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- |Entry Origin=Games Tab1 KB (226 words) - 06:35, 14 May 2020
- ...ewers can coin money. Sure it is that the sale of beer and the playing of games on the Sabbath will be distinguishing features of the policy to be pursued2 KB (418 words) - 19:52, 29 February 2020
- ...regular Ball season is considered to close with Thanksgiving, though many games will doubtless be played through the winter when the weather will permit."1 KB (157 words) - 19:25, 4 December 2015
- ...’ davis” search. McCulloch does not elaborate on the nature of games played. He had been captured with troops from Ohio and Kentucky as well as2 KB (272 words) - 10:19, 16 June 2019
- ...lsiors by 9, the game played on the Boston Commons on Tuesday, June 3. See games tab.</p>1 KB (162 words) - 05:26, 2 July 2016
- ...d. If base ball reporters are to be debarred from attending to report the games, in consequence of such threats, there will soon be an end of the game of b2 KB (308 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- ...e Alki Base Ball Club, which was the first team from Seattle to play Match Games.</p>2 KB (433 words) - 08:16, 5 April 2020
- |Sources=<p><span>Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em><span>.</span></p>374 bytes (62 words) - 09:50, 28 November 2012
- ...Elysian Fields in 1839 (NY Herald, Sept. 10, 1839) as part of the Highland games" (Email of 8/12/2022).</div> .... 26, 1857; New York Herald, Sept. 10, 1839 (shinty played in the Scottish games, at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken); Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, Nov. 15,3 KB (423 words) - 05:39, 29 June 2023
- ...from Babcock also mentions drive ball as the last mentioned of six common games played with a ball, naming "base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b <p>[2] Drive: A ball game, listed along with the Old Cat games and Baseball, is mentioned in the memoirs of a New Hampshire man born in 185 KB (798 words) - 08:13, 28 July 2023
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab 22 KB (291 words) - 16:05, 26 January 2024
- .... . " "We may summarize: The game and name of cricket stem back to ancient games played with a curved stick and ball, starting with <i>la soule</i>, and evo <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 130-131. Henderson's ref 17 is Bodleian Li1 KB (198 words) - 17:25, 6 September 2012
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...tates 48 but a count of the hash marks totals 49. One can surmise that the games which were not particularly close in score did not warrant a very close acc916 bytes (145 words) - 04:58, 2 May 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab4 KB (620 words) - 18:31, 7 July 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab658 bytes (100 words) - 14:21, 9 May 2020
- <p>While there is evidence (all of it retrospective) that non-New York games were played in New Jersey before 1855, there is no evidence of there being2 KB (323 words) - 08:23, 13 September 2018
- |Comment=<p>For some sketchy reports of ice-bound base-running games see Chronology entries. A clippings search for "ice" turns up a few m5 KB (785 words) - 07:47, 13 February 2023
- |Headline=Seventy Games Played, All in New York City Area. |Text=<p>"In the summer of 1856 . . . there were 53 games in New York and the metropolitan area."</p>2 KB (263 words) - 19:00, 14 October 2015
- <p>7. All games played by the clubs that are parties hereto shall be played in accordance w4 KB (682 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab835 bytes (126 words) - 11:55, 30 April 2020
- ...and which will probably be given a trial by the Association in the spring games. It is the opinion of all who have seen it that the new ball cannot well b1 KB (203 words) - 20:29, 29 February 2020
- ...s, published in London in 1653, where it is found enumerated as one of the games of the Gargantua."</p> ...[?], prison bars, barley-break, and the morris dance . . . along with many games that appear to be whimsy and word-play ["ramcod ball," "nivinivinack," and1 KB (214 words) - 17:27, 6 September 2012
- |Title=taxing baseball games 2 ...cessary an ordinance will be drawn up with special references to base ball games.</p>1 KB (192 words) - 20:05, 29 February 2020
- ...ty-fourth street, next Summer. A. J. Reach will superintend the base ball games. Season tickets will admit a holder to all exhibitions on the grounds. Th709 bytes (108 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab656 bytes (100 words) - 18:32, 7 July 2020
- Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 24 April 1851|Entry Origin=Games Tab657 bytes (100 words) - 14:16, 9 May 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...and 1847 seasons are also recorded. It is uncertain as to why these games appear out of order.</p>1 KB (232 words) - 04:47, 2 May 2020
- |Headline=English Novel Mentions, Thread-the-Needle, "Base-Ball:" "Such Games! ...e most of the party from the van had collected. And they were having such games! Base-ball, and thread-the-needle, and kiss-in-the-ring, until their laugh702 bytes (104 words) - 17:51, 6 September 2012
- ...eachers. On their arrival they were dismissed and indulged in a variety of games, such as cricket, ball bias, swinging, racing, &c., till four o'clock when773 bytes (119 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab2 KB (243 words) - 04:27, 23 June 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab939 bytes (146 words) - 11:20, 31 January 2024
- |Title=buying and selling games ...from the ground, and toward the close of the season ceased attending match games. Unless this state of things is changed during the coming season, the game853 bytes (132 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...any other club in New Jersey, but a cash bonus and a promise of exhibition games with Eastern League clubs induced Trenton to let Stovey go. The Sporting L2 KB (290 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- |Name=First Games Played by Unsighted Players2 KB (283 words) - 16:50, 24 February 2013
- <p>The wicket games also occurred at Brandy Station in April 1864;“With the advance of th3 KB (515 words) - 10:09, 16 June 2019
- ...1835-86). Numerous articles in the Macon Telegraph report on the Olympic's games—perhaps because one of the team’s organizers, Dr. Richard H. Ni ...em>New York Clipper</em>, May 16, July 18, 1868 gives the box score of two games the Olympic played.</p>2 KB (314 words) - 11:21, 22 February 2024
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab684 bytes (103 words) - 05:59, 1 May 2020
- ...will the SPIRIT e'er forget thy names/Base Ball, and Cricket, noble, manly games,/Where Health herself beholds the wicket fall,/ and Joy goes flying for the991 bytes (159 words) - 19:03, 14 October 2015
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab 21 KB (159 words) - 15:05, 29 June 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab683 bytes (103 words) - 14:18, 9 May 2020
- ...for the use of the amateur clubs of this city, and where all championship games could be played. The proprietor of the ground at Fortieth and Aspen street1 KB (200 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- ...admirably arranged columns . The score book is sufficient for one hundred games, at the low price of two dollars."</p>2 KB (420 words) - 19:05, 14 October 2015
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab2 KB (274 words) - 09:20, 10 June 2023
- ...e playing was as follows: [<em>Mirror </em>members won two of three 25-run games, 25-3 "points", 17-25, and 25- 3.]</p> <p>This "best-of-3-games-to-25 format was commonly found in matches reported in Syracuse NY. W3 KB (570 words) - 10:43, 6 May 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab655 bytes (102 words) - 08:01, 21 September 2014
- |Text=<p>[from Caylor's column, reporting on the World Series games] ...there was a good deal of bad blood between the two nines, and it showe2 KB (433 words) - 20:10, 29 February 2020
- ...This has all led him to see a possible book on all pre-1840 North American games – base ball and beyond -- played with a ball.</span></p>961 bytes (152 words) - 08:16, 17 June 2012
- ...arn that they aspire to the championship, and they are ready to play match games with any of the juvenile clubs."</p>1 KB (192 words) - 20:04, 9 September 2014
- ...With the best of case, it can never be made a good ball-ground. In match games, the odd are greatly in favor of the club owning and practicing upon the gr1 KB (216 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...pionship games played up to and including June 12, 1883 with the scores of games played during the corresponding period of 1882 it is found that a marked in ...en-inning games of 1 to 0, and poor batting is now justly regarded as poor ball-playing.</p>3 KB (467 words) - 19:48, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>"I will now call your attention to some of the games and amusements indulged in by Worcester boys of fifty or sixty years ago . <p>"There were various games of ball played in my day. I remember barn-ball, two and three ol1 KB (238 words) - 09:57, 16 June 2019
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 <p><span>This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [MA table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was played by New York rul2 KB (268 words) - 08:28, 27 February 2024
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2781 bytes (120 words) - 18:39, 7 July 2020
- |Tags=Championship Games,3 KB (493 words) - 15:52, 17 March 2016
- ..., yesterday, in spite of soft turf and little of it, trying their favorite games." </p>2 KB (320 words) - 06:12, 6 March 2022
- ...vent. Three games were planned as part of the affair, and two were cricket games. A base ball game was to follow, but it was rained out.</p>3 KB (501 words) - 09:07, 5 March 2022
