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• 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>)
• Chatham Club of Chatham  + (<p>Chatham was known as "Chatham Four Corners" until 1869.</p>)
• Chicopee Club of Groton v Riverside Base Ball Club of Nashua on 19 June 1869  + (<p>Chicopee of Groton (Senior club)</p> <p>Riverside of Nashua (Junior club)</p>)
• 1859.6  + (<p>Chris Hauser, in an email on 9/26/2007, estimates that this notice appeared in the <em>New York Anglo-African</em>, and was referenced in Leslie Heaphy's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Negro League Baseball.</span></p>)
• 1840.16  + (<p>Chron serial#1840.16 was formerly assigned to stories of Abe Lincoln's ballplaying as a young man; see #[[1830s.16]] for that item.</p>)

• 1859.19  + (<p>Cilley himself does not attribute the 1859 injuries to plugging.</p>)

• 1857.17  + (<p>Clark then cites "a well-traveled … <p>Clark then cites "a well-traveled myth in the American baseball community . . . that the first baseball played in Australia was by Americans on the gold fields of Ballarat in 1857 . . . . No documentation has ever been produced for a Ballarat gold fields game [also page 5]."</p> a Ballarat gold fields game [also page 5]."</p>)
• In Clarksburg Circa 1850  + (<p>Clarksburg had 895 residents in 1860.</p>)
• 1823c.9  + (<p>Clay's book, which seems to make no other reference to ball-playing, was accessed 11/15/2008 via a Google Books search for <life of cassius>.</p>)
• Club of Fox Lake, WI v Club of Courtland on 4 June 1859  + (<p>Club is of Fox Lake, WI not IL</p>)
• Excelsior Club of Ridgewood  + (<p>Club was formed about 7/1/1865</p>)
• Riverside Club of Nashua  + (<p>Club was organized October 1867, and reorganized March 11, 1868.</p>)
• In Apia on 16 October 1917  + (<p>Collins, "Sea-tracks of the Speejacks" (1923) p. 48 has a photo of Americans and Samoans playing baseball in Pago Pago. Pago Pago is in American Samoa.</p>)
• Keystone Club of Newark  + (<p>Colored - African-American Club, played in 1866, 1867 and 1868</p>)
• Arlington Club of New Brunswick  + (<p>Colored Club</p>)
• Hamilton Club of Newark  + (<p>Colored or African-American Club, played matches in 1865 and 1866</p>)