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...a newspaper column under the heading “Rambles in Wallingford.” He wrote: "Games also were annually held here on Mayday, and many a comely and buxom girl ha ...p>This column originally appeared in the Abington and Reading Herald (date unknown). The author, William Allnatt, later included the text of this column in a

...a record is preserved of the Hiawatha, the Pastimes, and the Calhounites. Games were played under the Spalding rules."</p> <p>James Knox Powers, born 1851, graduated from the university in 1873. It is unknown whether the Hiawatha club of 1878 was the name of this 1872 team.</p>

|Date Note=Day and month unknown ...From Protoball Entry #1858.51 &ndash; At Harvard, Two Clubs Play Series of Games by New York Rules</p>

|Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland</span>, Volume 2&nbsp;(New ...ey having since been improved into cricket. &nbsp;At the present day these games nearly everywhere are succeeded by cricket, but often of a very primitive f

|NY Rules=Unknown ...mber of spectators, both from town and country, being present . . . ." Two games were played, the second resulting in a tie that was then played off.</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |NY Rules=Unknown

|Age of Players=Unknown ...and congenial lazzarone exercise their skill and strength in the exciting games of long ball, &amp;c.&rdquo;</p>

|NY Rules=Unknown |Description=<p>This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported as "the firs

|Block Data=<p>A children's book, Jolly Games for Happy Homes, includes two separate game descriptions, one of "base ball ...76, suggesting that it was likely in print prior to the end of 1875. It is unknown why the author chose to include two separate descriptions of baseball. The

|NY Rules=Unknown ...his sporting club in Jersey City, who enter into the game much zest. Three games came off yesterday. The following gentlemen were the winners by 2 on the fi

...he citing of the Shakespeare quote demonstrates that confusion between the games of prisoner's base and baseball began at a very early date.</p>

|NY Rules=Unknown |Comment=<p>As of 2021, we know of two earlier game reports of games in NZ.</p>

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 ...e New York nine were materially weakened by the absence of Ketchum, of the Unknown, and W. J. Kelly, of the Mystic, their excellent catcher, who was too ill t

...at stake. No match reports could be found so the results and scores remain unknown. Interestingly, the advert says the teams would consist of ten <em>Gentleme ...cricket?&nbsp;Do we know of any earlier public announcements of safe-haven games?</p>

|NY Rules=Unknown ...ry branch of the game should be played in a friendly spirit. Many are the games which have been played, the beauty of which have been spoiled by the spirit

|NY Rules=Unknown ...shington Standard (Olympia), July 6, 13, 1872. The Washington BBC won both games, 57-28 and 33-16. [ba]</span></p>

...me was a two inning affair, borrowing from the two innings of cricket. The unknown story to date is the development process for this Canadian interpretation.<

|NY Rules=Unknown .... Beacon Hill in the centre. In the hill caves have been made ages ago, by unknown races, stone and bone implements have been taken out. These places are now

|Game=Unnamed Games - Czech, |Age of Players=Unknown

...and much wine, the party dispersed with the general understand that match games of Base Ball are good things, however they result.</p> ...erence to an Empire Club playing in Springfield in August of 1867 but it's unknown if this is the same club as the Western Empires. &nbsp;It's possible that i