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• 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>)
• 1872.8  + (<p>Do we know how Cleveland media covered this sad event?</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>)
• 1833.3  + (<p>Does Maxwell show evidence for his interpretation of cricket's progenitors?</p>)
• 1860s.86  + (<p>Does Smith reveal his source for the pre-1970 box score?</p>)
• BC2000c.1  + (<p>Does recent scholarship agree that these were balls, were used in sport, and date to 2000 BC? Is there further evidence about their role in Egyptian life?</p>)
• 1824.7  + (<p>Does the context of this excerpt reveal anything further about the region, circumstance, or participants in this ball-playing?</p>)
• 1820.29  + (<p>Does the context of this passage … <p>Does the context of this passage clearly imply that girls played base ball? </p></br><p>Is the author suggesting that base ball was considered an "old-fashioned" pastime in 1821?</p></br><p>Where was <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Early Education</span> published?</p>ext-decoration: underline;">Early Education</span> published?</p>)
• 1858.29  + (<p>Does the final sentence imply that earlier games of ball had recently been played?</p>)
• 1832c.2  + (<p>Does the lineage from these two c … <p>Does the lineage from these two clubs to the Knickerbockers and Gothams (but not Magnolias) stem from common membership rolls?</p></br><p>Can we find additional sources on the two 1832 clubs? Do we have any notion of Wood's possible sources?</p></br><p> </p>ave any notion of Wood's possible sources?</p> <p> </p>)
• 1809.1  + (<p>Does the sum of 80 guineas as the game's stakes imply anything about the players?</p>)
• 1826.3  + (<p>Does this item suggest that 'base … <p>Does this item suggest that 'base ball' was a term used in Philadelphia in 1826?  In Boston in 1826?</p></br><p>Was the Gymnasium actually established in Boston?  Was ballplaying among its activities?  <span>Was gymnastics seen in the Commons in the early years?</span></p></br><p><span>Isn't this ref a very early appearance of the term foot ball in the US?  Can we learn what rules may have applied?</span> </p>in the US?  Can we learn what rules may have applied?</span> </p>)
• 1827.4  + (<p>Does this manual cover other safe-haven games?  Other batting games?  Other games with plugging?</p>)
• City Club of Knoxville  + (<p>Duplicate listing for the Knoxville club? Probably not, as the Knoxville Free Press, Sept. 4, 1867 mentions the Holston, Knoxville, City, Emmet and University BBCs. [ba]</p>)
• 1861.27  + (<p>Duplicate of 1861.16?</p>)
• 1861.26  + (<p>Duplicate of 1861.18?</p>)