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  • |Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls ...ive ball are most common." <b>Note: "</b>Up-ball?" "Drive ball?" No town ball?</p>
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  • ...that a wooden ball was sometimes used. The objective was mainly to hit the ball for distance.</p> |Sources=<p><em>Ball Games</em><span>., page 56.</span></p>
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  • |Headline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...former utilized a bat while Strutt's sketch of stool-ball stated that the ball was struck by the bare hand."</p>
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  • ...thampton) in 1791 and another thing in other towns (such as the names ball games were known by Pittsfield).&nbsp;</p>
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  • |Term=Up-Ball ...lls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-ball and drive-ball are the most common.”</p>
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  • |Term=Cuck-ball ...ED as “a kind of rounders.” Gomme equates Cuck-Ball with Pize Ball and Tut-Ball.</p>
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  • |Title=a uniform ball for all championship games ...games to be played with a Ryan “dead” ball, which was adopted. So but one ball can be used in championship matches now.</p>
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  • |Headline=The Ball in Ancient Play ...Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians&mdash;play primitive ball games for recreation, as fertility rites and in religious rituals.</p>
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  • |Term=Hole-Ball |Game Family=Hat ball
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  • ...Myrc Repeats Warning Against Ball Play in the Churchyard, Including "Stoil Ball" ...her author" wrote in "stoil ball? This may count as the first time "stool ball" [virtually] appeared.</p>
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  • |Term=Town Ball ...here are many recollections of town ball from the South and mid-West. Town ball is not infrequently confused with the [[Massachusetts Game]], but the term
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  • |Game=Base Ball ...hese games of ball were much less scientific and difficult than the modern games. Chief were four old-cat, three old-cat, two old-cat, and base."</p>
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  • |Headline=<u>Book of Games</u> Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball ...ground, or if I have hit the trigger more than twice, without striking the ball, I am out and one of you take the bat, and come in, as it is called."</p>
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  • ...pean games, to the evolution of base ball.&nbsp; He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow
    969 bytes (157 words) - 07:21, 13 May 2013
  • ...ial Protoball Issue</em> of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span> this May:</div> ...41 -- Barn Ball</a>."&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>. <strong>5</strong>(1):&nbsp;&nbsp; 85 - 88.</div>
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  • {{Family of Games ...chers but that are not safe-haven games (including shinty, bandy, and stow-ball).
    257 bytes (39 words) - 06:55, 2 June 2012
  • |Headline=Bass-ball "Quite Too Complicated" for Children's Book on Games |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball,
    965 bytes (146 words) - 15:53, 11 February 2014
  • |Title=a uniform ball adopted for championship games ...is questionable whether it will injuriously affect the interests of other ball-makers.</p>
    860 bytes (139 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
  • |Title=1823 Glossary Lists "Base-ball" as Local Suffolk Game ..., we have...Bandy, Bandy-wicket, Base-ball, Bandy-ball, Bubble-hole...Foot ball, Hocky (sic)..." and so on.</p>
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  • |Game Family=Hat ball ...and one player tosses or strikes a ball into the air. If he retrieves the ball and hits another player before that player reaches the next stool, the two
    470 bytes (77 words) - 09:38, 28 November 2012
  • |Game Family=Hat ball ...ted as "it."  This game thus shares evasive running and plugging with base ball.</p>
