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1836c.4
|Headline=The Ballgames "Old Cat" and "Base" Played in Concord MA ...lt than the modern games. Chief were four old-cat, three old-cat, two old-cat, and base."

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1878.1
|Headline=Nostalgia for old games of Two Old Cat, Three Old Cat, Bull Pen, Run Around |Game=Two Old Cat

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1800c.4
|Headline=Four Old Cat and Three Old Cat Well Known in MA ...players. . . . The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod

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1850s.47
|Headline=Boys and Girls Play Old Cat at Recess in Wisconsin |Game=Old-Cat Games

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Round Cat
|Term=Round Cat |Description=Round Cat is a game noted by Tom Altherr in September 2009. We find several brief men

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In HI in 1866
|Game=Two O'cat ...s that the bat-ball games in Hawaii at the time were two-o-cat and three-o-cat. Castle was born n 1849.

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Hornebillets
...bsp;batters run to the next hole, placing the stick in the hole before the cat can be retrieved and be put into the hole. The number of holes depends ...span style="text-decoration: underline;">Francis Willughby’s Book of Games (Ashgate, 2003), page 182.

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1840c.27
|Headline=New Hampshire Farm Boy Plays Baseball, Two Old Cat, Drive ...e old cat,' 'two old cat,' and 'drive,' played with balls . . . . In such games girls did not join; and the game of cricket, which has long prevailed in En

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1850s.43
|Headline=South Carolina College Students Make Do with Town Ball, "Cat" |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games

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ProtoPix:Tip-Cat
|Source Image=Tip Cat.pdf |Title=Tip-Cat

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1859.16
|Headline=Boy's Own Toy-Maker Covers Tip-cat and Trap-ball |Game=Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball,

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In Concord in 1836
|Game=base, old cat ...1 (Chaarles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1905), page 52. Hoar was ten years old in 1836. Per Seymour, Harold – Notes in the Seymour Collection at Co

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1709.3
|Headline=Cat and Trap-ball Seen as Boys' Games [The Men Play Foot-ball] ...me away so passes:/ Here men at foot-ball they do fall;/ There boys at cat and trap-ball."

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1583.1
...rson so playing being imprisoned in the Doungeon for the space of two hours; or else every person so offending to pay 6 [pence] for every time. A ...retrosheet.org/Protoball/Glossary.htm</a>], tip-cat could be played with a cat or a ball, and could involve running among holes as bases. Caveat:<

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1853c.13
...vard, Most Students Played Baseball and Football, Some Cricket or Four-Old-Cat |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Old-Cat Games

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1850.6
|Headline=Article in The Knickerbocker Mentions "Bass-ball," Old Cat, Barn-ball ...chance of any sort in the world, save the "bass-ball," "one" and "two-hole cat," and "barn-ball" of our boyhood . . . "

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1652.1
|Headline=Traveler in Wales Reports "Laudable" Sunday Games of "Trap, Cat, Stool-ball, Racket &c" ...cise and edify in the churchyard at the lawful and laudable games of trap, cat, stool-ball, racket, &c., on Sundays."

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In Peekskill in 1845
|Game=Two Old Cat ...in Peekskill, stated that he wasn't very good at one old cat or other cat games as a youth.

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Waggles
...'  The batters act much in he same way as in cricket, except that the cat must be hit whilst in the air.  The batter hits it as far away as poss ...Scotland, and Ireland (New York; Dover, 1964 – reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 329.