- ...m away” in the games recently played in New York, as well as the first two games of the tournament. A suspicion begins to creep over some minds that Nolan ...ndicating them and exonerating them from the accusation of having “thrown” games. This is all very pretty but resolutions covering a ream of paper can not3 KB (495 words) - 19:10, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab684 bytes (103 words) - 17:27, 9 May 2020
- </p><p>Note: the base ball mentioned in the above articles may refer to games played by youths and not between organized teams of adults. ...>base ball not mentioned in 1875; resumes in 1876 with accounts of several games throughout the summer.1 KB (201 words) - 18:39, 6 June 2020
- |Description=<p>Trap ball is one of the earliest known ball games. Its distinguishing characteristic is the use of a “trap,” a me ...e_4-0" class="reference"></sup><span> As late as the 1930s exhibition games of knur and spell by veterans drew large crowds to the </span><a class6 KB (1,035 words) - 15:04, 11 July 2023
- ...e advent of professional ball in 1890. Levy's efforts to promote dozens of games throughout the Northwest played a significant role in establishing organize ...club in 1872, though there is no record of them ever playing club or match games.</p>6 KB (1,074 words) - 08:12, 24 January 2015
- ...be a regular base-ball department in the Volksblatt, containing reports of games, score and all. This will be the first German paper in the country to intr546 bytes (84 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab2 KB (407 words) - 18:30, 7 July 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab711 bytes (116 words) - 22:12, 28 October 2014
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- ...saloon keepers, who are at a loss what to do. The Cincinnati club has two games for Sunday. President Stern of the Cincinnati Base Ball club said to-day, ...nnot attend on any other day.” St. Louis Republic May 26, 1889 [N.B. The games were played.]</p>1 KB (189 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- |Description=<p>There appear to be two distinct games that have been labeled Touch-Ball. One was as a local synonym for Rounders,969 bytes (152 words) - 09:42, 28 November 2012
- ...rooklyn Department of Parks] On the parade ground there were played 1,430 games of base ball, 23 foot ball, 113 cricket and 7 lacrosse.</p>370 bytes (52 words) - 20:29, 29 February 2020
- <p>Brooklyn AA Club to home games on the Polo Grounds</p> ...shown by the fact that it defeated the strong Rochesters two out of three games last week, and one game was a tie.</p>2 KB (355 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab677 bytes (104 words) - 11:53, 30 April 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab711 bytes (109 words) - 18:33, 7 July 2020
- ...e range of pastimes in his boyhood: "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 o |Query=<p><strong>Query:</strong> do we know the nature of the ball games of "skip" and "hit or miss?"</p>1 KB (186 words) - 17:33, 4 November 2016
- |Sources=<p><span>Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn, N.Y.<span>", pages 230-231.</span></p>738 bytes (122 words) - 09:47, 28 November 2012
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab716 bytes (108 words) - 05:56, 1 May 2020
- |Headline=List of Banned Games May Include Distant Ancestors of Cricket? ...andoute, quekeborde, and if any person permits even others to play at such games in his house or yard, he is to be imprisoned for three years; as also he wh2 KB (329 words) - 17:25, 6 September 2012
- ...and the Bemidji Base Ball Club. Bemidji won 23-4. They played several more games over the next couple of years. ...p>Newspapers prior to 1903 need to be checked to see if there were earlier games.892 bytes (142 words) - 18:37, 6 June 2020
- ...improved thereby, as they mix their players up too much in their practice-games, instead of playing each man in his regular position. The only way to impr2 KB (379 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=CT and MA Teams Match Up for Five Games of Wicket ...succession, the game was considered fairly decided, and the remaining four games were not played." Then th e two sides shared dinner.</p>1 KB (174 words) - 09:20, 7 April 2016
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab3 KB (557 words) - 04:14, 24 June 2020
- |Sources=<p><span>Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</em><span> (Davit Nutt, London, 1898)382 bytes (60 words) - 09:42, 28 November 2012
- ...e Alki Base Ball Club, which was the first team from Seattle to play Match Games.</p>2 KB (439 words) - 05:51, 11 August 2020
- |Title=Frederick Douglass goes to games |Text=<p>Fred Douglass and wife are frequent attendants at the ball games in Washington. Douglass always did know a good thing when he saw it.</p>328 bytes (50 words) - 19:52, 29 February 2020
- ...come forward and purchase liberally of the season books. The price for 63 games has been placed at $25, which entitles the holder to a seat in the grand st2 KB (307 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- ...emselves immensely with French tag, ball-bias, the jolly miller, and other games, while many swings and see-saws were in constant requisition.”</p>854 bytes (127 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...success of the class of contests inaugurated by this series of picked nine games depends entirely upon the way they are managed. The public and the fratern ...w, though we see no objection to any player’s taking part in this class of games, either for the pecuniary profit they yield to individuals, or merely for t2 KB (422 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>"Other forms of bat and ball games, like trap-ball and stool-ball, became well established in Louisville in th888 bytes (131 words) - 06:53, 5 March 2013
- ...tan clubs, and they had only played seven match games all year. Most games were intrmural contests.</p> ...Jersey. By the end of 1855, 22 clubs were on the field, and 82 games had been reported.</p>1 KB (185 words) - 17:01, 4 March 2014
- ...fruit was indiscriminately distributed among the scholars, and a number of games, including football, leap-frog, kiss-in-the-ring, and pies ball, were exten816 bytes (116 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab1 KB (249 words) - 08:23, 9 September 2014
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab 22 KB (289 words) - 11:20, 26 January 2024
- ...mean tricks of the kind characteristic of corner lot loafers in their ball games. All these so-called “points” in base ball are beyond the pale of fair2 KB (306 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
- ...playing began early in the spring; [p92/93] it was the first of the summer games to come out.2 KB (400 words) - 06:26, 30 January 2022
- ...at to enter upon such a contest would belittle them, and declared that all games between the clubs were off. The facts tell their own story, and we do not2 KB (433 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a denunciation of beer and Sunday games ...n attraction and a necessity. If the Cincinnati Club wants to have Sunday games and convert its grounds into a beer saloon, let it do it outside the League2 KB (295 words) - 19:25, 29 February 2020
- ...arn that they aspire to the championship, and they are ready to play match games with any of the juvenile clubs."</p>1 KB (158 words) - 19:56, 9 September 2014
- ...n the children sat down to tea on the lawn. The repast being finished, the games resumed."</p>781 bytes (112 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...played a game of "base ball" in Sept. 1853 against the Olympic. See games tabulation. They probably played under the MA rules, or variant. They pract ...all Club" has 60 members, who exercise on the Commons in the morning with "games of bat and ball."</p>1 KB (165 words) - 05:23, 20 July 2022
- |Tags=Throwback Games, ...illa Astifan. Most of the games reported appear to be base ball-like games, but 8 refer to cricket, wicket and trap ball. <span>Ten entries refer1 KB (209 words) - 10:23, 19 May 2023
- <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 161-162. No reference given.</p>435 bytes (64 words) - 17:52, 21 October 2012
- |Text=<p>Brouthers, in one of the games with Chicago last week, worked a very old trick on Sunday. The latter had616 bytes (107 words) - 19:53, 29 February 2020
- #REDIRECT [[David Block's Data (so far) for Early English Base Ball Games]]75 bytes (12 words) - 16:35, 2 October 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab773 bytes (117 words) - 09:02, 13 December 2015
- |Title=no more championship games in Hoboken ...eld of the Nationals of Jersey City. This is a bad thing for championship games, but a good thing for clubs generally. The enclosed grounds at Brooklyn wi816 bytes (137 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...12 o’clock, and the beneficial result of this regime is so marked that in games with undisciplined clubs, although comprised frequently of much older ball-2 KB (325 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- |Description=<p>"The games of base ball and town ball by many are preferred to cricket. In the way of3 KB (531 words) - 05:43, 24 February 2024
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab1 KB (210 words) - 08:15, 23 June 2020
- |Sources=<p><span>Emily W. Elmore, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span>, (Macmillan, NY, 1922), pages 16-17.</span></p>605 bytes (102 words) - 09:44, 28 November 2012
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab707 bytes (107 words) - 05:06, 3 May 2020
- ...mes. This device is intended not only to indicate the progress of distant games, but actually to be used at the opposite end of the ball field from the gra1 KB (256 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- ...ur leading clubs of the country would meet each other, thereby playing six games, the winner of the greatest number to be declared the champions of the seas1 KB (235 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab936 bytes (141 words) - 05:55, 1 May 2020