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  • |Name=Melpomene Base Ball Club of New Orleans v Melpomene Base Ball Club of New Orleans on 16 September 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Headline=Base Ball Recalled as Very Popular at Exeter |Game=Base Ball
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  • |Title=a rubber-free ball; the home club provides the ball ...e of rubber will on any account be allowed. The home club will supply the ball in all “League” matches.</p>
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  • {{Family of Games |Game Family=Hat ball
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  • |Term=Call Ball |Game Family=Hat ball
    494 bytes (82 words) - 09:45, 28 November 2012
  • |Game Family=Hat ball ...er with that name retrieves the ball as all others start running away. The ball-holder can then call “stop,” and the others must freeze in position whi
    564 bytes (95 words) - 09:49, 28 November 2012
  • ...ase ball championships will be called upon to compete for the amateur base ball championship of the United States... [A. G. Mills one of the signatories]<
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  • |Headline=Banned in Boston&#39;s Public Garden: "Games of Ball, Foot-ball" |Game=Base Ball,
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  • ...ne=Article in <i>The Knickerbocker</i> Mentions "Bass-ball," Old Cat, Barn-ball |Game=Base Ball
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  • |Game Family=Hat ball ...nst a wall, calling out a day. The player assigned that day must catch the ball, or if missing it must throw as one of his fleeing compatriots, losing a po
    796 bytes (130 words) - 06:02, 14 March 2017
  • |Term=Base Dodge Ball ...igh schoolers in which a player can prevent being called out by catching a ball thrown at him. An “indoor baseball” is used. The game involves no batti
    508 bytes (81 words) - 09:45, 28 November 2012
  • |Title=the provision of a trophy ball ...e match is played furnishes the ball, and on the third game each furnish a ball, one being used and the other–the new one–going to the victors.</p>
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  • |Headline=Ball Games Recalled in Southwestern WI |Game=Town Ball
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  • |Headline=Mayan Games Played at Chichen Itza, Mexico |Text=<p>Mayan Indians play stick and ball games in ceremonial courts in Chichen Itza, Mexico</p>
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  • |Term=Hat Ball |Game Family=Hat ball
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  • |Headline=German Book of Games Copies Gutsmuths&#39; Base-ball Piece ...st comment also derivative of the Gutsmuths text, or does it confirm "base-ball" play in England in the 1820s and 1830s?</p>
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  • |Game Family=Hat ball |Description=<p>per Brewster. A team form of Hat Ball. A player throws a ball to the other group, and runs toward it. If the receiving group can plug the
    408 bytes (69 words) - 09:47, 28 November 2012
  • ...even though many writers had suggested that that English pastime was base ball's progenitor.&nbsp; &nbsp;-- Larry McCray, 5/23/2023&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &n == List of Predecessor Games ==
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  • ...Special Protoball Issue" of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball </span>this Spring:</p> ...Haven Ballgames</a>."&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>. <strong>5</strong>(1):&nbsp;&nbsp; 10 -16.</li>
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  • |Headline=Cat and Trap-ball Seen as Boys&#39; Games [The Men Play Foot-ball] ...:/ Here men at foot-ball they do fall;/ There boys at <i>cat</i> and trap-ball."</p>
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  • ...trap ball . . . ," is the first known book reference to the play of "base" ball in the US. [David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball |Comment=<p>The cited lines were from an appendix to Smith's book on American games, written by Samuel Woodworth c. 1835. ][ba]</p>
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  • |Game=Long Town Ball ...rows at him. The suspense under which the victim was while waiting for the ball to strike was telling.
