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  • Ball in Little Rock in February 1864
    |Name=Ball in Little Rock in February 1864 ...ell and in fine spirits. ... They are laughing and yelling over their ball playing, and such like amusements"
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  • 1804.1
    |Headline=SC School Opens, Students Play Town Ball and Bull Pen |Game=Town Ball
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  • 1861.29
    |Headline=3rd NH Celebrates Thanksgiving in SC “In Playing Ball, Turkey Shooting” ...ag run up, amid a thousand cheers.&rdquo; He does not further describe the ball game.</p>
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  • Mystic Club of Springfield
    ...cription=<p>Robert D. Sampson, "Fields of Battle: The Problem of Base Ball Playing Space in Post Civil War Illinois,"&nbsp;<em>Journal of the Illinois State H <p>Robert D. Sampson, "Fields of Battle: The Problem of Base Ball Playing Space in Post Civil War Illinois,"&nbsp;<em>Journal of the Illinois State H
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  • 1862.101
    ...member of the 1st MN light artillery. There are several mentions of Thomas playing baseball&nbsp; in camp:</p> ...(letter from Corinth, MS, June 26, 1862): "As to exercise, quoits and base ball fill up every leisure moment I have..." (with quoits being his favorite)</p
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  • Clipping:No reserve team in Pittsburgh
    ...nt in heretofore. We hope to make a good showing, but our ability to play ball can be tested better by the 1 st of May., quoting Denny McKnight</p>
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  • Clipping:Players League suits for injuncitons
    ...Ball Clubs, and against John Clements. The Players' National League Base Ball Club of Philadelphia, is the plaintiff in each case.</p> ..., or organization other than the plaintiff, and that the Philadelphia Base Ball Club, Limited, be restrained from interfering with Thompson or Myers until
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  • Long Ball (US Batting Game)
    |Term=Long Ball (US Batting Game) <p>"Long Ball"&nbsp; is generally known as a baserunning bat-and-ball game in Europe.&nbsp; However, Steven Katz (email of 2/5/2021) notes that,
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  • Clipping:Catcher playing up on the sixth ball
    |Title=catcher playing up on the sixth ball ...ing run on the seventh call, as might be the case if he stood back and the ball should chance to bound into the grand-stand or somewhere else out of reach.
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  • Clipping:Beer and Sunday games in the Northwestern League
    ...made a feeble protest, but the delegates voted 8 to 2 to authorize Sunday playing. The Sporting Life January 16, 1884</p> <p>The League did well in rescinding the restrictions against Sunday playing and the sale of beer. The experience of the American Association shows tha
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  • National Base Ball Club of Brooklyn
    |Name=National Base Ball Club of Brooklyn <p>Playing Days - Wednesdays and Saturdays</p>
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  • 1852.12
    |Headline=Ball-playing Prohibited Near UNC Buildings |Text=<p>"There shall be no ball playing in or among the College buildings or against the walls.&nbsp; All athletic
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  • Clipping:Gentlemen switching from baseball to cricket?
    ...of betting rings and the pool-selling business that professional baseball playing has undoubtedly been.</p>
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  • 1849.3
    |Game=Base Ball, ...comical to see the mountain men and Indians playing the new game. I have a ball with me that we used back home.'"</p>
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  • 1862.34
    |Headline=51st Pennsylvania Plays Ball 1862-1864 in VA, KY, MD, Sometimes Daily. ...ry creditable playing is done &ndash; some that would do honor to any base ball club extant. [page 539].</p>
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  • Clipping:The effect of a new ball on batting
    |Title=the effect of a new ball on batting ...with which they had been playing ripped. The Browns objected, but the new ball was allowed, and the result was the visitors batted Caruther’s delivery t
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  • 1861.50
    ...aged in playing ball, some racing, some jumping, and not infrequently some playing leap frog."&nbsp;</p>
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  • In Rockford in 1858
    ...Court House Square" and wonders why they don't form a base ball or wicket ball club.</p>
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  • 1854.13
    ...bat was a heavy oak thing and they trundled the ball along the ground, the ball being so large it could not get under the sticks.</p> ...had played awhile I said, "You must play the modern game cricket." I had a ball and they made six stumps. Then we went to Delta, the field where the Harvar
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  • Baseball5
    ...er. Offensive players can also get themselves out by illegally hitting the ball.</p> ...he batter (offensive player who hits the ball) starting each play with the ball, which is the only equipment used in the game." (wikipedia)</p>
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  • Clipping:Tricky play by batters getting hit by pitches
    ...ky play in this respect which they had a year ago, viz.: that of letting a ball hit them so as to get a base-runner home from third base.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Berkshire on January 6 1900
    ...fendant said he struck the complainant accidentally as he was playing base ball. They had to touch a base and this happened to be close to Mrs Simon's step
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  • Clipping:A new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games
    |Title=a new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games ...be able to trouble any of the regular metropolitan amateur nines to win a ball from them.</p>
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  • 1822.6
    |Headline=Eastport bans "bat and ball" |Game=Bat-and-Ball
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  • 1802.3
    ...ple of all ages, ranks, and colours, sporting away the day -- some playing ball, some riding the wooden horses . . . . , others drinking, smoaking, etc."&n ...ally are on Sundays,&nbsp; some taking the air in coaches, some playing at ball, at nine pins, marbles, and every kind of game, even horseracing."</p>
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  • 1833.9
    |Headline=A Morale Tale: "Lazy Lawrence" Won&#39;t Play Ball ...ng ball." An illustration shows several lads appearing to reach for a fly ball, while another holds a crooked bat, having perhaps hit the fly.</p>
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  • 1850c.9
    ...ball;&nbsp;a second shows [icon! icon!] a house with a window broken by a ball.</p>
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  • Clipping:Difficulty procuring grounds
    ...e more necessary does out-door exercise become, and the advantages of ball playing grows daily apparent.</p>
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  • 1864.74
    |Headline=86th Indiana Plays Town Ball in East Tennessee |Game=Town Ball
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  • Rickets
    ...ion=<p>A writer's recollection of past Boston sports, including&nbsp; base ball, &nbsp;includes the unexplained game of "Rickets."</p> ...g up as a boy in Boston 60 years ago. He recalls playing "foot ball" "base ball" "rickets" and "prison bars." [ba]</p>
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  • 1619.1
    |Headline=Bawdy Poem Has Wenches Playing "With Stoole and Ball" ...us hath its dedication,/ . . . / When country wenches play with stoole and ball,/And run at <i>Barley-breake</i> until they fall:/And country lads fall on
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  • 1822.3
    |Headline=Cricket Clubs, "Other Ball Clubs" Welcomed at Philadelphia PA Facility ...t and other ball clubs." It doesn't say what these "other ball clubs" are playing. <u>Saturday Evening Post</u>, June 22, 1822, Vol. 1, Issue 47, page 003.
