Search results

|Game=Long Town Ball ...rows at him. The suspense under which the victim was while waiting for the ball to strike was telling.

|Headline=Indianans Play Town Ball, Two Old Cat |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games

|Headline=Long Ball in Vermont |Game=Long Ball (US Batting Game)

...even though many writers had suggested that that English pastime was base ball's progenitor.   -- Larry McCray, 5/23/2023      &n == List of Predecessor Games ==

...tter part of March, so that in the mean time they will secure a large down-town office as a starter. New York Sun January 4, 1889</p> ...Mr. Becannon will try to secure teams from the largest business houses in town. New York Sun January 11, 1889</p>

...s claims to have unraveled the problem so long enveloping the Detroit base ball club. The following disposition of the club and players it says was obtain ...sociation but it will be cleaner and not so noisy. And that will suit the town. Cleveland Plain Dealer October 16, 1888</p>

|Headline=Town-ball Played in Ohio with "Lazarus" Rule |Game=Town Ball

|Headline=In GA, Men Played Fives, Schoolboys Played Base and Town Ball |Game=Town Ball

...ded at 5:30, after which all engaged in base-ball, dancing, nice walks and long walks.”</p>

|Game=Town Ball ...a three-cornered game and a paddle instead of a bat was used to strike the ball.</p>The author of this book was born in 1862. The date refereed to above is

|Description=<p>A fungo game in which a player who catches the ball on the fly qualifies to become the hitter. Regionally variant names include ...all, but it compares the latter to "town ball" and "knock ball." Is "knock ball" another name for "knock out"?</p>

...e Polo Grounds. The field at Hoboken can be reached from down town and up town quicker than the Polo Grounds, and instead of the line hot ride in the elev ...lub already has new grounds in view and they are neither in New Jersey nor Long Island. They are right here in New York. As those new grounds will not be

...r 20 (July 17, 1858), p. 309, columns. 2-3 Alton IL is a Mississippi River town 5 miles north of St. Louis. Missouri.</p> ...organization of the Alton team and mention that it was playing the game of ball that had been around for many years.</p>

...iants it means a return journey in a overpacked ferry boat, a long ride up town home and dinner somewhere about eight o'clock. How many times a week will ...loss, as many New Yorkers prefer going to the Brooklyn games to taking the long ride to Staten Island. The Sporting Life May 15, 1889</p>

|Title=A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball ...60]), pp. 54-56), the father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more like

...t will come off this afternoon at 3 o'clock in Dr. Earle's field,adjoining town. We have no doubt the scene will quite interesting to spectators." (Easton ...an opportunity of joining a Base Ball Club, proposed to be formed in this town. A meeting will be held this Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in the Lyceum Ro

|Title="A Good Many Different Kinds of Ball" ...arming 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel

.... The important changes are to take place next week. Detectives watching ball players is the very latest novelty in connection with the national game, bu ...two of the players didn’t go to bed at all. On the Fourth they played two games with the Pittsburg team and both clubs played wretchedly. ...</p>

|Headline="Many Different Kinds of Ball" Remembered |Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball

...bservation, and also some of my friends, during the last four years of the ball-playing mania . . . &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Base ball cannot date back to so far as [cricket],&nbsp;but the game has no doubt, be