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|Term=Three-Base Ball ...le its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two Old Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p>

|Headline=Playing At Ball in the Untamed West (Now Kentucky?) |Text=<p>"Wrestling, jumping, running foot races, and playing at ball, are the common diversions."&nbsp;</p>

..., the chief enjoyment of which appears to consist in sending a hard wooden ball into the face of every stray passenger they can hit...”</p> ...all, rather than baseball, because of the mention of a bat and because the ball is described as being hard and made of wood.</p>

...iven for exhibitions of good fielding a base running. Strictly scientific games, where the scores are kept down, never were and never can be very popular,

|Headline=Edward III Prohibits Playing of Club-Ball. ...f . . . ." Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. The actual term for "club-ball" in the proclamation was, evidently, "bacculoream."</p>

|Title=reporting juvenile games ...e most pleasurable emotions, and we consider it our duty to encourage them games by every means in our power, even to the publication of the scores of their

...een set apart at Central Park, but the Commissioners are not allowing ball games to be played there, although it appears they allow cricket.</p> <p>The park commission continued to resist baseball playing by organized clubs, even though the original plans for the park included a

|Headline=Long Ball |Game=Base Ball

...nbsp;&nbsp;This elementary school book has an illustration of boys playing ball in a schoolyard.&nbsp;</p> ...aying&nbsp;<em>theque?</em>&nbsp;Is it significant that this book features games for adolescents, not younger children?</p>

...ball-playing day in New Orleans is Sunday; and every fine Sunday, all the ball grounds are occupied, except those of the best social status. New York Sun

...estion. For him to play in the league with a weak club, playing no Sunday games and charging 50 cents admission, is bound to prove a losing venture. It wo

|Headline=Carlisle PA Bans Playing Ball ...persons . . . to frequent and use the market-house as a place for playing ball or any other game."</p>

...little afraid, from [what] Uncle says, that overexertion and excitement in playing baseball will injure your hearing.&nbsp; Now, you are old enough to judge o

|Headline=Lieutenant Reports Playing Ball, and Playing Bandy Wicket ...2, 1779; 'until the 22^nd, the time was spent playing shinny and ball.'&nbsp; Incidentally, Shute distinguished among various sports, referring e

|Headline=Kentucky Abolitionist Recalls Playing Base-ball ...athletic sports - riding on horseback . . . playing base-ball, bandy, foot-ball and all that - so I had confidence in my prowess."</p>

...ay [Sunday] for amusement &amp; great numbers are seen about, some playing ball, some with things for sale &amp; some dressed up going to meeting."&nbsp; & ...Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 29-30. Tom [ibid, page 29]

|Headline=Town Ball Club Finds Spot in NYC For Playing |Game=Town Ball

...any club not under its protection that breaks the rule can be barred from playing a national agreement club afterward. Mr. Byrne says that this change was m

|Headline=Ball-Playing at Marshall College in PA ...ns they needed . . . . [In addition to local excursions], [s]ometimes ball-playing was the recreation, and sometimes it was leaping or jumping, that brought t

|Headline=Col. Jas. Lee Recalls Playing Baseball as a Youth. <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 150. No ref given. Also referenced in Pe