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  • Block:Pize Ball in South Yorkshire on July 25 1904
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  • Clipping:George Wright's history
    ...with a rubber ball. This is where our early knowledge of cricket and base-ball came from. The first cricket match I ever played in was with the Third Ele ...irst match with them at the age of 15 against the Star Club of Brooklyn, I playing the position of left field.</p>
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  • Clipping:More lawsuits to enforce contracts
    ...ompson and the same organization, and John Clements, to restrain them from playing in the team of the defendant club...</p>
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  • 1841.5
    |Headline=Cover of Chapbook Shows Boys Playing Ball
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  • Clipping:An explanation for the large numbers of Irish playing ball
    |Title=an explanation for the large numbers of Irish playing ball ...l on the common from childhood up. As it takes years to become expert and playing must be begun early, these lads have the advantage of American lads, whose
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  • In Boston Circa 1800
    |Game=Prisoners base, base ball ...g up as a boy in Boston 60 years ago. He recalls playing "foot ball" "base ball" "rickets" and "prison bars."
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  • 1819.4
    |Headline=In Hartford CT: Legislative Session Associated with Ball-playing? ...lature: "In Hartford and the region about the same, those who usually play ball during the day and dance at night on such occasions, did not at this time w
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  • Clipping:An assessment of the relative strength of the NL and AA
    ...led the League to recognize it as a rival worth conciliating. In point of playing ability also the two organizations are nearly upon a level footing despite
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  • Soak Ball
    |Term=Soak Ball ...ich the batter&nbsp;was put out by running the bases by being hit with the ball," which was "comparatively soft."&nbsp; [[Patch baseball]] was, arguably, a
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  • Vigilant Club of Brooklyn v Exercise Club of Brooklyn in September 1860
    <p>resulted in favor of the Exercise. The playing of both clubs was very</p> <p>Vigilants, met with an accident by a foul ball striking him in the</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 25 1860
    ...re soon scattered in every part--some playing cricket, foot-ball, and base-ball; whilst others were racing for handkerchiefs, kindly given by Mrs. Edwards.
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  • Barn Ball (House Ball)
    |Term=Barn Ball (House Ball) ...r on one bound, the batter is out. Beard (1896) calls a similar game House Ball. It specifies a brick house, perhaps for the peace of mind of occupants.</p
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  • Games Tab:New Hampshire
    ! City/Town Playing Field | <p>(1) “Base-Ball: Base-Ball in New Hampshire,” <i>Porter’s Spirit of the Times,</i> vol. 4, no. 7 (
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  • Block:Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on June 18 1859
    |Title=Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on June 18 1859 |Block Game=Tut Ball
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  • Clipping:Can a batter put out bat again in the inning?
    ...e a right to strike again? 2. If the striker hits a ball fairly, and the ball is held by an adversary on the 1 st base before the striker reaches it, has
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  • Clipping:Cricket clubs challenging one another to baseball
    ...Chippawa hereby challenges the Olympian to play them a match game of Base Ball at as early a date as convenient. We would prefer a home and home match.
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  • Clipping:What Constitutes an Amateur Base Ball Club
    |Title=What Constitutes an Amateur Base Ball Club ...mateurs) have men who indirectly receive money for their time spent on the ball field. The wording of the new rule does not strictly imply that there is a
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  • 1869.9
    |Headline=Playing the pre-New York Rules Game- 1869 |Game=Base Ball,
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  • 1816.5
    |Headline=In "The Year Without a Summer," CT Lads Play Ball on Christmas Day ...e [Mystic CT] on Christmas Day and found some of his acquaintances playing ball in what was called Randall's Orchard."</p>
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  • Clipping:Corcoran practicing pitching left-handed
    ...ght of Manager Mutrie. Corcoran has great speed and a fine command of the ball. He may be expected to try his hand in a game soon. The Sporting Life Oct <p>the uselessness of the fielding average statistic; playing for your record</p>
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  • 1813.3
    |Headline=As a Lad of 9, Hawthorne is Hurt Playing Ball at School, Sees 'Several Physicians' |Text=<p><span>[A] "Young Hawthorne was hit on the leg while playing "bat and ball" on November 10, 1813 [1],&nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;and he became lame and b
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  • Clipping:Baseball in skates ruins the ice
    ...gle of yesterday that the ball match on skates of the Atlantic and Pastime Ball Clubs would not take place this afternoon (6th) on the skating pond, nearly <p>Will you be kind enough to notice in your paper that this ball playing on the pond is very much against the wishes of the skaters visiting there,
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  • Clipping:The benefit of good drainage
    ...self. The left and centre fields were very little better, the outfielders playing at a great disadvantage. The infield was a little better, but every now an ...d it was only by a liberal use of sawdust that it was got into any kind of playing condition. The infielders had plenty of fun skating around the base lines,
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  • Clipping:The catcher takes a foul ball to the face
    |Title=the catcher takes a foul ball to the face ...n the face, and also the first-base man playing rather careless, letting a ball pass him which he might easily have stopped, the Exercise boys would have h
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  • 1845.30
    |Headline=Base Ball and Bagpipes and Whisky on the Fourth! |Game=OFBB? (remembered as base ball in 1877)
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on August 2 1882
    ...e ill-behaved Blue Ribbon people,' boys in the bye-streets playing at base-ball to the danger of females passing by, &c.”</p>
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  • 1833.13
    |Headline=Boys Play Bat Ball in New Orleans |Game=Bat-Ball
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  • Clipping:Warning before a called third strike
    ...as before, but warns the batsman by saying “good ball.” If the next good ball which goes by is not struck at he calls “three strikes.” This rule onl
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  • Clipping:The center fielder playing in close
    |Title=the center fielder playing in close ...as to partly cover it. This, of course, can only be done at the risk of a ball now and then over his head, but the cost of this is compensated for by the
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  • Clipping:Attendance in Louisville 2
    ...aratively dead. As I said, though, as soon as the boys began playing good ball, the interest in them took a sudden upshoot, and the stockholders are fast
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  • Clipping:NL adopts two ball system
    |Title=NL adopts two ball system ...ure, or be lost during the game, the umpire shall at once call for another ball.” This change was the work of President Young, who has shown that in man
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  • Berber Base Ball in the Stone Age?
