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- |Term=Bittle-Bat |Description=<p>Bittle-Bat appears to be another name for stoolball as played in the County of Sussex.3 KB (406 words) - 18:48, 8 December 2021
- |Term=Bat-and-Ball |Description=<p>"Bat-and-Ball" is a term that can help you find very early references to predece1 KB (250 words) - 11:56, 15 May 2020
- |Title=the flat bat ...a trial now, and is made optional with the player to use the round or flat bat, because the desire to increase the batting is so strong. “The use of w927 bytes (159 words) - 19:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=bat cases ...case in hand, reminding us of the English cricket professionals with their bat-bags...</p>427 bytes (62 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
- |Title=bat design ..., have long, small round handles, with the full swell at the center of the bat.</p>357 bytes (53 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
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- |Term=Hit the Bat ...to a group of fielders. If one of them can roll the ball back and hit the bat so that the ball hits the ground before the batter can catch the ricochet,780 bytes (135 words) - 20:21, 12 March 2022
- |Term=Cat-and-Bat |Description=<p>per Burnett. Burnett identifies Cat-and-Bat as a form of cricket that was played in Scottish streets in about 1860.</p>459 bytes (64 words) - 09:37, 28 November 2012
- |Term=Bat-Ball |Description=<p>We have references to bat-ball from 1791 (when it was banned in both Pittsfield and Northampton MA),789 bytes (130 words) - 09:30, 7 April 2016
- |Title=a broken bat |Text=<p>The old bat which Ward, the Giants’ brainy shortstop, has used for the past three sea343 bytes (55 words) - 20:40, 29 February 2020
- |Title=an oval bat ...ents a broader surface with which to meet the sphere. I have not seen the bat but models will be sent East for the inspection of the Leaguers. Mr. Norri1,000 bytes (179 words) - 20:28, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the flat bat not popular |Text=<p>The flat bat does not seem to recommend itself to the majority of players. It does seem458 bytes (75 words) - 20:00, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Farrar used the flat bat ...on the last western trip. He averaged over .419, and he didn't use a flat bat. Ergo.</p>438 bytes (72 words) - 19:59, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the flat bat 2 ...mes played, gaining a batting average for the trip of .419. He pained the bat carefully after doctoring it, and the trick was not discovered. The surfac1 KB (175 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a composite bat ...andle, however, is technically a violation of the rule, which requires the bat to be made “wholly of wood,” but it is a rule which nobody will object822 bytes (139 words) - 19:53, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the NA allows the square bat ...change was that allowing the use of either the round or the new four-sided bat.</p>452 bytes (72 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a broken bat out |Text=<p>[Chicago vs. Atlantic 7/4/1870] McDonald broke a bat hitting to Hodes [shortstop], and went out on first.</p>285 bytes (41 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- |Title=smoking while at bat |Text=<p>Holder, who was indulging in the pleasure of the weed, while at the bat, struck out.</p>276 bytes (43 words) - 18:21, 29 February 2020
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- |Term=Philadelphia Bat Ball ...her. Runners can tag up after caught flies. Otherwise, the rules of German Bat Ball apply.</p>567 bytes (91 words) - 09:50, 28 November 2012
- |Term=German Bat Ball ...l as a team game that uses a ball like a volleyball and that has neither a bat nor pitching. A “batter” puts the ball in play by serving or “posting1,017 bytes (173 words) - 09:46, 28 November 2012
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- |Source Image=Bat Ball.jpg |Title=Bat Ball348 bytes (46 words) - 14:47, 11 July 2023
- |Title=treating the bat with natural gas ...ed bat is the latest. Veach, of the Cleveland team, recently bought a new bat and was advised the burn the varnish off it before a natural gas fire. He478 bytes (80 words) - 20:43, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a favorite and durable bat ...used it for two years. In 1886, when he visited ST. Joe, Mo., he gave the bat to Holliday. Bug has had it ever since. It is his prize stick, and has as884 bytes (156 words) - 20:43, 29 February 2020
- |Title=baseball, bat sales and manufacture ...f the season. We could not replenish the stock for love or money, and the bat-makers told us the above story and added that they had used up all the old2 KB (283 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- |Title=New Yorks prefer to bat first |Text=<p>[New York vs. Chicago 9/7/1886] New York won the toss and went to bat, as Ward always does.</p>284 bytes (44 words) - 20:07, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a composite bat 2 ...clubs by the report that the Athletic Club of Philadelphia, had secured a bat containing springs for increased propulsion. Of course the report was unfo3 KB (610 words) - 19:54, 29 February 2020
- |Title=switch hitting within one at bat504 bytes (77 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a reverse corked bat ...s not absolutely certain whether it was used or not. A ball struck with a bat of this kind would scarcely go past the base.</p>1 KB (175 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- |Title=an illegal flat bat ...the bat with this illegal instrument. The umpire was appealed to, and the bat at once thrown out, of course; but it seemed that some further penalty sho1 KB (207 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a hole in the bat? ...desperate strike–failed to collide, and carefully examined the end of his bat. George once more missed the object of his wrath–and once more scrutiniz1,023 bytes (166 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |Title=requesting a pitch for the bat ...22/1866] Pearce, the first striker of the Atlantics, took his place at the bat amid profound silence, only broken by Mr. Bomeisler, the Umpire, saying “402 bytes (59 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a broken bat single ...ld, making two bases. Southworth followed with a hot one, which broke his bat, but secured him his base and sent Brown home. Brooklyn Eagle September 122 KB (411 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the catcher playing close behind the bat .../15/1865] Leggett was in splendid play, and caught behind, close up to the bat, quite in his old effective and unequaled style, putting out no less than t525 bytes (85 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
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- |Name=Bat Club of New York |Club Name=Bat356 bytes (50 words) - 10:22, 17 October 2014
- |Source Image=Wicket Bat and Ball.jpg |Title=Wicket Bat and Ball358 bytes (47 words) - 09:45, 28 June 2023
- |Title=use of an illegal flat bat |Text=<p>Bobby Caruthers has been detected using a flattened bat, which is not permissible by Association rules. Geo. McGinnis gave Bobby's331 bytes (49 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the flat bats; a doctored bat ...ed is to take off enough wood on one side, within a foot of the end of the bat, so as to take off the roundness., quoting the Philadelphia Item</p>674 bytes (118 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
- |Title=switch hitting within an at bat390 bytes (61 words) - 19:50, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Harry Wright advocates the square bat ...d have to be made of cast iron. So Harry Wright comes along with the flat bat. The best base-ball authority including Mr. Chadwick, of the Clipper, that2 KB (282 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- |Title=clarifying the new rule, who was the last man to bat ...ach inning shall be the batsman whose name follows that of the last man at bat in the preceding inning.” Should a base-runner be third out through no a1 KB (211 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- |Title=catchers playing close to the bat ...is all very well if you want to show off in taking fly-tips sharp from the bat, but many a chance for a long foul bound on a high-foul fly is lost by the693 bytes (124 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- |Title=catchers playing close to the bat too often ...to be taken on the fly. It looks very pretty to take them short from the bat, but the wear and tear of an unnecessary amount of the “playing up close�2 KB (333 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- |Title=poor pitching straight on the bat ...o vs. Philadelphia 9/5/1874] The pitching of Zettlein was straight on the bat, and thus the enormous quantity of base hits are accounted for.</p>359 bytes (51 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a broken bat single 2 ...c vs. Chicago at Union Grounds, Brooklyn 10/30/1871] West Fisler broke his bat in sending one to short left field.</p>321 bytes (45 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- |Title=skipping a turn at bat ...s Flanley ought to have [been] decided out, for not taking his turn at the bat, that being now the rule of play.–Ed. Chronicle} got his first by a fine483 bytes (80 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Bat Breakers Club of Harrisburg |Club Name=Bat Breakers474 bytes (69 words) - 15:18, 10 March 2016