- ...d Cat were as well known to Massachusetts boys as round ball. I knew both games in 1862, and Mr. Stoddard tells me that his father knew them and played the1 KB (200 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
- ...or successor to the Ashby Club of Union Hill which is recorded as playing games in 1866</p>1 KB (174 words) - 05:43, 8 July 2020
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- Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 4 August 1846|Entry Origin=Games Tab707 bytes (108 words) - 04:56, 2 May 2020
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- ...regular Ball season is considered to close with Thanksgiving, though many games will doubtless be played through the winter when the weather will permit."1 KB (168 words) - 19:29, 4 December 2015
- |Text=<p>"I have not mentioned other sports and games of the boys of that day which is to say, of seventy or eighty years since619 bytes (99 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
- ...“When the party arrived at their rendezvous, cricket, ball bias, and other games were immediately entered into with great spirit, and carried on up till fiv818 bytes (126 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- |Text=<p>The “Reds” are decided in their original idea to not play any games on Sundays [while in New Orleans], although it is unquestionably a fact tha2 KB (334 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
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- ...50 years earlier. A newspaper reported that among other things, “different games were played, 'pize' ball, kissing in the ring, etc.”</p>538 bytes (75 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- |Description=Bat Ball. From "Little Charley's Games and Sports" (1854) p. 26348 bytes (46 words) - 14:47, 11 July 2023
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab709 bytes (107 words) - 03:56, 9 May 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...o in three; game twenty-one tallies, flying ball. … Our games are ‘the (so-called) old-fashioned base;’ sometimes ‘one1 KB (203 words) - 06:49, 22 December 2015
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- ...n railroads and steamboats, coming in quick succession, and by a series of games played under the influence of exhausting weather. Cincinnati Commercial Se2 KB (359 words) - 08:14, 13 March 2022
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab828 bytes (125 words) - 13:48, 26 April 2020
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- ...ho are wintering in this locality to go on to Philadelphia for a couple of games in the Fair building. When Arthur hits on any plan he don't lose any time1 KB (200 words) - 20:35, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab709 bytes (108 words) - 04:59, 2 May 2020
- ...he 36-page Mayhew/Baker manual covers the rules and field layouts for both games. It gamely explains that both game require "equal skill and activity," but ...olor: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">In playing all match games, when one is out, the side shall be considered out.</span></p>10 KB (1,572 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2015
- ...ess, cards, backgammon, rolling balls, jumping the rope, etc., are in-door games; and base-ball, pitching quoits, walking and riding, are out-door amusement895 bytes (129 words) - 18:56, 14 October 2015
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab717 bytes (109 words) - 05:53, 1 May 2020
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- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...ol. 25, no. 32 (22 Sep 1855), p. 373, col. 3 [list of Knickerbocker-Gotham games]</p>908 bytes (136 words) - 18:32, 7 July 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 ...mot be out of place to remark here, that the Jeffersons have lost but two games during the season of 1860.)</p>1 KB (223 words) - 18:35, 7 July 2020
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- |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games791 bytes (127 words) - 23:06, 9 February 2014
- ...ll be called the Excelsior Polo Club, for they have given up the notion of games for years, their players having become too “rusty” to take the field ag1 KB (206 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
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- |Headline="Games of Ball and Bat" Played in Nova Scotia ...and at which, 'Quadrille and Contra dances were got up on the green - and games of ball and bat, and such sports proceeded.'"</p>682 bytes (103 words) - 17:48, 6 September 2012
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab716 bytes (109 words) - 12:32, 29 April 2020
- ...ystem, first-class clubs have fallen so low as to deliberately loose [sic] games in order to keep up the excitement and make more money on the return and ho1 KB (252 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab 21 KB (194 words) - 07:52, 8 August 2018
- ...59 reports that at a picnic on the 18th of the people of Dayton and Xenia. games of "foot ball" and "town ball" are scheduled.</p>542 bytes (84 words) - 14:30, 27 February 2024
- ..., the score may be called a remarkably good one-- equal to the majority of games which take place on terra firma."</p>978 bytes (164 words) - 14:26, 10 February 2023
- ...eniles waited upon our Local yesterday with the following reports of match games played during the day: Southern 50, to Lone Star 47; Trix 14, to Independen1 KB (154 words) - 16:32, 5 July 2015
- ...eniles waited upon our Local yesterday with the following reports of match games played during the day: Southern 50, to Lone Star 47; Trix 14, to Independen1 KB (154 words) - 16:34, 5 July 2015
- ...of the day was devoted to bass ball, croquet, thread the needle and other games, til the shades of evening fell."</p>612 bytes (91 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...nes, and another rule the entire repudiation of every form of professional ball-playing. That the Knickerbockers will soon have plenty of indorsers of their actio2 KB (269 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- ...nstructor at the Round Hill School in Northampton, MA, where baseball-like games were part of the physical education curriculum (see, entry [[1823.6]]; also3 KB (381 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2015
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab1 KB (181 words) - 11:30, 23 June 2020
- ...regular Ball season is considered to close with Thanksgiving, though many games will doubtless be played through the winter when the weather will permit."1 KB (180 words) - 19:28, 4 December 2015
- ...ption=<p>Johnson (1910) lists Playground Ball among seven “Baseball" games. The rules of this game are not explained.</p> ...; 10 players a side. The batter can run to either first or third. 5 inning games. A tally for each time a batter gets on base safely. Each side of the diamo902 bytes (148 words) - 07:59, 15 May 2021
- ...0. the base ball patrons do not like the idea of being deprived of seeing games with the American and League clubs and they are kicking against the new mov1 KB (176 words) - 19:52, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab2 KB (415 words) - 18:32, 7 July 2020
- |Headline=Traveler in Wales Reports "Laudable" Sunday Games of "Trap, Cat, Stool-ball, Racket &c" ...people do exercise and edify in the churchyard at the lawful and laudable games of trap, cat, stool-ball, racket, &c., on Sundays."</p>592 bytes (96 words) - 17:27, 6 September 2012
- ...of Columbia." Arrangements were made for playing a series of championship games during the season. The first of these was played yesterday afternoon at New2 KB (374 words) - 20:01, 1 December 2015
- |Query=<p>Do we know what pitching distances were used in games played before 1854?</p>2 KB (369 words) - 15:54, 16 November 2021
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- ...eniles waited upon our Local yesterday with the following reports of match games played during the day: Southern 50, to Lone Star 47; Trix 14, to Independen1,007 bytes (141 words) - 16:12, 5 July 2015
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- ...eniles waited upon our Local yesterday with the following reports of match games played during the day: Southern 50, to Lone Star 47; Trix 14, to Independen1,004 bytes (141 words) - 22:11, 8 July 2015
- |Headline=<u>Games and Sports</u> Covers Rounders, Feeder, Trap-ball, Northern Spell |Text=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Games and Sports for Young Boys</span> [London, Warne and Routledge] This book's827 bytes (112 words) - 18:37, 9 May 2015
- <p>"The first recorded baseball event in Australia was a series of three games between Collingwood and Richmond. The scores were astronomical, with Collin2 KB (373 words) - 17:00, 21 December 2021
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...is no date associated with this game, it appears in the books between the games of May 21 and May 28. As game days were usually Tuesday or Friday, May 25 i1 KB (167 words) - 05:04, 3 May 2020
- ...used up in their tents by wet and cold weather. Two days later, there were games of “Bull-Pen”, “Cat”, and “Town-Ball," going on all day except wh921 bytes (140 words) - 07:33, 11 August 2023
- ...hem favoring his demand for an expulsion. McKnight then demanded that the games in which Bradley played be forfeited to the Allegheny club.</p> ...elease by the Clevelands at or before 2.30 on the afternoon of May 21, the games should remain to the credit of the Athletic club.</p>2 KB (306 words) - 19:48, 29 February 2020
- |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games ...tion of the rules of Philadelphia town ball, see Hershberger, below. Games were played under the term "town ball" in Cincinnati as well as Philadelphi6 KB (931 words) - 18:36, 19 January 2017
- ...mentioned in this account. According to an earlier 1892 description, games could be played by teams or the scrub version of rotation among fielding an1 KB (210 words) - 14:35, 17 November 2021