    |Title=Most Wanted, October 2013 -- Berber Base Ball in the Stone Age? ...arches in Arabic? Can we rule out the possibility that later forms of base ball were taught to locals, say 70 or 100 years ago?</p>
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  • Clipping:The undesirability of the St. George grounds
    ...e players will have to devote more time to killing mosquitoes than playing ball.</p>
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  • In Independence on 23 April 1849
    |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1849.13 &ndash; Did Cartwright Play Ball on His Way to California?</p> ...l and book of Rules with me that we used in forming the Knickerbocker Base-ball Club back home.&rdquo;</p>
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  • 1791.2
    |Game=Bat-Ball ...enacted by which 'foot ball, hand ball, bat ball and or any other game of ball was prohibited within ten rods of the Court House easterly or twenty rods o
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  • 1853.20
    |Headline=Hartford Courant describes Long Ball |Game=Long Ball
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  • 1849.14
    |Text=<p>"BALL-PLAYING -- Westfield vs. Granville --</p> ...vanquished; or, as our correspondent expresses it, 'the Gibraltar of ball playing is taken.'&nbsp; The Granville players were never beaten before but once, b
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  • 1853.4
    |Headline=<i>School Reader</i> has Description of Bat and Ball |Game=Bat and Ball, Fungo
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  • Clipping:Comparing the playing strength of the NL and AA
    |Title=comparing the playing strength of the NL and AA ...e the National League was slightly superior to the American Association in playing strength, and this was freely admitted except by a few partisans. There we
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  • 1861.90
    |Headline=Fort Wayne soldiers play town ball |Game=Town Ball
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  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 29 1874
    ...aper reported that “English ladies have taken to playing the American base ball game. Eleven ladies of the parish of Nash, Buckinghamshire, have beaten a s ...4, even taking into account that the English tour of American professional ball players had just concluded. Bucks was among the English counties associated
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  • Clipping:The veterans insist on playing under modified current rules
    |Title=the veterans insist on playing under modified current rules ...r wides were called, as the old-fashioned pitch marked the delivery of the ball on both sides, and had “wides” been called half the nine would have gon
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  • 1820s.12
    |Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME ...ing our horses] or engaged ourselves in the more active sports of 'playing ball' or 'goal.&nbsp; &nbsp; -- Albert Ware Paine, telling of boyhood in Bangor
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  • 1862.29
    |Headline=Rebel Prisoners Seen Playing Ball in WI Prison Camp ...he 55<sup>th</sup> Tennessee regiment were amusing themselves with playing ball.&rdquo; The reporter notes that many prisoners had only light clothing that
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  • Clipping:A proposal to eliminate the recording of errors
    ...internal dissensions and decided “kicking” than any other feature of base ball. Cincinnati Commercial December 17, 1882</p> ...A player can do more harm in playing for a fielding record than he can in playing for a batting record, for in the first place he makes a record by avoiding
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  • Games Tab:St. Louis
    ! City/Town Playing Field ...side 20</p> <p>Garesche’s side 20</p> <p>(8 innings)</p> <p>(Cyclone Base Ball Club intra-club game)</p> <p>(<i>Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times:</i> “Thur
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  • Clipping:The Beacon Club to disband?
    ...hey have been the only out and out amateur nine we have had. Love of ball playing has been the stimulus that has kept the organization alive, and nobody has
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  • 1711.1
    |Headline=Betty Was "a Romp at Stool-Ball" ...May-poles, a Romp at Stool-Ball. He was always following idle Women, she playing among the Peasants; He a Country Bully, she a Country Coquet."</p>
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  • Block:Magazine Writer Bemoans Lack of "bass-ball" Venues in 1828
    |Title=Magazine Writer Bemoans Lack of "bass-ball" Venues in 1828 ...this particular. Where can they assemble for cricket, or trap-bat, or bass-ball?"</p>
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  • Clipping:Umpire must call a ball or a strike
    |Title=umpire must call a ball or a strike ...o the bat, and the umpire duly called two balls and two strikes. The next ball must have made either three balls or three strikes.</p>
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  • Clipping:A balk not a dead ball
    |Title=a balk not a dead ball ...the fly. The rules will be amended at the next convention so as to make a ball dead on which a baulk is called.</p>
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  • In Louisville in 1857
    |Game=Town Ball ...7 reports that a 28 year old man died of over-exertion while playing "town ball" in the streets of Louisville.</p>
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  • 1824.5
    ...village of Hanover NH authorized "the playing at ball or any game in which ball is used on the public common in front of Dartmouth College, set apart by th
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  • In Dalton in April 1864
    |Game=Town Ball ...r Dalton, Georgia, dated April 12th, states the soldiers are playing "town ball" and bandy in camp.
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  • Clipping:The first baseman needs to leave the bag to take wide throws
    ...ve movements in getting back to the base; but it saves many a badly-thrown ball from giving two or three bases.</p>
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  • Clipping:Foul tips with the catcher close to the bat
    ...time. But, at last, Smith tipped not quite so much, and mills picked the ball from the bat with astonishing celerity. The tip and catch sounding like �
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  • Clipping:An intentionally discolored ball
    |Title=an intentionally discolored ball ...is not legally fit for use. The umpire was quite correct in putting a new ball in play under the circumstances, so Miller over-reached himself in this ins
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  • Washington Club of Orange
    ...game with the exception of the Camden Club which played Philadelphia town ball.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
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  • 1864.38
    |Headline=Base Ball On The Rebound |Game=Base Ball,
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  • Clipping:Professionalism in the South
    ...whose knowledge and expertness develop in amateurs their best qualities as ball players.</p>
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  • 1583.1
    |Headline=Pre-teens Risk Dungeon Time For Selves, or Their Dads, by Playing Ball ...79 entry [page 148], but it lacked the name "Typing" and did not mention a ball.)</p>
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  • In Epsom in 1860
    |Game=Goal Ball ...y afternoons and all other holidays, found the big boys . . . playing goal ball” [emphasis added].