- |Name=Bat Smashers Club of Madison |Club Name=Bat Smashers582 bytes (84 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2013
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- |Title=Bat-Ball game, 1300s |Descriptors=Bat-ball game 1300s286 bytes (36 words) - 05:48, 15 June 2023
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- |Title=Delill Short Townball Bat |Description=Short "Delill" bat sometimes used in townball. From Dan Beard 1896 book368 bytes (50 words) - 09:42, 28 June 2023
- |Source Image=Bat and Ball 1810 book.jpg |Title=Bat and Ball 1810 book364 bytes (52 words) - 09:12, 28 June 2023
- |Title=George Wright on the history of the bat ...on the benches, invariably carrying an umbrella under his arm. The square bat, however, proved a fizzle, as the claim that more force was gained in the s5 KB (874 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=an attempt to use a flat bat ...to the plate. The eye of Fox was too keen, however, and judgement on the bat was asked. Umpire Curry condemned it and compelled the b.f.b. to procure a574 bytes (102 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a trophy bat made from the Charter Oak ...club as the State championship trophy. Mr. Hubbell intends to present the bat to the Hartford amateurs, and a series of games is to be played for the pos800 bytes (137 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=too many balls called in an at bat467 bytes (74 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- |Title=an accidental hit of the bat does not count ...erable excitement for a time. Cuthbert, while waiting for a ball, had his bat struck by one from Spalding [pitcher], causing a seeming foul, which White668 bytes (102 words) - 18:51, 29 February 2020
- |Title=foul tips with the catcher close to the bat ...t last, Smith tipped not quite so much, and mills picked the ball from the bat with astonishing celerity. The tip and catch sounding like “click clack.629 bytes (105 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
- |Title=batting out of order; a broken bat ...o dress themselves, Mills [sixth] went to the bat, and, after breaking one bat, made his first by a high ball to centre field...</p>551 bytes (86 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- |Title=batting grip; choking up on the bat ...effective against swift pitching. Against the slows you can swing a long bat, but against swift balls a short swing, bringing the strength of the wrists598 bytes (98 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- |Title=can a batter put out bat again in the inning? ...nts, from a Philadelphia correspondent] 1. In playing Base Ball, A has the bat and strikes a foul ball, the ball is caught and he is put out, has he a rig859 bytes (158 words) - 18:21, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Bat and Ball; A New Book of Cricket262 bytes (40 words) - 18:46, 28 July 2019
- |Title=Bat-Ball hockey-like game, 1300s |Descriptors=Bat-ball hockey-like game 1300s296 bytes (38 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
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- |Title=Louisville slugger; a bat lasts ten years ...-New York game. Browning refused to take his turn at bat, because his own bat, which is ten years old, very long and heavy, had been hidden. It was rest522 bytes (86 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
- |Title=switching sides of the plate within an at bat |Text=<p>[Cincinnati vs. Cleveland 8/23/1888] Snyder did fine work at the bat without making a hit in the fourth. He changed sides on Viau until he brou405 bytes (64 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=experiment with a flat bat, cork-centered ball ...and 7 to 4. The feature of the first game was an experiment with the flat bat. It did not increase the batting, and was pronounced a failure. A ball wi632 bytes (105 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- |Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball ...note the effect of these two innovations, especially the use of the square bat, and the game to-day bids fair to be both entertaining and instructive. Chi3 KB (467 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a composite bat; the cost of broken bats ...ne imparts an elasticity to the bat, which is a great aid in batting. The bat weights a little over two pounds only.</p>685 bytes (124 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
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- |Title=Mike Kelly get s stage fright; Casey at the Bat ...he had a bad dose of it yesterday when he essayed to recite “Casey at the Bat” before a Boston audience. He couldn't spunk up enough courage to open1 KB (194 words) - 20:35, 29 February 2020
- |Title=can a player who has struck out bat again that inning; early use of 'strike out' ...n? In a game of Base Ball, has a player who has struck out a right to the bat again during the same inning?</p>721 bytes (129 words) - 18:20, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Bat-Ball in Ghistelles Calendar c. 1300 |Description=Bat-ball game depicted on the Ghistelles Calendar, c. 1300, a calendar made for432 bytes (55 words) - 06:02, 20 June 2023
- |Title=scoring a base on balls as an at bat ...rald has made a practice of including “bases on called balls” as a time at bat, and have not recorded an error against the pitcher in the error column, an504 bytes (85 words) - 19:58, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Quilt Winders and Pod Shavers; the History of Cricket Bat and Ball Manufacture264 bytes (39 words) - 18:40, 28 July 2019
- |Title=Ball, Bat, and Bitumen:A History of Coalfield Baseball in the Appalachian South424 bytes (58 words) - 07:32, 28 July 2019
- |Title=reason for no at bat on a base on balls ...t have his proper opportunity to hit the ball, and inasmuch as the time at bat has a tendency to lessen the player’s score, it would be unfair to give i667 bytes (123 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- |Title=slow pitching allowing the catcher to stand close to the bat ...elding very few passed balls, and enabling Craver to stand so close to the bat as to render base stealing almost impossible. New York Clipper August 17,809 bytes (128 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a catcher reluctant to play close to the bat ...ers, kindly called to him to put the mask on and take his place behind the bat. O'Rourke hesitated for a moment and then very reluctantly adjusted the ma1 KB (196 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
- |Title=is a pitch that glances off the bat a foul ball? .... Mutual 6/26/1871] [Smith at third base] ...and the ball striking Start’s bat and glancing off, he came home. On all such occasions as this the umpire i452 bytes (73 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Changing the batting order to the next man after the last man at bat the previous inning ...inning shall be the batsman whose name follows that of the last man at the bat in the preceding inning.</p>2 KB (390 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- |Title=1755 -- 'The Bat and Ball;' A Distinct Game or a Generic Term? |Game=Bat-and-Ball,328 bytes (46 words) - 07:31, 28 July 2019
- |Title=A Grassroots History of Baseball: Days of the Rosewood Bat and teh Silver Ball462 bytes (65 words) - 14:10, 6 December 2021
- |Title=early bunt: Barlow's little bat and little hit |Text=<p>[Baltimore vs. Atlantic 8/7/1872] Little Barlow, with his little bat, then went up to the plate, and though the Baltimore men were prepared for532 bytes (83 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Cummings's delivery; how to bat it ...ses, all the batsman has to do is to wait and watch, and not be tempted to bat at these apparently good balls, for they leave the pitcher’s hands in a l939 bytes (167 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games232 bytes (36 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
- #REDIRECT [[A Grassroots History of Baseball: Days of the Rosewood Bat and the Silver Ball]]92 bytes (15 words) - 14:10, 6 December 2021
