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• 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>)
• 1829c.1  + (<p>Small Puzzle: Harvard's 19^th Century playing field was "Holmes Field;" was it named for <em>this</em> Holmes? Harvard is in Cambridge MA.</p>)
• 1680.3  + (<p>So . . . the quote was, perhaps, from a 1680 lecture by John Bunyan himslef?</p>)
• 1859.42  + (<p>So . . . was this construed as the 1859 city crown, just a dyadic rivalry crown, an "until-we-lose-it crown, or what?</p>)
• 1733.1  + (<p>Some actual text should be added here, if it can be captured.</p>)
• Stickball  + (<p>Sources are needed on stickball play in 18th and 19th centuries, if any.</p> <p>Was stickball (perhaps under other names?) played in other urban areas outside Greater NYC?</p>)
• 1830s.20  + (<p>Team hand-ball?  Really? Wasn't it usually a one-on-one game?</p>)
• 1835c.17  + (<p>Terry's initial diary entry April … <p>Terry's initial diary entry April 4 entry begins "This morning I painted my stick: then thought I would begin to write a journal" just before recording his ballplaying.  He adds that he later "went and see-sawed. and then I painted my stick again, then ate supper."</p></br><p>Is it possible that the stick was his base ball bat?  Were painted bats common then?</p>base ball bat?  Were painted bats common then?</p>)
• 1856.17  + (<p>The 1858 Dedham rules (two years after this letter) for the Massachusetts Game specified at least ten players on a team. The writer does not call the game the "MA game," and does not mention the use of stakes as bases, or the one-out-all-out rule.</p>)
• Agallian Club of Middletown  + (<p>The Baseball Research Journal Spring 1984 has a photo purportedly c. 1867, of baseball being played at Wesleyan. It is credited to the Rucker Collection.</p>)
• 1864.53  + (<p>The Massapoag Club of Sharon MA fielded 10-14 players for its pre-war games, which were subject to Massachusetts rules.  Why would the regimental history, 17 years later, refer to "nines"? </p>)
• 1830c.27  + (<p>The gentleman, Major Brown, lived … <p>The gentleman, Major Brown, lived in Pittsfield from 1812 to 1838. As the event seems to be the author's personal recollection, verifying if and when he attended the Lenox Academy may narrow the range of possibilities for the period he recalls playing.</p>ibilities for the period he recalls playing.</p>)
• 1861.15  + (<p>The place is more probably Camp Dement, in Dixon, IL [ba]</p>)
• 1838.14  + (<p>The  game of dodgeball involves t … <p>The  game of dodgeball involves throwing a ball at other participants.  Protoball is unclear whether that sort of game was common in the early 19th Century.  Are many other cites for dodgeball?  Did primitive dodgeball have other names?</p>geball have other names?</p>)
• Drive Ball  + (<p>These ambiguous bits appear to be … <p>These ambiguous bits appear to be Protoball's only references to drive ball; can we find out more about the nature of its play?</p></br><p>Is there evidence that drive ball included base-running? [A] a description of the game in Smalley's Magazine (1891, vol. 9, issue 8, p. 10) says no. [ba]</p>'s Magazine (1891, vol. 9, issue 8, p. 10) says no. [ba]</p>)
• 1810c.1  + (<p>This game has similarity to base ball; could a French-speaking digger take a few moments to sort out whether more is known about the rules, origins, and fate of the game?</p>)
• 1850c.8  + (<p>This game has similarity to base ball; could a French-speaking digger take a few moments to sort out whether more is known about the rules, origins, and fate of the game?</p>)
• 1860.43  + (<p>This is the first VT item on base ball in the Protoball files, as of November 2008; can that be so? Earlier items above [#178.6, #1787.2, #1828c.5, and #1849.9] all cite wicket or goal. </p>)
• Emerson's Side v Price's Side in 1856  + (<p>This match apparently did not pit opposing cities as most have.  Are many other cases of intra-city play known?</p>)