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|Name=Gotham Jr. Club of New York v Picked nine from Unknown Club of Paterson on 6 October 1860 |Away Team=Picked nine from Unknown Club of Paterson

|Name=Zephyr Club of Greenpoint v Unknown Club of Harlem on 18 November 1861 |Away Team=Unknown Club of Harlem

|Name=Mystic Club of New York v Unknown Club of Harlem on 3 October 1861 |Away Team=Unknown Club of Harlem

|Name=Hickory Club of New York Clipper v Unknown Club of New York Clipper on 9 May 1860 |Away Team=Unknown Club of New York Clipper

|Name=Franklin Club of New York v Unknown Club of Paterson on 5 May 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2

|Name=Franklin Club of New York v Unknown Club of Paterson on 27 April 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2

|Name=Oakland Club of Brooklyn v Unknown Club of Brooklyn on 26 May 1859 |Field=Unknown grounds on Fifth Ave. between Wyckoff and Warren streets

|Name=Boyleston Club of Boston v Unknown Club of Charlestown on 26 September 1861 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2

|Name=Powhattan Club of Brooklyn v Unknown Club of Brooklyn on 18 November 1858 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Name=Unknown Club of Weeksville v Colored Union Club of Williamsburg on 28 September 186 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2

|Title=counting games from defunct clubs ...ake in settling the championship at the close of the season, is at present unknown.</p>

|Name=Powhattan Club of Brooklyn v Unknown on 18 November 1858 |Away Team=Unknown

|NY Rules=Unknown |Description=<p>"The first organized games appear to have been played around 1903."

|Age of Players=Unknown |Text=<p>"Football and baseball, as played today [in 1918], were unknown games. What was known as townball, however, was a popular sport. This was played

|Field=Unknown |NY Rules=Unknown

|Age of Players=Unknown ...Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians&mdash;play primitive ball games for recreation, as fertility rites and in religious rituals.</p>

|Name=Unknown Club of Charlestown |Sources=See ball games

|Name=Unknown Club of Camden |Sources=see ball games

...ound an 1849 chapbook printed in Connecticut: “there are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b

|Name=First African-American Games |Description=<p>[A] Report of&nbsp;July 4 game between Henson and Unknown Clubs</p>

...ie may be another name for Cat’s Pallet. The rules of this game are as yet unknown.</p>

|Sources=<p>Tholkes Games Database</p> |Comment=<p>Not clear who the home team is as the playing field is unknown.</p>

|NY Rules=Unknown |Description=<p>This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation[NYC table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported in Porter's S

|Age of Players=Unknown |Sources=<p>Culin, Stewart, &ldquo;Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.,&rdquo; <em>Journal of American Folklore,</em> Vo

|NY Rules=Unknown |Description=<p>This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported in Wilkes' S

...152. Some sources say the Confederate guards occasionally joined in on the games. </p><p>But it does not appear that viewing the POW games spurred the locals to play baseball themselves. The first notice I can find

|NY Rules=Unknown |Description=<p>This intramural game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was covered by the Roches

|Headline=MA Regiment Plays Daily Intramural Games in Spring Months ...pp?. Crockett article is unprocured as of May 2009, and primary source is unknown.<strong> Note:</strong> It would be useful to know what game the regiment p

|Headline=Daily Base Ball Games Found in Public Square in Cleveland |Age of Players=Unknown

|Age of Players=Unknown |Text=<p>"Other forms of bat and ball games, like trap-ball and stool-ball, became well established in Louisville in th

...ty or sixty years ago, when the modern games of croquet and base-ball were unknown, the people used to amuse themselves with marbles, "town-ball" - which was

|Age of Players=Adult, Unknown ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], page 19; the image itself is reproduced oppo

|NY Rules=Unknown ...<p>This intramural game (marrieds 49, singles 52) appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by the Batav

...sp; the Hudson folks . . . did not remember that 'a balk is a base' in the games of children of a larger growth."&nbsp; ...ractice to the 1830s is somewhat arbitrary, as the writer's age in 1847 is unknown.&nbsp; Locating the practice in NY State is also uncertain.&nbsp;

|Name=The First Vintage Games? <p><span>Rules played are unknown. The score was 86-69, and three players are listed in the box score as "not

|NY Rules=Unknown ...uardt) in what is now Tremont. Says that among other diversions, "Baseball games were played on the parade grounds."</p>