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- |Sources=<p><span>Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn, N.Y.<span>", page 231.</span></p>430 bytes (72 words) - 09:46, 28 November 2012
- |Comment=<p>It seems likely that these games were played under Mass game rules.</p> ...y=<p>The Massapoag Club of Sharon MA fielded 10-14 players for its pre-war games, which were subject to Massachusetts rules. Why would the regimental7 KB (1,160 words) - 12:46, 3 July 2018
- ...eniles waited upon our Local yesterday with the following reports of match games played during the day: Southern 50, to Lone Star 47; Trix 14, to Independen1 KB (156 words) - 16:25, 5 July 2015
- ...s contributed a paper on the English response to exhibition base ball games in England in the early 1900s.</p>708 bytes (109 words) - 10:03, 23 February 2013
- ...e foundation of the Fayetteville at August 1. The two clubs split the two games. </p><p>These are the only 1860 games carried in the baseball clippings of the Onondaga Hist Assn; a Fayetteville885 bytes (131 words) - 16:55, 6 June 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab2 KB (317 words) - 18:55, 13 September 2014
- <p>As of April 2018, we do not know of reports of games played by this club.</p>551 bytes (85 words) - 14:55, 27 February 2024
- ...Union: "About 200 assembled during the afternoon, and after taking part in games of cricket, archery, bass ball, throwing the hammer, &c., they were well pr704 bytes (102 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...tration of <em>la ball empoisonée</em>, and there are two different games with this name, but only one resembles baseball. The other bears a re ...re contemporary (2022) references in America to "poison ball". These games do not appear to employ batting or baserunning.</p>2 KB (350 words) - 12:10, 10 May 2022
- |Description=<p><span>Admission was charged in 1858 for the Brooklyn-New York games at the Fashion Race Course, Queens, which was enclosed but not a 'ball fiel <p>These games are believed to have been the first the newspapers subjected to comple2 KB (325 words) - 09:21, 17 November 2020
- ...to promote uniformity in the method of playing and of scoring championship games, and yet the diversity of style is almost as great as the scorers are numer1 KB (235 words) - 19:48, 29 February 2020
- <p>Yes, see predecessor games, wicket in Clinton in 1857. [ba]</p>1 KB (210 words) - 06:08, 6 March 2022
- |Description=The schoolyard games were quoits, hop scotch, corner ball, and town ball.The source gives neithe564 bytes (87 words) - 14:37, 27 February 2024
- ...ation. There are any number of pitchers who deliver the ball illegally in games every day, and it is seldom indeed that umpires interfere.</p>462 bytes (72 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
- ...reer; football, cricket, rounders, tick, leap-frog, prison-bars, and round games transformed the field into a vast arena of complicated struggles and emulat1 KB (176 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...s in May and September of 1860. The October game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [Calif. Table] compiled by Craig Waff.907 bytes (138 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2020
- ...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 issue902 bytes (146 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
- ...an style="text-decoration: underline;">Forfeits and Successfully Protested Games in Major League Baseball: A Complete Record, 1871-2013</span> (2014, McFarl ...n style="text-decoration: underline;">Inventing Baseball; The 100 Greatest Games of the 19<sup>th</sup> Century</span>. (2013, SABR) <a href="http://www.ama10 KB (1,408 words) - 23:45, 6 January 2024
- |Sources=<p><span>Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn<span>, N.Y.." pages 231-232.</span></p>483 bytes (79 words) - 09:40, 28 November 2012
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...se the Eagle club, and who have been singularly unfortunate in their match games this season, we should like to see them come out of this contest with succe1 KB (200 words) - 17:17, 9 May 2020
- ...the grounds, and in various games. Cricket, football, pie-ball, and other games had their supporters, and were all carried out with unflagging till the clo984 bytes (152 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...the county yesterday morning at the Fair Grounds, the scoring of the three games being as follows:</p>1 KB (211 words) - 21:47, 27 June 2015
- |Title=crowds like high scoring games ...Ross ball to bat against, and the result was one of those splendid batting games which the crowd so delight in.</p>375 bytes (57 words) - 19:30, 29 February 2020
- ...the county yesterday morning at the Fair Grounds, the scoring of the three games being as follows:</p>1 KB (191 words) - 21:43, 27 June 2015
- ...ence"><a title="" href="#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup> The club playing these games was from the east side of town and in August a new baseball club formed on5 KB (947 words) - 15:44, 6 June 2020
- |Description=<p>A Phoenix BBC, adult, played games in Abu Dhabi in 2017. See <a href="https://gc.com/t/fall-2017/abu-dhab2 KB (241 words) - 07:28, 8 July 2020
- ...ding rock” balls, though not as lively a one as they had in their previous games. New York Clipper June 25, 1870</p>770 bytes (122 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- ...nbsp;lights) , and uses a 14-inch ball like used in indoor baseball. Games were played in less than an hour, affording lunch-hour play. </p>631 bytes (100 words) - 09:46, 28 November 2012
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- |Title=a player expelled for throwing games ...pitcher, because there was strong reasons to believe that he was throwing games.</p>392 bytes (57 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
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- ...cky and Fifth Streets."</p><p>This is the same grounds that early baseball games were played on.</p>799 bytes (122 words) - 14:55, 27 February 2024
- ...e character of the contest, whether practicing or regular, first or return games. As both presented dead balls it was a matter of indifference which ball w1 KB (236 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- ...was a matter of agreement when the match was made. I have frequently seen games played with seven men on each side, and I never saw more than 12. They all6 KB (1,220 words) - 14:53, 6 March 2016
- ...he Unions and the Excelsiors to be playing on August 19. A few other games ere mentioned during the same year."</p> <p>[B] "Though baseball match games had been played in Illinois since the very early 1850's, the first Chicago3 KB (558 words) - 06:35, 22 June 2022
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- ...f ballplaying equipment, and treatment of the baseball’s predecessor games.</span></p>808 bytes (126 words) - 10:40, 18 June 2012
- ...se Ball Club of Sacramento was formed in 1859, played some of the earliest games in the state. Members of the club did include former Brooklyn Putnam E. N.1 KB (224 words) - 20:21, 12 April 2020
- ...ption=<p>This entry is undated in the Knick books, but appears between the games of Oct. 5 and Oct. 19 (making Oct. 12 the most likely candidate).</p>732 bytes (112 words) - 05:37, 1 May 2020
- |Description="The boys' games were town ball and marbles."Rems of the 1850s.376 bytes (57 words) - 14:42, 27 February 2024
- |Comment=<p>Critics of the game had long insisted that low-scoring games were indicated play of higher quality.</p>787 bytes (112 words) - 06:36, 2 May 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab1 KB (178 words) - 20:37, 1 February 2016
- ...t the Brotherhood ball is much more lively than the one used in the League games. Inf act, many think it is a bit too lively, because it is almost an impos ...afford chances for others besides the pitchers and catchers, and make the games generally uncertain, and, therefore, more fascinating and popular. The Spo2 KB (441 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
- ...>D Wise and S. Forrest, </span><em>Great Big Book of Children’s Games</em><span> (McGraw-Hill, 2003), pages 219-220.</span></p>789 bytes (130 words) - 09:30, 7 April 2016
- ...me and disband. New York Sun April 8, 1890 [N.B. At least some of these games were played.]</p>3 KB (508 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
- ...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 mod1 KB (184 words) - 17:34, 6 September 2012
- ...o have an hour of recreation each day with sports, among bat and ball-type games." -- Tom Altherr</p>811 bytes (116 words) - 07:01, 28 January 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...st of two undated entries that appear between the October 6 and October 17 games, making October 10 a safe estimate based on game days in 1845.</p>1 KB (173 words) - 14:12, 28 April 2020
- |Headline=Shadwell Play Said to List Rural Games, including Stool-ball. ...cluded country folk who danced and sand of a list of genuine English rural games, such as trap, keels, barley-break, golf [and] stool-ball . . . ."</p>1,023 bytes (154 words) - 05:36, 29 June 2023
- ...e two distinct games. The author's use of the singular "game" rather than "games" is stylistic, as shown by his use of the singular "song" in the sentence's1 KB (176 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...: he will try to understand, and explain, what those “old-cat” games were all about.</p>499 bytes (80 words) - 14:10, 18 June 2012
- ...ball and stool-ball, etc. are perpetuated in hockey, trap-ball and similar games, and even cricket was not unrepresented."</p>940 bytes (141 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab825 bytes (126 words) - 04:35, 10 May 2020
- ...ual number of residents of this village. … The Programme consisted of two games of eleven tallies, and one of twenty-one, …”)</p>7 KB (1,140 words) - 04:24, 29 April 2016
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab810 bytes (127 words) - 04:59, 2 May 2020
