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  • 1849c.5
    |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>
    598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
  • Norr and Spell
    ...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>
    512 bytes (86 words) - 09:40, 28 November 2012
  • 1839.4
    |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>
    798 bytes (123 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
  • Brian Turner, April 2013
    ...thampton) in 1791 and another thing in other towns (such as the names ball games were known by Pittsfield).&nbsp;</p>
    527 bytes (79 words) - 14:45, 8 April 2013
  • Up-Ball
    |Term=Up-Ball ...lls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-ball and drive-ball are the most common.”</p>
    466 bytes (71 words) - 09:43, 28 November 2012
  • Cuck-ball
    |Term=Cuck-ball ...ED as “a kind of rounders.” Gomme equates Cuck-Ball with Pize Ball and Tut-Ball.</p>
    356 bytes (53 words) - 09:37, 28 November 2012
  • Clipping:A uniform ball for all championship games
    |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>
    413 bytes (65 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
  • BC2000 to 1000ADc.1
    |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>
    704 bytes (106 words) - 07:37, 27 June 2013
  • Hole-Ball
    |Term=Hole-Ball |Game Family=Hat ball
    586 bytes (94 words) - 09:47, 28 November 2012
  • 1450.1
    ...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>
    749 bytes (117 words) - 17:25, 6 September 2012
  • Town Ball
    |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
    1 KB (169 words) - 15:44, 12 January 2017
  • 1836c.4
    |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>
    722 bytes (109 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
  • 1805.3
    |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>
    839 bytes (159 words) - 17:36, 6 September 2012
  • Tom Altherr, April 2013
    ...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
  • Tom Altherr, May 2011
    ...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>
    847 bytes (114 words) - 19:01, 23 November 2013
  • Hook-em-snivy (Family of Games)
    {{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
  • 1852.4
    |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
  • Clipping:A uniform ball adopted for championship games
    |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
  • Block:1823 Glossary Lists "Base-ball" as Local Suffolk Game
    |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>
    739 bytes (104 words) - 09:08, 24 October 2020
  • Doutee Stool
    |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
  • Wibble-Wobble
    |Game Family=Hat ball ...ted as "it."  This game thus shares evasive running and plugging with base ball.</p>
    675 bytes (106 words) - 09:52, 28 November 2012
  • Melpomene Base Ball Club of New Orleans v Melpomene Base Ball Club of New Orleans on 16 September 1859
    |Name=Melpomene Base Ball Club of New Orleans v Melpomene Base Ball Club of New Orleans on 16 September 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab
    800 bytes (126 words) - 06:20, 26 June 2017
  • 1835c.5
    |Headline=Base Ball Recalled as Very Popular at Exeter |Game=Base Ball
    861 bytes (138 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
  • Clipping:A rubber-free ball; the home club provides the ball
    |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>
    471 bytes (76 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
  • Call Ball
    |Term=Call Ball |Game Family=Hat ball
    494 bytes (82 words) - 09:45, 28 November 2012
  • Hat ball (Family of Games)
    {{Family of Games |Game Family=Hat ball
    131 bytes (19 words) - 06:55, 2 June 2012
  • Nations
    |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
  • Clipping:A proposal for an amateur national championship
    ...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]<
    1 KB (206 words) - 20:41, 29 February 2020
  • 1862.11
    |Headline=Banned in Boston&#39;s Public Garden: "Games of Ball, Foot-ball" |Game=Base Ball,
    944 bytes (138 words) - 18:43, 9 May 2015
  • 1850.6
    ...ne=Article in <i>The Knickerbocker</i> Mentions "Bass-ball," Old Cat, Barn-ball |Game=Base Ball
    1 KB (163 words) - 09:57, 27 January 2013
  • Monday, Tuesday
    |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
  • Base Dodge Ball
    |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
  • Clipping:The provision of a trophy ball
    |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>
    392 bytes (67 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
  • 1819.6
    |Headline=Ball Games Recalled in Southwestern WI |Game=Town Ball
    906 bytes (152 words) - 17:38, 6 September 2012
  • 900c.1
    |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>
    643 bytes (106 words) - 15:43, 16 June 2013
  • Hat Ball
    |Term=Hat Ball |Game Family=Hat ball
    949 bytes (149 words) - 06:40, 27 May 2022
  • 1836.2
    |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>
    762 bytes (116 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
  • Kekivar
    |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
  • Predecessor Games
    ...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 ==
    2 KB (324 words) - 08:56, 24 May 2023
  • Brian Turner, May 2011
    ...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>
    783 bytes (107 words) - 19:00, 23 November 2013
  • 1709.3
    |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>
    496 bytes (80 words) - 17:29, 6 September 2012
  • 1831.2
    ...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>
    904 bytes (142 words) - 13:08, 23 November 2023
  • In Leavenworth Circa 1840
    |Game=Long Town Ball ...rows at him. The suspense under which the victim was while waiting for the ball to strike was telling.
    749 bytes (119 words) - 14:36, 27 February 2024
  • Clipping:Baltimore Club finances; Sunday games
    |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>
    701 bytes (112 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
  • Corner Ball
    |Term=Corner Ball |Game Family=Hat ball
    481 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 6 January 2016
  • Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
    |Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
    232 bytes (36 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
  • Square Ball
    |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
  • 1866.4
    |Tags=Championship Games |Game=Base Ball,
    649 bytes (92 words) - 08:34, 4 February 2016
  • 1862.1
    |Headline=Brooklyn Games Organized as Benefits for Sick and Wounded Soldiers |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball, Championship Games, Civil War, Holidays,
    1 KB (185 words) - 12:28, 3 July 2018
  • Kappenspiel
    |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
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