...ations of students for athletics, were unknown at that time. Athletics and games there were indeed a plenty, but as purely spontaneous expressions of abound

|NY Rules=Unknown |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1857.7 – Daily Base Ball Games [NY-Style] Found in Public Square in Cleveland?

|Headline=Games of Ball Seen in Sacramento CA in 1851, 1854 |Age of Players=Unknown

|Age of Players=Unknown <p>There were two games played in Brooklyn earlier that month.</p>

...heir first nine. If the Colonel can sustain his statements, of course all games played by the Association clubs this season are at once “null and void.�

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

|Comment=<p>The earliest location of baseball games in Dover in unknown. A June 24, 1875 pro game was played at the Dover BBC grounds, aka Fairview

|Age of Players=Unknown ...t a remote period. We do not know the exact nature of any of these ancient games, Egyptian, Greek, or Roman."</p>

|Headline=The First Vintage Games? |Comment=<p>[A] Rules played are unknown. The score was 86-69, and three players are listed in the box score as "not

|Age of Players=Unknown ...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

|Entry Origin=Games Tab 2 |Description=<p>(Jefferson Base Ball Club intra-squad game; score unknown)</p>

|NY Rules=Unknown </p><p>Under the heading "Games Derived from Europeans," Culin wrote in 1907 that there was a "Navaho game

|Description=<p>"Previous to 1870, base ball was unknown in the villages of Michigan. . . . The first base ball club organized in Be </p><p>"In Benton Harbor the games were played on the Morton ball ground on Morton Hill."

|Innings Note=number of innings unknown ...Ball Game--The Aurora Ball Club and the Olympic Club will play best 3 in 5 games at Base Ball, on Tremont Street mall, on Friday morning next, at 1/2 past 5

|Headline=Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described |Age of Players=Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

|Entry Origin=Games Tab |NY Rules=Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...or was proven that the said Edward Nolan was guilty of throwing or selling games, or any dishonorable action of that nature, but has in these respects susta ...the Chicago Club’s visit to California. Consistency appears to be a jewel unknown to the managers of the League, to say the least.</p>

|Innings Note=Unknown number of innings ...of Columbia." Arrangements were made for playing a series of championship games during the season. The first of these was played yesterday afternoon at New

|NY Rules=Unknown |Comment=<p>As of April 2021 this game is also listed under "predecessor games."</p>

|Description=<p>This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC file] complied by Craig Waff. Reports appeared in the Clipp ...e the side was retired.&nbsp; In addition a New York Clipper article, date unknown, said that the Newark Club won with "ten runs to spare" and there could als

...game of wicket in early May after a dinner with General Knox! . . . Other games included cards and dice . . . gambling in general, although that was frowne ...err, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." <spa

|Sources=<p>[A] This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported as "the firs |Submission Note=Games Tab 1.0; Humber emails of May 21and June 6 2014

...of the British Colonist of Victoria, BC. The result of the second game is unknown. In the May 26 edition, it was reported the Olympics won the first game 45 ...e Alki Base Ball Club, which was the first team from Seattle to play Match Games.</p>

...akers, of whom there were some in most villages, were the leaders in these games."</p>

|Description=<p>Trap ball is one of the earliest known ball games. Its distinguishing characteristic is the use of a &ldquo;trap,&rdquo; a me ...e_4-0" class="reference"></sup><span>&nbsp;As late as the 1930s exhibition games of knur and spell by veterans drew large crowds to the&nbsp;</span><a class

...ovement in Columbia County did not remember that "a balk is a base" in the games of children of a larger growth." (<strong>Note:&nbsp;</strong>This led into ...ractice to the 1830s is somewhat arbitrary, as the writer's age in 1847 is unknown.&nbsp; Locating the practice in NY State is also uncertain.</p>

...ful sports. Newspapers, more enterprising than wise, did not herald these games, wit the names and challengers of the champions, and the innings displayed ...ars of manhood play the games of boyhood, demoralized by practices happily unknown to the innocence of school-days. Now, bats and balls, grounds and club-roo

...akers, of whom there were some in most villages, were the leaders in these games."