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- |Description=<p>Jeff Kittel's website "Game of Games" notes that in an 1879 history of Edgar County, IL, Colonel Jonathan Mayo s |Sources=<p>Jeff Kittel, "Games of Games" website, Nov. 25, 2012 posting.</p>764 bytes (123 words) - 09:28, 26 December 2022
- ...or none. The League clubs will have to make their expenses out of outside games, and it will have to bend or break in this connection.</p>7 KB (1,175 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2811 bytes (120 words) - 10:52, 13 August 2017
- ...eniles waited upon our Local yesterday with the following reports of match games played during the day: Southern 50, to Lone Star 47; Trix 14, to Independen1 KB (169 words) - 13:12, 16 October 2023
- ...midst of quite a lively party of ball players during the afternoon, three games going on at the same time, the greatest muffs of the three parties making t664 bytes (116 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- ...anagement produces. There is seldom less than 2500 people at these Sunday games, and generally more. President Wallace is a hard working compositor in the3 KB (506 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab770 bytes (121 words) - 04:53, 2 May 2020
- ...mes during the past season, engaged in the nefarious practice of “throwing games,” or playing the results, so far as laid in their power, into the hands o4 KB (624 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- |Description=<p>Undated but it appears between the games of May 29 and June 8, making Monday (usual game day in 1848), June 5 a safe721 bytes (111 words) - 05:43, 1 May 2020
- ...From Protoball Entry #1858.51 – At Harvard, Two Clubs Play Series of Games by New York Rules</p> ...and the nature of that club as not known, but accounts exist of intramural games in 1858.</p>2 KB (281 words) - 05:43, 9 July 2021
- ...s before the War, and we are trying to systematically link clubs and games for PBall users.</p>713 bytes (119 words) - 19:01, 23 November 2013
- ...as conducive to disorder and as discouraging the practice of archery. The games that were forbidden, under penalty of two years' imprisonment or a fine of <p><b>Caveat:</b> The list of proscribed games is similar to the Edward III's prohibition [see #1363.1 above] adding "hand872 bytes (134 words) - 17:25, 6 September 2012
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- ...eniles waited upon our Local yesterday with the following reports of match games played during the day: Southern 50, to Lone Star 47; Trix 14, to Independen1 KB (153 words) - 11:49, 13 October 2023
- |Sources=<p><span>MacLagan, "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'.", page 80.</span></p>520 bytes (87 words) - 09:48, 28 November 2012
- |Text=<p>In the ninth inning in one of the New York games Glasscock tried to play one of his famous tricks, but was nipped in the bud1,018 bytes (188 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- ...amplings of text from newspaper accounts for many of them. See his [[Games Tabulation]], which has links to lists for the greater New York a1 KB (192 words) - 10:14, 1 November 2012
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- ...and the Freshmen the two last. It was considered one of the best contested Games ever played by the students."</p> |Query=<p>Does the final sentence imply that earlier games of ball had recently been played?</p>1 KB (174 words) - 12:13, 11 January 2020
- ..., 1860 reports that the "Bloomfield Long Ball Club" is to play a series of games.</p>662 bytes (91 words) - 08:37, 7 March 2022
- ...uckinghamshire: "The committee arranged to give juveniles a treat, and the games of trap-ball, base-ball, cricket, swinging, &c. were indulged in until the654 bytes (94 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...d newspaper coverage in summer 1858 alone (average score, 155 to 112, most games lasting four innings, average team size of over 12 players).</span><span>&n1 KB (177 words) - 14:55, 18 June 2012
- ...succession, the game was considered fairly decided, and the remaining four games were not played." ...ger, 7/30/2007. Note: It may be that the match was a best-of-nine set of games to a specified number of runs. Was this arrangement common in wicket?1 KB (164 words) - 08:51, 29 April 2018
- ...ame, but another account calls the large ball a “clincher,” and notes that games were sometimes played in the street. (Note: [[Line Ball]], another Chicago1 KB (158 words) - 09:51, 28 November 2012
- ...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,1 KB (179 words) - 09:41, 28 November 2012
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab787 bytes (124 words) - 04:52, 2 May 2020
- ...ny repaired to the meadow, where cricket, trap-ball, baste-ball, and other games were soon entered into with juvenile zest.”</p>735 bytes (106 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...the heavy batting [Mutual had 31 hits and 29 runs]. Both the Olympic games of yesterday and Monday were played with a ball that contained but half an ...ressed the issue by requiring clubs to use a standard Spalding ball in its games, thus lessening suspicion the club that provides a game ball thereby gains2 KB (357 words) - 15:14, 15 September 2020
- ...ity and Omaha complaining that certain members of the Browns were throwing games. The Omaha letter stated that a man had entered the pool-room there and of ...e called King and Latham up before him and charged them with having thrown games. Both men denied it, and he warned them that if he learned that they were2 KB (392 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a charge of sold games ...can not afford to have the name of belonging to a club that plays crooked games. He claims he is an honest player, and no doubt is. He says he was offere2 KB (396 words) - 19:10, 29 February 2020
- ...ome from their kind-hearted host, the proceeded to entertain themselves at games of cricket, tut-ball, etc.”</p>695 bytes (98 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ... as "loaded with hand-colored engravings." The book's section on ball games includes a translation of the 1828 <strong>rounders</strong> rules from <sp1 KB (187 words) - 06:59, 27 October 2016
- |Description=<p>This game does not bear a date but appears between the games of Sept. 16 and Sept. 28. As game days were usually Tuesday and Friday, Sep760 bytes (118 words) - 05:33, 1 May 2020
- |Text=<p>[from a letter from the Mutual Club:] 1st. All the games of the tournament to be played on the Union Grounds of Williamsburgh</p> <p>2d. The club winning two out of three games to be declared the “Champions.”</p>3 KB (516 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
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- |Title=spectators prefer high scoring games ...yed with such scores as 1 to 0 or 2 to 1, and many persons still look upon games of this sort with apparent rapture, even where the low scores are produced592 bytes (96 words) - 19:48, 29 February 2020
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- ...=<p>[A] "That [NY Tribune] article was a discussion, I believe, of the two games, the New York game and the Massachusetts round ball game, with a view to de3 KB (520 words) - 18:33, 14 October 2015
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- ...and Mrs. Tetley, in true juvenile fashion; after which they dispersed for games, including swinging, baste-ball, trap-ball, cricket, &c.”</p>734 bytes (109 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- <p>fan interference; championship games on public grounds; block ball</p> ...w sympathy manifested itself. It is folly to attempt any more championship games, on public grounds. Brooklyn Eagle August 4, 1865</p>1 KB (209 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
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- ...nd the Freshmen the two last. It was considered one of the best contested Games ever played by the students." ...the Massachusetts game. Note: does the final sentence imply that earlier games of ball had been played?1 KB (187 words) - 08:43, 31 January 2022
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- ...telined Fairfax County, April 14: "The boys of late have been indulging in games of ball--base and foot ball having occupied their spare moments."</p>709 bytes (96 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
- |Headline="Poisoned Ball" Appears in French Book of Games ...t=<p>The rules for "Poisoned Ball" are described in a French book of boy's games: "In a court, or in a large square space, four points are marked: one for t2 KB (280 words) - 08:03, 11 March 2022
- ...rbocker Base Ball Club in Manhattan were then in SF, and thus the reported games may have been played by modern rules.</p>2 KB (260 words) - 09:57, 16 June 2019
- |Sources=<p><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Book of Games; Or, a History of the Juvenile Sports Practiced at Kingston Academy</span>965 bytes (144 words) - 07:10, 28 January 2020
- ...though these pages bear no date, the game appears between the pages of the games of May 28 and June 5. As Tuesday and Friday were the usual game days, June778 bytes (123 words) - 05:05, 3 May 2020
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- ...the county yesterday morning at the Fair Grounds, the scoring of the three games being as follows:</p>1 KB (205 words) - 11:51, 13 October 2023
- ..., Gotham, and Knickerbocker -- all but the Baltic playing one or more games at Hoboken), <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>two</em></span> <p>These clubs played in about 35 reported match games; over fifteen reports of intramural play are also known. There are re2 KB (342 words) - 18:28, 14 October 2015
- ...rooklyn, 36-9. The Yacht Club opened its 2nd-story veranda for viewing the games.</p>1 KB (196 words) - 19:09, 14 October 2015
