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• Aleut Baseball  + (<p>Can we discover the geographic range of play of this game?  Do local variations exist in Alaska?</p>)
• 1858.10  + (<p>Can we either verify or disprove the accuracy of this recollection?</p>)
• 1630c.3  + (<p>Can we find and inspect the 1935 Boas edition of the diary?</p>)
• 1858.58  + (<p>Can we find any clear basis for t … <p>Can we find any clear basis for the report of 1856 establishment of modern base ball? </p></br><p>[ba] Yes. </p></br><p>Andreas' Chicago, p. 613, says that the Union Base Ball Club organized Aug. 12, 1856.</p></br><p>Andreas' book claim is obviously referencing a notice in the <em>Chicago Daily Democratic Press</em>, Aug. 12, 1856, p. 3, col. 1:</p></br><p>"Union Base Ball Club.--A company of young men will meet this (Tuesday) evening at the Hope Hose Carriage House at 8 o'clock, to organize under the above name and elect officers for the year.</p></br><p>All active young men who need exercise and good sport, are invited to be present."</p>> <p>All active young men who need exercise and good sport, are invited to be present."</p>)
• 1845.16  + (<p>Can we find more hints about the rules that may have governed this match game?</p>)
• 1850s.1  + (<p>Can we find out details on the content of the Wiggins monograph>?</p>)
• 1805.8  + (<p>Can we find out more about the lo … <p>Can we find out more about the long, low wicket reportedly used in earliest forms of English cricket, and when the higher and narrower  wicket evolved there?</p></br><p>Can we find out more about Silliman's life and his age when touring England? </p>iman's life and his age when touring England? </p>)
• 1859.3  + (<p>Can we find out more about this game?</p>)
• 1860.29  + (<p>Can we find that <span>Clipper</span> report? Does the use of two backstops imply the continued application of tick-and-catch rules?</p>)
• 1829.5  + (<p>Can we find the source of this 1829 account?</p>)
• 1828.2  + (<p>Can we find the source, and some text, for this?</p>)
• 1858.31  + (<p>Can we find the <em>Mercury</em> story and/or coverage in Bristol and Waterbury papers? Add page reference.</p>)
• 1255.1  + (<p>Can we further specify the drawing and its creator?</p> <p>Can we learn how baseball historians and others interpret this artwork?</p> <p>Do we know why this drawing is dated to 1255?</p>)
• 1820s.18  + (<p>Can we get better data on Clark's age while at the Academy?</p>)
• 1866.14  + (<p>Can we guess why this innovation came to Cincinnati and not, say, to New York?</p>)
• 1853c.1  + (<p>Can we identify the seminary with the rival club, and determine whether it has any record of early ballplaying?</p>)
• 1805.2  + (<p>Can we imagine what "other machin … <p>Can we imagine what "other machines" were employed to propel balls in the streets of Portland?  <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Note:</span>  Additional origins researchers' comments on the meaning or "other machines" is shown in <strong>Supplemental Text</strong>, below.</p>rong>Supplemental Text</strong>, below.</p>)
• 1750s.3  + (<p>Can we interpret the baserunning rule allowing "a pace or jump to the base [the runner] was striving to reach?"  Plugging didn't count if the runner was close to the next base," perhaps?</p>)
• Touch-ball  + (<p>Can we learn more about touch-ball's rules and history?</p>)
• 1860.30  + (<p>Can we locate and examine this 1860 article? A: It is apparently not online.</p>)
• 1779.2  + (<p>Can we locate and inspect Shute's reference to bandy wicket?</p>)
• 1850s.4  + (<p>Can we now determine when the these clubs formed, and details on their play and durability?  Do we see ethnic clubs in other cities in the 1850s?</p>)
• 1830c.35  + (<p>Can we obtain a more precise estimate of when this card was made?</p> <p>Can we determine whether the card was distributed in America or in England? </p>)
• 1850s.13  + (<p>Can we obtain original sources?</p>)
• 1661.1  + (<p>Can we really assume that Galileo was familiar with 1600s stoolball and tennis?  Is it possible that this excerpt reflects commentary by Salusbury, rather that strict translation from the Italian source?</p>)

• 1818c.5  + (<p>Can we reconcile the conflicts in the two attributions?</p>)

• 1855.35  + (<p>Can we specify any of the rules in older game played earlier in 1855 by the Excelsiors?</p>)
• 1857.46  + (<p>Can we speculate that the game was played by adults?</p>)
• 1851.7  + (<p>Can we surmise that by using the term "old fashioned game," the newspaper is distinguishing it from the Knickerbocker game?</p>)