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In MA in 1800
|Game=Old Cat ...Base Ball now. The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod

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1839.4
...dline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...3. "Games with a Ball" treats stool-ball, trap-ball, tip-cat, among other games, and owes much to Strutt (see 1801 entry, above). The writer advises, "[St

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1672c.2
|Headline=Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described |Game=Stoolball,Horne-Billets,Kit-Cat,Tutball

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La Batonet
...en. It is illustrated as “La Batonet” in the charming series of children’s games designed by Stella and published in Paris, 1657, as “Les Jeux et Plaisiri

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Cat i’ The Hole
|Term=Cat i’ The Hole ...son. All but one player stands by a hole, holding a stick [called a “cat.”] The last player, holding a ball, gives a signal, and the others ru

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1866.10
|Headline=Throwback Game of Cat-and-Dog Seen in Pittsburgh |Game=Cat-and-Dog

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Cat's Pallet
|Term=Cat's Pallet ...for the space of two hours . . . . Thus, Gidigadie may be another name for Cat’s Pallet. The rules of this game are as yet unknown.

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Tip-Cat
|Term=Tip-Cat ...ok, but adds the feature that the fielding player tries to return the cat to the hitter’s circle such that the hitter does not hit it away agai

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Cat-and-Dog
|Term=Cat-and-Dog ...ers the hole, defender and thrower switch places. Gomme, who uses the name Cat and Dog Hole, describes a game using a ball in which a stone replaces the h

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1850s.42
|Headline=Indianans Play Town Ball, Two Old Cat |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games

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In Cambridge Circa 1853
|Game=Old Cat |Description=Students at Harvard playing old cat games?

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Hornie-Holes (also Kittie-Cat)
|Term=Hornie-Holes (also Kittie-Cat) ...d their holes with a sticks, described as like a walking sticks, against a cat (“a piece of stick, and frequently a sheep’s horn”) throw

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In MA in 1800undefined
...Base Ball now. The main thing to be remembered is that Four and Three Old Cat seem to be co-eval with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a mod

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1863.151
|Headline=Alabama soldiers play bull-pen, cat and town ball |Game=Town Ball, Two Old Cat

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1850s.45
|Game=Barn Ball, Old-Cat Games, American Cricket, ...iful Mohawk Valley, and while I played barn ball, one old cat, and two old cat in my  early boyhood days, cricket was my favorite game, and until I e

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1820s.22
|Headline=MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood |Game=Base Ball, One Old Cat

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1750s.2
|Headline=Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands? ...mes, choices for males [in NC] appear to have been 'town-ball, bull-pen,' 'cat,' and 'prisoner's base,' whatever exhibitions of dexterity they may have in

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BC2500c.1
...ointed on each end, were used in an ancient form of the game later know as Cat. |Sources=Culin, Stewart, “Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.,” Journal of American Folklore, Vo

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1850c.35
|Headline=U. of Michigan Alum Recalls Baseball, Wicket, Old-Cat Games |Game=Wicket, Base Ball, American Cricket, Old-Cat Games

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1850s.37
|Headline=Near Richmond VA, Games of Round Cat and Chermany ...old home where he and the other boys, black and white, had played "[[round cat]]" and "[[chermany]]" in the summers before the war and had set their rabbi

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David Nevard, March 2007
...: he will try to understand, and explain, what those “old-cat” games were all about.

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1850s.41
|Headline="The Popular Game" For Boys in NY State: Old Cat |Game=Old-Cat Games

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In Greencastle
|Game=Town Ball, Three Cornered Cat ...e students played town ball, three cornered cat and anthony-over, all ball games.

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Bunting
...to Gomme, a Lincolnshire glossary specifies that Bunting is a name for Tip-Cat. |Sources=Gomme, Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1., page 53.

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1871.20
|Headline=Chadwick Agrees: The Parent of Base Ball is Two-Old-Cat . . . Not English Rounders, After All? |Game=Base Ball,Two-Old-Cat,Cricket

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1834.9
|Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |Game=Cricket, Old-Cat Games, Town Ball

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Three-Base Ball
...not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two Old Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article. ...elves in Bygone Days – Duck-on-the-Rock, Three Base Ball and Two Old Cat Good Enough for Them,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Volume 54,

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1830c.26
...: "After the hoop came, as now, the ball games, skip, one old cat, two old cat, hit or miss, and round ball. We made our own balls, winding yarn over a co |Query=Query: do we know the nature of the ball games of "skip" and "hit or miss?"

