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|Headline=Cat and Trap-ball Seen as Boys&#39; Games [The Men Play Foot-ball] ...:/ Here men at foot-ball they do fall;/ There boys at <i>cat</i> and trap-ball."</p>

...trap ball . . . ," is the first known book reference to the play of "base" ball in the US. [David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball |Comment=<p>The cited lines were from an appendix to Smith's book on American games, written by Samuel Woodworth c. 1835. ][ba]</p>

|Game=Long Town Ball ...rows at him. The suspense under which the victim was while waiting for the ball to strike was telling.

|Title=Baltimore Club finances; Sunday games ...ey to be made on Atlantic Association ball in Baltimore is from the Sunday games. It is a great pity that this should be so, but it is a fact.</p>

|Term=Corner Ball |Game Family=Hat ball

|Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games

|Term=Square Ball ...ing a player on the target team, can be retrieved, “Halt!” called, and the ball thrown at “frozen” members of the peripheral team.</p>

|Tags=Championship Games |Game=Base Ball,

|Headline=Brooklyn Games Organized as Benefits for Sick and Wounded Soldiers |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball, Championship Games, Civil War, Holidays,

|Game Family=Hat ball |Description=<p>According to Brewster, Kappenspiel is the German word for Hat Ball.</p>

|Title=Pize Ball in Northumberland on April 28 1865 |Block Game=Pize Ball

|Term=Club-ball ...tt. Strutt speculates that Club-ball was the ancient ancestor of many ball games. Its rules of play are not known. Hone book has 2 illustrations.</p>

|Term=Ball-Bias |Description=<p>Ball-bias, a term as yet only found in&nbsp;seven scattered British sources from

|Headline=Historian Cites "Club-ball" |Text=<p>David Block finds an earlier reference to "club-ball" than Strutt's. It is James Pettit Andrews, <u>The History of Great Britai

|Title=1850 -- Southern Ball-Games |Journal=Base Ball

|Title=Baseball an American invention; early claim of town ball as origin ...e believe, of the last decade. … Base ball owes birth to the game of town ball, a very inferior sport.</p>

|Title=the switch from town ball to base ball in Cincinnati ...ore the end of the season. So we expect exciting time in the way of match-games before a great while.</p>

|Headline=Town-ball in IN Later [and Vaguely?] Recalled |Game=Town Ball,

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|Headline=Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands? |Game=Town Ball