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• 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>)
• Rigoball  + (<p>Most coverage known to date is a decade old or older.  Is the game thriving now?</p>)
• 1598.4  + (<p>Note: do later writers agree that this was mere coincidence?</p>)
• 1815.8  + (<p>OK, was the game played a batting/baserunning game or a form of handball?  Does the term "knocked" over the wall give any clue?</p>)
• 1862.4  + (<p>On what authority did it convey championship status?</p>)
• Kwadrant  + (<p>One Polish writer (W. Liponski) suggests that kwadrant is similat to [[palant]]. Are details available?</p>)
• 1848.5  + (<p>One wonders whether an earlier English edition of this book was later published; it is not online as of February 2013.</p>)
• 1749.2  + (<p>Only two players were named for t … <p>Only two players were named for this account.  Was that because the Prince and Lord Middlesex both led clubs not worthy of mentioning by name, or was there a two-player version of the game then (in the 1800s competitive games of cricket were similarly reported with only two named players)?</p> reported with only two named players)?</p>)
• Base Ball Club of Ottawa  + (<p>Ottawa had 21,000 residents in 1871.</p>)
• 1857.18  + (<p>Our holy grail! Our lost ark! Is there evidence that replies were received and analyzed?</p>)
• 1866.10  + (<p>Protoball would welcome input on how the rules of this game differed, if at all, from other games using "cat" in their names.</p>)
• 1849.16  + (<p>Richard asks:  "I don't recognize … <p>Richard asks:  "I don't recognize the individuals. These clearly are men of substance, so I expect they can be tracked down. The mention of "the club" is intriguing. Is this an actual organized club, with or without baseball as its primary purpose? Or is that an informal usage?"</p></br><p>Abijah Ingraham was a newspaper editor and Dem Party politician. [ba[</p> and Dem Party politician. [ba[</p>)
• 1857.31  + (<p>Rounders made a comeback later, at least as a school yard game played mostly be female players.  Is it clear whether the game was played significantly among men and boys before 1857?</p>)
• Arctic Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>Same as Arctic of East Brooklyn?</p>)
• Columbia Jr. Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>Same as Columbia Club of East Brooklyn?</p>)
• Pacific Club of Elizabeth  + (<p>Same as Pacific Jr. Club?</p>)
• Zephyr Club of Greenpoint  + (<p>Same as Zephyr of Brooklyn and Little Zephyrs of Greenpoint?</p>)
• 1849.15  + (<p>See above Comments.</p>)
• Aurora Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>See also Aurora of South Brooklyn?</p>)
• Independent Club of South Brooklyn  + (<p>See also Independent Club of Brooklyn and independent Base Ball Club of Brooklyn?</p>)
• 1860.87  + (<p>Should we assume that the club still played the Massachusetts Game?</p> <p>Is it significant that the batter is said to "throw" the bat, not that he lost his grip on it?</p>)
• Arcadia Club of Brooklyn v Metamora Club of Fordham on 18 September 1860  + (<p>Site ok?</p>)
• 1857.20  + (<p>Sixteen players? Three innings? Does this sound like the NY game to you?</p>)