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- 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>)
- BC 2,000,000c.1 + (<p>Do British researchers agree that cricket-style bowling would be less effective as a hunting technique?</p> <p>Do published comments on this paper add insights?</p>)
- BC2500c.1 + (<p>Do contemporary archeologists and … <p>Do contemporary archeologists and/or historians agree that such items were evidence of play? Have they since found older artifacts that may be associated with cat-like games, or ball games? Can they suggest any rules for such games... Batting? Running? Fielding? Team Play?</p>es... Batting? Running? Fielding? Team Play?</p>)
- 1747.1 + (<p>Do modern scholars agree with the 1747 publication date?</p> <p>Is it fair to assume that Gray is evoking student play at Eton in this ode?</p>)
- 1850c.44 + (<p>Do these estimates jibe with current assessments?</p>)
- Richmond Club of Richmond + (<p>Do we have a date for the foundation of this club?</p>)
- 1856.35 + (<p>Do we have any additional information on where in Brooklyn Pearce and his friends were playing the old-fashioned game in the 1850s?</p>)
- 1841.15 + (<p>Do we have any other references to wicket in LA before 1844? Could the <em>Picayune </em>simply have copied an article from a distant newspaper.</p> <p>Can we learn how broadly barn ball was played n the US? In other nations?</p>)
- 1810s.9 + (<p>Do we have any way to tell the ages of the participants in the recalled game?</p>)
- 1854.16 + (<p>Do we have evidence that the Eagle preferred, at least initially, a variant playing field? Or did the Eagle Club just assign this diagramming exercise to some Harvard person?</p> <p>Is this image published in some recent source?</p>)
- 1838.9 + (<p>Do we know a location for this report?</p>)
- 1787.2 + (<p>Do we know how old the brothers w … <p>Do we know how old the brothers were in 1787? Do we know where they might have become with wicket?</p></br><p>Three times of what? Is wicket known to have 3-out-side-out half-innings? I couldn't mean three strikes, right? Maybe three non-forward hits?</p></br><p> </p>hree non-forward hits?</p> <p> </p>)
- 1867.6 + (<p>Do we know if Hits were defined in about the way we would define them today?</p>)
- 1872.1 + (<p>Do we know if there are interesting variants in other clubs' rules? </p>)
- 1855.37 + (<p>Do we know if this plan was carried out? How was the victor decided among participating towns?</p>)
- Eagle Base Ball Club of New York + (<p>Do we know more about Eagle games after 1868? Our game data stops then. </p>)
- 1872.16 + (<p>Do we know more about Thomas "Tim" Hall's role in early Boston base ball?</p> <p>Do we know why the named English gentlemen had come to the US beforehand?</p> <p>Do we know the names of Boston and Philly players planning to go?</p> <p> </p>)
- 1870.14 + (<p>Do we know more about the fate of the Union Grounds and Boston sports?</p>)
- Washington Game + (<p>Do we know more about this rule variant?</p> <p>Was it deployed more broadly by AA players? By others?</p>)
- 1846.21 + (<p>Do we know of other field days like this one in this early period? Can we guess who organized this one, and why? Do we know if the Knicks traveled to Brooklyn that day?</p>)
- -2600c.1 + (<p>Do we know of speculation -- or evidence -- as to how this piggy-back ball game might have been played, and how it could have been made attractive to it players?</p>)
- Zephyrs of East Lexington + (<p>Do we know the Kelleher source?</p>)
- 1862.58 + (<p>Do we know the location of these … <p>Do we know the location of these Regiments in May 1862? Who was Captain Cary writing to?</p></br><p>The 2nd MA and 3rd WI were at/near Harrisonburg, VA on May 3, 1862. This entry is based on the letters of Cary to his wife, at the MA Historical Society. [ba]</p>ary to his wife, at the MA Historical Society. [ba]</p>)
- In Nashua in April 1847 + (<p>Do we know what "long ball" was?</p>)
- 824.1 + (<p>Do we know what Chinese "ballplaying" was like in the ninth century?</p>)
- 1860.90 + (<p>Do we know what is meant by the n … <p>Do we know what is meant by the note that Creighton "batted out of the pitcher's position?"</p></br><p>(In reply, John Thorn (email, 10/4/16) writes, "For a while batting orders were constructed by numbered position, so that the lineup would be pitcher, catcher, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF. But I speculate. . . .")</p>er, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF. But I speculate. . . .")</p>)
- 1854.1 + (<p>Do we know what pitching distances were used in games played before 1854?</p> <p>Is it seen as merely coincidental that the specifications of a base ball were so close to those of a cricket ball?</p>)
- 1855.33 + (<p>Do we know what "makes the most innings" means in the newspaper account?</p>)
- 1860.94 + (<p>Do we know whether and how Chadwick referenced foul territory prior to 1860?</p> <p>Do we know of other prior usage of "foul lines"??</p> <p> </p>)
- 1857.29 + (<p>Do we now know any more about this event? Was it an intramural game? Was a six-player side common in Philadelphia town ball? Was a gold ring a typical prize for winning?</p>)
- Olympic Club of Philadelphia + (<p>Do we really only have three games for this historic clubs, which endured until 1887?</p>)
- 1864.6 + (<p>Do we the role of the 30th in February 1864? </p> <p>Are there any indications as to whether NY or MA or other game rules were employed?</p>)
- Detroit Base Ball Club of Detroit + (<p>Do we think the club formed in April 1865 was the same group that formed in the 1850s? Given the intervening war, could it have been a separate undertaking?</p>)
- 1850.61 + (<p>Do you have other interpretations of the game as depicted? </p> <p>Could that object out near the tree be a baserunning post . . . or a even a wicket?</p>)
- 1845.10 + (<p>Does Block link the two descriptions, or does the German text cite the French game</p>)
- 1841.11 + (<p>Does Jamieson describe other ballgames?</p>)