- ...not as tough as in the old days; put on equipment when they move under the bat; cup ...ison's day, when it became necessary for the catcher to come up behind the bat after two strikes or when a man reached the bases it didn't require five mi1 KB (191 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a claim of a doctored bat ...an’s “kick” yesterday was in regard to O’Neill’s using an alleged “shaved” bat. He failed to convince Devinney, however, that such was the fact. St.</p>368 bytes (56 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Tommy Barlow's tricky little bat |Text=<p>[Hartford vs. Yale 4/18/1874] “Tommy” and his tricky little bat, as usual, were noticeable features of the game. He struck five fair fouls385 bytes (55 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Knights of the Bat Club of Chicago |Club Name=Knights of the Bat583 bytes (89 words) - 13:30, 18 June 2018
- ...le=taking a triple rather than a home run to keep the catcher close to the bat ...stopped at third base by Anson, in order to keep the catcher up behind the bat. This is a pretty sharp point.</p>444 bytes (78 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Pearsall's bat ...was allowed to be any length the batsman chose. Pearsall used to handle a bat nearly five feet long.</p>398 bytes (62 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
Page text matches
- |Title=a composite bat; the cost of broken bats ...ne imparts an elasticity to the bat, which is a great aid in batting. The bat weights a little over two pounds only.</p>685 bytes (124 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=A Wider Bat? Even in Cricket, There's Always a Joker ...don Committee new resolution, appearing two days later, specified that the bat much be no wider than 4.25 inches. The rule stuck.</p>624 bytes (101 words) - 17:31, 6 September 2012
- |Title=the flat bats; a doctored bat ...ed is to take off enough wood on one side, within a foot of the end of the bat, so as to take off the roundness., quoting the Philadelphia Item</p>674 bytes (118 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Pearsall's bat ...was allowed to be any length the batsman chose. Pearsall used to handle a bat nearly five feet long.</p>398 bytes (62 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- |Title=an attempt to use a flat bat ...to the plate. The eye of Fox was too keen, however, and judgement on the bat was asked. Umpire Curry condemned it and compelled the b.f.b. to procure a574 bytes (102 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
- |Source Image=Bat and Ball 1810 book.jpg |Title=Bat and Ball 1810 book364 bytes (52 words) - 09:12, 28 June 2023
- |Headline=Wicket Bat Reportedly Long [and Still?] Held in Deerfield MA Collection ...hn Thorn, 1/13/2007. <b>Note:</b> John is trying to ascertain whether the bat remains in the collection.</p>419 bytes (61 words) - 17:40, 6 September 2012
- |Title=bat cases ...case in hand, reminding us of the English cricket professionals with their bat-bags...</p>427 bytes (62 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
- |Source Image=Bat Ball.jpg |Title=Bat Ball348 bytes (46 words) - 14:47, 11 July 2023
- ...ntage of being last at the bat gives a team confidence in their ability to bat well...</p>911 bytes (164 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=clarifying the new rule, who was the last man to bat ...ach inning shall be the batsman whose name follows that of the last man at bat in the preceding inning.” Should a base-runner be third out through no a1 KB (211 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=R is for Richard "With His Bat and Ball" ...h his ball and bat." The illustration shows the lad hitting a ball with a bat, with a trap visible at his feet.</p>472 bytes (83 words) - 17:46, 6 September 2012
- |Title=Farrar used the flat bat ...on the last western trip. He averaged over .419, and he didn't use a flat bat. Ergo.</p>438 bytes (72 words) - 19:59, 29 February 2020
- |Title=an oval bat ...ents a broader surface with which to meet the sphere. I have not seen the bat but models will be sent East for the inspection of the Leaguers. Mr. Norri1,000 bytes (179 words) - 20:28, 29 February 2020
- |Title=an illegal flat bat ...the bat with this illegal instrument. The umpire was appealed to, and the bat at once thrown out, of course; but it seemed that some further penalty sho1 KB (207 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- |Term=Philadelphia Bat Ball ...her. Runners can tag up after caught flies. Otherwise, the rules of German Bat Ball apply.</p>567 bytes (91 words) - 09:50, 28 November 2012
- |Title=treating the bat with natural gas ...ed bat is the latest. Veach, of the Cleveland team, recently bought a new bat and was advised the burn the varnish off it before a natural gas fire. He478 bytes (80 words) - 20:43, 29 February 2020
- |Title=smoking while at bat |Text=<p>Holder, who was indulging in the pleasure of the weed, while at the bat, struck out.</p>276 bytes (43 words) - 18:21, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Louisville slugger; a bat lasts ten years ...-New York game. Browning refused to take his turn at bat, because his own bat, which is ten years old, very long and heavy, had been hidden. It was rest522 bytes (86 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
- ...certain to make a base, what was there to prevent the absence of the weak bat and the substitution of the strong one? Now, this point cannot be played.1 KB (199 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Delill Short Townball Bat |Description=Short "Delill" bat sometimes used in townball. From Dan Beard 1896 book368 bytes (50 words) - 09:42, 28 June 2023
- ...t tells us something about why ball games were apparently named one thing (bat-ball) in one town (Northampton) in 1791 and another thing in other towns (s527 bytes (79 words) - 14:45, 8 April 2013
- |Headline=Short Moral Tale Centers on Boy's Bat and Ball |Text=<p>This eight-page moral tale turns on the theft of the bat and ball, not, alas on their use.</p>573 bytes (86 words) - 11:00, 27 January 2013
- ...tion. They all aim to throw to second only when standing close behind the bat, at which time the ball is most difficult to hold.</p>805 bytes (136 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- |Term=Hit the Bat ...to a group of fielders. If one of them can roll the ball back and hit the bat so that the ball hits the ground before the batter can catch the ricochet,780 bytes (135 words) - 20:21, 12 March 2022
- |Title=batting out of order; a broken bat ...o dress themselves, Mills [sixth] went to the bat, and, after breaking one bat, made his first by a high ball to centre field...</p>551 bytes (86 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a favorite and durable bat ...used it for two years. In 1886, when he visited ST. Joe, Mo., he gave the bat to Holliday. Bug has had it ever since. It is his prize stick, and has as884 bytes (156 words) - 20:43, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Riddle Game Cites "Fourteen Boys at Bat and Ball" |Game=Bat-Ball538 bytes (82 words) - 17:37, 6 September 2012
- |Source Image=Wicket Bat and Ball.jpg |Title=Wicket Bat and Ball358 bytes (47 words) - 09:45, 28 June 2023
- |Title=batting grip; choking up on the bat ...effective against swift pitching. Against the slows you can swing a long bat, but against swift balls a short swing, bringing the strength of the wrists598 bytes (98 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a broken bat |Text=<p>The old bat which Ward, the Giants’ brainy shortstop, has used for the past three sea343 bytes (55 words) - 20:40, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a broken bat out |Text=<p>[Chicago vs. Atlantic 7/4/1870] McDonald broke a bat hitting to Hodes [shortstop], and went out on first.</p>285 bytes (41 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- |Headline="Bat and Ball" featured in Chicago picnic |Game=Bat and Ball575 bytes (84 words) - 10:21, 16 June 2019
- |Title=foul tips with the catcher close to the bat ...t last, Smith tipped not quite so much, and mills picked the ball from the bat with astonishing celerity. The tip and catch sounding like “click clack.629 bytes (105 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a trophy bat made from the Charter Oak ...club as the State championship trophy. Mr. Hubbell intends to present the bat to the Hartford amateurs, and a series of games is to be played for the pos800 bytes (137 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=New Yorks prefer to bat first |Text=<p>[New York vs. Chicago 9/7/1886] New York won the toss and went to bat, as Ward always does.</p>284 bytes (44 words) - 20:07, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a broken bat single 2 ...c vs. Chicago at Union Grounds, Brooklyn 10/30/1871] West Fisler broke his bat in sending one to short left field.</p>321 bytes (45 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- |Title=bat design ..., have long, small round handles, with the full swell at the center of the bat.</p>357 bytes (53 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
