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- |Headline="Base" and Cricket Listed in Book of US Pastimes ...trap ball . . . ," is the first known book reference to the play of "base" ball in the US. [David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball904 bytes (142 words) - 13:08, 23 November 2023
- |Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...it-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes. <strong>Note:</strong>: But not trap-ball? Not rounders? Moor muses: "It is not unpleasing thus to see at a glance su833 bytes (126 words) - 21:29, 13 June 2019
- |Headline=Young Andrew Johnson Plays Cat and Bass Ball and Bandy in Raleigh NC |Game=Bass Ball1 KB (169 words) - 10:21, 28 December 2018
- |Headline=MA Gents Recall Boyhood Games in 1830s: Cat, Wicket, OFBB ...he old fashioned kind of base ball when a foul was known as a tick; when a ball, which was not an instrument of torture as now, was thrown at a runner inst1 KB (196 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=New England Lad Recalls Assorted Games, Illicit Fast Day Ballplaying |Game=Base Ball2 KB (252 words) - 17:38, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Schoolboy Game of "Three Base Ball" Recalled in Brooklyn |Game=Base Ball2 KB (392 words) - 13:56, 18 July 2022
- ...leading merchants and their clerks, had a game of good old-fashioned base ball on Sheriff Brown's premises, makai..."</p> ...aii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".</p>1 KB (226 words) - 05:44, 20 December 2018
- |Term=Two Old Cat |Description=<p>From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat"</p>7 KB (1,149 words) - 07:35, 15 June 2023
- ...t Strutt views a game he calls "club ball" as the precursor to this set of games, but notes that modern scholars are skeptical about this proposition.</p>728 bytes (113 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
- ...- but it employs a section of animal horn, or a sort stick, and not a ball. </p> ...an>(v. 1 p. 210) lists as the third meaning for "billet" the game of [[Tip-Cat]] and connects it to Derbyshire."</p>2 KB (306 words) - 15:27, 27 February 2013
- |Headline=Games Recalled at Phillips Exeter Academy ...Col. George Kent wrote this verse in response to an inquiry about student games from 1807 at Exeter:</p>800 bytes (120 words) - 17:36, 6 September 2012
- |Game=Town Ball ...a three-cornered game and a paddle instead of a bat was used to strike the ball.</p>The author of this book was born in 1862. The date refereed to above is3 KB (508 words) - 14:10, 27 February 2024
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab <p>CDJ Aug. 31, 1858: "Base Ball--It is gratifying to see this manly, healthful game, coming again into gene2 KB (360 words) - 17:40, 8 July 2023
- ...<i>Little Pretty Pocket-Book</i> Refers to "Base-Ball," "Stooleball, "Trap-Ball," Cricket |Game=Cricket, English Base Ball,2 KB (321 words) - 20:56, 25 January 2020
- |Headline=Games of Foot and Base ball between drills ...t Capt. Reynolds' in afternoon." and on the 23rd, “witnessed game of ball between 7th Independent NY Battery] and Battery L. Latter beaten 13 to 6. O1 KB (174 words) - 06:12, 3 January 2023
- |Headline="Many Different Kinds of Ball" Remembered |Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball5 KB (822 words) - 07:48, 11 January 2022
- |Term=Cat (Kat) |Description=<p>For a recent description of Cat/Old-Cat, see <strong>Supplemental Text below.</strong> </p>13 KB (2,309 words) - 06:23, 18 July 2023
- ...to be played in the streets of London in the 17th century. Billet, or tip cat, was also a favourite game for this day, and in some parts of the North of1 KB (179 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- |Title=A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball ...60]), pp. 54-56), the father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more like4 KB (684 words) - 03:49, 9 April 2013
- ...base ball in 1860. See Chronology entry [[1831.1]] and [[Philadelphia Town Ball]] for additional historical context.</p> |Query=<p>Do we really only have three games for this historic clubs, which endured until 1887?</p>1 KB (173 words) - 17:46, 6 June 2020