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|Game=Town Ball, Corner Ball ...iption=The schoolyard games were quoits, hop scotch, corner ball, and town ball.The source gives neither an exact date nor location, but from the context i

|Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |Game=Cricket, Old-Cat Games, Town Ball

|Headline=Town Ball and Ballmaking in OH |Tags=The Ball,

|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>

...traight Town”, which he played while a pupil at the old-time school? These games have made school life more tolerable for many a boy. ...e ball, he was out. If he had not crossed the ball, he could return to the corner passed, provided he was not recrossed or the corners were not “full”. U

|Name=Honey Run Town Ball Club of Germantown v Marion Town Ball Club of Germantown on 24 November 1859undefined |Game=Town Ball

|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

...0, base ball was unknown in the villages of Michigan. . . . The first base ball club organized in Benton Harbor was known as the Wolverines. It was made u </p><p>"In Benton Harbor the games were played on the Morton ball ground on Morton Hill."

! City/Town Playing Field ...ual number of residents of this village.  … The Programme consisted of two games of eleven tallies, and one of twenty-one, …”)</p>

...n accrue points based on the distance from the circle to the where the hit ball lands. A version described by Newell[39] allows the batter to elevate and h ...is placed on the ground in the middle of a big circle and a player uses a "ball stick" to hit one end of it to launch it into the air. As it comes down he

! City/Town Playing Field ...imes</i>, vol. 4, no. 20 (17 Jul 1858), p. 309, cols. 2-3</p> <p>(2) “Base-Ball in Illinois,” <i>New York Clipper,</i> [?] Jun 1858</p>

|Headline=Lincoln Awaits Nomination, Plays Town Ball . . . or Handball? |Game=Town Ball

! City/Town Playing Field | <p>(1) “Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: New Windsor <i>vs.</i> Newburg,” <i>Porter’s Spirit of the Times,</i>

|Headline=Graves Letters of 1905 Say that Doubleday Invented Base Ball |Game=Town Ball

! City/Town Playing Field ...s</p> <p>Schaeffer’s side, 73 regular circuits and 6 grannies</p> <p>(town ball)</p>

|Headline=A Founder of the Gothams Remembers "First Ball Organization in the US" |Game=Base Ball,Old-Cat Games

...rubber could be pressed into a solid ball. Yarn was then wound around the ball and a cobbler would be paid $ 0.25 to sew on a cover.</p></ref> <ref> ...ring for the Next Season&rsquo;s Trade - Dead Balls Going Out of Favor - Ball Makers&rsquo; Wages.

! City/Town Playing Field ...>Jones’s side 24</p> <p>(4-inning, due to darkness)</p> <p>(Louisiana Base Ball Club intra-club game)</p> <p>(<i>The Daily Picayune (New Orleans):</i> “T

|Title=What Was Town Ball, Anyway? |Description=A Source-Based Description of Town Ball Play

! City/Town Playing Field | <p>Lightweights</p> <p>Heavyweights</p> <p>(Star Base Ball Club intra-club game)</p>