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• Clipping:An interracial game  + (<p>Brunson, "Black Baseball" says this Albion Club organized in 1868, but presents no cite prior to 1872. [ba]</p>)
• 1850s.49  + (<p>Buckland is about 45 miles north … <p>Buckland is about 45 miles north of Portland.</p></br><p>The ages of players is not clear.</p></br><p>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 [[1850s.33]] uses "gool" as the name of the game.</p>1850s.33]] uses "gool" as the name of the game.</p>)
• In Buffalo in 1856  + (<p>Buffalo Evening Post, April 4, 1851 ran an ad about a meeting to form a cricket club. </p> <p>Same July 15, 1856 mentions a proposed Albion Cricket Club. Same club as the Amateur?</p>)
• 1844.18  + (<p>By "plebeian," the writer presumably meant "not upper-class."</p>)
• 1860.83  + (<p>By 1860, most Massachusetts Rules games were being played to 75 runs, instead of the 100 specified in the rules adopted in 1858. A match for the state championship was abandoned, unfinished, after four days' play.</p>)
• Hansong YMCA Team Club of Seoul  + (<p>By 1920 there was a Korea baseball championship. See www.projectcobb.org.uk</p>)
• Lawrence Base Ball Club of Cambridge  + (<p>Cambridge had 26,060 residents in 1860.</p>)
• 1864.18  + (<p>Camp Sedgwick was in northern VA. FORT Sedgwick was near Petersburg, and not built after the Battle of the Wilderness. [ba]</p>)
• 1861.19  + (<p>Camp Seminary was located near Fairfax Seminary in Alexandria VA, near Washington DC. </p> <p>One may infer that the 2^nd NJ remained at winter quarters in Alexandria VA at this time, providing protection to Washington. </p>)
• Sacramento Base Ball Club v Union Club of Sacramento on 22 February 1860  + (<p>Can we determine Spalding's sources for this account?  Is the game account clear that New York rules were used?</p>)

• Mechanics Ball Club of Waltham  + (<p>Can we determine if this game was played by Mass game rules?</p>)

• Red Rover Base Ball Club of San Francisco  + (<p>Can we discover more about this club's foundation, history, and fate? </p>)
• 1857.30  + (<p>Cannot confirm this source. The rules described appeared in the <em>New York Clipper, </em>October 10, 1857.</p>)
• 1844.16  + (<p>Canton, NY is about 15 miles SE o … <p>Canton, NY is about 15 miles SE of Ogdensburg NY.  Its population in 2000 was a bit over 10,000.</p></br><p>Ogdensburg [1853 population "about 6500"] is about 60 miles [NE] down the St. Lawrence River from Lake Ontario.  It is about 60 miles south of Ottawa, about 120 miles north of Syracuse, and about 125 miles SW (upriver) of Montreal.</p>miles SW (upriver) of Montreal.</p>)
• Whitney  + (<p>Catcher</p>)
• Flour City Club of Rochester v Niagara Club of Buffalo on 3 September 1858  + (<p>Caution: Protoball has them playing in Buffalo that day, with a different score.</p>)
• Bonafon  + (<p>Center Field. Also spelled "Bonaf … <p>Center Field. Also spelled "Bonaffon" and "Bonnaffon" in other sources. The Nashville City Directory lists "FV Bonnaffin" as a clerk for the quartermaster at a railroad depot. In 1867, "F.V. Bonnaffon" was stationed under the Nashville quartermaster in Kentucky.</p>der the Nashville quartermaster in Kentucky.</p>)
• Marion Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>Cf Marion Base Ball Club of South Brooklyn. [ba]</p>)
• 1860.6  + (<p>Chadwick emigrated from western E … <p>Chadwick emigrated from western England, and is reported to have been familiar with rounders there.</p></br><p>His claim that American base ball had evolved from English rounders was long refuted by fans of the American game.</p></br><p>In 1871 Chadwick identified Two-Old-Cat as the parent of American base ball.  See [[1871.20]] </p></br><p> </p></br><p> </p>[1871.20]] </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>)
• Was Baseball Really Invented in Maine?  + (<p>Chapter 1 deals with baseball in Maine from statehood well into the 20th century and he does tie some of the early stories to newspaper documentation.</p>)
• When Towns Had Teams  + (<p>Chapters 1 and 2 deal with early Maine baseball.</p>)