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  • |Title=Baltimore Club finances; Sunday games ...ey to be made on Atlantic Association ball in Baltimore is from the Sunday games. It is a great pity that this should be so, but it is a fact.</p>
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  • |Term=Corner Ball |Game Family=Hat ball
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  • |Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
    232 bytes (36 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
  • |Term=Square Ball ...ing a player on the target team, can be retrieved, “Halt!” called, and the ball thrown at “frozen” members of the peripheral team.</p>
    792 bytes (126 words) - 09:51, 28 November 2012
  • |Tags=Championship Games |Game=Base Ball,
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  • |Headline=Brooklyn Games Organized as Benefits for Sick and Wounded Soldiers |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball, Championship Games, Civil War, Holidays,
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  • |Game Family=Hat ball |Description=<p>According to Brewster, Kappenspiel is the German word for Hat Ball.</p>
    267 bytes (39 words) - 09:39, 28 November 2012
  • |Title=Pize Ball in Northumberland on April 28 1865 |Block Game=Pize Ball
    696 bytes (107 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
  • |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>
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  • |Term=Ball-Bias |Description=<p>Ball-bias, a term as yet only found in&nbsp;seven scattered British sources from
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  • |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
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  • |Title=1850 -- Southern Ball-Games |Journal=Base Ball
    279 bytes (34 words) - 07:31, 28 July 2019
  • |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>
    632 bytes (104 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
  • |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>
    671 bytes (114 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
  • |Headline=Town-ball in IN Later [and Vaguely?] Recalled |Game=Town Ball,
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  • |Sources=see ball games |Query=see ball games
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  • |Headline=Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands? |Game=Town Ball
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  • |Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |Game=Cricket, Old-Cat Games, Town Ball
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  • |Headline=Lit Magazine Cites "Roaring" Game of "Bat and Base-ball" |Game=Base Ball, Bat-Ball
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  • |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>
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  • |Headline=Poisoned Ball Listed in French Manual of Games |Game=Poisoned Ball,
    940 bytes (129 words) - 08:02, 11 March 2022
  • |Game Family=Hat ball ...ption=<p>According to Brewster, Petjeball was the early Dutch term for Hat Ball.</p>
    251 bytes (38 words) - 09:40, 28 November 2012
  • |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>
    470 bytes (77 words) - 09:45, 28 November 2012
  • |Name=Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport v Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport on 10 September 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2
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  • ...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
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  • |Headline=Some interesting games of ball |Game=Base Ball
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  • ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games |Journal=Base Ball
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  • |Headline=Halliwell&#39;s 960-Page Dictionary Cites Base-ball, Rounders, Tut-ball ...ll was not a fan of sport. <b>Note:</b> can a list of the other safe-haven games be made?</p>
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  • |Headline=NH Lad Had Happy Games of Ball |Text=<p>"I had many happy hours with the village boys in games of ball and I spy. "&nbsp;</p>
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  • |Term=Ball and Bases ...and a failure to reach third base before the pitcher touches home with the ball in hand are outs. Batters receive one point for each base attained, and fiv
    662 bytes (111 words) - 09:44, 28 November 2012
  • |Headline=At Harvard, Two Clubs Play Series of Games by New York Rules |Game=Base Ball,
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  • |Game Family=Hat ball ...r defends a hole (or hat). If another player rolls a “medium-sized” rubber ball into the hole, he tries to hit another player with it to prevent having a c
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  • |Headline=Magazine Cites "Principle Sports of the Day," One With "Rattllng" Ball-Clubs ...ball-clubs," and concludes that shooting guns and some form a game with a ball-club are "both the principle sports of the day."</p>
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  • |Headline=Chapbook Illustrates Trap-ball .../u>, page 193. The book describes "several popular games," including trap-ball, with poetry and woodcuts.</p>
    354 bytes (51 words) - 17:42, 6 September 2012
  • ...ring nearly 2000 points in the evolution of baseball and other baserunning games, is dedicated to [[Tom Altherr]]. ...aunch an open-ended account of accumulated evidence on the origins of base ball. Protoball was conceived in a period when several academic writers had wri
