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- |Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games232 bytes (36 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
- |Title=1850 -- Southern Ball-Games279 bytes (34 words) - 07:31, 28 July 2019
- |Title=Games Played with a Ball196 bytes (30 words) - 18:45, 28 July 2019
- |Title=Ball Games: 1800-1860302 bytes (41 words) - 18:45, 28 July 2019
- |Title=a uniform ball for all championship games ...r. Smith of the Maryland Club introduced a rule regarding all championship games to be played with a Ryan “dead” ball, which was adopted. So but one ba413 bytes (65 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
- 30 bytes (4 words) - 18:11, 10 February 2013
- |Title=The Evolution of Games at Ball403 bytes (65 words) - 18:44, 28 July 2019
- {{Family of Games |Description=Games featuring baserunning and/or plugging (but no batting).131 bytes (19 words) - 06:55, 2 June 2012
- |Title=a uniform ball adopted for championship games ...The strongest argument in its favor lay in the fact of its requiring all games to be played with a regularly authorized ball, instead of having continued860 bytes (139 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
- |Title=An Illustrated History of Ball Games255 bytes (37 words) - 18:53, 28 July 2019
- |Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball ...interesting experiments are to be made to-day and to-morrow in exhibition games between the Chicago and Buffalo teams. In to-day's game two radical new de3 KB (467 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games262 bytes (39 words) - 18:39, 28 July 2019
- David here also offers data on games played under different names -- pize-ball, tut-ball, etc. You can browse t === Data On Early English Games ===6 KB (912 words) - 06:10, 3 October 2020
- |Title=A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.314 bytes (47 words) - 18:39, 28 July 2019
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- ...t which professional base ball is being conducted making such remunerative games absolutely necessary to the clubs which had hitherto abstained from playing686 bytes (103 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
- ...pean games, to the evolution of base ball. He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an969 bytes (157 words) - 07:21, 13 May 2013
File:Gutsmuths Figure 2.jpg "Figure 2" from Johann Gutsmuths' ''Games for Exercise and Relaxation'', showing the bat and playing field for Englis(197 × 338 (10 KB)) - 11:40, 5 March 2016- |Headline=Ball-Playing by Slaves Is Eyed in SC ...t assembling of Negroes in the Town [Beaufort, SC] on Sundays, and playing games of Trap-ball and Fives, which is not taken proper notice of by Magistrates,805 bytes (125 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
- |Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls ...aying Ball" section is the observation that "[t]here are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
- ...Windsor Beach, the Sunday grounds of the Syracuse and Rochester clubs, the games have been stopped.</p>601 bytes (92 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
- ...ve the formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>1 KB (169 words) - 06:06, 22 October 2012
- ...t awakened to the importance of thorough training before playing any match games, and accordingly has put his men through a pretty thorough course of exerci1 KB (188 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...e 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? ...e Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>659 bytes (101 words) - 12:29, 13 December 2018
- ...referred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"<em> Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32. Cleme1 KB (176 words) - 20:18, 29 January 2020
- ...all. Pollux [ca 180 AD] lists a number of children's ball games, including games that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the pl <p>As far as we are aware, Greek ball games did not include any that involved running among bases or safe havens, or an2 KB (310 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
- ...ay: "After tea, the boys amused themselves by playing at cricket and other games, and the girls by playing at base ball, &c."</p>572 bytes (85 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- |Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...service on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di760 bytes (105 words) - 21:03, 21 October 2012
- ...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> ...p>This reference is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball p961 bytes (150 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- |Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...and simple kinds, such as hunting, fishing, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed." </p>1 KB (153 words) - 13:58, 29 January 2020
- |Sources=<p>Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, etc. " <em>Base Ball</em> (Spring 2011).</p ...at "bandy" was in the 1800s sort of a generic name for ice or field hockey games. [ba]</p>1 KB (202 words) - 06:01, 14 October 2023
- ...ound at Prospect Park affords, presenting excellent facilities for playing games between extemporized nines, while regular club grounds are not at command,1 KB (193 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- ...ased to say that I have this day completed the entire circuit, playing two games in each city with each club as follows...</p>1 KB (235 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
- ...inating that one of the first things they did, upon incorporation, was ban ball-playing on the Sabbath."</p>2 KB (233 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
- ...ription=<p>A plugging game that is closer to dodge ball than to safe-haven games. Some players, standing at designated corners or the perimeter of the playi481 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 6 January 2016