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1789.2
|Headline=New York Children's Pastimes Recalled: Old Cat, Rounders Cited ...vacant lots, and nearby fields resounded with the immemorial games of old cat, rounders, hopscotch, I spy, chuck farthing and prisoner's base . . . . Th

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1853.2
|Headline=Dutch Handbook for Boys Covers "Engelsch Balspel," Trap-ball, Tip-cat ...l. Also [[De kat]], which Block identifies as English tip-cat.

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Trippit and Coit (Trippets, Trip-Cat)
|Term=Trippit and Coit (Trippets, Trip-Cat) |Sources=Alice B. Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Davit Nutt, London, 1898)

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In Brattleboro in 1844
|Game=Two Old Cat ...erally, but as a reporter mocking the politician and making a reference to games the readers were familiar with.

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1835c.13
|Headline=MA Gents Recall Boyhood Games in 1830s: Cat, Wicket, OFBB ...oubtless knew how to play one, two, and three old cat, and wicket, and the old fashioned kind of base ball when a foul was known as a tick; when a ball, w

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1812c.1
|Headline=Young Andrew Johnson Plays Cat and Bass Ball and Bandy in Raleigh NC ...ent many hours at games with boys of the neighborhood, his favorite being 'Cat and Bass Ball and Bandy,' the last the 'choyst' game of al

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Two Old Cat
|Term=Two Old Cat |Description=From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat"

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1846.3
...ook is called "original and unusual" by Block. For one thing, it includes two forms of trap-ball, the second being the "Essex" version referred to in the ...than rounders." Note: Does the book identify rounders with old-cat games, or does Block so that?

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One O’ Cat
|Term=One O’ Cat ...ugh a series of fielding positions with each out, until they become one of two batters. “An ordinary base-ball bat is used.”

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Cudgel
...wo holes are made about ten feet apart. A player on the out-team pitches a cat toward a hole, and its defender tries to hit it with his stick. He and his |Sources=Gomme, Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1, pages 84-85.</sp

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1807.2
|Headline=Games Recalled at Phillips Exeter Academy ...Col. George Kent wrote this verse in response to an inquiry about student games from 1807 at Exeter:

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Billets
...n closest to base ball and cricket -- resembling the o'cat games with two or four or six players -- but it employs a section of animal horn, or ...an>(v. 1 p. 210) lists as the third meaning for "billet" the game of [[Tip-Cat]] and connects it to Derbyshire."

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In Honolulu on 6 April 1860
...om were some of the leading merchants and their clerks, had a game of good old-fashioned base ball on Sheriff Brown's premises, makai..." ...aii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".

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1837.7
|Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. "any person who shall on the Sabbath day play at bandy, cricket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in a

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1831.2
...oung men are expert in a variety of games at ball - such as cricket, base, cat, football, trap ball . . . ," is the first known book reference to the play |Comment=The cited lines were from an appendix to Smith's book on American games, written by Samuel Woodworth c. 1835. ][ba]

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1820s.14
|Headline=New England Lad Recalls Assorted Games, Illicit Fast Day Ballplaying ...these were "base-ball," in which we chose sides, "one hole cat," "two hole cat," "knock up and catch," Blackman," "snap the whip," skating, sliding down h

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1823.2
|Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...k 1867. The listed games played in Suffolk include cricket, base-ball, kit-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes. Note:: But not trap-ball? N

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1835c.5
...A very large proportion of the students participated in the sport; and the old residents will readily recall with what regularity. Fast day used to be de ...e 83. Caveat: The section in which this excerpt resides evidently games played half a century earlier, but other interpretations are possible.

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Cat (Kat)
|Term=Cat (Kat) |Description=For a recent description of Cat/Old-Cat, see Supplemental Text below. 

