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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;Residents of Oxford County gather near Beachville, Ontario, to play the first recorded game of baseball in Canada (reported only in 1886). The Canadian version uses five bases, a three strikes rule and three outs to a side. Foul lines are described.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ford, Dr. Adam E., &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Sporting Life&lt;/span&gt;, May 5, 1886. Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908&lt;/span&gt; [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 9-11. For more historical data on this event, see Nancy B. Bouchier and Robert Knight Brown, "A Critical Examination of a Source on Early Ontario Baseball: The Reminiscences of Adam E. Ford," &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Journal of Sport History&lt;/span&gt;, volume 15 [Spring 1988], pp. 75-87. This paper concludes that the New York game reached Ontario no earlier than 1849.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caveat:&lt;/strong&gt; Richard Hershberger, email of 1/14/2008, expresses the possibility that aspects of the Ford account are the result of a "confused recollection, with genuine old features and modern features misremembered and attributed to the old game." One problem is that the foul territory as described in 1886 is hard to fathom; Richard also notes that use of the 3-out-all-out rule would make this game the only non-NYC game with three-out innings. Ford also implies that games were then finished at the end of an agreed number of innings, not by reaching an agreed number of scores. He also states that older players in the 1838 game had played a like game in their youth. Adam Ford was seven years old in 1838.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;For full text of Dr. Ford's 1886 letter, see the supplemental text.&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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