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  • |Headline=Four Jailed for "Criminal" Sunday Play in NJ ...nious assault, 1 . . . . Nativity - Ireland, 84; England, 12; Scotland, 4; Germany, 7; United States, 16; colored, 1. Total, 124." Others were jailed for sell
    953 bytes (126 words) - 18:30, 14 October 2015
  • |Name=in Brazzaville in 1958 |Description=<p>According to his obituary in the Washington Post, Oct. 28, 2007:</p>
    1 KB (208 words) - 08:55, 21 February 2021
  • |Description=<p>Baseball Oceania website says Palau had a club entered in the 1999 South Pacific games. Palau hosted the 2005 games, and finished 2nd ...ic promoter of the sport, primarily from 1925 onwards.Most Palauan players in the 1920s were employed with the Japanese administration on the island.</p>
    3 KB (440 words) - 15:28, 6 November 2018
  • ...was to remain at bat for a long period. A 1914 US text describes Long Ball in generally similar terms, but one that uses a regular "indoor baseball." The ...nd England, <em>Schlagball</em> in Germany and Silesia and <em>Palant</em> in Poland.</p>
    2 KB (285 words) - 12:37, 7 February 2021
  • |Title="Englische Base-ball" Described in 1796 German Book |Block Location=Schnephenthal, Duchy of Gotha (presentday Germany)
    1 KB (241 words) - 08:36, 24 October 2020
  • <p>"During a general game, in which some of the masters join (rounders I think the English boys called it ...utsmuths because there is no evidence that the game was actually played in Germany.)</p>
    1 KB (207 words) - 18:26, 9 May 2015
  • ...The Savannah Base Ball Club shows as early as 1869, when it played a match in Charleston. See <em>Charleston Courier</em>, July 27, 1869, and Protoball's ...h Daily Advertiser</em>, June 30, 1871. The roster of that touring team is in the <em>Advertiser</em>, June 14, 1871, and includes future major league st
    2 KB (295 words) - 06:55, 7 February 2016
  • |Headline=Gutsmuths describes [in German, yet] "Englische Base-Ball" ...ame in terms that seem similar to later accounts of rounders and base-ball in English texts. The game is described as one-out, side-out, having a three-s
    2 KB (335 words) - 09:46, 9 February 2014
  • |Country=Germany |Text=<p>An entry for "base-ball" in an 1837 English-to Greman&nbsp;dictionary uses the definition "s. dass Ball
    1 KB (211 words) - 18:26, 9 May 2015
  • ...n?, CA) recalled a game organized by his junior high teacher in California in 1973.&nbsp; He remembers that it had these rules:</p> ...being tagged&mdash;except he had to stay on campus. He could elect to hide in the distant outfield or the shrubbery to distract the defense, so they migh
    2 KB (404 words) - 10:41, 31 March 2021
  • |Location=Germany ...Versions of Ball-Stock are found in British and American boys&rsquo; books in the mid-Nineteenth Century.</p>
    3 KB (519 words) - 06:44, 19 June 2023
  • ...nce. Failing that, another player replaces him. (A similar version appears in <em>The Boy&rsquo;s Handy Book</em>, but adds the feature that the fielding ...l in the US, Germany, Italy, &ldquo;and even in Hindostand,&rdquo; whereas in about 1850 it had been confined to &ldquo;rustics on England.&rdquo; Richar
    3 KB (509 words) - 06:29, 7 March 2022
  • ..., especially on the Frisian islands of Langeoog and Spiekeroog, as well as in Silesia where it is recognized as the German version of what Polish-speaker ...ysical education in schools. The last official German championship was won in 1954 by the Arbergen Gymnastics Union from Bremen. It has since become quie
    8 KB (1,346 words) - 10:21, 12 March 2016
  • <p>The game is (arguably) recorded in 1300 in England, and for sure in 1598. See Altham, "A History of Cricket" p. 18-19, and Green, "A History of ...ates, led by Connecticut and Massachusetts.&nbsp; It seems to have crested in the post Civil War era, and town vs. town matches, some using teams of as m
    3 KB (441 words) - 05:52, 11 April 2023
  • ...language. (This noteworthy discovery was made by David Block and revealed in his 2005 ''Baseball Before We Knew It''). ...lay of the [[Deutsche Ballspiel|German Ballgame]] [''deutsche Ballspiel''] in the main; therefore I shall address my description to those players who alr
    10 KB (1,777 words) - 07:40, 15 March 2016
  • This note summarizes what we know about the way that rounders was played in England up to 1860. It draws on 12 independent “how to play” accounts ...New York for base ball in 1845 and in Dedham MA for the Massachusetts Game in 1858. It was not until 1884 that an official set of rounders rules appeared
    27 KB (4,171 words) - 17:40, 8 October 2014
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