- ...omparative ease what he can only accomplish with difficulty with the round bat, and that is to place the ball. ...</p> ...season, but it is probable that the season of 1880 will see the four-sided bat introduced.</p>2 KB (281 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- ...he same way until 1882, when Snyder broke him off the habit. Many players bat up fungo in the cross-handed style, Burdock, for instance, and he is a wond629 bytes (98 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- |Title=use of an illegal flat bat |Text=<p>Bobby Caruthers has been detected using a flattened bat, which is not permissible by Association rules. Geo. McGinnis gave Bobby's331 bytes (49 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Bat Smashers Club of Madison |Club Name=Bat Smashers582 bytes (84 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2013
- ...ix and sometimes seven of the nines, in over one hundred match games. The bat is appropriately styled “Old Reliable.” It is good for many a game yet871 bytes (141 words) - 08:20, 13 March 2022
- |Title=the NA allows the square bat ...change was that allowing the use of either the round or the new four-sided bat.</p>452 bytes (72 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
- ...e to bat and made his 1 st, bringing Stearns home. Foley followed at the bat and made his 2nd with ease, and McNally then walked over to his 1 st on thr499 bytes (81 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- |Title=1755 -- 'The Bat and Ball;' A Distinct Game or a Generic Term? |Game=Bat-and-Ball,328 bytes (46 words) - 07:31, 28 July 2019
- |Title=a composite bat ...andle, however, is technically a violation of the rule, which requires the bat to be made “wholly of wood,” but it is a rule which nobody will object822 bytes (139 words) - 19:53, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Bat Club of New York |Club Name=Bat356 bytes (50 words) - 10:22, 17 October 2014
- |Headline=New York Book Has Bat and Ball Poem ...th me and play/And yonder is Billy, I'll give him a call,/ Do you take the bat, and I'll carry the ball . . . "</p>415 bytes (72 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
- |Name=Knights of the Bat Club of Chicago |Club Name=Knights of the Bat583 bytes (89 words) - 13:30, 18 June 2018
- |Title=a claim of a doctored bat ...an’s “kick” yesterday was in regard to O’Neill’s using an alleged “shaved” bat. He failed to convince Devinney, however, that such was the fact. St.</p>368 bytes (56 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Eastport bans "bat and ball" |Game=Bat-and-Ball679 bytes (88 words) - 07:28, 12 November 2021
- |Title=Bat-Ball in Ghistelles Calendar c. 1300 |Description=Bat-ball game depicted on the Ghistelles Calendar, c. 1300, a calendar made for432 bytes (55 words) - 06:02, 20 June 2023
- |Headline=Bat-ball Recalled at Exeter |Game=Bat-Ball698 bytes (97 words) - 19:08, 30 January 2020
- ...e no good reason why a player should not be permitted to use just as big a bat as he likes.</p>674 bytes (119 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- |Headline="Base Ball" and "Bat and Ball" Seen as the Same Game |Game=Base Ball, Bat-and-Ball3 KB (381 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Saco bans "bat and ball" |Game=Bat-and-Ball679 bytes (93 words) - 07:32, 12 November 2021
- ...ds, the moment a batsman become a base-runner he completes his turn at the bat.</p>1 KB (291 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- |Headline="Young Man's Amusements" Include "Bat and Ball" |Game=Bat and Ball902 bytes (130 words) - 18:22, 9 May 2015
- ...d, and can be used in the handle. But no metal can be placed in or on the bat.</p>363 bytes (65 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Tommy Barlow's tricky little bat |Text=<p>[Hartford vs. Yale 4/18/1874] “Tommy” and his tricky little bat, as usual, were noticeable features of the game. He struck five fair fouls385 bytes (55 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...ad of sending their opponents to the bat, as is usual, they have taken the bat first themselves, and in such cases invariably started off with too strong467 bytes (74 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
- |Title=requesting a pitch for the bat ...22/1866] Pearce, the first striker of the Atlantics, took his place at the bat amid profound silence, only broken by Mr. Bomeisler, the Umpire, saying “402 bytes (59 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- |Title=poor pitching straight on the bat ...o vs. Philadelphia 9/5/1874] The pitching of Zettlein was straight on the bat, and thus the enormous quantity of base hits are accounted for.</p>359 bytes (51 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Term=Cat-and-Bat |Description=<p>per Burnett. Burnett identifies Cat-and-Bat as a form of cricket that was played in Scottish streets in about 1860.</p>459 bytes (64 words) - 09:37, 28 November 2012
- |Headline=Boys Play Bat Ball in New Orleans |Game=Bat-Ball743 bytes (104 words) - 07:39, 1 June 2022
- |Title=the flat bat 2 ...mes played, gaining a batting average for the trip of .419. He pained the bat carefully after doctoring it, and the trick was not discovered. The surfac1 KB (175 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
- ...hus far played in the championship arena this season the teams last at the bat have won. It is a blunder beyond question to give an opposing team the cha1 KB (204 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Tiny Book Has Odd Description of "Bat and Ball." ...throwing the ball in the air, the opposite boy tries to strike it with his bat; if he fails it counts one against the party to which he belongs. . . " <b696 bytes (119 words) - 17:51, 6 September 2012
- ...ball plainly, and having made a large number of runs for their side, will bat out–(lose the inning.)</p>834 bytes (145 words) - 09:57, 23 June 2019
- |Headline="Ample Space" Allowed "For Cricket, For Bat and Ball . . . " |Game=Cricket, Bat and Ball863 bytes (116 words) - 18:23, 9 May 2015
- |Title=catchers playing close to the bat ...is all very well if you want to show off in taking fly-tips sharp from the bat, but many a chance for a long foul bound on a high-foul fly is lost by the693 bytes (124 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Bat-Ball game, 1300s |Descriptors=Bat-ball game 1300s286 bytes (36 words) - 05:48, 15 June 2023
- |Headline=NYS Traveler Notes Dutch Boys Playing "Bat and Ball" |Game=Xenoball, Bat and Ball1 KB (188 words) - 15:40, 9 November 2012
- |Title=the flat bat not popular |Text=<p>The flat bat does not seem to recommend itself to the majority of players. It does seem458 bytes (75 words) - 20:00, 29 February 2020
- ...l in deceiving the batter, and yet not depriving the batter of his time at bat. This would also do away with close decisions between strikes and fouls.</785 bytes (133 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Bat and Ball, Cricket are Sunday Afternoon Pastimes |Game=Bat and Ball,Cricket825 bytes (114 words) - 14:25, 17 July 2022
- |Headline=Bat and Ball . . . in Paris? ...ame location as what we now know as the Champs Elysee? Can we learn what bat/ball games were so popular the mid 1700s - Soule? Some form of street tenni747 bytes (126 words) - 17:31, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Salem MA Diary Covers "Puerile Sports" Including Bat & Ball, and "Rickets" |Game=Bat-Ball1 KB (181 words) - 17:34, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Lit Magazine Cites "Roaring" Game of "Bat and Base-ball" |Game=Base Ball, Bat-Ball1 KB (212 words) - 18:20, 14 October 2015
- |Title=Bat-Ball hockey-like game, 1300s |Descriptors=Bat-ball hockey-like game 1300s296 bytes (38 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- ...ir posts. Again, the pitcher, short stop, and catcher, have a turn at the bat, the subs a third time changing positions, becoming pitcher, short stop, an942 bytes (156 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=New Northeastern Chapbook Shows Cricket, Bat-and-Ball |Text=<p>This eight-page book shows cricket and "bat and ball" being played in the backgrounds of pastoral views.</p>588 bytes (83 words) - 10:36, 21 August 2015
- |Title=is a pitch that glances off the bat a foul ball? .... Mutual 6/26/1871] [Smith at third base] ...and the ball striking Start’s bat and glancing off, he came home. On all such occasions as this the umpire i452 bytes (73 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Spring Sports at Harvard: "Bat & Ball" and Cricket |Game=Bat-and-Ball, Cricket1 KB (185 words) - 19:02, 6 March 2024
- ...ith a club whether to allow their battery to take their proper turn at the bat or to allow seven men to do their batting.</p>528 bytes (81 words) - 20:10, 29 February 2020