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- ...hes, foot ball, base ball, cricket, twos and threes, French tag, and other games) fully gratified their appetites.”</p>767 bytes (106 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- |Special Interest=Massachusetts Game, Town Ball, Predecessor Games228 bytes (31 words) - 13:04, 2 March 2014
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- ...l-the-Bat," <em>Southwest Folklore</em> 4 (1980) pp. 84-86; Cohen, <em>The Games We Played</em> (2001), p. 77</p>780 bytes (135 words) - 20:21, 12 March 2022
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- |Headline=British Book Shows Several Safe-Haven Games - Cricket, Rounders, Feeder, Nine Holes, Doutee Stool, and Stoolball |Sources=<p><span>Ball Games with Illustrations</span> (Routledge and Sons, London, 1860 [as annota2 KB (282 words) - 18:41, 9 May 2015
- |Warning=<p>Caveats: Admission was charged in 1858 for the Brooklyn-New York games at the Fashion Race Course, Queens, which was enclosed but not a 'ball fiel |Comment=<p>Admission had occasionally also been charged for "benefit" games for charities or to honor prominent players.</p>1 KB (206 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2015
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- ...h Landing, March 31, 1862: "Down on the parade ground the old time-honored games of 'ball pin,' and 'town ball' have enlisted the attention of fifty or sixt901 bytes (125 words) - 06:53, 19 September 2020
- |Description=Site of the July 9, 1860 game. Games played there through 1868. Per Jeff Kittel: '''The Fair Grounds'''-“One of the earliest match games played was between the Cyclone and Morning Star Clubs on grounds just back1 KB (176 words) - 06:56, 22 February 2024
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- ...pages do not bear a date, they appear in the Knick game books between the games of May 14 and May 21. As game days were usually Tuesday and Friday, May 18t848 bytes (138 words) - 05:02, 3 May 2020
- ...r members on available data on earliest base ball -- and local predecessor games -- for summary in Convention handouts, possibly including a article in the&660 bytes (101 words) - 18:24, 9 February 2021
- ...ion as what we now know as the Champs Elysee? Can we learn what bat/ball games were so popular the mid 1700s - Soule? Some form of street tennis? A form o747 bytes (126 words) - 17:31, 6 September 2012
- ...; By 1860, when EF peaked at 23 listed games, We list details on over 1000 games in NY and 2100 in the US. Bob Tholkes' impressive "RIM" tabulation of6 KB (972 words) - 17:31, 3 November 2022
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- ...high as $500 is taken in at the gate on ten cent admissions in the Sunday games.</p>678 bytes (114 words) - 19:54, 29 February 2020
- ...is the third of three that appears without a date between the pages of the games of June 5 and June 22. As Tuesday and Friday were the usual game days, June787 bytes (126 words) - 05:08, 3 May 2020
- ...d</sup> New York Regiment, the 27<sup>th</sup> winning a good share of the games. The sharp exercise put the men in good condition after the winter of idlen1 KB (170 words) - 10:09, 16 June 2019
- ...the "book of sports," the royal decree that permitted the playing of many games on Sunday afternoons, was one of the burning issues that fueled the revolut4 KB (596 words) - 20:51, 5 December 2018
- |Block Data=<p>“Ball bias” was among the games played at the annual festival of the Maidstone (Kent) Literary and Mechanic694 bytes (101 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
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- ...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.</p>728 bytes (113 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
- ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 36.</p>1 KB (227 words) - 19:22, 30 January 2020
- ...ndependent</em>, July 17, 1867: "... the Harvard Base Ball Club played two games since our last [issue], one with the Marengo Star Base Ball Club, and one w1 KB (209 words) - 07:27, 28 March 2023
- |Text=<p>Walker, Donald, <u>Games and Sports; Being an Appendix to Manly Exercises and Exercises for Ladies</498 bytes (80 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
- ..."text-decoration: underline;">Jeux et exercises des Jeunes garcons</span> (Games and Exercises of Young Boys) (Paris, A. Courcier, c. 1850), per David Block851 bytes (127 words) - 10:42, 27 January 2013
- ...6, 1848 game. November 18 is a rough guess based on the season history of games being played on Tuesday and Friday.</p>822 bytes (127 words) - 05:44, 1 May 2020
- ...and mentioning that “there being plenty of room to engage in all sorts of games, cricket, trap bat, base ball, French tag, and kiss-in-the-ring, were indul790 bytes (113 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- |Text=<p>"It is well, therefore, that so many muscular games are coming into vogue. Base-ball and cricket are comparatively inexpensive,803 bytes (116 words) - 18:43, 9 May 2015
- ...al League clubs, with an agreement to respect contract rights and exchange games at the end of the season?</p>2 KB (303 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
- ...ual number of residents of this village. … The Programme consisted of two games of eleven tallies, and one of twenty-one, …”)</p> |Entry Origin=Games Tab1 KB (163 words) - 07:25, 26 May 2013
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 ...the Times:</em> [Lengthy description of game and mention of several other games with no dates])</p>1 KB (163 words) - 17:44, 8 April 2020
- ...ed a season to close Jan. 23. … Special rules have been made to govern the games, which are played in rinks, among them being straight arm pitching; runner701 bytes (112 words) - 20:28, 29 February 2020
- |Sources=<p><span>Simon J. Bronner, "Concrete Folklore: Sidewalk Box Games," </span><em>Western Folklore</em><span> 36, no. 2 </span>(11 KB (270 words) - 08:34, 18 September 2017
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- ...all" is a term that can help you find very early references to predecessor games in the US.</p>1 KB (250 words) - 11:56, 15 May 2020
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- ...en headed by Miss Nannie Miller, as captain. This nine have played several games outside the town and away from the gaze of the curious who would naturally7 KB (1,136 words) - 18:45, 14 October 2015
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- ...description 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 ...illughby</span>'s Book of Games: A Seventeenth Century Treatise on Sports, Games, and Pastimes</span> [Ashgate Publishing, 2003], p. 182; see item [[1672c.22 KB (306 words) - 15:27, 27 February 2013
- ...as in the vicinity of Ashridge House in Hertfordshire: "After tea, various games, including croquet, base-ball, &c., were indulged in, and the excursionists759 bytes (116 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- |Text=<p>"With the same intention [that is children's health], the games of cricket, prison bars, foot ball, &c. will be useful, as children gro840 bytes (121 words) - 20:56, 20 October 2012
- |Title=scheduling Saturday games ...during the period of that time we cannot call to mind thirteen first class games that were played on Saturday afternoons.</p>616 bytes (99 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- ...of ball" [Beleth, 1165]. "In certain places in our country, prelates play games with their own clerics on Easter in the cloisters, or in the Episcopal Pala ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 37-38. Page 37 refers to an 1165 prohibi2 KB (259 words) - 16:58, 9 May 2015
- ...possible that the term was used for diverse variations of local safe-haven games in other areas.</p> <p>One might speculate that later still, such games would be thought of as “town ball.”</p>3 KB (528 words) - 08:26, 8 June 2021
- |Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span>, Volume 2 (New ...ey having since been improved into cricket. At the present day these games nearly everywhere are succeeded by cricket, but often of a very primitive f2 KB (421 words) - 16:48, 13 March 2017
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- ...ription=<p>This game is undated but appears in the Knick books between the games of July 9 and July 23 (making a good educated guess to be that of July 16).766 bytes (125 words) - 05:10, 3 May 2020
- |Text=<p>"We are glad to see the games of foot-ball and wicket so fashionable this spring, . ."</p>520 bytes (79 words) - 17:51, 6 September 2012
- ...ill take place to-morrow [4/29]. doubtless the small attendance at recent games has hurried the change. The club directors have issued the following state ...r popularize itself by the introduction of a 25-cent admission to its home games. This, which goes into effect on Tuesday, should be welcomed by all.</p>1 KB (208 words) - 20:43, 29 February 2020
- |Sources=<p><span>P. Maigaard, “Battingball Games,” reprinted in Block, </span><em>Baseball Before We Knew It,</em><span>�881 bytes (131 words) - 09:45, 28 November 2012
- ...ap for the SABR site, and anyone else who may have stopped by to watch the games, let me know your impressions.</p> <p>Great games, the Renegades were ahead - wicked ahead in the standings.</p>2 KB (417 words) - 09:45, 8 July 2017
- ...ion=<p>Game is second of two undated entries in the game books between the games of August 24 and September 18. Date is an estimate based on regular g807 bytes (127 words) - 14:50, 8 May 2020
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- ...s by still insisting upon the fifty cent admission fee to all championship games. Last season, and again in the beginning the present one, we admonished th ...fee. Hundreds of persons who used to attend three out of every five match games played on the Union and Capitoline grounds have not seen a game for the las5 KB (903 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- ...tend our knowledge of the early roots of base ball and similar baserunning games in the six New England states. The page serves as something of a homepage ...s Game or the New York Game? See our current list of known games [[Old old games | here ]])6 KB (878 words) - 20:15, 3 November 2020