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1847.14
|Headline=Holiday Encroached by Round Ball, Long Ball, Old Cat |Game=Round Ball,Long Ball,Old-Cat Games

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In Leavenworth Circa 1840
|Description=The old-fashioned games of three-cornered cat, round town ball, long town ball, hat ball, baseball and many others were p

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1801.1
...t Strutt views a game he calls "club ball" as the precursor to this set of games, but notes that modern scholars are skeptical about this proposition.

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1858.23
...style="text-decoration: underline;">The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books.< ...bat is three feet long; two strikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed. <b

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1840c.26
...Themselves in Bygone Days - Duck-on-the-Rock, Three Base Ball and Two Old Cat Good Enough for Them," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, vol. 54, number Craig reported that Oakey, 65 years old in 1894, had attended Erasmus Hall from 1838 to 1845.

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Whacks
...led 'Whacks' is played in a similar way [to that of Waggles, a form of tip-cat] -- London streets." ...Scotland, and Ireland (New York; Dover, 1964 – reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 329.  

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Clipping:A condemnation of hippodroming; and a retraction
...the country, was an occurrence which le the knowing ones to surmise that a cat was concealed in the meal somewhere, and the aforesaid dispatch opens the b Gentlemen of the Fraternity! Has it come to this, that a series of games cannot be played on the merits of the contesting clubs, but by an arrangeme

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Club of Punahou School
...e bat-ball games played in Hawaii were versions of "two o-cat" or "three o-cat". Other sources have baseball being played at Punahou in 1866.

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In Honolulu on 9 February 1859
|Field=Next to the Old Stone Church ...e pic-nic ground, makai of the Stone Church, where, after a few appetizing games of ball, they sat down to a sumptuous repast..."

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1617.1
...17 listed a large number of permitted Sunday activities -including no ball games - and cited as unlawful only "beare and Bull beatinge enterludes & bowl ...uded ballplay, contemporary ballgames like stoolball and cricket - and cat games - remained unconstrained.

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Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on June 5 1880
...ing them are helped into a more healthy groove we shall still have the tip-cat, base-ball, &c., in the back streets and squares as much as ever.”

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Excelsior Club of Chicago v Union Club of Chicago on 30 August 1858
|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...the ground old game of base, let them begin with one old cat--not the old cat--or even with barn ball, if not ambitious.

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1790s.3
...gland and colonial Boston in North America called stoolball. All of these games were played on a field with bases, a ball, and one or more sticks. The mod

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1836.9
|Text="In April 1892 the Milwaukee [WI] Old Settler's Club received a ball from a Mr. E. W. Edgerton which the young me ...ajot, January 3, 2010. In 1946 a journalist speculated that the N-old-cat games were what was likely played in 1836 Dennis cites the April 19, 1892 issue

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1820s.31
|Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel

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Fungo
...ball (St. Louis), 500, Half-ball, Indian Ball (MO), Sky Ball (CT), and Tip-Cat. |Sources=Culin, S. (1891). "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn." Journal of

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1795.6
...ed at ball self and son John vs. Messrs Aitken and Anderson beat them four Games." ...lved.  There were not enough for bullpen.  The game was probably cat-ball."

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A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball
|Title=A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball ...60]), pp. 54-56), the father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more like

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1863.145
|Headline=Games of Foot and Base ball between drills ...ame baseball against Lt. Mink. Beat him." (is this a references to and old cat/fungo type game?) 1-20-63  played a game of baseball p. 156 (April 186

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In Blountville Circa 1850
...t was similar to the present popular and national game.Cat-ball was a timid game usually played by girls or small boys. It was a three

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1850c.46
|Text="I will now call your attention to some of the games and amusements indulged in by Worcester boys of fifty or sixty years ago . ...ball played in my day.  I remember barn-ball, two and three old cat, and round ball.  This last was very much like baseball of to-day&nbsp

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Olympic Club of Philadelphia
...The Olympic Club had formed nearly 30 years earlier, and played two-old-cat and then town ball in its earlier days, converting to base ball in 1860. Se |Query=Do we really only have three games for this historic clubs, which endured until 1887?