...un, frolic, and exercise which prevailed when gate-money arrangements were unknown. New York Sunday Mercury February 16, 1868</p>

|NY Rules=Unknown ...e British Colonist. Base ball is not mentioned again until 1866. All three games center around a team or players organized by the owner of the Fashion Hotel

|Warning=<p>The dates that these games were originally seen are not reported.&nbsp; We have assigned them to "the ...an upcoming "great match" which promised to be "a rich affair" between the Unknown and Neversweat Clubs.&nbsp; The match took place the following day before a

|Age of Players=Juvenile, Youth, Unknown ...the same rules their fathers did before them.&nbsp; We also find that many games are played, differing but little from the well-known game of Base.</p>

...rrangements with the manager of the Portsmouth Club to play two exhibition games on their grounds. The first game was won by us in the first inning, but in ...ter a little service as though it was stuffed with rags.” Therefore Seery unknown to Manager Henderson or the umpire, concealed about his clothing the Union

|Age of Players=Unknown ...ing game, or was it in the field-hockey, or handball, or golf, families of games?</p>

...sp;to the Mills Commission, April 3, 1905 and November 17, 1905 and one of unknown details. To read them, go <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/memorylab/chronology/ ...e Legendary Doubleday Game",&nbsp;<em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century</em> (SABR, 2013), pp. 3-5</p>

:We had to have a good outdoor game, and as the games then in vogue didn’t suit us we decided to remodel three-cornered cat and ...o decided all disputed points. The modern umpire and his tribulations were unknown to us.

...vicious literature, her music, her dances and her manifold mannerisms, her games also, and her pastimes, to the utter discredit of our own grand national sp ...ly dead and buried, but in several localities to be entirely forgotten and unknown. And what have we got in their stead? We have got such foreign and fantasti

|Game=Unknown ...marked at the end of the first day of play. Also, are there two different games here? At first, the young men are &ldquo;playing with the ball,&rdquo; but

{{Games Tab Box}}__NOTOC__ ...s | format=sum }} ballgames from 1845 through 1860 from {{#ask: [[Category:Games Tab]] | ?Number of Sources | format=sum }} news sources by [[Craig Waff|Cra

|Game=Base Ball,Old-Cat Games ...e changes they introduced. "We had to have a good outdoor game, and as the games then in vogue didn't suit us we decided to remodel <strong>three-cornered c

...ct this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played their games at Elysian Fields.</div> ...e facts (journalistic and visual) about base ball, cricket, and other ball games being played at the EF, but not to delve into the history of the parkland,

It was also a safe-haven games and most accounts call for five bases [including home], most of them specif ...uld call a home run in baseball. One account suggests that winning 3 of 5 games, or 2 of three -- determines the victorious side.

of the club, have antecedents in older bat and ball games. While both the 1845 baseball games?

...ct this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played their games at Elysian Fields.</div> ...e facts (journalistic and visual) about base ball, cricket, and other ball games being played at the EF, but not to delve into the history of the parkland,

...ct this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played their games at Elysian Fields.''</div> ...e facts (journalistic and visual) about base ball, cricket, and other ball games being played at the EF, but not to delve into the history of the parkland,

...>(<i>New York Clipper:</i> “The third contest of a series of home and home games—the first two of which were played last season …  the Eureka succeeded ...racted a great deal of attention, as each club had won one of the previous games, and they are looked upon as the champions of the junior organizations of t

...rouping it with other unregulated, bat and ball, safe-haven, American folk games. While this is an acceptable description of the game, it does little to in ...distinguished town ball from other types of bat and ball, safe-haven folk games.

...t Albert S. Flye, regarding dispute over rules to be followed in these two games])</p> ...)</p> <p>(<i>New York Clipper:</i> The match was “best two out of three in games of 25 tallies,” with “one out all out” the rule.  12 picked members

...all out,’ best two in three; game twenty-one tallies, flying ball.  …  Our games are ‘the (so-called) old-fashioned base;’ sometimes ‘one out, all out ...>McWaine’s side 17-24-20</p> <p>(Rough and Ready Base Ball Club intra-club games)</p> <p>(<i>GCH:</i> <i>Herald</i> was published by A. J.  McWain.)</p>

...ol. 25, no. 32 (22 Sep 1855), p. 373, col. 3 [list of Knickerbocker-Gotham games]</p> <p>(5) Peverelly, pp. 14 &amp; 21</p> <p>(6) Orem, p. 11</p> <p>(7) Wr ...ol. 25, no. 32 (22 Sep 1855), p. 373, col. 3 [list of Knickerbocker-Gotham games]</p> <p>(3) Peverelly, pp. 14-15 &amp; 21</p> <p>(4) Orem, p. 11</p> <p>(5)