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...games absolutely necessary to the clubs which had hitherto abstained from playing on the first day of the week, at home, at least. [Goes on the discuss Wash

...games, to the evolution of base ball.  He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an

|Headline=Ball-Playing by Slaves Is Eyed in SC ...f Negroes in the Town [Beaufort, SC] on Sundays, and playing games of Trap-ball and Fives, which is not taken proper notice of by Magistrates, Constables,

|Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls ...ive ball are most common." <b>Note: "</b>Up-ball?" "Drive ball?" No town ball?</p>

...Windsor Beach, the Sunday grounds of the Syracuse and Rochester clubs, the games have been stopped.</p>

...e formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>

|Title=Spring training by playing handball ...ers of out national game. Of course, very little can be learned in a hand ball alley in regard to the very essential point of batting; but if the men bec

...e 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? ...e Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>

|Headline=Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball ...referred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."</p>

...s that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the playing of a complicated form of catch, one that involved feints to deceive other p ...ng to milder forms of ball play, he said "I believe that in this form ball playing is also superior to all the other exercises." His partiality to ballplaying

...es by playing at cricket and other games, and the girls by playing at base ball, &c."</p>

|Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...ice on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di

...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> ...as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball playing.</p>

|Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...ng, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed."&nbsp;</p>

...modern field hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> ...the playing of bandy in the streets. In 1858 boys were arrested in DC for playing bandy on the streets (Washington Star, Nov. 27, 1858).</p>

...commercial nine matches have come to be the great feature of amateur ball playing in the metropolis; and by amateur play we do not mean that so called amateu

...ased to say that I have this day completed the entire circuit, playing two games in each city with each club as follows...</p> ...y with men of honor, such as those who compose the Brotherhood, instead of playing against contract jumpers, oath violators, etc.? For good practice for any

|Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. ...cket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in any public place, shall . . . " [be fined one dollar].</p>

|Term=Corner Ball |Game Family=Hat ball

|Name=Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 5 October 1858 |Home Team=Syracuse Base Ball Club