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- Bat-and-Ball + (<p>"Bat-and-Ball" is a term that can … <p>"Bat-and-Ball" is a term that can help you find very early references to predecessor games in the US.</p></br><p>Brian Turner finds that the term is likely to connote a distinct form of early ballplaying; in an April 2020 email to Protoball, he said "<span>I can confirm that Newburyport and other coastal towns north of Boston -- Salem, for example -- were places where the term "bat and ball" was used to refer to an unambiguously distinct game." </span></p></br><p><span>A May search of the Protoball Chronology for <bad and ball> yields 44 hits from circa 1745 to 1845. A subset of them may be specifically denote a game locally known as Bat and Ball. </span></p></br><p><span>The earliest seems to be in US President John Adams, in a reflection on his ballplaying youth.</span></p></br><p><span> </span></p></br><p> </p>dent John Adams, in a reflection on his ballplaying youth.</span></p> <p><span> </span></p> <p> </p>)