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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