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  • ...ntertainments were very simple [around 1800] . . . games of ball, not base-ball, as is now [1880s?] the fashion, yet with wickets . . . "&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> ...days than now.&nbsp; We had more holidays, more games in the streets -- of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling."</p>
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  • |Headline=1000 Watch November Base Ball in New Bedford MA. Brr. |Game=Base Ball,
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  • |Headline=Future Tennessee Governor, at age 50, "Played at Ball" |Game=Ball
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  • |Headline=Egyptian Tomb Has Earliest Depiction of Catching (Fielding) a Ball? ...fielding&rdquo;) a ball, and the other is quite plausibly about to throw a ball toward her.</p>
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  • |Title=Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on February 13 1875 |Block Game=Tut Ball
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  • ...em>, and is also collecting data on female play of base ball's predecessor games.</p>
    503 bytes (79 words) - 13:03, 2 March 2014
  • |Description=The 1865 Henry Clay Fike diaries relate several games of ball by the Union army occupying Montgomery. May 5: "had a game of ball"
    604 bytes (92 words) - 07:59, 21 June 2023
  • |Headline=Englishman Sees Base-ball as Commonly Played by Adult Men and Women ...games states: "There are few of us of either sex but have engaged in base-ball since our majority."</p>
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  • |Headline=Indianans Play Town Ball, Two Old Cat |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 23 October 1846 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • ...ds long by 30 wide, amply large enough for an indoor foot ball field. The ball will be manufactured expressly for this occasion, and will be smaller than
    536 bytes (82 words) - 19:56, 29 February 2020
  • |Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...it-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes. <strong>Note:</strong>: But not trap-ball? Not rounders? Moor muses: "It is not unpleasing thus to see at a glance su
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  • |Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Eagle Base Ball Club of New York on 19 November 1861 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2
    857 bytes (137 words) - 18:40, 7 July 2020
  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York in June 1848 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2
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  • |Headline=Town Ball Club Finds Spot in NYC For Playing |Game=Town Ball
    575 bytes (102 words) - 17:52, 21 October 2012
  • |Game=Base Ball, ...1859 article suggested that the game was the same as "Massachusetts "Base Ball," giving the only firm clue as to its rules.&nbsp;</p>
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  • ...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> ...games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball playing.</p>
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  • |Title=Contribute by adding new data on early ballplaying (games, clubs) in your geographical area ...modern base ball -- and the baserunning games than may have preceded base ball -- throughout the US.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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  • ...ight Indian club, and, in striking, the batter is not allowed to block the ball, but must hit it fairly and squarely. Nine innings constitute a game.</p>
    1,008 bytes (171 words) - 19:52, 29 February 2020
  • ...nformation on games, clubs, and other information on the evolution of base ball, almost all of it occurring&nbsp; prior to the first professional league fo ...ames, drawn from more than 3300 published accounts, in version 1.0 of his "Games Tab." The portal for this initial version, uploaded in 2008, is at http://p
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  • |Headline=Town Ball Recalled in Eastern IL |Game=Town Ball
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  • ..., and a batter stands before it, attempting to hit a tennis ball, a rubber ball or another type of projectile. Baserunning is not usual. All other rules - ...m together here under that name; they include [[PeeGee ball]] and [[Indian Ball]].</p>
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 6 November 1846 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • ...ehalf of the Bristol County Club, presented the Union Club with a splendid ball. Cheers were then given by the respective Clubs and they separated to enjo ...regular Ball season is considered to close with Thanksgiving, though many games will doubtless be played through the winter when the weather will permit."
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  • ...a week or ten days. A number of those who are summering there promise the ball players a flattering reception.</p>
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  • ...all. Pollux [ca 180 AD] lists a number of children's ball games, including games that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the pl ...Turning to milder forms of ball play, he said "I believe that in this form ball playing is also superior to all the other exercises." His partiality to bal
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  • |Game Family=Hat ball |Description=<p>per Brewster. When a player throws a ball high in the air, the others run away. When he catches it, he yells “caugh
    374 bytes (62 words) - 09:50, 28 November 2012
  • |Headline=Manuscript Shows a Club-and-Ball Game with Stool-like Object ...name of cricket stem back to ancient games played with a curved stick and ball, starting with <i>la soule</i>, and evolving in England through stoolball .
