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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;David Block finds an earlier reference to "club-ball" than Strutt's. It is James Pettit Andrews, &lt;u&gt;The History of Great Britain&lt;/u&gt; (Cadell, London, 1794.), page 438. Email from David, 2/27/08.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;David explains" that in &lt;u&gt;Baseball Before We Knew It&lt;/u&gt;, "I took the historian Joseph Strutt to task for making it seem as if a 14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century edict under the reign Edward III [see #1300s.2 above] offered proof that a game called "club-ball" existed. It now appears that I may have done Mr. Strutt a partial injustice. A history book published seven years before Strutt's translates the Latin &lt;i&gt;pilam bacculoreum&lt;/i&gt; the same way he did, as club-ball (which I believe leaves the impression that the game was a distinct one, and not a generic reference to ball games played with a stick or staff.) I still hold Strutt guilty for his baseless argument that this alleged 14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century game was the ancestor of cricket and other games played with bat and ball. Andrews, in his history of England, cites a source for his passage on ball games, but I can not make it out from the photocopy in my possession."&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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