• 1844.15  + (<p>Comment is welcome on the interpr … <p>Comment is welcome on the interpretation of the three cryptic rule descriptions for this 12-player game.</p></br><p>[1] "One knock and catch out?"  Could this be taken to define one-out-side-out innings?  Or, that ticks counted as outs if caught behind the batter? Or something else?  <strong>Note: </strong>Richard Hershberger points out that 1OSO rules could not have likely allowed the scoring of 81 runs with no outs.  That would imply that the clubs may have used the All-Out-Side-Out rule.</p></br><p>[2] "Each one out for himself?"  Could batters continue in the batting order until retired?  That too, then, might imply the use of an All-Out-Side-Out inning format</p></br><p>[3] "Each side one inns?"  So the Whigs made those 81 "counts" in a single inning? </p></br><p>Richard Hershberger also surmises that the first two rules are meant to be conjoined: "One knock and catch out, each one out for himself."  That would declare that [a] caught fly balls (and, possibly, caught one-bound hits?) were to be considered outs, and that [b] batters who are put out would lose their place in the batting order that inning; but were there any known variants games for which such catches would <strong>not</strong> be considered outs?   </p>rong> be considered outs?   </p>)
• 1847.17  + (<p>Comments, research tips, speculation welcomed.</p> <p>And . . . what is the game called "gould?"</p> <p> </p>)
• 1847.11  + (<p>Could gentle readers please enlig … <p>Could gentle readers please enlighten Protoball on the nature and fate of "hook-em-snivy," in AL or the South or elsewhere? I asked Mister Google about the word, and he rather less helpfully and rather more cryptically than usual, said this: "My Quaker grandmother, born in Maryland in 1823, used [the word] in my hearing when she was about seventy years old. She said that it was a barbarism in use among common people and that we must forget it.</p>ng common people and that we must forget it.</p>)
• 1856.39  + (<p>Could some Illinoian help us better understand the early importance of town  ball in that fine state? </p>)
• 1853.3  + (<p>Could this be an American printing of an English volume?</p>)
• 1862.102  + (<p>Curious if anyone knows of intercity games between black clubs prior to September 1862 and any thoughts on what claim this game might have as an earliest known. [John Zinn]</p>)
• Alert Club of Brooklyn v Clayton Club of Hoboken on 2 January 1861  + (<p>Date ok?</p>)
• 1871.20  + (<p>David Block, et al: Could Chadwick have believed that Two-Old-Cat was also the parent of British Rounders? The term was known over there before rounders was, no?</p> <p>Page and pub site of the 1871 Manual?</p> <p> </p>)
• 1844.18  + (<p>Did "It is a free exercise" mean roughly what it means today? </p>)
• 1845c.24  + (<p>Did Crapo leave behind autobiographical accounts that we could check for youthful ballplaying recollections?  Do we find contemporary usage of the term "rounders" in this area?</p>)
• 1859.67  + (<p>Did DeBost actually stay retired at this point?</p>)
• 1855c.1  + (<p>Did King grow up in MA?  Do we know why this ref. is dated c1855?</p>)
• 1825c.1  + (<p>Did Weed advert to 3-out half innings, or did Adams?</p>)
• BC750.1  + (<p>Did any of the Greek games share attributes with modern baseball?</p>)
• BC2000 to 1000ADc.1  + (<p>Did any of these games feature base-running?  Batting?  Has the last 65 years of scholarship added detail to this sweeping claim?</p>)
• 1871.12  + (<p>Did the March 17 date hold up?  Was it held in NYC?</p> <p>Was St. Patrick's Day an extra special day in the 1870s?</p> <p>Was Chadwick's departure a matter of controversy?  Why?</p>)
• 1871.17  + (<p>Did the Mutuals themselves claim the best 1870 record, or just the NABBP Championship, or what?</p>)
• Potomac Club of Washington v National Club of Washington on 5 May 1860  + (<p>Did the Potomac score 35 or 37 runs?</p>)
• Rough and Ready Ball Club v Aristonican Ball Club on 29 October 1859undefined  + (<p>Did the Rough and Ready club also play a form of base ball?  [As of March 2022, Protoball lists 9 refs of Rough and Ready clubs in MA, mostly from South Walpole; none from Brookline.  We have no other refs to a Aristonican club.]</p>)
• Cricket -- US  + (<p>Did the league fold after this one year?</p> <p>Is there some source in which such US and/or Canadian cricket leagues are displayed?</p>)
• 1868.1  + (<p>Did this club form at a ladies' school, a secondary school, a finishing school?  What was the age of the players?</p>)
• Poisoned Ball  + (<p>Did this game employ baserunning?</p>)