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 25 August 1846 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Headline=Seventy Games Played, All in New York City Area. |Game=Base Ball,
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  • |Game=Game of ball ...achusetts game. Note: does the final sentence imply that earlier games of ball had been played?</p>
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 9 October 1851 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • ...s, published in London in 1653, where it is found enumerated as one of the games of the Gargantua."</p> ...stoolball, horne billets, nine holes, hat ball, rounders, feeder, or base ball. <i>Francis Rabelais - Completely Translated into English by Urquhard and
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  • |Title=taxing baseball games 2 ...cessary an ordinance will be drawn up with special references to base ball games.</p>
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 28 October 1845 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Title=a seamless ball to discourage curve pitching ...the spring games. It is the opinion of all who have seen it that the new ball cannot well be curved and if this proves to be the case there will be lots
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  • |Headline=English Novel Mentions, Thread-the-Needle, "Base-Ball:" "Such Games! ...party from the van had collected. And they were having such games! Base-ball, and thread-the-needle, and kiss-in-the-ring, until their laughter might ha
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 17 June 1846 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Title=buying and selling games ...from the ground, and toward the close of the season ceased attending match games. Unless this state of things is changed during the coming season, the game
    853 bytes (132 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
  • ...ty-fourth street, next Summer. A. J. Reach will superintend the base ball games. Season tickets will admit a holder to all exhibitions on the grounds. Th
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  • |Title=Ball Bias in East Sussex on July 5 1879 |Block Game=Ball Bias
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 10 July 1858 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 24 April 1851 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Name=Louisville Base Ball Club v Louisville Base Ball Club on 18 July 1858 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 5 April 1846 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • ...re-1840 North American games &ndash; base ball and beyond -- played with a ball.</span></p>
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 2 June 1851 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Headline=Base Ball Verse for Adults |Tags=Ball in the Culture,
    991 bytes (159 words) - 19:03, 14 October 2015
  • |Headline=Saint Augustine Recalls Punishment for Youthful Ball Games ...ger and envy, much more so than I was when a playmate beat me at a game of ball."</p>
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 4 July 1852 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Name=Stacey Base Ball Club of Nashville v Osceola Base Ball Club of Nashville on 11 October 1866 |Home Team=Stacey Base Ball Club of Nashville
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  • |Headline=Worcester Man Recalls Round Ball in the 1850s |Game=Round Ball,
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  • |Name=Worthington Base Ball Club |Club Name=Worthington Base Ball Club
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 16 September 1847 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2
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  • ...ati club has two games for Sunday. President Stern of the Cincinnati Base Ball club said to-day, when asked what he proposed to do to-morrow if his player ...nnot attend on any other day.” St. Louis Republic May 26, 1889 [N.B. The games were played.]</p>
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  • |Game=Town Ball ...zed club teams anywhere in the United States." The game was a form of town ball.</p>
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 26 June 1856 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • ...all. This will be the first German paper in the country to introduce base-ball reports. It is done because a great many German citizens are taking an int
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  • |Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Eagle Base Ball Club of New York on 29 November 1855 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • ...On the parade ground there were played 1,430 games of base ball, 23 foot ball, 113 cricket and 7 lacrosse.</p>
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  • |Term=Touch-Ball ...N from 1862 to 1866 (when base ball arrived) “the favorite game was ‘touch-ball,’ where “touch” referred to the plugging or tagging of runners.</p>
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  • |Term=German Ball Game ...” [runs] wins the contest.  The game resembles the family of "battingball" games reported by Maigaard.</p>
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  • |Headline=Plymouth MA Boys Play Round Ball, Other Ballgames: Ballmaking Described ...it with good, tightly spun twine. Attempts were occasionally made to play ball in the streets, but the by-laws of the town forbidding it were rigidly enfo
