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|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

|Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |Game=Cricket, Old-Cat Games, Town Ball

|Headline=Lit Magazine Cites "Roaring" Game of "Bat and Base-ball" |Game=Base Ball, Bat-Ball

|Headline=German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game ...and that an illustration of two boys playing it "shows it to be a bat-and-ball game." For the French game, see the [[1810c.1]] entry above.</p>

|Headline=Poisoned Ball Listed in French Manual of Games |Game=Poisoned Ball,

|Game Family=Hat ball ...ption=<p>According to Brewster, Petjeball was the early Dutch term for Hat Ball.</p>

|Term=Boston Ball ...hrows the ball to an area guarded by the pitcher, and runs if and when the ball passes through. There is tagging but no plugging.</p>

|Name=Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport v Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport on 10 September 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2

...enjoyable manner in which the New York Cricket Club and the Atlantic Base-Ball Club did on Monday last, in the game that was played at the Atlantic ground

|Headline=Some interesting games of ball |Game=Base Ball

...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games |Journal=Base Ball