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|Name=in Beaufort in 1862 |State=SC

|First Newspaper Mention=1878/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|State=SC |City=Yorkville

|First Newspaper Mention=1875/07/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|Club of Marion, SC=Club of Marion |State=SC

|State=SC |City=Spartanburg

|Headline=Town Ball Played in South Carolina |State=SC

|Headline=Sherman's army plays base-ball in SC |State=SC

|State=SC |City=Hilton Head

|First Newspaper Mention=1877/07/19 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|State=SC |City=Cokesbury

|First Newspaper Mention=1874/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|State=SC |City=Camden

|State=SC |City=Beaufort

|Headline=In SC, Some Slaves Use Sundays for Ballplaying |State=SC

|Headline=In Reconstruction SC, Riot Follows a Ball Game |Tags=African Americans, Ball in the Culture,

|Headline=Ball Playing in Black Regiment |State=SC

|State=SC |City=Mullins

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|State=SC |City=Columbia

|State=SC |City=Abbeville

|State=SC |City=Georgetown

|State=SC |City=Barnwell

|State=SC |City=Folly Island

|State=SC |City=Newberry

|State=SC |City=Florence

|Headline=3rd NH Celebrates Thanksgiving in SC “In Playing Ball, Turkey Shooting” |State=SC

|City=Sanford ..."Florida... Sanford's base ball club challenges any club in the state for a game."</p>

|State=SC |City=Sullivan's Island

|Headline=SC soldier writes of chuck a luck and town ball in camp |City=Kinston

|Headline=Confederate soldiers in need of base ball and cricket bats |State=SC

|State=SC |City=Mount Pleasant

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|State=SC |City=Columbia

|State=SC |City=Columbia

|State=SC |City=Columbia

|State=SC |City=Columbia

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|Headline=Massachusetts Officers Play Ball in May, on July 4 |State=SC

|Headline=Crowd of 40,000 Said to Watch Christmas Day Game on SC Coast |State=SC

...a sponge-rubber ball sliced cleanly in half and a sawed-off broomstick as a bat. Thrown side-arm, the ball had good movement, and was difficult to fiel ...ewspaper article recalls a similar game recalled as Half-Ball being played in the Philadelphia area.)</p>

|Headline=Ball Playing a "Favorite Amusement" |State=SC

|Headline=Early Cricket Clubs in the South |State=SC

|Headline=Cricket Club formed in Savannah, GA in 1859 |City=Savannah

|Name=In Great Falls Circa 1857 |State=SC

|State=SC |City=Camden

|State=SC |City=Hilton Head

|Name=In Charleston in 1821 |State=SC

|Name=In Charleston in 1848 |State=SC

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|State=SC |City=Hilton Head

|City=Fredericksburg ...a." "The amusements of the army are rational and generous. Ball playing is a common game when the weather is pleasant..."</p>

|Name=In Jacksonboro on 17 February 1782 |State=SC

|City=Augusta ...seball club had been formed in 1859. On November 7, 1860 they played their first game of 1860.</p>

|City=Murfreesboro ...&ldquo;On Christmas Day 1862 the officers of Manigault&rsquo;s brigade had a footrace, and afterward the colonels &lsquo;chose sides from among the offi

|State=SC |City=Charleston

|City= ...South Carolina watched them, got the hang of it and organized for rivalry. In the East and West Series that followed the West won triumphantly by unrecor

|City=Hamburg ...b is debating whether to accept a challenge that has been sent from a club in Hamburg, Germany." The Oct. 18 report specified that the recipient club was

...otoball Chronology is [[Tom Altherr Dedication|Dedicated to Tom Altherr]] in appreciation of his work on early American ballplaying''' == [[A Few Dozen Most Prominent Baseball Milestones|See Just A Few Dozen of Baseball's Most Prominent Milestones]] ==

|City=Greenpoint |Game Official=Umpire, P. O'Brein (Atlantic); Scorer Eckford, W.A Brown; Scorer Putnam, Anderier. (E. Miklich)

...below.&nbsp; It appears to have been played at times from the 1850s-1890s in locations outside the northeast US:</p> ...yed by every country boy, though only a few of their city cousins know the first rudiments of it."&nbsp;</p>

|Description=<p>For a recent description of Cat/Old-Cat, see&nbsp;<strong>Supplemental Text below ...nts based on the distance from the circle to the where the hit ball lands. A version described by Newell[39] allows the batter to elevate and hit any ca