- ...r being missed on three strikes by Malone, who was playing close up to the bat, made a run...</p>442 bytes (70 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Harry Wright advocates the square bat ...d have to be made of cast iron. So Harry Wright comes along with the flat bat. The best base-ball authority including Mr. Chadwick, of the Clipper, that2 KB (282 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- |Title=switching sides of the plate within an at bat |Text=<p>[Cincinnati vs. Cleveland 8/23/1888] Snyder did fine work at the bat without making a hit in the fourth. He changed sides on Viau until he brou405 bytes (64 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- ...legitimate, and nearly everybody in the profession is ready to nail a good bat every time there is a chance.</p>438 bytes (73 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
- |Game=Bat-Ball ...e April section of this yearly book has an engraving of children playing a bat-and-ball game. <b>Note:</b> Does the game appear to use bases?</p>466 bytes (74 words) - 17:37, 6 September 2012
- |Title=skipping a turn at bat ...s Flanley ought to have [been] decided out, for not taking his turn at the bat, that being now the rule of play.–Ed. Chronicle} got his first by a fine483 bytes (80 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- |Name=Bat Breakers Club of Harrisburg |Club Name=Bat Breakers474 bytes (69 words) - 15:18, 10 March 2016
- |Headline=One-handed Bat Shown in Book of Children's Verse ...pitcher, a fielder, and a striker standing ready with a short, one-handed bat."</p>444 bytes (73 words) - 17:46, 6 September 2012
- |Term=Bat-and-Ball |Description=<p>"Bat-and-Ball" is a term that can help you find very early references to predece1 KB (250 words) - 11:56, 15 May 2020
- ...le=taking a triple rather than a home run to keep the catcher close to the bat ...stopped at third base by Anson, in order to keep the catcher up behind the bat. This is a pretty sharp point.</p>444 bytes (78 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=New Haven Book Portrays Ball Game with Curved Bat ...hown attempting to catch a fly ball, while a fourth holds a strange curved bat."</p>469 bytes (78 words) - 17:43, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Ditty: "You Take the Bat, and I'll carry the Ball" ...ith me and play/And yonder is Billy, I'll give him a call,/Do you take the bat, and I'll carry the ball./But we'll make it a rule to be friendly and cleve801 bytes (147 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
- |Title=early bunt: Barlow's little bat and little hit |Text=<p>[Baltimore vs. Atlantic 8/7/1872] Little Barlow, with his little bat, then went up to the plate, and though the Baltimore men were prepared for532 bytes (83 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Book Portrays "Bat and Ball" as Inferior to Cricket |Game=Bat and Ball908 bytes (142 words) - 18:23, 9 May 2015
- |Headline=Portland Newspaper Reports Boys Playing at "Bat-and-Ball." |Game=Bat-and-Ball957 bytes (137 words) - 11:42, 28 January 2020
- |Title=Changing the batting order to the next man after the last man at bat the previous inning ...inning shall be the batsman whose name follows that of the last man at the bat in the preceding inning.</p>2 KB (390 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the catcher playing close behind the bat .../15/1865] Leggett was in splendid play, and caught behind, close up to the bat, quite in his old effective and unequaled style, putting out no less than t525 bytes (85 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- ...with the bat in an effort to avoid it, it is just as much a stroke of the bat as if he had struck at it as far as foul balls are concerned, and we theref826 bytes (150 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- ...front of the wicket, and a baseball bat is used instead of a flat cricket bat.</p>648 bytes (107 words) - 05:39, 11 June 2022
- ...d by John Thorn, 1/13/2007. Note: John is trying to ascertain whether the bat remains in the collection.502 bytes (70 words) - 05:39, 13 April 2020
- ...itcher? My understanding of the ruling is, that any ball delivered to the bat from the hand when below the line of hip is a fair delivery, whether round-534 bytes (82 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Ohio Soldier Sees “Most of Our Company “ Playing Pre-battle Bat Ball ...us . . . yet on the other side of the road is most of our company, playing Bat Ball and perhaps in less than half an hour, they may be called to play a Ba1 KB (234 words) - 15:44, 3 July 2018
- |Title=catchers playing close to the bat too often ...to be taken on the fly. It looks very pretty to take them short from the bat, but the wear and tear of an unnecessary amount of the “playing up close�2 KB (333 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- ...bat, Clapp and Smith stood within ten feet of the plate watching Jim White bat, but nobody was near first or third.</p>1 KB (180 words) - 19:30, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Doc Adams' Sister Writes of Bat and Ball Play |Game=Bat and Ball1 KB (224 words) - 08:57, 3 February 2021
- ...e would raise the band with one finger, and when the ball passed under the bat released it. The band would snap against the glove, and all within hearing ...st in Chicago in 1884 Kelly was catching when Orator Schaeffer came to the bat. Schaeffer at once asked the umpire to watch Kelly, as he was in the habit1 KB (210 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a reverse corked bat ...s not absolutely certain whether it was used or not. A ball struck with a bat of this kind would scarcely go past the base.</p>1 KB (175 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
- ...int to throw to a base, must pause and take his position to deliver to the bat before he can legally pitcher to the batsman. He can only make one step in527 bytes (90 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- ...oward the bat, which lies on the ground. If the ball hits or hops over the bat, the batsman is out. The batsman is also out with three missed swings.</p>514 bytes (97 words) - 09:51, 28 November 2012
- |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball, ...a tiny bat that looks more like a Ping Pong paddle and bears the caption 'bat ball'."</p>965 bytes (146 words) - 15:53, 11 February 2014
- ...bat in hand, and, in his peculiar style, allowed the ball to drop from the bat just in front of him, and in such a way that it was almost impossible for t567 bytes (97 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- ...a certain spear of grass, or to run on ‘one of Dicky Pearce’s baby hits.’ Bat the ball. Strike at it. Knock it somewhere, and word for it, your batting574 bytes (92 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Title=scoring a base on balls as an at bat ...rald has made a practice of including “bases on called balls” as a time at bat, and have not recorded an error against the pitcher in the error column, an504 bytes (85 words) - 19:58, 29 February 2020
- ...tain and his assistant to see that every player who is next at bat has his bat in hand, and that he runs to the plate and gets ready for striking. A good917 bytes (168 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=John Adams Recalls Youthful Bat and Ball Play ...nd sailing boats . . swimming, skating, flying kites and shooting marbles, bat and ball, football, . . . wrestling and sometimes boxing."</p>669 bytes (93 words) - 09:32, 20 February 2018
- |Headline=B is for Bat, B is for Ball ...underline;">Highlight</span>: "The letter B you plainly see,/ Begins both Bat and Ball;/ And next you'll find the letter C,/ Commences Cat and Call."</p>714 bytes (106 words) - 10:54, 27 January 2013
- ...Bats not in use must be kept in these racks and players of the side at the bat must remain on the bench except when batsman, runner, captain or assistant.541 bytes (93 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=<i>School Reader</i> has Description of Bat and Ball |Game=Bat and Ball, Fungo2 KB (399 words) - 14:26, 18 September 2013
- ...he bat hadn’t yet joined the game – one can, of course, “bat” a ball with one’s hands, and the text only refers to a ball th956 bytes (162 words) - 08:16, 17 June 2012
- ...at as if to strike hard, but checked it. The ball, a fair one, struck the bat and bounded to Esterbrook, who picked it up and jumped on first base. Anso498 bytes (83 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Cummings's delivery; how to bat it ...ses, all the batsman has to do is to wait and watch, and not be tempted to bat at these apparently good balls, for they leave the pitcher’s hands in a l939 bytes (167 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Fictional Mom Recalls Liking to Bat Ball as a Girl |Game=Bat-Ball,888 bytes (140 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
- |Title=baseball, bat sales and manufacture ...f the season. We could not replenish the stock for love or money, and the bat-makers told us the above story and added that they had used up all the old2 KB (283 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- ...ity requisite to give life to the ball has wisely been divided between the bat and the ball. In our game, it is all in the ball; and the result is, that,985 bytes (167 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=While Playing Peacefully, "Wisdom Stole His Bat and Ball" ...not whence or why" when Wisdom finally paid her visit. Thus, an image of bat and ball symbolizes immaturity.</p>1 KB (241 words) - 17:41, 6 September 2012