- ...t=<p>Charley Byrne is preaching against over-estimating attendance at ball games. This is a case of glass house, s there are no cities in the country where556 bytes (86 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
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- ...d Cat were as well known to Massachusetts boys as Round Ball. I knew both games in 1862, and Mr. Stoddard tells me that his father knew them and played the1 KB (191 words) - 15:20, 27 February 2024
- ...tion=<p>Game is first of two undated entries in the game books between the games of August 24 and September 18. Date is an estimate based on regular g816 bytes (128 words) - 14:49, 8 May 2020
- ...</u> English, with the same material on ball play. <b>Note:</b> Are later games mentioned or listed by Aspin?</p>539 bytes (86 words) - 17:40, 6 September 2012
- ...ppings collection at the Onondaga Host. Assn reveals the club playing four games in 1860.</p>2 KB (243 words) - 16:00, 6 June 2020
- ...the former were victorious, with five wickets to fall, and the usual rural games of base ball, swinging, kiss-in-the-ring, &c., there was nothing provided t854 bytes (125 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...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 32<sup>nd</sup> NY Infantry, whic2 KB (443 words) - 19:11, 14 October 2015
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- ...r makes the following sensible remarks, and they are equally applicable to games on the Boston Grounds: “Complaint has also been made as to the calling o968 bytes (165 words) - 19:11, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=U. of Michigan Alum Recalls Baseball, Wicket, Old-Cat Games |Game=Wicket, Base Ball, American Cricket, Old-Cat Games2 KB (253 words) - 22:28, 28 February 2014
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- |Headline=Trade Games Proliferate |Text=<p>Games between teams of employees from "commercial establishments" proliferated in1 KB (176 words) - 19:09, 14 October 2015
- ...iption=<p>Craig died suddenly of a stroke in 2012. The<em> Protoball Games Tabulation</em>, a major portion of the site's "<em>PrePro Data Base</em>," ...our standard format for early base ball games. You can search these games at [[EnhancedSearch]]</p>653 bytes (106 words) - 08:01, 22 April 2016
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- ...d Hershberger sent his thoughts on the possible rules used for the Buffalo games. ...illa Astifan and John Thorn commented on wicket's place among bat and ball games.5 KB (886 words) - 09:42, 23 February 2013
- |Block Data=<p>“Ball bias” was played along with other games at the annual summer festival of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Sunday S725 bytes (107 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
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- <p>Maigaard, "Battingball Games." <em>Genus</em> 5 (1941). (Reprinted as Appendix 6 of Block, <em>Base807 bytes (121 words) - 09:51, 28 November 2012
- ...obvious. Cricket, football, trap-ball, stool-ball, golf, and various games in the hockey family ,including bandy, hurling, and shinty, all had a prese2 KB (254 words) - 06:19, 16 July 2022
- ...the county yesterday morning at the Fair Grounds, the scoring of the three games being as follows:</p>1 KB (195 words) - 20:30, 27 June 2015
- ...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,624 bytes (103 words) - 09:46, 28 November 2012
- ...bservation, and also some of my friends, during the last four years of the ball-playing mania . . . </p> ...the same rules their fathers did before them. We also find that many games are played, differing but little from the well-known game of Base.</p>5 KB (833 words) - 18:15, 14 October 2015
- ...ear Alexandria: After a game of foot ball on Thanksgiving, "many joined in games of base ball."</p>714 bytes (100 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
- ...tion=<p>Game is first of two undated entries in the game books between the games of August 24 and September 18. Date is an estimate based on regular g829 bytes (131 words) - 14:49, 8 May 2020
- ...bs and gymnasia are spring up everywhere. The papers have daily records of games at cricket, wicket, base ball, etc."</p>763 bytes (103 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2015
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- ...43 to 1859. Wish us luck as we try to determine which ones of the reported games were really played by modern rules.</p>792 bytes (132 words) - 19:00, 23 November 2013
- ...League Clubs. The Metropolitans and Philadelphias prepared a schedule of games for April, assigning to each Club certain dates, and offering 45 per cent.2 KB (402 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
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- |Block Data=<p>"Baste ball" was identified as one of the games played at the Boxford National School fete in Boxford, Suffolk: "After the477 bytes (66 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...ce Bertha Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unsp2 KB (294 words) - 06:52, 14 March 2017
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...ol. 25, no. 32 (22 Sep 1855), p. 373, col. 3 [list of Knickerbocker-Gotham games]</p>1 KB (167 words) - 15:46, 9 May 2020
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- ...ity resident Michael Frank: “Hardball? Never. Other baseball-related games we played included Stickball in the street and “Flies-Up” in th ...om/christianog/games.html"><span>http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</span></a></p>996 bytes (166 words) - 12:06, 13 October 2018
- ...been able to cover the walls of his large room with intricate schedules of games played since base-ball began its career. He has the record of every import989 bytes (164 words) - 19:52, 29 February 2020
- |Description=<p>This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation (Detroit table) compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported on Augus |Sources=<p>Craig Waff's Games Tabulation for Detroit, at <a class="external free" title="http://protoball1 KB (196 words) - 14:23, 22 February 2024
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- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...l Players, 1857-1870</span>. In addition, William Ryczek cites only twelve games for the Mutuals in 1858 in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base B1 KB (172 words) - 13:15, 4 October 2014
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- ...bandoned. The clubs are talking of... fixing the general admission fee to games at fifty cents. There is no reason why Association ball should be cheaper838 bytes (137 words) - 20:21, 29 February 2020
- ...sting parties who may occupy the ground. As it will be entirely for match games only, either club against club, or sides chosen by parties who come out to ...is especially adapted for a neutral arena, when such is required for third games in home and home contests. ... We commend these facilities for base ball ma2 KB (414 words) - 18:20, 29 February 2020
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- ...German advocate of physical education, devotes a chapter of his survey of games to "Ball mit Freystaten (oder das Englische Base-ball)" that is, Ball with ...an>. This roughly translates as: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Games for the Exercise and Recreation of Body and Spirit for the Youth and His Ed2 KB (335 words) - 09:46, 9 February 2014
- |Block Data=<p>“Ball bias” was one of the games played at the annual festival of the Wesleyan Sunday School of Tunbridge We769 bytes (118 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...at the meadows, the children lost no time in starting the various out-door games usual on such occasions, such as cricket, base-ball, swinging, jumping, &c.863 bytes (126 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...and football, without its 'scrimmages,' 'touch downs,' &c., were favourite games on both sides of the course, and where literally hundreds of children of bo918 bytes (137 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...mme, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland<em>, </em></span>Volume 2&2 KB (343 words) - 06:06, 25 June 2023
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- |Text=<p><u>The Every Boy's Book of Games, Sports, and Diversions</u> [London, Vickers], per David Block, <u>Baseball ...than rounders." <b>Note:</b> Does the book identify rounders with old-cat games, or does Block so that?</p>1 KB (248 words) - 17:50, 6 September 2012
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- ...could not have been better. There was very little kicking done during the games. From the first to the last game the two nines received a thoroughly fair3 KB (444 words) - 20:21, 29 February 2020
- </p><p>"The first baseball games in Colorado Territory occurred in March 1862, when the Base Ball (two words ...amural game played by the Denver Base Ball Club, a likely reference to the games cited by Werner. He also notes that a March 12 issue of the Evening News r2 KB (285 words) - 16:39, 6 June 2020
- ...s point they have switched the usage of the book back to recording current games.</p>839 bytes (133 words) - 03:59, 9 May 2020
- ...led the contestants to retire, and play was not resumed until evening. The games of base-ball, foot-ball, trap-ball and quoits, which were to have been play1,009 bytes (155 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- |Headline=Knicks Play Only Intramural Games Through 1850.584 bytes (83 words) - 14:23, 3 March 2014
- ...Ball Game--The Aurora Ball Club and the Olympic Club will play best 3 in 5 games at Base Ball, on Tremont Street mall, on Friday morning next, at 1/2 past 5 ...10, 1853 reports that the Olympic won "45 to 35 rounds in three successive games" "witnessed by a great concourse of spectators." The cigar wager was prompt1 KB (207 words) - 06:48, 6 January 2023