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 22 July 1847 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • ...e 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? ...e Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>
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  • |Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 29 August 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Title=Frederick Douglass goes to games |Text=<p>Fred Douglass and wife are frequent attendants at the ball games in Washington. Douglass always did know a good thing when he saw it.</p>
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  • |Headline=CT and MA Teams Match Up for Five Games of Wicket ...succession, the game was considered fairly decided, and the remaining four games were not played." Then th e two sides shared dinner.</p>
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  • |Term=Kick the Ball ..., and a game usually comprises four innings. Johnson (1910) lists Kick the Ball as a Baseball game.</p>
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  • |Term=Long Ball (US Batting Game) <p>"Long Ball"&nbsp; is generally known as a baserunning bat-and-ball game in Europe.&nbsp; However, Steven Katz (email of 2/5/2021) notes that,
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  • |Name=White Earth Base Ball Club of White Earth Objiwe Nation |Club Name=White Earth Base Ball Club
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  • |Headline=Competitive Base Ball Suddenly Fills NY Metropolitan Area ...tan clubs, and they had only played seven match games all year.&nbsp; Most games were intrmural contests.</p>
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  • |Title=Ball Bias in East Sussex on July 26 1889 |Block Game=Ball Bias
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  • |Term=Trounce-Ball ...iption=<p>Gomme (1898) identifies this game as a Norfolk version of [[Trap Ball]], but with a hole for the trap and a cudgel for a bat.</p>
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  • |Title=Pize Ball in South Yorkshire on September 10 1881 |Block Game=Pize Ball
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  • |Title=a denunciation of beer and Sunday games ...n attraction and a necessity. If the Cincinnati Club wants to have Sunday games and convert its grounds into a beer saloon, let it do it outside the League
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  • |Title=a condemnation of trickery and deception; hidden ball trick ...ner lot loafers in their ball games. All these so-called “points” in base ball are beyond the pale of fair and manly play, and rank only as among the abus
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  • ...n the children sat down to tea on the lawn. The repast being finished, the games resumed."</p>
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  • |Headline=Trap Ball, Stool Ball, Well Established in Louisville KY |Text=<p>"Other forms of bat and ball games, like trap-ball and stool-ball, became well established in Louisville in the decade preceding the Civil Wa
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  • |Tags=Throwback Games, ...number of the old fashioned men are to have an old-fashioned game of base ball in [Jones?] Square in a few days.&nbsp; The respective sides have been chos
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  • |Title=no more championship games in Hoboken ...eld of the Nationals of Jersey City. This is a bad thing for championship games, but a good thing for clubs generally. The enclosed grounds at Brooklyn wi
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  • #REDIRECT [[David Block's Data (so far) for Early English Base Ball Games]]
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  • |Name=Aurora Ball Club of Boston ...played a game &nbsp;of "base ball" in Sept. 1853 against the Olympic. See games tabulation. They probably played under the MA rules, or variant. They pract
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  • |Name=Osceola Base Ball Club of Nashville |Club Name=Osceola Base Ball Club of Nashville
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  • <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 161-162. No reference given.</p>
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  • |Title=a dead ball trick ...l to Serad (in his mind), when Sunday slipped off the bag. Dan jerked the ball from under his arm and touched him out before the Chicago right fielder kne
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  • |Name=Sagamore Club of Portland v Portland Base Ball Club on 21 August 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Term=Ball Stand ...d, and other players are to freeze in their places. If the player with the ball can plug someone, that player is out; if not, the thrower is out. This game
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  • ...s called a strike or a ball. All these weighty issues upon which the base ball enthusiast expends such intense solicitude can now be clearly and reliably
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 5 June 1847 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • |Title=Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884 |Block Game=Ball Bias
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  • ...ehalf of the Bristol County Club, presented the Union Club with a splendid ball. Cheers were then given by the respective Clubs and they separated to enjoy ...regular Ball season is considered to close with Thanksgiving, though many games will doubtless be played through the winter when the weather will permit."