- <p>an experimental bat modification</p> <p>LYMAN’S PATENT SELF-ADJUSTING BAT</p>3 KB (481 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- ...=Long Poem Describes Stool-Ball in Some Detail; First Evidence of Use of a Bat? ...l of the game to date." It provides the earliest reference to the use of a bat, describes a game that does not involve running after the young [female] pl1 KB (173 words) - 16:22, 7 January 2020
- ...ys: “All balls delivered to the bat which shall either touch the striker’s bat, without being struck it, hit the batsman’s person, * * * * shall be cons630 bytes (93 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...it, and in order to get such balls they must stand so that the spot on the bat they want the ball to touch shall be over home base.</p>654 bytes (121 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- ...ereby rendering the aim difficult. The proper way is to half shoulder the bat, bringing it down to meet the ball, especially for swift pitching.</p>590 bytes (90 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- ...r stand at the bat in such a manner as to lead to the regular swing of the bat, causing it to meet the ball so as to send it in the direction of either on ...eneral direction of the ball, from a regular and proportioned swing of the bat, is governed by the manner in which the batsman stands when prepared to str2 KB (361 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- |Title=can a player who has struck out bat again that inning; early use of 'strike out' ...n? In a game of Base Ball, has a player who has struck out a right to the bat again during the same inning?</p>721 bytes (129 words) - 18:20, 29 February 2020
- ...inutes, and then when McMullin growing tired of waiting would put down his bat, Zettlein would deliver the ball. This continued for about ten minutes muc653 bytes (101 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Poet Depicts Fleet-footed Mercury as Wielding a Kit-Cat Bat ...ncludes these lines on the god Mercury: "Then in his hand he take a thick Bat,/ With which he us'd to play at kit-cat;/ To beat mens Apples from their tr577 bytes (94 words) - 17:28, 6 September 2012
- |Term=German Bat Ball ...l as a team game that uses a ball like a volleyball and that has neither a bat nor pitching. A “batter” puts the ball in play by serving or “posting1,017 bytes (173 words) - 09:46, 28 November 2012
- |Title=an accidental hit of the bat does not count ...erable excitement for a time. Cuthbert, while waiting for a ball, had his bat struck by one from Spalding [pitcher], causing a seeming foul, which White668 bytes (102 words) - 18:51, 29 February 2020
- ...ing is what wins the games. … Let the members of the nine practice at the bat to the exclusion of fielding, when they practice at all, and they may yet r704 bytes (120 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...alaichean (harbors). Points are scored by measuring the lengths of hits in bat-lengths.</p>677 bytes (110 words) - 09:41, 28 November 2012
- |Headline=Bat and Ball Game Illustration Appears in English Genealogical Roll ...bly not the first. In 1964, a writer named Harry Simmons cited an English bat and ball picture from a genealogical roll of the Kings of England up to Hen578 bytes (94 words) - 17:24, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Mighty Nat at the Bat: A Morality Story ...l-playing was one of the favorite games with the boys. . . . [Nat comes to bat.] 'I should like to see a ball go by <em>him</em> without getting a rap,' a1 KB (204 words) - 18:36, 14 October 2015
- ...to avoid it, leaving his bat sticking up in the air. The ball struck the bat with such force that it bounded forward midway between pitcher and first ba1,015 bytes (181 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Boston-Style "Bat and Ball" Seen in Honolulu HI |Game=Bat and Ball1 KB (185 words) - 18:19, 14 October 2015
- ...vs. Cincinnati Union 6/15/1884] The visitors won the toss and went to the bat. Cincinnati Enquirer June 16, 1884</p> ...vs. Cincinnati Union 6/20/1884] The Cincinnatis won the toss, and went to bat. Cincinnati Enquirer June 20, 1884</p>478 bytes (67 words) - 19:53, 29 February 2020
- #REDIRECT [[A Grassroots History of Baseball: Days of the Rosewood Bat and the Silver Ball]]92 bytes (15 words) - 14:10, 6 December 2021
- <p>the Charter Oak bat</p> ...club as the State championship trophy. Mr. Hubbell intends to present the bat to the Hartford Amateurs, and a series of games is to be played for the pos1,001 bytes (168 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a catcher reluctant to play close to the bat ...ers, kindly called to him to put the mask on and take his place behind the bat. O'Rourke hesitated for a moment and then very reluctantly adjusted the ma1 KB (196 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=US Publisher Offers Books "More Pleasurable Than Bat and Ball" ...han Cakes, prettier than Tops, handsomer than Kites, more pleasurable than Bat and Ball, more entertaining than either Scating or Sliding, and durable as731 bytes (114 words) - 11:43, 15 May 2020
- |Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball ...note the effect of these two innovations, especially the use of the square bat, and the game to-day bids fair to be both entertaining and instructive. Chi3 KB (467 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- ...itched him a low ball, which, in bringing his bat down, Brown hit with the bat in a similar manner to that in which a cricketer blocks a straight ball; ju1 KB (184 words) - 18:21, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Lithograph shows soldiers playing bat-ball game ...s. Vol's. Near Brandy Station" published in 1864, shows soldiers playing a bat ball game.</p>594 bytes (86 words) - 10:19, 16 June 2019
- |Title=experiment with a flat bat, cork-centered ball ...and 7 to 4. The feature of the first game was an experiment with the flat bat. It did not increase the batting, and was pronounced a failure. A ball wi632 bytes (105 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- ...inds it necessary to call balls upon them. Now a pitcher can pitch to the bat, and with apparent fairness too, and yet not send in a ball where the batsm662 bytes (117 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- .../1868] Rua took the bat, and the general impression was, that as he cannot bat any better than he can run, he was sure to go out; but he had received his741 bytes (122 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Philadelphia Book: "Bat and Ball is an Inferior Kind of Cricket" |Game=Cricket, Bat and Ball1 KB (168 words) - 06:46, 28 January 2020
- |Term=Bat-Ball |Description=<p>We have references to bat-ball from 1791 (when it was banned in both Pittsfield and Northampton MA),789 bytes (130 words) - 09:30, 7 April 2016
- ...alty, if it be not immediately followed by the pitching of the ball to the bat. Last season pitchers violated the balk rule with impunity, and the result653 bytes (110 words) - 20:43, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Children's Book Recommends Regular Play with "Trap, Bat, Ball," etc. ...t of every child to have an hour of recreation each day with sports, among bat and ball-type games." -- Tom Altherr</p>811 bytes (116 words) - 07:01, 28 January 2020
- ...It would be well to practice throwing from different positions behind the bat, so as to be accustomed to a change on pace or pitcher. He should arrange587 bytes (105 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p><span>"Here is the earliest known card of a bat and ball game, and the only example known. Included within a set of childre ...l of the time before there was such a thing as a commercially manufactured bat. Significantly, the few other such known images all originated in books or2 KB (398 words) - 14:37, 28 July 2022
- ...s the least difficult to hit of the two, provided both are pitched for the bat.</p>3 KB (486 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- ...the bat. … While the revised rules still offer a premium to the batsman to bat for a record by giving undue prominence to two and three-base hits and home641 bytes (107 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- |Headline="Games of Ball and Bat" Played in Nova Scotia ...adrille and Contra dances were got up on the green - and games of ball and bat, and such sports proceeded.'"</p>682 bytes (103 words) - 17:48, 6 September 2012
- ...the call was varied with “Cub, take care of my bat,” “Take good care of my bat,” et cetera. The result of the disobedience was that Cleveland's coacher ...evote half the time to training their men down to regular team work at the bat that they do to working this trick, they would gain a great deal more than1 KB (228 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- ...and died later that evening (the 5th).The notion that he was struck by a "bat" while catching suggests this "game of ball" was a form of base or town bal579 bytes (100 words) - 14:46, 27 February 2024
