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• 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>)
• Robert Morris BBC of Philadelphia  + (<p>Composed of the members of the Robert Morris Hose Company.  This department was founded on March 14, 1831 and was located on Lombard Street above 8th Street.</p>)
• 1861.47  + (<p>Contents of the 1860 Beadles publ … <p>Contents of the 1860 Beadles publication include:</p></br><p>[] a description of the game of rounders</p></br><p>[] the 1845 Knickerbocker Rules (14 sections on field rules)</p></br><p>[] A listing of 22 clubs formed 1845-1857</p></br><p>[] The 1858 establishment of the NABBP</p></br><p>[] The NABBP Rules of 1860 (38 sections)</p></br><p>[] The 1858 Rules of the Massachusetts Game (21 Sections)</p></br><p>[]Rules for the Formation of a Club</p></br><p>The 1861 edition is reported to include player averages (runs per game)</p>> <p>[]Rules for the Formation of a Club</p> <p>The 1861 edition is reported to include player averages (runs per game)</p>)
• Clipping:A late example of the Massachusetts game  + (<p>Copied from another posting</p>)
• 1778.7  + (<p>Corlear's Hook was a noted ship landing place along the East River. Today there's a Corlears Hook Park on the site.</p>)
• Quickstep Club of Paterson v Active Club of Newark on 24 June 1864  + (<p>Correcting score from Daily Register of 6/25</p>)
• Oina  + (<p>Corrections and addition to this … <p>Corrections and addition to this account are encouraged.  If readers know of Romanian speakers willing to help, some central questions include:</p></br><p>[] What are the major playing rules?</p></br><p>[] Does the game remain widely popular?</p></br><p>[] What is know of the origins and history of the sport?</p>lt;/p> <p>[] What is know of the origins and history of the sport?</p>)
• 1855.21  + (<p>Craig Waff reported that, as far as he could tell, this was the first game in which the size of the assembled crowd was reported.</p>)
• 1867.9  + (<p>Creation of  phantom jobs for ballplayers was a commonplace in baseball's amateur era.</p>)
• Pottsville Cricket Club in July 1858  + (<p>Cricket Club in Pottsville 1858-66, and perhaps earlier.</p> <p>A "Ball Club" is mentioned in the same newspaper in 1843, but this might refer to "foot ball" (soccer).</p>)