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...with townsfolk engaged in games of all descriptions, cricket, quoits, bass-ball, &c., each claiming its large quota of devotees. In those times football wa

|Term=Baste Ball ...’s diary entry for 1786 (5 years before the first known use of "base ball" in the US), which reveals only that the game involves catching and hitting

|Game=Bass Ball |Text=<p>"A matched, political game of bass Ball came off in this village on Friday last.&nbsp; Twelve Whigs on one side, an

...burnt a variety of coloured fires. Kiss-in-the-ring, bass-ball, and other games were introduced, and the Soham band frequently played some good music.”</

|Description=<p>[A] The first known game of base ball played on ice skates occurred on in January 1861 near Rochester NY.&nbsp; S ...they overskated a base.&nbsp; Deliveries were pitches, not throws; a dead ball was used and the bound rule was in effect.&nbsp; A ten-player team deployed

|Headline=Two Eight-player Teams Play Bass Ball at Elysian Fields |Game=Base Ball,Bass Ball

|Game=Base Ball ...were printed in New York newspapers. There are some indications that these games may have been played by the brand new Knickerbocker rules.</p>