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Bandy
...at reportedly resembled shinty or modern field hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal |Sources=Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, etc. " Base Ball (Spring 2011).

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1863.19
|Text=“[W]hile I played barn ball, one old cat and two old cat in early boyhood days, Cricket was my favorite game, and up to the time I e ...las Young was born in Amsterdam NY in 1840, and thus was playing the named games in the 1850s. He was a member of the 32nd NY Infantry, whic

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Block:English Baseball in London, Yorkshire on September 7 1883
...to be played in the streets of London in the 17th century. Billet, or tip cat, was also a favourite game for this day, and in some parts of the North of

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1840c.17
...ngaged in my the larger boys, special mention may be made of 'Three Corner Cat,' and of 'Town Ball,' the latter sport being a simple form of what has deve

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Pellet
...ame as tip-cat.” Court records from 1583 seem to indication that the game “Cat’s Pallet” was also called Gidigadie, at least in the Manchester area.</ |Sources=MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." Folklore, volume 16, no. 1 (1905), page 87.

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Sky-Ball
|Description=A game banned, along with cat-ball, in Norwich CT in 1832. A 1890 source describes Sky-Ball as a fungo ga ...2012) of ''Originals,'' Tom Altherr notes that a 1900 source on schoolyard games noted "The game of Flip Up or Sky-Ball is still played by smaller children,

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1831.1
|Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games ...e was "Cat Ball," called in some parts of New England at the time "Two Old Cat."  Later accounts report that the club formed in 1833, although J. M.

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1477.1
|Headline=List of Banned Games May Include Distant Ancestors of Cricket? ...ys at such game, to forfeit ten pounds to the king, and be imprisoned for two years."

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The Union Hall Game of Ball
Two students (Mills and Cogswell) who played the game in the early 1850s exchan ...Gotham Club at age 22 or 23, the Gotham "decided to remodel three-cornered cat and make a new game," and started by eliminating plugging. 

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"A Good Many Different Kinds of Ball"
...arming 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel ...was “two-hold-cat,” when there were four boys, two to be in and knock, and two to throw. Then there was “base-ball,” when there were a good many to pl

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Chermany
...iety of baseball.” Early usage of the term dates to the 1840s-1860s. Two sources relate the game to baseball, and one, a 1912 book of Virginia folk ...ago (i.e., 1850). See also Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, Etc." Base Ball (Spring 2011).

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Gotham Club Rules (1837)
The Game Was the Outgrowth of Three-Cornered Cat, Which Had Become Too Tame.</big></div> ...e time when the only characteristic American ball sport was three-cornered cat, played with a yarn ball and flat paddles.

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Roundstakes
...ified as to become later the baseball of today.  It was originally an old English game much played in the colonies.  A  soft ball was alway |Comment=This memoir also describes old-cat games and how youth adjusted to modern base ball when it arrived. See Protoball i

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1744.2
...-ball" in print. Other pages are devoted to stool-ball, trap-ball, and tip-cat [per David Block, page 179], as well as cricket. Block finds that this book ...1762. He also notes that a 1767 revision features engravings for the four games.

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Round Town (Round Town Ball)
...n>ball game on, January 13 last, the occasion being a contest at the old Virginia game of ball known as "Round Town, " the weather bein ...span> were the best throwers, surest catchers, and hardest strikers of the two neighborhoods. A large sized crowd watched with unabating inte

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1847.13
...town ball are not listed. In feeder, the ball is served from a distance of two yards, and the thrower  is the only member of the "out" team. There is ...orm; perhaps feeder was played when too few players were available to form two teams.

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Base (Prisoner's Base)
...from New England in 1831, and that his source groups base with cricket and cat as young men’s ballgames. ..." (1852) in which Dickens writes: "They were active ... at cricket and all games of ball; the prisoners base, hare and hounds, follow up leader, and more sp

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1837.1
|Game=Base Ball,Old-Cat Games ...then in vogue didn't suit us we decided to remodel three-cornered cat and make a new game. We first organized what we called the Gotham

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1859.9
...11 hours, and proved quite a treat to those who witnessed it. In 1860 the two clubs would meet for a $1000 purse. ...yed roundball, 14  a side, and that he also played three and four old cat.