- ...hile, according to a newspaper report, “in other parts of the grounds such games as 'Jolly Miller,' 'Pie's Ball,' and 'Tease 'em' were extensively indulged1 KB (180 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...that time, and from later accounts of a number of “throwback” games, allow a partial picture of the nature of that earlier game.</span><span>&n859 bytes (134 words) - 08:16, 17 June 2012
- |Block Data=<p>A newspaper reported that "base ball" was one of the games played at the annual treat for 90 students of the British School of Princes556 bytes (79 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...n to rely on newspaper descriptions, years later, of re-creations of early games, not unlike trying to understand the New York game solely by watching vinta ...multiple participants. How, for example, when outlining these early games, did the reporter reconcile inconsistencies or gaps in what he heard and sa14 KB (2,325 words) - 07:52, 27 October 2021
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- * '''[http://thisgameofgames.blogspot.com/ This Game of Games]''' – ''[[Jeffrey Kittel]]'' ...cy: Occasional postings on early English base ball and predecessor English games2 KB (312 words) - 07:23, 3 December 2013
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- ...ntil the 5<sup>th</sup> of June. When it is pleasant the boys are at their games of ball. Yesterday we had a game in our Regt 9 innings to a side. One side1 KB (242 words) - 07:16, 19 September 2020
- |Title=Sunday games in Brooklyn ...ge, as many who would not go to see the club play on account of the Sunday games matter will, now that the ban has been lifted, flock to the club's standard1 KB (235 words) - 20:41, 29 February 2020
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- |Title=practice games are useless ...on. Ordinary in training up a nine, as no earnest effort is made in such games; but when an incentive for extra exertion is offered in the way of prizes f1 KB (199 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
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- |Headline=CT Man Reports 13-on-8 games, Asks for Some Rules1,008 bytes (152 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2015
- ...made on the sport if games were attempted. The club has four more Sunday games to play, and has arranged to play Sunday's scheduled game with the Columbus ...Cincinnati, with League ball and advanced prices, can live without Sunday games and make just as much money as the Association team does now. The Sporting3 KB (440 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- ...playing began early in the spring; [p92/93] it was the first of the summer games to come out.</p>4 KB (618 words) - 15:03, 15 June 2019
- |Text=<p> his new Cambridge school too small. "[N]one of the favorite games of foot-ball, hand-ball, base or cricket could be played in the grounds wit ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. The t2 KB (238 words) - 06:47, 9 July 2022
- <p><span>Emily Elmore and M. O’Shea, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span> </span>(Macmillan, New York, 1922)<span>, pages 36-39.</span></1,017 bytes (173 words) - 09:46, 28 November 2012
- ...just as Proctor), a community outside of Duluth for July 2, 3rd, and 4th. Games to be called at 3:15 p.m. with admission of 0.25 cents. Starting lineup for </p><p>Paper of July 9 gave the scores and brief accounts of these three games: Proctor 6-4 in the first game; Hibbing 13 to 11 in the second; and Procto1 KB (175 words) - 17:05, 6 June 2020
- ...friends in Troy. New York Sunday Mercury July 7, 1878 [Craver played both games of Troy’s July 4 doubleheader.]</p> ...ice of the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, allowed him to play in two games, but were obliged to withdraw him, and they now await the action of the Lea2 KB (395 words) - 19:11, 29 February 2020
- ...would be compelled to charge fifty cents, or even a dollar, for important games. The public have themselves only to blame for this state of affairs. Phil ...ublic should understand that it will be quite impossible to play important games for less than fifty cents.</p>2 KB (386 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- ...hese games of ball were much less scientific and difficult than the modern games. Chief were four old-cat, three old-cat, two old-cat, and base."</p><p><br1 KB (180 words) - 14:29, 27 February 2024
- <p><span><span>Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games," </span><em>Genus</em><span> 5 (1941); see Block, Appendix 6, page 263.<910 bytes (136 words) - 09:49, 28 November 2012
- |Headline=Harvard Man Recalls Cricket, "Various Games of Bat and Ball" on Campus ...;c. . . . [w]e wrestled and ran, played at quoits, at cricket, and various games of bat and ball, whose names perhaps are obsolete."</p>1 KB (176 words) - 08:44, 7 March 2022
- ...to be bribed into playing matches, it is about time, we thing, that match games ceased. Master Cammeyer, with an eye to business, and to propitiate the la6 KB (1,072 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...ough rough, is sufficient, where they can fly their kites, and play little games at tut-ball, cricket, football, &c. If men were to have the ground for thei1 KB (192 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
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- ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, num ...York border, about 70 miles NNW of Albany NY. Greeley does not mention the games of wicket or round ball or base ball. </p>2 KB (280 words) - 13:48, 29 January 2020
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- ...sent a challenge to the umpire of the old Jacksonville club, to play a few games of base ball with the latter. The latter club was at the time the challenge830 bytes (126 words) - 05:32, 26 August 2013
- ...>Alice B. Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (David Nutt, London, 1898), page 32 KB (286 words) - 07:34, 29 January 2013
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- |Description=<p>"The first baseball games in Colorado Territory occurred in March 1862, when the Base Ball (two words ...amural game played by the Denver Base Ball Club, a likely reference to the games cited by Werner. He also notes that a March 12 issue of the Evening News re1 KB (200 words) - 07:20, 7 August 2018
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- |Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>(Rough and Ready BBC intra-club games)</p>833 bytes (133 words) - 09:18, 12 September 2014
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- ...they are not. The Williams have got the name but the Actives have got the games as they would not accept any more challenges. We have played twice and the1 KB (173 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- ...ine game may be looked for.”)</p><p>(NDA (2): “One of the most interesting games of base ball of this season … was witnessed by many spectators including |Entry Origin=Games Tab997 bytes (152 words) - 18:55, 13 September 2014
- ...mes in which it has been tried. Detroit will have a hard time of it in the games to be played here this week., quoting the Chicago Times</p>2 KB (277 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...three teams – Sacramento, Stockton, and the Live Oak – played games in Stockton, with Sacramento winning the $50 prize ball, beating Stockton 42 KB (286 words) - 08:06, 15 January 2024
- |Block Data=<p>“Ball bias” was one of the games played at a picnic and “gipsy party” organized by an unnamed grouping o797 bytes (129 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...e games out of five. This plan, ought also to be adopted in the series of games which are to take place between the Athletics and Keystone Clubs. This is738 bytes (127 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...r part of the game, spoiled what would have been one of the best contested games of the season, and deprived them of all the chance they had of victory.&rdq1 KB (196 words) - 18:34, 7 July 2020
- ...fete of the Newbury Temperance Society, Newbury, Berkshire: "A variety of games was provided, enjoyment being found in swings, cricket, archery, base-ball,513 bytes (70 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...the Band of Hope in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where 100 children played various games and sports before being served tea: "After the tea swinging, cricket, base-554 bytes (79 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- |Headline=Soldier Sees January Ball Games at Camp at Saltillo ...ad much horse racing and the drill ground was fairly often in use for ball games."</p>912 bytes (140 words) - 17:51, 6 September 2012
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- ...his personal interest is expanding to include earlier British baserunning games. His very comprehensive web page is found at <a href="http://www.proj525 bytes (81 words) - 19:01, 23 November 2013
- ...Assn. reveals no games played by the Logan Club, tho' Auburn clubs played games after the war.</p>2 KB (333 words) - 17:23, 6 June 2020
- ...marked at the end of the first day of play. Also, are there two different games here? At first, the young men are “playing with the ball,” but7 KB (1,307 words) - 14:35, 30 April 2018
- ...nces inspected, but close reading suggests that fewer than 50 instances of ball-playing are referenced. ...nces to ball-playing. Some of these entries include multiple references to ball-playing, some that mention baseball in non-ballplaying context. This essay attempt17 KB (2,755 words) - 14:18, 4 August 2020
- ...park, and to furnish other attractions that will insure a monopoly of all games outside of the jurisdiciton of the league. The syndicate is said to have a1 KB (182 words) - 19:48, 29 February 2020
- ...the county yesterday morning at the Fair Grounds, the scoring of the three games being as follows:</p>2 KB (219 words) - 21:58, 27 June 2015