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  • ...with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a modification of Round Ball for a less number of players than the regular game required."</p>
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  • |Headline=William Cullen Bryant Remembers Base-Ball ...seventy or eighty years since - such as wrestling, running, leaping, base-ball, and the like, for in thee there was nothing to distinguish them from the s
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  • |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...squo;&nbsp; We have a St. George&rsquo;s Cricket Club, and two of the toss-ball Base Clubs (Erie and the Niagara).&rdquo;)</p>
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  • |Source Image=Bat Ball.jpg |Title=Bat Ball
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  • |Headline=Daily Base Ball Games Found in Public Square in Cleveland |Game=Base Ball,
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  • |Headline=Edward III Prohibits Playing of Club-Ball. ...f . . . ." Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. The actual term for "club-ball" in the proclamation was, evidently, "bacculoream."</p>
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  • |Headline=Base Ball as Therapy in MA? |Tags=Ball in the Culture,
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  • ...een set apart at Central Park, but the Commissioners are not allowing ball games to be played there, although it appears they allow cricket.</p> ...1863 purports to show informal baseball playing in the park. Formal match games seem to be allowed by 1868.</p>
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  • |Description=<p>(Star Base Ball Club intra-club game)</p> |Sources=<p>(1) “Aquatics, Base-Ball, Cricket: The Incoming Base-Ball Season,” <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle,</i> vol. 21, no. 107 (6 May 1862), p. 2
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  • |Headline=South Carolina College Students Make Do with Town Ball, "Cat" |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games
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  • ...s below.])</p> <p>(NYC: “There seemed to be a general turn-out of the Base Ball Clubs in this city and vicinity, on Thursday, 29th Nov. Among those playing ...Ball,” SOT, vol. 25, no. 43 (8 Dec 1855), p. 511, col. 3</p> <p>(2) “Base Ball on Thanksgiving Day,” NYC, [?] Nov 1855</p>
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  • |Headline="Games of Ball and Bat" Played in Nova Scotia ...hich, 'Quadrille and Contra dances were got up on the green - and games of ball and bat, and such sports proceeded.'"</p>
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  • ...e the field against the strong players now occupying positions in the base ball arena.</p>
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  • |Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 24 October 1845 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
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  • ...of the day was devoted to bass ball, croquet, thread the needle and other games, til the shades of evening fell."</p>
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  • |Game=Town Ball ...the 18th of the people of Dayton and Xenia. games of "foot ball" and "town ball" are scheduled.</p>
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  • |Headline=86th Indiana Plays Town Ball in East Tennessee |Game=Town Ball
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  • ...0. the base ball patrons do not like the idea of being deprived of seeing games with the American and League clubs and they are kicking against the new mov
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  • |Headline=Base Ball on Ice |Tags=Ball in the Culture
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  • |Name=Texas Base Ball Club of Nashville v Washington Base Ball Club of Nashville on 29 April 1868 |Home Team=Texas Base Ball Club of Nashville
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  • |Name=Emerson Base Ball Club of Nashville v Starlight Base Ball Club of Nashville on 29 April 1868 |Home Team=Emerson Base Ball Club of Nashville
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  • |Term=Playground Ball ...ption=<p>Johnson (1910) lists Playground Ball among seven &ldquo;Baseball" games.&nbsp; The rules of this game are not explained.</p>
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  • ...ine=Traveler in Wales Reports "Laudable" Sunday Games of "Trap, Cat, Stool-ball, Racket &amp;c" ...ify in the churchyard at the lawful and laudable games of trap, cat, stool-ball, racket, &amp;c., on Sundays."</p>
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  • |Headline="Base Ball" and "Bat and Ball" Seen as the Same Game |Game=Base Ball, Bat-and-Ball
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  • |Headline=<u>Games and Sports</u> Covers Rounders, Feeder, Trap-ball, Northern Spell ...n, Warne and Routledge] This book's descriptions of rounders, feeder, trap-ball, and northern spell were cloned from the 1841 publication <span style="text
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  • ...f the male teachers played matches of cricket, and indulged in other manly games."</p>
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  • |Headline=Alabama soldiers play bull-pen, cat and town ball |Game=Town Ball, Two Old Cat
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