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1866.17
|Text=BASE BALL--MORE MATCH GAMES--DESCRIPTION OF THE MODE OF PLAYING IT. ...the elite and beauty of Shockoe Hill. We call especial attention to these games, from the fact that the exercise is healthy and inspiring; and we truly hop

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1854.22
|Tags=Championship Games, |Text=An Old Fashioned Base-Ball Club

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Om El Mahag
...ribed as elementary baseball, and said to be analogous to rounders and old-cat. It was reported that Om El Mahag was only played by the Berber tribes. ...it related, or relates, to base ball, long ball, or other early safe-haven games.

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Drive Ball
...escribes drive ball.  David Block's summary:  "In this activity, two boys with bats face each other, taking turns fungoing the ball.  When From the 1835 text: "'Drive Ball’ is a game for two players only, who are placed each with a bat, at some distance from, and fa

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1840s.31
...playing began early in the spring; [p92/93] it was the first of the summer games to come out. ...a field diagram) of a bat and ball game that seems to be a version of Old Cat. The description suggests that Lem played the game in the late 1830s and ea

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Ballplaying in Civil War Camps
In the current decade, two books have appeared on the role of base ball in the Civil War (Millen 2001; ...Lot More: Teams from New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey Account for Two-Thirds of All Union Army References ==

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Clipping:The NL schedule goes head to head with the PL
...In New York Ewing and his men will play only eight of their seventy home games without opposition on the League ground. In Brooklyn Ward and his team hav ...y must look it full in the face and bend all their energies to defeat it. Two alternatives present themselves—one to accept the issue and take all the

5 KB (931 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
1860.20
...d go on with their bawling, but not with the game of ball. They got out an old rusty cannon and made it ring, while the [illeg.: Rail Splitter?] went home Games. See Sports and games

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1839.1
...he Commission rested its story on the memory of a boy who was then 5 years old. |Sources=[A] Three Letters from Abner Graves -- two letters to the Mills Commission, April 3, 1905 and November 17, 1905 a

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What Was Town Ball, Anyway?
...rouping it with other unregulated, bat and ball, safe-haven, American folk games. While this is an acceptable description of the game, it does little to in ...distinguished town ball from other types of bat and ball, safe-haven folk games.

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1870c.8
...childhood "the little boys' ball game was either "Three-old-cats" or "Four-Old Cats," and describes both variations. ..., and teams of seven to ten players on a team.  "It was originally an old English game much played in  the colonies."

9 KB (1,730 words) - 10:06, 28 February 2018
1845 Knickerbocker Rules
(Note: This draft comprises Part One of a two-part examination of the main rules of base ball as of about 1860. It covers the Knick Rules, and Part Two will

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Randall Brown's Find of the Wheaton Account -- Before the Knickerbockers
My plan was to take a quick look at the Examiner’s coverage of the exhibition games in San Francisco. I knew that “Phin” Thayer, author of “Casey at the ...he slowness of cricket and the dangerous effects of the old three-cornered cat rule of throwing the ball at the runner to put him out, the narrator stated

9 KB (1,586 words) - 15:23, 8 April 2013
1838.4
...1838 game had played a like game in their youth. Adam Ford was seven years old in 1838. ...me others.  I remember also that there were in the Zorras “Old Ned” Dolson, Nathaniel McNames, Abel and John Williams, Harry and Dan

9 KB (1,751 words) - 20:00, 29 January 2013
A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball
...ace leavel enough to play ball.”<ref name="ref1" /> On the face of it, the two journal entries might not seem all that startling, but to baseball historia ...al Baseball Library at the Hall of Fame, has speculated that baseball-type games at this stage were like pulling a hacky-sack out of a backpack and kicking

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