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Cyclone Club of St. Louis + (An article on early St. Louis baseball in "The Sporting News" Nov. 2, 1895 says the Cyclones lost an early game to the Morning Star BBC 21-36.)
Star Club of Bloomfield + (An extensive article on the Stars can be found in Samuel Pierson, "Thumbing the Pages of Baseball History in Bloomfield" (1939). They played at "The Green, on a diamond situated just north of Monroe Place." [ba])
1821.7 + (An interesting aspect of this dra … An interesting aspect of this drawing is that there appear to be four defensive players and only two offensive players . . . unless the two seated gentlemen in topcoats have left them on while waiting to bat. One might speculate that the wicketkeepers are permanently on defense and the other pairs alternate between offense and defense when outs are made. Another possibility is that all players rotate after each out, as was later seen in scrub forms of base ball.Also note the relative lack of open area beyond the wickets. Perhaps, as in single-wicket cricket, running was permitted only for balls hit forward from the wicket. wicket. )
Hornie-Holes (also Kittie-Cat) + (An obscure poem reportedly recite … An obscure poem reportedly recited during this game seems to suggest it was played in Scotland. See Alice Bertha Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unspecified. t; (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unspecified. )
1858.7 + (An oddity: in a July intramural c … An oddity: in a July intramural contest, batter Bickham claimed 58 runs of his team's 190 total, while the second most productive batsman mate scored 30, and 5 of his 10 teammates scored fewer than 6 runs each. One wonders what rule, or what typo, would lead to that result.le, or what typo, would lead to that result.)
Aipuni + (Andrews' 1865 "Dictionary pf the … Andrews' 1865 "Dictionary pf the Hawaiian Language" p. 279 contains the following:"Ki-ni-ho-lo. s. kini and holo, to run. the name of a particular game of ball, similar to base ball."Other sources say the more common name for a ball game is kinipopo. [ba]r sources say the more common name for a ball game is kinipopo. [ba])
1851.2 + (Angus Macfarlane's research shows … Angus Macfarlane's research shows that many New Yorkers were in San Francisco in early 1851, and in fact several formed a "Knickerbocker Association." Furthermore he discovered that several key members of the eastern Knickerbocker Base Ball Club -- including de Witt, Turk, Cartwright, Wheaton, Ebbetts, and Tucker -- were in town. "[I]n various manners and at various times they crossed each other's paths." Angus suggests that they may have been involved in the 1851 games, so it is possible that they were played by Knickerbocker rules . . . at a time when in New York most games were still intramural affairs within the one or two base ball clubs playing here.>)
1851.8 + (Another game in Sacramento was covered in April of 1854. John Thorn suggests that "the above 'game of ball' may be inferred to be baseball (I think).")
Soak Ball + (Anson also mentions: "I longed .... to be playing soak ball, bull pen or two old cat..." during this time (schoolboy days--he was born in 1852 and raised in Marshalltown, IA).)
Alert Club of Washington v Unique Club of Chicago in September 1871 + (Any indication as to why the second game report for this African American club cites a score for 8 innings?)

Targette + (Any new evidence on the nature and extent of targette play?)

1855.19 + (Articles published later in the & … Articles published later in the New York Clipper, the Spirit of the Times, the New-York Daily Times, and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle announced the first appearance in print of 18 new clubs in the Greater NYC region during 1855.> announced the first appearance in print of 18 new clubs in the Greater NYC region during 1855.)
1853.7 + (As a way of teaching nature [each … As a way of teaching nature [each chapter introduces several birds, insects, and "wild plants"] this book follows a group of boys and girls of unspecified age [post-pubescent, we guess] through a calendar year. The bass-ball/rounders reference above is one of the few times we run across both terms in a contemporary writing. So, now: Is the author denoting are there two distinct games with different rules, or just two distinct names for the same game? The syntax here leaves that distinction muddy, as it could be the former answer if the children played bass-ball and rounders separately that [June] day. Richard's take on the bass-ball/rounders ambiguity: "It is possible that there were two games the party played . . . but the likelier interpretation is that this was one game, with both names given to ensure clarity." David Block [email of 2/27/2008] agrees with Richard. Richard also says "It is possible that as the English dialect moved from "base ball" to "rounders," English society concurrently moved from the game being played primarily played by boys and only sometimes being played by girls. I am not qualified to say."being played by girls. I am not qualified to say.")
Rockford Club of Rockford + (As listed in the Box score of the … As listed in the Box score of the Chicago game (Trib, 8-24-70), the Rockford nine consisted of:Armstrong, Graham, Williams, Winn, Wright, Abraham, Pender, Kingman and Thomas.Rockford had 83 "colored" residents in 1870, per the census.lt;p>Rockford had 83 "colored" residents in 1870, per the census.)
1828.17 + (As of 2018, we do not know the lo … As of 2018, we do not know the location, game type, or rules for this game.It is interesting that the man identified his position as short stop, perhaps indicating that predecessor baserunning games in New England had already developed skill positions' decades before the Knickerbocker club formed. efore the Knickerbocker club formed. )
In Wellington on 17 November 1888 + (As of 2021, we know of two earlie … As of 2021, we know of two earlier game reports of games in NZ.See [[https://protoball.org/Marton_Base_Ball_Club]] (1881 game).See [[https://protoball.org/Hicks-Sawyer_Minstrel_Co._side_1_v_Hicks-Sawyer_Minstrel_Co._side_2_in_November_1888]] (unsourced 1888 game).Lyttleton is a nearby port city. The Hicks-Sawyer "negro" minstrel troupe toured New Zealand and Australia 1888-89. This troupe had its own baseball club, which played numerous games against the local clubs. Cf. Sydney Referee, Aug. 30, 1888; Melbourne Age, Feb. 23, 1889; Adelaide South Australian Register, April 8, 1889; Broken Hill Barrier Miner, April 20, 22, 1889. [ba];South Australian Register, April 8, 1889; Broken Hill Barrier Miner, April 20, 22, 1889. [ba])
London Base Ball Club v Club of Delaware Township on 12 September 1856 + (As of April 2021 this game is also listed under "predecessor games." The Delaware is a club of Delaware Township, 10 km west of London,)
1874.2 + (As of February 2017, data on earl … As of February 2017, data on early ballplaying in the Chattanooga area are sparse. They include five accounts of soldierly play during the Civil War and brief mentions of area base ball clubs after the warProtoball believes "shinny" to be a game resembling field hockey and ice hockey, and not a baserunning game.Protoball has only two other reports of the game of "baste" in a Princeton student's diary in 1786 and in a biography of Benjamin Harrison on his teenage activities in the Cincinnati area. A good guess is that baste was a variant spelling of "base," a base ball precursor.The Cleveland Banner is a newspaper in Cleveland TN. Banner is a newspaper in Cleveland TN. )
1840s.31 + (As of Jan 2013, this is one of th … As of Jan 2013, this is one of three uses of "gool" instead of "goal" in ballplaying entries, all in the 1850s and found in western MA and ME. [To confirm/update, do an Enhanced Search for "gool".] One of these, at [[1850s.33]] uses "gool" as the name of the game. See also Supplemental Text, below.;Supplemental Text, below.)
1738.1 + (As of January 2023, this appears to be one of Protoball's ten earliest reports of ballplaying in the United States, and the third to appear in what is now New York City. It may be the first know legal action taken against ballplaying.)
Bete-Ombro + (As of January 2023, this is all we know about Bete-ombro. The second rule, above, would seem to distinguish it from cricket.)

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