- ...is counted. He also gets a base whenever a balk is called, and no tie at bat is recorded. The latter is a penalty fixed to punish the pitcher for any i567 bytes (97 words) - 20:10, 29 February 2020
- ...position close behind the batter, when a foul-tipped ball from Corcoran's bat struck him in the eye and nose. Not being able to finish the game, Quinton696 bytes (112 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=B is [<i>Still</i>] For Bat and Ball ...nd call,/ B stands for battledore, bat, and ball;/ From the trap with your bat, the Tennis ball knock,/ With your battledore spin up the light shuttlecock1 KB (200 words) - 07:55, 6 February 2013
- ...on to go to the bat or to run bases. Then, too, in case he does go to the bat after a long inning, and happens to get his base on balls or to make a hit,1 KB (219 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- ...nced a player takes up this bat and faces for a right field hit. The flat bat idea was put in by Manager Wright, who has all along advocated sacrifice hi660 bytes (112 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a composite bat 2 ...clubs by the report that the Athletic Club of Philadelphia, had secured a bat containing springs for increased propulsion. Of course the report was unfo3 KB (610 words) - 19:54, 29 February 2020
- ...not as tough as in the old days; put on equipment when they move under the bat; cup ...ison's day, when it became necessary for the catcher to come up behind the bat after two strikes or when a man reached the bases it didn't require five mi1 KB (191 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- .... The Sporting Life November 16, 1887 [N.B. The 1887 rules counted an at bat on a base on balls]</p>968 bytes (179 words) - 20:21, 29 February 2020
- |Special Interest=Bat-and-Ball164 bytes (24 words) - 13:02, 2 March 2014
- |Title=reason for no at bat on a base on balls ...t have his proper opportunity to hit the ball, and inasmuch as the time at bat has a tendency to lessen the player’s score, it would be unfair to give i667 bytes (123 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- ...clubs. The first three men have almost invariably one more chance at the bat in each game than the others, and it gives them an advantage if the average2 KB (303 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- ..., and then draw two semi-circles representing the line of the swing of the bat from the shoulder, and it will at once be seen that the chances for hitting1 KB (221 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
- ...n the gloves and mask as though he had spent all his early life behind the bat, but in one inning he had the mask broken beyond repair and had so many fou744 bytes (129 words) - 19:47, 29 February 2020
- ...pitch the wicket, and handle the bat, while others amused themselves with bat, trap and bass ball which continued till the time of the royal salute, whic720 bytes (112 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- |Headline=Mainers' "Bat and Ball" Event Leads to Delayed Catharsis ...ending the school, of the average age of seven years, had in their play of bat and ball, broken one of the neighbors windows, but no clue of the offender878 bytes (151 words) - 17:51, 6 September 2012
- ...alary $1,750) because I can't bat, I am told. I will show them that I can bat, now that the powder is out of my eye. I don't think there is any justice783 bytes (133 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- ...be no situation of affairs known to the game where a player can go to the bat more than once in the same inning, except where the entire side has “stru2 KB (361 words) - 20:00, 29 February 2020
- ...r. The first ball thrown to the bat went like a bullet, the stroke of the bat being made simultaneously with the ball entering the catcher’s hands. Th ...d missed; again he made an ineffectual stroke at the ball, and gave up his bat, apparently in wonder...of the performance of the pitcher. New York Sunday1 KB (201 words) - 18:21, 29 February 2020
- ...ror. This is a mistake. The time between the moment the ball touches the bat and his hands is so short that it can not be calculated, and certainly give684 bytes (125 words) - 19:10, 29 February 2020
- ...four goals were set in the form of a square, and as soon as the boy at the bat had hit the ball and sent it anywhere, either before or behind him, he star ..., and that was reckoned “no good” for the out side. If the ball struck the bat and made a tick loud enough to be heard by those near by, and was then caug4 KB (746 words) - 10:51, 9 March 2016
- ...learn the important fact that the ball is not in play for delivery to the bat, firstly as in the beginning of a game or after a suspension of play, befor1 KB (223 words) - 19:47, 29 February 2020
- |Game=Massachusetts Game, Bat and Ball |Text=<p>"BAT AND BALL -- The Olympic was challenged by the Elm Tree Club, at a game of b1 KB (188 words) - 18:28, 14 October 2015
- ...t confusion, but the umpire was perfectly correct. Gould then went to the bat, and by a splendid drive to right-field brought G. Wright and McVey home an830 bytes (138 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- ...ia and Athletic Clubs,met with a painful accident while playing behind the bat in a game between the Royer's Ford and Collegeville nines. While his nine844 bytes (139 words) - 19:20, 29 February 2020
- |Game=Bat and Ball ...ren, each one armed with the curved rib of some big amphibian, are playing bat and ball among the drifts." Block notes that the accompanying engraving pla876 bytes (124 words) - 18:33, 9 May 2015
- |Description=Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, pitching, and a bat (but no teams).150 bytes (22 words) - 06:55, 2 June 2012
- |Description=Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, a bat, pitching, and two distinct teams.158 bytes (22 words) - 06:52, 2 June 2012
- ...ird baseman played short stop at the time the left hand striker was at the bat, and the other party claims the short stop did not, by changing his positio943 bytes (160 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...baulk,” and when it fails to touch the bat it is “one ball,” and when the bat fails to hit it is “one strike.” There is a hole behind the batsman, t2 KB (414 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...r near second base to call the base decisions. When the League club is at bat McQuade will go to second base and the League umpire will call balls and st848 bytes (146 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
- ...ences of that time, however, refer to is as a bat. Also, being killed by a bat was seems not to have been a rarity at that time.</p>1 KB (165 words) - 14:52, 27 February 2024
- ...other sources from that time refer to it as a bat. Also, being killed by a bat was, it seems, not a rarity at that time.</p>1 KB (174 words) - 14:53, 27 February 2024
- ...spondents] There is a man on third base and one at the bat; the man at the bat strikes and misses the ball; the catcher fails to hold ball, and it strikes835 bytes (142 words) - 19:11, 29 February 2020
- ...ng, two or three balls had been sent in out of the legitimate reach of the bat before a word was said, and then came a warning, “Look out for your next�878 bytes (145 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- ...e, but that he could not judge foul balls so well there as from behind the bat.</p>901 bytes (150 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- ...re than twice, without striking the ball, I am out and one of you take the bat, and come in, as it is called."</p>839 bytes (159 words) - 17:36, 6 September 2012
- ...is out. Supposing he can only get to ''b'', one of his partners takes the bat, and strikes at the ball in turn; while the ball is passing from the feeder2 KB (373 words) - 14:43, 6 March 2016
- ...south of England,has naturally adopted the same nomenclature. The cricket-bat is simply the 'crooked stick;' it is merely a development of that game of b ...The inferences we must take from this are that ball-bias was played with a bat, and that the author was referring to American baseball. The inclusion of h1 KB (216 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- |Game="Bat" ...set number under say eight) dug a shallow depression in which he kept his 'bat' until getting a swipe at the dead or rolling ball in any direction. While2 KB (241 words) - 14:46, 27 February 2024
