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• Chippawa v Penetergushene in Chippawa on 29 May 1815  + (<p>Is it possible, given the set  team size of eleven players, that this game was actually played by the rules of cricket? [lm]</p>)
• 1840.16  + (<p>Is it safe to infer that Cape Island is on the NJ shore, near Cape May?</p>)
• 1856.10  + (<p>Is it significant that this book features games for adolescents, not younger children?</p> <p>Answer: the articles cited in the comment make clear that Grand Theque, at least, was played by adults as well as children. [ba]</p>)
• 1844.20  + (<p>Is it time to define "baseball card" a bit more narrowly in declaring a first?? </p>)
• 1818c.7  + (<p>Is more known about Schubert's interest in ballplaying (if any)?</p> <p>Do we know of baserunning games in the Vienna area in this era?</p>)
• In Wellington on 17 November 1888  + (<p>Is the "newly-established" Wellington club" the NZ Pioneer Club?</p> <p> </p>)
• 1785.3  + (<p>Is the Homestall Lane ref meant to convey that the competing sides within the county are to be determined by a player's residence on one or the other of the lane? [See Block reply above.]</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>)
• 1630.4  + (<p>Is the Wiltshire County website's URL available? Is it still operative?</p> <p>Is the original source of the data given?</p>)
• 1833.8  + (<p>Is the drawing associated with a song that may offer a clue? </p>)
• Banana Ball  + (<p>Is the history of this variant to be found somewhere?</p>)
• 1864.58  + (<p>Is the reported date correct?  A July 24 match was reported on July 10? </p>)
• 1856.5  + (<p>Is there a claim that this is the earliest appearance of the term "national pastime" to denote base ball?</p>)
• 1859.35  + (<p>Is there a good account of this negotiation and its outcome in the literature? How and when was the issue resolved?</p>)
• 1873.12  + (<p>Is there a good source for Elizabeth Cady Stanton's interest in 19C base ball? </p>)
• 1861.1  + (<p>Is there a primary source for this claim?</p> <p>Yes, NYC 3-30-61. [ba]</p>)
• Stoolball  + (<p>Is there a recent publication that covers evidence concerning stoolball's earliest playing rules?</p>)
• 1800c.1  + (<p>Is there a way to check the approximate year that the historian is depicting in this passage? </p>)
• Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 22 May 1856  + (<p>Is there ambiguity about whether this intramural game was played in Hoboken NJ or Manhattan NY?  Did baseballchronology.com give a source for this game?  Was it played at Elysian Fields?</p>)
• 1854.2  + (<p>Is there any detailed indication, or educated guess, as to what rules the Olympics uses in 1854?</p>)
• 1847.7  + (<p>Is there any indication of what Tompkins' source might have been?</p>)
• 1859.4  + (<p>Is there any indication that Association rules were used by the reported base bal club?</p>)
• 1835.6  + (<p>Is there any indication that girls could or did play base ball in this text?</p>)
• 1862.113  + (<p>Is there further evidence on the suggestion that evidence for Cartwright's base ball leadership was lost in a fire after his death? </p>)
• Hildegarde  + (<p>Is there further evidence that this game was actually played, or was it publicized mainly to sell equipment?  What features does Hildegard have that contemporary stoolball lacked?</p> <p>Do we know what years and what locations saw this game?</p>)
• 1850s.18  + (<p>Is there some way to discover the documentary basis for this report?</p>)

• 1852.14  + (<p>Is this a recollection or a work of fiction?</p>)

• 1862.22  + (<p>Is this crowd estimate reasonable? Are other contemporary or reflective accounts available?</p> <p>The crowd estimate is exaggerated. There weren't anywhere near 40,000 troops on the island at that time. [ba]</p>)
• Hit the Bat  + (<p>Is this game known by other names other than those collected above?</p>)
• 1867.1  + (<p>Is this game properly thought of as a national championship?</p>)
• Onondaga Longball  + (<p>Is this game related to European forms of long ball?</p>)
• 1886.1  + (<p>Is this indeed the first such trophy in base ball history?</p>)
• 1857.32  + (<p>Is this item newsworthy because it is an early Providence ballclub, because it is a pioneering daybreak club, or neither?</p>)
• Adjutant General's Office of Washington  + (<p>Is this just a one-time club?</p>)
• Club of Granby  + (<p>Is this the Granby Club of Neosho?</p>)
• Rough and Ready Club of South Walpole  + (<p>Is this the club that played the Massapoag of Sharon in June 1857?</p>)
• 1854.5  + (<p>Is this the first base ball club organized in Brooklyn?</p>)
• 1858.39  + (<p>Is this the first club established in CA since 1851? [Cf #1851.2, #1852.7, #1859.5]</p>)
• 1856.21  + (<p>Is this the first known NJ club well outside the NY metropolitan area?</p>)
• 1855.36  + (<p>Is this the first known report of African American club play of the New York game?</p> <p>See Supplemental Text, below, for John Zinn's view on this question. </p>)
• 1859.51  + (<p>Is this the first time, as far as we know, that females played base ball by modern rules?</p>)
• BC2400c.1  + (<p>It would be good to confirm details in an academic source and to see whether Egyptologists have any other interpretations of this text – and how Egyptian rites employed the ball as a symbol of fertility. </p>)
• 1850s.14  + (<p>It would be interesting to know how much velocity of deliveries increased with the change to overhand throwing. </p>)
• 1854.11  + (<p>It would be interesting to know if this game included outs made by the plugging baserunners.</p>)
• BC100.1  + (<p>It would be interesting to know what particular features of Irish lore gave Lang the feeling that cricket stemmed from ancient Irish sources.</p>)
• 1800s.11  + (<p>It would be useful to know when a … <p>It would be useful to know when and where the author's youth was spent; Hugh points out that the clip's reference to "muster day" implies that writer is likely depicting New England practices. If the "father" was in his thirties [pure conjecture] he is here reflecting on bat and ball play from the 1800-1810 period.</p>bat and ball play from the 1800-1810 period.</p>)
• 1852.2  + (<p>John Thorn interprets this phrase … <p>John Thorn interprets this phrase to denote two games, [[bat-ball]] and base-ball. Others just see it as a local variant of the term base-ball. Is the truth findable here?  Note that Brian Turner, in <em>"The Bat and Ball": A Distinct Game or a Generic Term?,</em> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>, volume 5, number 1, p. 37 ff, suggests that 'bat and ball" may have been a distinct game played in easternmost New England.</p>distinct game played in easternmost New England.</p>)
• 1782.3  + (<p>Like, who is El?</p>)
• 1812c.1  + (<p>Listed Source seems incomplete or garbled.  Help?</p>)
• 1830s.13  + (<p>MacDougall asks: "Mary Mitford seems to have a pretty good idea of what the girls are playing, when they play at 'baseball' but it seems to have little or nothing to do with the sport we now call by that name. Does anyone know what it was?"</p>)
• 1867.25  + (<p>Might the <em>New England B … <p>Might the <em>New England Base</em> <em>Ballist,</em> still alive in 1868, show more about the final passing on the game?<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br/></span></p></br><p>All in all, does the Mass Game differ in major ways from English Base Ball as we now understand it?</p> does the Mass Game differ in major ways from English Base Ball as we now understand it?</p>)
• Monitor Club of New York v Olympic Club of Brooklyn on 26 April 1862  + (<p>Monitor of Brooklyn? </p>)