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  • Clipping:Playing 'like a professional' a compliment
    |Title=playing 'like a professional' a compliment ...Franklin, left field, played like a professional, being sure to hold every ball within possible reach.</p>
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  • 1822.5
    |Headline=Ball-playing Disallowed in Front of Hobart College Residence ...preserved. The residents were not allowed to cut or saw firewood, or play ball or quoits, in front of the building."</p>
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  • Clipping:Fergy Malone giving up his business to concentrate on baseball
    ...tends disposing of his ball court and devoting himself exclusively to base ball, he has placed himself on an equal footing with other catchers, and being n
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  • 1872.11
    |Headline=In Rare Extramural Game, Knickerbockers Fade, Lose 26-17 in Base Ball Game with Cricketers |Game=Base Ball
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  • 1865.3
    |Headline=Bay Stater to Wife: “We had a gay old time playing ball . . . send me five dollars” ...arged and sent to our Regiments in ten days. We had a gay old time playing ball. . . . You must send me five dollars without fail. I am almost distracted b
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  • Clipping:The pitcher playing a waiting game
    |Title=the pitcher playing a waiting game ...rowing tired of waiting would put down his bat, Zettlein would deliver the ball. This continued for about ten minutes much to the audibly-expressed disgus
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  • 1823.6
    |Headline=Students Play Ball Game at Progressive School in Northampton MA ...the 1880s, John Murray Forbes and George Cheyne Shattuck describe playing ball during the years 1823 to 1828 at the Round Hill School in Northampton MA. T
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  • Clipping:A dispute over replacing a damaged ball
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  • 1840.11
    |Headline=Cover of Widespread <u>School Reader</u> Shows Two Boys Playing Ball
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  • 1621.1
    |Headline=Some Pilgrims "Openly" Play "Stoole Ball" on Christmas Morning: Governor Clamps Down ...in ye street at play, openly; some at pitching ye barr, and some at stoole-ball and shuch like sport. . . . Since which time nothing hath been attempted th
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  • 1784.1
    |Headline=UPenn Bans Ball Playing Near Open University Windows ...ended for the exercise and recreation of the youth . . . [but don't] "play ball against any of the wall of the University, whilst the windows are open."</p
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  • Clipping:Poor support for a minor league team in Chicago
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  • 1771.2
    |Headline=Province of New Hampshire Prohibits Christmas "Playing With Balls" in the Streets ...ers are occasioned within the town of Portsmouth . . . by boys and fellows playing with balls in the public street: . . . [when] there is danger of breaking t
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  • Block:Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on July 11 1862
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  • 1861.63
    ...engaged in ball-playing and other amusements." Dec. 26, 1861 entry: "ball-playing and other athletic sports used up the day."</p>
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  • 1860.13
    |Headline=Town Ball Hangs on in Philadelphia |Game=Town Ball
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  • Block:Tut Ball in East Yorkshire in 1848
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  • In Bourbon in 1856
    |Game=Town Ball ...Bourbon. "He had been playing ball, and ten minutes after he had laid his ball club down, he was dead."</p>
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  • Brownville Base Ball Club of Brownville v Brownville Base Ball Club of Brownville on 31 May 1867
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  • Tri-Mountain Club of Boston
    ...is to be considered foul, and the batsman is to strike again. This mode of playing, it is considered, will become more popular than the one now in vogue, in a
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  • 1806.1
    |Headline=British Children&#39;s Book Includes Scene of "Trap and Ball" ...n>, wanndered into a Briotish town where children were playing at trap and ball.</p>
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  • 1855.16
    |Headline=Scholar Deems 1855 the Peak of Cricket-playing in America |Text=<p>"By 1855, <strong>Cricket</strong> was clearly the leading ball game . . . .&nbsp; Clearly, there was no opposition to cricket because it w
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  • 1749.2
    |Headline=Aging Prince Spends "Several Hours" Playing Bass-Ball in Surrey |Tags=English Base Ball, Famous, Pre-modern Rules,
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  • Clipping:A wealthy ballplayer
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  • Clipping:The new Olympic grounds
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  • 1862.99
    |Headline=First ball playing in Wyoming ...the Lander Trail (near modern Big Piney, WY): "Toward night the men played ball and appeared to enjoy it very much. It seemed like old times."</p>
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  • Clipping:Uniform rules under the National Agreement; official balls
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  • 1828.10
    |Headline=Trap Ball Scam Reported! ...sup> of May, for breaking a pane in a shop keeper's window in playing trap ball. Upon being questioned, they stated that they were employed by a glazier t
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  • 1835.3
    |Game=Base Ball ...ful senior citizen in 1905. This man was John Oliver, age 90, who recalled playing baseball in Baltimore in 1825 and seeing it in New York sometime after movi
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  • 1866.2
    |Game=Base Ball, <p>"In spite of their enthusiasm for playing ball, the Pythian initially had trouble competing out of their neighborhood. App
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  • 1862.77
    |Headline=42nd Ohio plays ball in Louisville ...Ohio, in Louisville, April 1: "...the boys are out upon the lawn, playing ball, rolling on the grounds, turning summersaults &amp;c."</p>
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  • Club of Detroit v Early Risers Club of Detroit on 8 August 1859
    ...of the &lsquo;Detroit Club,&rsquo; which is very uneven and not adapted to playing on.&nbsp; They intend to have a new ground next season.&rdquo;)</p> <p>(2) M. H. H. [Morton H. Hawley], &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Base Ball in Detroit,&rdquo; <em>Porter&rsquo;s Spirit of the Times,</em> vol. 6, no.
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  • Clipping:The Excelsiors only playing amateurs
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  • In La Crosse on 2 March 1860
    ...oy a game of ball.... We would suggest...a good old fashioned game of base ball this afternoon."</p>
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  • Clipping:The Athletic Base Ball Association loses its clubhouse, changes its name
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  • 1861.87
    |Headline=Heavy battle losses don't stop baseball playing ...ttle of Ball's Bluff, and sees "a party at play in a vigorous game of base ball, and that not forty eight hours after they stood hemmed in by the rebels...