- ...put out three times he goes to the field and another players comes to the bat, and so on, until twenty-seven men have been put out. Then Sweeney and Rei2 KB (318 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- ...ind the bat catching, White pitched a close ball to Deagle, who was at the bat. The latter unintentionally swung around and struck fiercely at the ball,869 bytes (139 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game ...roughly) 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>938 bytes (143 words) - 11:01, 21 August 2015
- ...s. Both of these classes of hits are valuable as showing team work at the bat, but the existing scoring rules recognize neither of them...</p>811 bytes (139 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- ...<p>There are two teams of six to eight people. Everyone gets the chance to bat, bowl, and field.</p> ..."all-stars__promo__text">*Each team bats once. *Batters from the same team bat in pairs, one at each end of the wicket (the three stumps). *Each pair face2 KB (401 words) - 07:09, 7 June 2023
- ...nding behind the bat. In front of him is the batsman, who stands with his bat aloft, ready to send the ball to “kingdom come,” if possible. The pict958 bytes (158 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
- ...The same course should be pursued, too, when left-handed men come to the bat. Under the circumstances of the marked increase in right-field batting of1 KB (229 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
- ...er “instantly after seven balls have been called.” To ignore such time at bat, though he take his base on called balls, or on three strikes not caught, a793 bytes (134 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Sports at Exeter Academy include "Old-Fashioned Bat and Ball". . . and Football |Game=Bat-and-Ball,Football1 KB (231 words) - 06:13, 6 March 2022
- |Title=the flat bat ...a trial now, and is made optional with the player to use the round or flat bat, because the desire to increase the batting is so strong. “The use of w927 bytes (159 words) - 19:56, 29 February 2020
- |Title=slow pitching allowing the catcher to stand close to the bat ...elding very few passed balls, and enabling Craver to stand so close to the bat as to render base stealing almost impossible. New York Clipper August 17,809 bytes (128 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
- ...imes first base on clean hits” by his total number of times he went to the bat. Then what is true of one player is true of all, no matter what the striki778 bytes (145 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- ...base reaches home base. Can the tally or score be given him? The man at bat, of course, reaches 1st base, and the man who was on 3d base reaches home b895 bytes (172 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- ...all, and momentum of the blow swung Nellis and the bat around, raising the bat as it went, and hit Petrie, who was standing near, on the side of his head.2 KB (306 words) - 14:03, 8 March 2020
- |Game=Bat-and-Ball ...<p>The <em>Boston Herald</em>, April 8, 1853: yesterday a "lively game of 'bat and ball'" was played on the Commons.</p>799 bytes (114 words) - 14:11, 27 February 2024
- |Headline=19th Century Glossarist Describes "Bat and Ball" Rules |Game=Bat-and-Ball4 KB (619 words) - 17:08, 4 November 2016
- |Title=can a batter put out bat again in the inning? ...nts, from a Philadelphia correspondent] 1. In playing Base Ball, A has the bat and strikes a foul ball, the ball is caught and he is put out, has he a rig859 bytes (158 words) - 18:21, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Salem MA Ordinance Outlaws Bat-and-Ball, Cricket |Game=Cricket, Bat-and-Ball2 KB (291 words) - 16:55, 4 November 2016
- ...itcher, now-a-days, must be a man competent to outwit his opponents at the bat,</p> ...or success. The point of first-class pitching is to pitch fairly for the bat apparently, but in reality to be able to do the very reverse, without the k951 bytes (154 words) - 18:31, 29 February 2020
- ...bowling was all along the ground, and the great art was to bowl under the bat. All play was forward of the wicket, as it is now in single wicket games o1 KB (187 words) - 17:30, 6 September 2012
- ...deep is the origin of a boy's delight in a spinning top? In playing with bat-balls, perhaps he is charmed with some recognition of the movement of the h856 bytes (131 words) - 17:46, 6 September 2012
- ...not know whether it was eight or seven. Snyder walked back, picked up his bat, called to Kemmler and Stearns to hold their bases, and said he would be wi2 KB (303 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
- ...bat, and, seeing three men on the bases, he wisely dropped a ball from his bat so that it ran towards Start [first baseman], and before Joe could put the ..., however, did as he should always do when facing Matthews, viz., took his bat in his left hand–he can use both hands with equal facility–and for the1 KB (262 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Military Unit Plays "Bat and Ball" in Northern NYS |Game=Bat-and-Ball2 KB (307 words) - 18:17, 14 October 2015
- |Title=George Wright on the history of the bat ...on the benches, invariably carrying an umbrella under his arm. The square bat, however, proved a fizzle, as the claim that more force was gained in the s5 KB (874 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- ...o be at the head of the list, nor any discredit to be the ninth man at the bat.</p>2 KB (282 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
- ...defend the wicket–he having become proficient in his own game in using his bat freely in hitting–teaches him to judge the ball with an accuracy that few2 KB (296 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- ...n! English Author Takes on Strutt Theories on the Origins of Cricket and "Bat-and-Ball" |Game=Bat-Ball,Club-ball,Tip-cat,Cat-and-Dog,2 KB (297 words) - 11:57, 20 January 2022
- |Headline=Catcher Felled by Bat-Stick ...st., [June 1860], one of the players when about to bat the ball, threw the bat-stick back so far that he hit the catcher, Mr. John Carney, Jr., a very sev3 KB (468 words) - 18:38, 14 October 2015
- ...at result. The score, moreover, shows in some measure who are the men who bat best with men on bases—a very important thing to ascertain in its bearing ...The natural inference would be, and the table verifies it, that those who bat best with men on the bases are those who immediately follow the best batter3 KB (479 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- ...when making any of the preliminary movements in delivering the ball to the bat, or if he fails to deliver it after making one or other of such movements.< <p>A Bowled Ball.–If a ball be bowled along the ground to the bat, the umpire it required to call a balk.</p>3 KB (559 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- ...ls, all questions arising at the home plate or as to delays by the side at bat, or as to batsmen striking out of turn, and shall call play, time and game.884 bytes (149 words) - 20:41, 29 February 2020
- ...concludes that, unlike early English base-ball, ball-bias probably used a bat. The 1898 source's description: "ball-bias, a running game much like ...t a bat, like English base-ball, whereas . . . ball-bias falls more in the bat-using category, alongside [[rounders]]."</p>2 KB (254 words) - 10:22, 10 December 2013
- ...the other side, about one ball in ten from Potts being within reach of the bat. The umpire called balls, to be sure, but not a third the number that shou1 KB (182 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- ...alled. It is only in the case of a failure to deliver “fair” balls to the bat that the word repeatedly comes into play, and not in the case of the delive <p>4. All balls delivered to the bat which are sent in over the striker’s head, or on the ground in front of t4 KB (641 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
- |Headline="Bat and Ball" Can't Compete with Organ-Grinding ...I cannot forget how I used to throw down my books and slate - yes, my very bat and ball, and scamper off to hear it."</p>1 KB (210 words) - 15:36, 2 February 2021
- ...illegal delivery”--which is consequent upon his delivering the ball to the bat while stepping outside his box, or from failing to pause after making a fei2 KB (269 words) - 20:35, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Fitchburg Levies $1 fine for Striking balls with a bat-stick ...bsp;</span>game<span> </span>of ball<span>, or strike any ball with a bat-stick, or his feet, or shall throw any ball into, in, about, across or alon1 KB (164 words) - 05:30, 22 June 2022
- ...most every time the ball was struck at the end, or near the handle of the bat.</p>1,001 bytes (169 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- |Game=Bat-and-Ball |Description=“Bat and ball” appears in the 1791 diary of the Reverend William Bentley of Sa843 bytes (117 words) - 14:48, 27 February 2024
- |Title=a hole in the bat? ...desperate strike–failed to collide, and carefully examined the end of his bat. George once more missed the object of his wrath–and once more scrutiniz1,023 bytes (166 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020