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• 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>)
• In West Chester Circa 1827  + (<p>This possibly refers to an early game of ball in Pennsylvania. The bat is referred to as a "ball-club." Other references of that time, however, refer to is as a bat. Also, being killed by a bat was seems not to have been a rarity at that time.</p>)
• 1848.10  + (<p>This seems to have been a Philadelphia paper; why would it carry - or reprint - this central-MA story?</p>)
• 1861.36  + (<p>This was Columbus, KY where several LA units were stationed. The newspaper article, from a correspondent's (named I.G.) letter dated Oct. 23, and mentions in particular Kennedy's Battalion (5th LA Infantry Battalion).</p>)
• Club of Princeton  + (<p>Today Mount Bullion? See Mariposa.</p>)
• Athletic, Active Club of Cheshire  + (<p>Two different teams?</p>)
• Langball  + (<p>Wait . . . the <em>bottom</em> of their feet?</p>)
• Friendships v Lyons in Fort Lyon on 9 November 1873  + (<p>Was "Co. H" a military unit, perhaps?</p> <p>Yes. [ba]</p>)
• 1846.16  + (<p>Was "base-ball" a common term in MA then?</p>)

• 1836.13  + (<p>Was "collegian" a term for a university student, back then?</p>)

• 1856.19  + (<p>Was 5-player base ball common then? Did it follow special rules? How do 4 fielders cover the whole field?</p>)
• 1853.19  + (<p>Was a form of unpleasant "confusi … <p>Was a form of unpleasant "confusion" anticipated?  Like what? Did the "sufficient force" imply that constables might be present to prevent a rumble?</p></br><p>Was this game given other newspaper coverage?</p></br><p>What do we know about where the "Tremont Street Mall" was? Was it not on Boston Common? [it is the Boston Common--ba]</p></br><p> </p>t on Boston Common? [it is the Boston Common--ba]</p> <p> </p>)
• Halfball  + (<p>Was a pimple ball known to be used regularly in other locations for baserunning-type games?  </p>)
• 1849.10  + (<p>Was cricket, including single-wicket cricket, known in any part of England as "wicket?"</p>)
• 1827.3  + (<p>Was inter-college competition common in other English sports at this time?  Rowing, maybe?</p>)
• Excelsior Jr. Club of Brooklyn v Enterprise Club of Brooklyn on 25 September 1856  + (<p>Was the Enterprise Club also a Junior Club?</p>)
• 1842.11  + (<p>Was the game dissimilar from the European "battingball games" reported by Maigaard?</p> <p>Can we determine whether the players were youths or juveniles?</p>)
• 1871.9  + (<p>Was the is first ever meeting of this group? </p> <p>Did it intend to represent base ball throughout California?</p> <p>Had other states established state-wide base ball associations by 1871?</p> <p> </p>)
• 1855.45  + (<p>Was the writer saying, in "so often the last" game, that base ball and/or foot ball was not played much after Fast Day?</p> <p>Do we know what Boston-area foot ball like in 1855?</p>)
• 1871.14  + (<p>Was this new NAABP destined to tinker with the rules of play?</p>)
• 1871.13  + (<p>Was this one of the first known uses of past base ball feats as fun trivia in base ball reportage?</p>)
• 1856.32  + (<p>Was this taken from the Knickerbocker game accounts?</p>)
• National Club of Washington v Washington Club of Washington on 20 May 1862  + (<p>Was this the Jefferson Club that lost? See BRJ, vol. 34 p. 21.</p>)
• 1847.13  + (<p>We have scant evidence that rouun … <p>We have scant evidence that rouunders was played extensively in the US; could this book be derivative of an English pubication?</p></br><p> </p></br><p>:Apparently so: the copy on Google Books says "Third American Edition," and the Preface is intensely redolent of English patriotism (" the noble and truly English game of CRICKET... ARCHERY once the pride of England")  [[User:Whicklin|Whicklin]] ([[User talk:Whicklin|talk]]) 04:08, 11 March 2016 (UTC)</p></br><p> </p></br><p> </p>4:08, 11 March 2016 (UTC)</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>)
• 1850s.24  + (<p>We invite further discussion on this point. The text of the Wheaton letter is found at entry #[[1837.1]] above.</p>)
• 1840s.31  + (<p>We welcome comment on the authenticity of Brooks' depiction of ballplaying in the 1840s, and whether how the game depicted compares to the MA game.</p>)
• 1827.2  + (<p>We welcome input on the essential nature of this story. Fiction? Fictionalized memoir? Historical novel?</p>)
• 1821.7  + (<p>We welcome other interpretations of this image.</p>)
• 1867.24  + (<p>We wonder what ice cream was like in 1859 and 1867, before cold storage was common.</p> <p>Has anyone written about the evolution of comestibles for fans in the Origins Era? </p>)
• 1847.14  + (<p>Were Fast Day and Thanksgiving distinct holidays in 1847?</p>)
• 1858.69  + (<p>Were the challenger's "subs" seen … <p>Were the challenger's "subs" seen as non-employee ringers or as subordinate <em>Mirror </em>employees? </p></br><p>Is the 20 pace "limit of goals" the distance between bases?  Was this variable commonly negotiated in 1858 matches?</p></br><p>This "best-of-3-games-to-25 format was commonly found in matches reported in Syracuse NY.  Was it common around New England?</p></br><p> </p>se NY.  Was it common around New England?</p> <p> </p>)
• 1870.9  + (<p>Were the weights and/or circumferences of balls subject to impartial tests at or before games?</p>)
• 1846.25  + (<p>Were there many known modern game … <p>Were there many known modern games played in Brooklyn prior to this rainout?</p></br><p>Is the expected opponent in the April 13 game known, or was it not really to be a match game? </p></br><p>If it was to be a match game, do we know that it would have employed the new Knick rules?</p></br><p> </p> that it would have employed the new Knick rules?</p> <p> </p>)
• 1860.54  + (<p>Were there really several such proposals? Can we guess what impediments required that it take another century to invent one-day and 20/20 cricket?</p>)
• Minerva Base Ball Club of Philadelphia  + (<p>Were they originally a town ball club?</p>)