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  • Ball in Fort Smith in January 1864
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  • 1728.1
    |Headline=Delaware Resident Writes of Playing Trap Ball, with Cider as Reward ...r 1 [April 1962], p. 64. Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 19.</
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  • Washington Club of Brooklyn
    ...cription=<p>"Long Island.&nbsp; Williamsburg Intelligence. Washington Base Ball Club.&nbsp;</p> ...bsp; The ground selected for playing is the lot formerly used by a Cricket Ball Club, at the junction of North-road and Bushwick avenue.&nbsp; The Club pra
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  • Clipping:'Jim Crow' and a German team
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  • Excelsior v Rough and Ready in Batavia on 4 June 1858
    ...from time to time exhibited a superior skill in some particular branch of playing, cheer upon cheer would be given by the multitude, stimulating the players |Sources=<p>(1) Spectator, “Base-Ball: Base-Ball at Batavia,” <i>Porter’s Spirit of the Times,</i> vol. 4, no. 15 (12
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  • Clipping:Tagging a runner out and dropping the ball-field
    |Title=tagging a runner out and dropping the ball-field ...unners to collide with base players purposely to prevent their holding the ball.</p>
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  • Olympic Base Ball Club of Syracuse
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  • In Springfield Circa 1835
    |Game=Town Ball |Description=David Hunt (b. 1825) recalled playing town ball in the school yard, at the Springfield Friends (Quaker) School.Springfield
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  • Clipping:Semi-professional ball
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  • Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 30 October 1847
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  • 1864.30
    |Headline=Union Prisoner Reported Shot While Playing Ball in Texas Pen ...he prisoners obtained permission to play ball. One of them, in chasing the ball, ventured within a few feet of the camp lines, when he was short by the gua
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  • Clipping:Keefe holds out
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  • 1842.1
    |Headline=NYC Group Begins Play, Later [1845] Will Form Knickerbocker Base Ball Club ...autumn of 1845 the group will organize formally as the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York City.</p>
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  • White Lot south of the White House
    ...nelius Savage, who worked in DC) later recalled Pres. Lincoln watching the ball games played there, See the <em>Rock Island Argus</em> and other newspapers <p>Clubs evidently were being phased out from playing there by 1869. See <em>National Chronicle</em>, May 8, 1869.</p>
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  • Block:Girls and Boys Play "bass-ball" in 1821 Ess
    |Title=Girls and Boys Play "bass-ball" in 1821 Essay ...ling and liquor: "A village green, with its girls and boys playing at bass-ball, and its grown-up lads at cricket, is one of those English sights which I h
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  • 1863.92
    |Headline=Alabama soldiers play ball near Fredericksburg ...March 8, 1863: "Since coming off picket the only amusement in camp is ball playing, which serves to while away the lonely hours."</p>
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  • Block:Prince of Wales Plays "bass-ball": September 19 1749
    |Title=Prince of Wales Plays "bass-ball": September 19 1749 ...ic); and notwithstanding the Weather was extreme (sic) bad, they continued playing several Hours."</p>
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  • Clipping:An idea for a ball catching device for the catcher
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  • 1805.1
    |Headline=Williams College Bans Dangerous Ball-playing ...lege and scholars in the Grammar School, shall not be permitted to play at ball, or use any other sport or diversion, in or near the College Edifice, by wh
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  • Clipping:Pickett case; a player enjoined
    ...Players' League Club of this city for a mandamus to restrain Pickett from playing with the Philadelphia team during the present season. The case was argued ...Pickett's services for the season of 1890 to the Western Association Base Ball Club, of Kansas City, upon security being entered in the sum of one thousan
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  • Clipping:Benefits of mixing baseball and cricket
    ...enjoyable manner in which the New York Cricket Club and the Atlantic Base-Ball Club did on Monday last, in the game that was played at the Atlantic ground
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  • 1860.24
    |Game=Base Ball, .../em> without getting a rap,' answered Frank, who was now the catcher. 'The ball always seems to think it is no use to try to pass him.'</p>
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  • 1842.6
    |Headline=Missing Poem Describes Ball Playing
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  • Clipping:Enforcement of the territorial limit
    ...any club not under its protection that breaks the rule can be barred from playing a national agreement club afterward. Mr. Byrne says that this change was m
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  • Clipping:Manure on the polo grounds
    ...e first base, and Joe Start was afraid of slipping down every minute. The ball people say that the polo folks do as they please about the grounds: that t
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  • Clipping:A failed hidden ball trick
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  • 1855.47
    |Sources=<p>[1] "New-Jersey Base Ball,&nbsp;''NYDT, ''July 18, 1855 [2] "Base Ball: Newark vs Olympic Club,&nbsp;''Spirit of the Times, ''July 21, 1855 [3] "T <p>PBall item [[1855.40]] First Junior Base Ball Club Founded</p>
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  • In Windsor Circa 1854
    |Game=Ball Play ...ching Years" (1920) p. 32 notes that as a school kid he enjoyed "base ball playing," though he also notes that the game didn't resemble modern (1920) baseball
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  • Clipping:Estimated club profits; finances
    ...al of $190,000. Messrs. Ward, Keefe and others may know all about playing ball, but depend upon it they have little idea of the financial department of th
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  • 1852.8
    |Headline=Adult Town Ball Seen in on a Sunday in IL |Game=Town Ball
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  • 19CBB Highlights, August September 2013
    ...y Chadwick, describing the advantages playing base ball had for success at playing cricket, and added his comments. ...lsior match.'' Richard Hershberger noted indignantly that the alleged base ball bible, the New York Clipper, didn't even have a reporter at the famous 3rd
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  • Games Tab:Hudson, Upper
    ! City/Town Playing Field | <p>(1) “Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: Base Ball at Fort Edward—Hector vs. Eureka,” <i>Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times,</i
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  • Clipping:Base coach deeking the fielders a dirty play
    ...position to induce the Louisvilles to make a misplay. This is dirty ball playing.</p>
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  • 1845.8
    |Headline=Magazine Article Likens Ladies&#39; Gait to Ballplayers&#39; Screw Ball |Game=Base Ball
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  • 1822.7
    |Headline=New Bedford Bans "Playing at Ball" |Game=Ball
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  • 1850s.48
    |Headline='Bama Boys Play Town Ball on Campus |Game=Town Ball
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  • In Monroe in 1849
    |Game=Bull Pen, Two Cornered Cat, Town Ball ...N 1849-56 and how he showed his students how good he was at bull pen, town ball, two- three- or four-cornered cat. Page 16 has a discussion of ante-over (a
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  • Clipping:Indoor baseball in Brooklyn 2
    ...confined to 24 yards. The playing ball will be made out of a lawn tennis ball, covered with yarn, and it will be of regulation size and appearance, but w <p>According to the rules a ball striking the ceiling or any other portion of the building, which is caught
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  • Clipping:A catcher released due to sore hands
    ...hands were so pounded out of shape that he was compelled to quite playing ball. He will catch no more this season. St.</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Berkshire on July 25 1863
    ...y, Berkshire: "The children were highly amused by playing at cricket, base-ball, &c.; tea and cake were provided for them in one of the barns, which was ve
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  • 1845.10
    |Headline=German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game ...and that an illustration of two boys playing it "shows it to be a bat-and-ball game." For the French game, see the [[1810c.1]] entry above.</p>
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  • 1860.5
    |Game=Base Ball, ...at the "National Association," or New York game, is the only style of ball playing at all encouraged in California."</p>
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  • Games Tab:Pittsburgh
    ! City/Town Playing Field | <p>(1) “Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: Alleghany <i>vs.</i> Pittsburgh,” <i>Porter’s Spirit of the Times,</i>
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  • 1776.2
    |Headline=NJ Officer Plays Ball Throughout His Military Service ...nbsp; His initial entries cite the game of whirl, and later ones note that ball was played "again."</p>
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  • German Ball Game
    |Term=German Ball Game ...feet away] and to return to the batting zone without being plugged by the ball. There is no mention of the possibility of remaining safely at the goal are
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  • 1807.1
    |Game=Cricket, Trap Ball |Text=<p>"A hermit who had been watching some children playing ball games approved of their play and promised 'to provide bats, balls, &amp;c'
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  • 1863.14
    |Headline=Sergeant from 15th MA Plays Round Ball with 34th NY |Game=Round Ball,
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  • 1843.6
    |Headline=Magnolia Ball Club Summoned to Elysian Fields Game |Text=<p>"NEW YORK MAGNOLIA BALL CLUB - Vive la Knickerbocker. - A meeting of the members of the above club
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  • 1863.116
    |Headline="we had a game of ball notwithstanding" ...ad a game of ball notwithstanding... [Drill] will take up some of our ball playing time but it suits me."</p>
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  • Club of Camden
    ...ment in Philadelphia. Same, June 9, 1864 reports that the "Camden Club" is playing the Athletics today in Philadelphia. Same, July 19, 1865 mentions a Nationa
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  • Clipping:A raid on Sunday ball players
    |Title=a raid on Sunday ball players ...ed one dollar each and costs, and at the same time were informed that ball-playing in the city limits on the Sabbath hereafter would not be allowed. There wa
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  • 1845.12
    |Headline=Cleveland OH Bans "Any Game of Ball" ...p>"[I]t shall be unlawful for any person or persons to play at any game of Ball . . . whereby the grass or grounds of any Pubic place or square shall be de
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  • 1815.8
    ...er, throw back the ball.'&nbsp; And because it failed to come, some of the ball-players said, 'We will make a hole in the wall and get it.'&nbsp; Two or th <p>[Bates then described the killing of the ball-playing prisoners and concluded that seven&nbsp; were killed and sixty wounded.]&nb
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  • 1864.65
    |Headline=Ball playing at Spotsylvania battlefield ...a little further off we see some of them running around apparently plying ball."</p>
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  • 1860.87
    |Text=<p><strong>[A] </strong>"SAD DEATH RESULTING FROM BASE-BALL PLAYING</p> ...of the ninth inst., [June 1860], one of the players when about to bat the ball, threw the bat-stick back so far that he hit the catcher, Mr. John Carney,
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  • First Nine v Second Nine on 8 September 1859 - 2
    ...intra-club game)</p><p>(BDE: “While playing W. Morrell was struck with the ball, and at one time it threatened to be serious.”)</p> |Sources=<p>(1) “City News and Gossip: Base Ball,” BDE, vol. 18, no. 216 (10 Sep 1859), p. 3, col. 2</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hertfordshire on July 3 1875
    ...t and was burst.” The girl then struck the boy, claiming he had thrown the ball under the horse deliberately, the boy complained to his mother, and both mo
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on May 8 1886
    ...ughlin, 15, and Richard John Stanfield, 14, were summoned for playing base ball in Gloucester-street, Southsea, on April 24th.--Constable Carpenter proved
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  • Grasshopper Base Ball Club of Chicago
    |Name=Grasshopper Base Ball Club of Chicago ...2, 1867 reports that the Atlantic BBC will be playing the Grasshopper Base Ball Club this afternoon on the Grasshopper's grounds, at Ogden Skating Park,</p
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  • 1863.106
    |Headline=1st Delaware Plays Ball and Horseshoes ...the letter of Thomas D. G. Smith, March 31, 1863, which "mentions playing ball and horseshoes." The index lists the game as in Stafford County.</p>
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  • Clipping:Charges of League games being thrown
    ...ame of base ball, the Cincinnati people, and notably Mr. O.P. Caylor, base ball editor of the Enquirer, are very indignant, and the latter has published th
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  • 1856.26
    |Headline=Youths Are "Playing Ball" in San Francisco ...istian on February 13, 1856 who complained about boys and young men plaing ball on the sabbath."</p>
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  • 1861.71
    |Headline=Irish Soldiers play ball with Rebel shells ...y... the Hibernian Guard actually stacked their arms and commenced playing ball with the six pounders that the enemy sent among them, tossing them about as
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  • 1853.18
    |Game=Base Ball |Text=<p>Approximating the usual later designation of base ball as the "national pastime", the&nbsp;<em>New York Sunday Mercury&nbsp;</em>r
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  • Olympic Club of Philadelphia in 1838
    |Game=Philadelphia Town Ball ...Ledger</em>, May 14, 1838 has a story about the Olympic Club playing town ball in Camden, NJ. The players are said to be young merchants of Philadelphia.<
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  • Clipping:George Wright signed by Providence
    ...een identified with the base-ball fraternity of this city, that to see him playing in any other than the Boston club will seem exceedingly strange and unnatur
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  • Clipping:The antiquity of baseball
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  • Clipping:Drying the ball with sawdust
    |Title=drying the ball with sawdust ...of them going over the fence, of course when returned to the pitcher, the ball would go through a course of sawdust. Evening City Item August 29, 1871</p
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  • 1861.55
    |Headline=Base Ball at Camp Tippicanoe ...spirits, and wehn off duty enjoy themselves in running foot races, playing ball, jumping, wrestling, and other healthful exercises..."</p>
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  • 1829.4
    ...e, . . . of the town of Little Falls, was hit on the side of his head be a ball club and died almost instantly. He was about 17 years old."</p> ...ing raised his bat to strike the fall; as it came he struck but missed the ball, and momentum of the blow swung Nellis and the bat around, raising the bat
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  • 1859.29
    |Game=Base Ball, ...a 32-30 vote. Compensation for playing any game was outlawed. The official ball shrunk slightly in weight and size. Matches would be decided by single game
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  • Clipping:Fining batters for hitting when the runner had a steal
    ...Captain Snyder intends to keep this up and impose a fine for thoughtless playing every time. The fines will not be remitted either.</p>
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  • Clipping:Joe Leggett absconds
    <p>a player under contract playing Sunday ball</p> ...the fact that Geer, who is announced to play in Cincinnati next season is playing Sunday games in San Francisco this winter. One paper has an idea that he s
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  • Clipping:A minor league club with a reserve team
    ...is year, which will play on the home grounds the days the regular team are playing games in other cities in the semi-professional Inter-State League.</p>
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  • In Canton in 1837
    |Game=Town Ball ...icket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball..." with a penalty of a $1 fine. .</p>
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  • Enterprise Club of Bedford v Young America Club of Harlem on 5 October 1857
    ...y 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> ...(17 Oct 1857), p. 205, col. [xx]</p> <p>(2) Critic, “Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: Enterprise vs. Young America,” PSOT, vol. 3, no. 6 (10 Oct 1857), p. 85,
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  • 1834.2
    ...r David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 197. The only ball playing in this book is an ad for Carver's <u>The Book of Sports</u> (#1834.1 entry
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  • 1863.96
    |Headline=Union soldiers play ball in California ...l four times a day, and in the interim devote our time to reading, playing ball, or fishing in various sloughs."</p>
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  • Clipping:Winter ball in the South
    |Title=winter ball in the South ...ve it quite severely there. A proposition to innoculate children for base ball is under consideration by numerous anxious parents and the Board of Physici
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  • Clipping:First baseman playing off the bag 2
    |Title=first baseman playing off the bag 2 |Text=<p>[Mutual vs. Atlantic 6/28/1869] Crane by a good hit sent the ball bounding toward right short, and Eggler [first basemen]--at some distance f
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  • Clipping:High delivery
    ...and the American Association, at its next annual meeting, should amend its playing rules so there can be no mistake about it, and enforce the rule next season
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  • Clipping:Athletics lobby to have Sunday games in Gloucester legalized
    ...last, when the Gloucester City Council passed an ordinance permitting ball playing on Sunday. It is possible that now many of the Thursday, Friday or Tuesday
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  • Clipping:A block ball in a game on ice
    |Title=a block ball in a game on ice ...ng nine distinguished himself by making a home run on a blocked ball. The ball was “blocked” by the ear of a small boy who was standing behind the fir
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  • 1839.2
    ...>By-laws and Ordinances</u>prohibit ball playing: "No person shall play at ball, quoits, or any other sport or play whatsoever, in any public place in the
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  • Block:Journal Article Cites "baste-ball" in 1788
    |Title=Journal Article Cites "baste-ball" in 1788 ...sings most charmingly, and, in fine, is not above playing a game of baste-ball with her attendants."</p>
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  • In Toronto on 13 April 1803
    |Game="Playing Ball" ...t legitimate, but whether the “Men jumping and Playing Ball” were actually playing an early baseball-type game, as opposed to something perhaps closer to prim
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  • Clipping:Claimed use of flat bats
    ...laims to be a first class ball player and can’t sacrifice should quit ball playing,” says Manager Wright.</p>
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  • Clipping:Pre-game warmup
    ...owing around” before the game had a most melancholy result. Norris, after playing the game through, went home, and in the course of Monday inflammation set i
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  • 1862.80
    |Headline=Union POWs seen playing ball in Macon ...saw the Yankee prisoners. Some were drilling, others cooking, some played ball."</p>
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  • Belding Base Ball Club of Piermont
    |Name=Belding Base Ball Club of Piermont |Club Name=Belding Base Ball Club of Piermont
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  • Magnolia Ball Club of New York
    |Name=Magnolia Ball Club of New York |Description=<p>"NEW YORK MAGNOLIA BALL CLUB - Vive la Knickerbocker. - A meeting of the members of the above club
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  • 1839.3
    |Headline=Rutherford Hayes Plays Ball as Student at Kenyon College, OH ...In a May 13 letter to his brother, the future President observed: "Playing ball is all the fashion here now and it is presumed that I can beat you at that
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  • In New York in 1856
    |Game=Barn Ball (House Ball) |Description=Newspaper notes youths are playing barn ball. Expects base and two old cat to be played later in the Spring.
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  • 1860.49
    |Headline=Troy NY Writer: "Every Newspaper" Covers Base Ball Games, Some Showing Regrettable "Petty Meanness" |Game=Base Ball,
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  • 1861.62
    |Headline=Ohio Soldiers box and play ball ...d by the soldiers to pass away their leisure hours: such as sparring, ball playing, singing, dancing, and almost every sport that could be thought of, or that
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  • Clipping:The reasons to allow professional clubs
    ...s, and also to the fact that bearing upon the subject of professional ball playing, that though a prohibitory rule had been on the statute-books for years, it
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  • Block:English Baseball in Suffolk on August 30 1924
    ...ng the evening, amusements of various kinds, viz., cricket, skipping, base ball, and racing for money, were freely indulged in, the hunting for hidden trea ...d baseball, and the familiar motif of a church-affiliated children's group playing the game on a country outing, all support the possibility that this could b
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  • 1825c.4
    |Headline=John Oliver Plays Base Ball in Baltimore ...ing the game. If the ball was caught on the fly or the batter hit with the ball while running the bases, he was out. These bases, so called, at that time,
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  • 1862.105
    |Headline=Base Ball, Old Cat played in camp |Game=Base Ball,Old Cat
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  • 1832.4
    |Headline=American Chapbook Reuses "Playing at Ball" Woodcut
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  • 1856.20
    |Headline=Exciting Round Ball Game Played on Boston Common, Ends With 100-to-98 Tally |Game=Round Ball,
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  • Clipping:Villainous howling coaching
    ...st any such exhibitions in the future. Cleveland has no use for such ball playing.</p>
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  • Clipping:Chicago's fancy salaries
    ...any other city in its ability to pay “hired men” fancy prices for playing ball.</p>
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  • Phillips Academy Club of Andover
    ...aying "base ball,' but the book suggests this was more like Rounders or MA ball. It was played informally by students, but in 1864, the first class nine wa ...m>Boston Daily Advertiser</em>, July 23, 1866 has the Lowell Cub of Boston playing the Phillips of Andover.</p>
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  • 1843.2
    |Headline=NY&#39;s Washington Club:" Playing Base Ball Before the Knickerbockers Did? |Game=Base Ball
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  • Clipping:Detectives follow Phillies and Pittsburgh players
    ...tely necessary to have their men watched, so that they can account for bad playing and get rid of players who spend their nights in carousing. The Phillies r ...has also been know, as their records show, that they have played wretched ball. These men stayed up last Sunday night to welcome the Fourth of July and t
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  • Clipping:Mental drills
    ...g a certain position, what he would do, say, if two men were on base and a ball was hit to him. Then I would ask another one, say a first baseman, how he
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  • Bull Pen
    ...ayer loses an &ldquo;eye&rdquo; if plugged or if a target player catches a ball thrown at him. There is no batting or baserunning in this game.</p> |Comment=<p>See Chronology for 1863 mention of Confederate soldiers playing "bull pen" near Kinston, NC. Also 1862.106.</p>
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  • 1863.3
    |Headline=Diarist Records 12 References to Ball-Playing, 1863-1864 ...le diary notes like the first entry: &ldquo;Staid around camp and plaid at ball and had a good time nothing else going on.&rdquo;</p>
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  • Clipping:A 'drop hit' bunt; playing in to defend against it
    |Title=a 'drop hit' bunt; playing in to defend against it ...to spring upon the ball as a cat would on a mouse with which she had been playing... Baltimore American July 16, 1872, quoting the New York World</p>
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  • Clipping:Leagues accepted into the National Agreement
    ...ation. The Ohio State League, the Western League and the Ohio Valley Base Ball Association have applied for membership, and Secretary Caylor says they wil ...admitted to the national agreement. This will debar the Chester Club from playing with the Union Association, which that team has arranged to do. The Phila
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  • 1859.62
    |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Baseball Professionalism, Business of Baseball, Newspaper C ...never a business. As a pursuit, we esteem it a very bad one...Let us have ball-clubs, cricket-clubs, and as many more such as you please, but not professi
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  • Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport v Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport on 3 October 1858undefined
    |Name=Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport v Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport on 3 October 1858undefined |Game=Town Ball
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  • Clipping:Cricket in decline
    ...way of recreation have fallen in with the general rage, and now play base ball. St.</p>
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  • Clipping:Wasting time looking for foul balls
    ...ime was consumed in waiting for the ball to be brought in than was used in playing the game...</p>
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  • In Dover in June 1867
    ...in Dover, Delaware, last week, was struck in the region of the heart by a ball, and injured so badly that he died."</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Devonshire on October 16 1886
    ...for him during the following week. I joyfully consented, for I had lost a ball out of bounds before, and I didn't know what Doctor Wright would do with me ...fearful response to striking a ball out of bounds possibly meant that the ball was deposited in a body of water or some other inaccessible location.</p>
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  • Club of Charleston
    ...eement, the Club met at the same hour the following evening, and commenced playing, but soon the discovery was made that most of the good players were on one ...supended until early on Friday evening next, when the same members propose playing a match game of nine innings each.</p>
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  • Clipping:Umpire's call on a fly out; proto-infield fly rule
    ...ires sees a ball dropped purposely for a double play, he should decide the ball dropped as a fair catch.</p> |Source=Ball Players Chronicle
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  • In New York on 29 November 1855
    ...e Ball Clubs in this city and vicinity, on Thursday, 29th Nov. Among those playing were the Continental, Columbia, Putnam, Empire, Eagle, Knickerbocker, Gotha ...Ball,” SOT, vol. 25, no. 43 (8 Dec 1855), p. 511, col. 3</p> <p>(2) “Base Ball on Thanksgiving Day,” NYC, [?] Nov 1855</p>
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  • Clipping:A players' relief association proposednot a brotherhood or union
    ...he dues *the amount to be decided upon) say $5 or $10 per month during the playing season, will be paid into the treasury. In case of sickness caused by acci ...es after a game is:--”how many men did I strike out? If this isn't record-playing what is it? It will prove a wise decision. The Sporting Life March 10, 188
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  • 1846.13
    |Headline=Spring Sports at Harvard: "Bat &amp; Ball" and Cricket |Game=Cricket, Bat-and-Ball
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  • Clipping:Roster makeup 2
    ...catcher, but he must be constantly used in order to show to advantage his playing ability. If I was handling a team I would not use more than three pitcher,
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  • Elysian Fields Sub-topics -- 2022
    ...ll? Were local commons important facilities in the national spread of base ball?
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  • 1806.2
    |Headline=Children&#39;s Poem Traces Bouncing Ball ...e seen,/Playing there with hoop and ball/ . . . ./Then ascends the worsted ball;/ High it rises in the air;/Or against the cottage wall,/Up and down it bou
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  • Putnam Club of Brooklyn v Charter Oak Club of Brooklyn on 9 July 1860
    ...ounds are not suitable for playing matches, being altogether too narrow, a ball hit to right or left field going in among the crowd who congregate on the s ...19, no. 162 (10 Jul 1860), p. 3, col. 1</p> <p>(2) “Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: Charter Oak vs. Putnam,” NYT, vol. 9, no. 2746 (10 Jul 1860), p. 8, cols
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  • 1778.3
    |Headline=MA Sergeant Found Some Time and "Plaid Ball" |Text=<p>Benjamin Gilbert, a Sergeant from Brookfield MA, mentioned ball-playing in his diary several times between 1778 and 1782.&nbsp; The locations inclu
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  • Andrew Jackson
    ...a sarcastic moniker in a local newspaper. He was fined $9 for playing base ball on the sabbath.</p>
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  • 1820s.19
    |Headline=Ball-Playing in Ontario ...[ON] during the early decades of the nineteenth century that used a square playing field with four bases and eleven players a side." Nancy B. Bouchier, <u>For
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  • Clipping:A threat of legal action against a revolver
    ...in Wise or any other “revolver” in every city where he may attempt to play ball next season, except with the Cincinnati team. A responsible person as bond ...lp defray the expenses of enjoining Wise, or other dishonest players, from playing with League Clubs. Cincinnati Commercial January 19, 1882</p>
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  • Clipping:Dissatisfaction with the rule making a runner liable on a foul ball
    |Title=dissatisfaction with the rule making a runner liable on a foul ball ...ating complications growing out of the umpire's failure to promptly rule a ball to be foul, and it also hampered free batting to a noticeable extend, as th
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  • 1820.36
    |Headline=Playing "bandy or at ball" banned in Baltimore on Sunday ...>, March 4, 1820, reprints a city ordinance banning "play[ing] bandy or at ball" on Sunday.&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1704.2
    |Headline=While the Rurals Had Stool-ball and Cricket, the Londoner Had "Blood-Stirring Excitement" ...ently at football, stool-ball, cricket, pins-on-base, wrestling, or cudgel-playing, there was fiercer and more blood-stirring excitement for the Londoner. Pa
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  • 1862.35
    |Headline=Massachusetts Officers Play Ball in May, on July 4 ...y thought it wasn&rsquo;t going to be much of a shower, they kept right on playing, when all of a sudden came the [hail] stones, and the boys put for their te
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  • Atwater Club of Westfield, MA v Nonotuck Club of Northampton on 11 August 1858
    ...1st, 1858, and adopted the New York Rules and Regulations for playing Base Ball.&rdquo;)</p> |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Base Ball in Massachusetts,&rdquo; <em>New York Clipper,</em> vol. 6, no. 18 (21 Aug
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  • 1849.9
    |Text=<p>"BALL PLAYING. A game of Wicket came off between the ball-players of Westfield and Granville MA on Thursday, at which the Westfield b ...ly 11, 1849, also writes of this contest. [Genovese, Daniel L, <u>The Old Ball Ground: The Chronological History of Westfield Baseball</u> (2004), pages 1
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  • 1847.8
    |Headline=Soldier Recalls Town-ball ...Hoffman school house, pelting each other with snow-balls and playing town-ball. [but the balls a soldier plies] are dangerous, and when they strike they
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  • 1810c.10
    ...ntertainments were very simple [around 1800] . . . games of ball, not base-ball, as is now [1880s?] the fashion, yet with wickets . . . "&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> ...than now.&nbsp; We had more holidays, more games in the streets -- of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling."</p>
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  • 1857.5
    |Game=Base Ball, ...is to be considered foul, and the batsman is to strike again. This mode of playing, it is considered, will become more popular than the one now in vogue, in a
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