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- 1844.7 + (English Gent in NYC Goes Off to a Ball Game)
- 1818c.5 + (English Immigrants from Surrey See Cricket, Trap Ball in IL)
- 1850.23 + (English Novel Briefly Mentions Base-Ball)
- 1848.15 + (English Novel Mentions, Thread-the-Needle, "Base-Ball:" "Such Games!)
- 1658.1 + (English Parish Rewards Informant for Ratting on Sunday Trap-baller)
- 1555c.1 + (English Poet Condones Students' Yens "To Tosse the Ball, To Rene Base, Like Men of War")
- 1857.36 + (English Residents of Richmond, VA Try Unsuccessfully to Form A Cricket Club, Then Try Base Ball)
- 1859.44 + (English Social Event Includes Base Ball as Well as Cricket)
- 1567.1 + (English Translation of Horace Refers to "the Stoole Ball")
- 1820c.28 + (English Village Green Had Cricket, Bass-Ball)
- 1854.13 + (English Visitor Sees Wicket at Harvard)
- 1824c.3 + (English Writing Cites Base-ball as Girls'; Pastime, Limns Cricket Match)
- 1856.37 + (English excursion features cricket and "base-ball")
- 1840.9 + (Englishman Sees Base-ball as Commonly Played by Adult Men and Women)
- 1850.7 + (Englishman's Book of Games Refers to Rounders, Feeder)
- 1363.1 + (Englishmen Forbidden to Play Ball; Archery Much Preferred)
- 1793.1 + (Engraving Shows Game with Wickets at Dartmouth College)
- 1805.4 + (Enigmatic Report: NY Gentlemen Play Game of "Bace," and Score is Gymnastics 41, Sons of Diagoras 34.)
- 1864.63 + (Entire Regiment Plays Sports)
- 1837c.12 + (Erasmus Hall School Alum Recalls Three-Base Game with Plugging)
- 1796.3 + (Eton Cricketers Flogged at School for Playing Match. Ouch.)
- 1867.22 + (Eureka! A Press Credential)
- 1855.29 + (Even the Australians Are Bothered by Sunday Baseball)
- 1863.19 + (Eventual National League Prexy Sticks with Cricket in War Camp)
- 1778.4 + (Ewing Reports Playing "At Base" and Wicket at Valley Forge - with the Father of his Country)
- 1856.15 + (Excelsior Base Ball Club Forms in Albany NY)
- 1861.70 + (Excelsior Brigade amuses itself)
- 1863.154 + (Excelsior Brigade plays base ball in camp)
- 1863.67 + (Excelsior Club Expels Turncoat Surgeon)
- 1854.5 + (Excelsior Club Forms in Brooklyn)
- 1860.7 + (Excelsiors Conduct Undefeated Western NY Road Trip. . ."First Tour Ever? First $500 Player Ever?)
- 1856.2 + (Excelsiors Publish Constitution)
- 1859.9 + (Excelsiors and Union Club play for $500 and MA Championship)
- 1856.20 + (Exciting Round Ball Game Played on Boston Common, Ends With 100-to-98 Tally)
- 1852.6 + (Exciting [Adult] Rounders in the Arctic)
- 1862.79 + (Exhilarating Game of Ball)
- 1815.8 + (Eyewitness On the Massacre of Seven U.S Soldiers at Dartmoor Prison in England)
- 1860.82 + (Famous Baseballists Turn To Cricket)
- 1841.16 + (Fast Day Choice in ME: Hear a "Fact Sermon" or Play Ball?)
- 1844.10 + (Fast Day Game in NH on the Common - Unless Arborism Goes Too Far)
- 1848.16 + (Fast-Day Notice to NH Subscribers)
- 1858c.65 + (Fat and Lean Base Ball Club Organized in Buffalo)
- 1797.3 + (Fayetteville NC Bans Sunday Ballplaying by African-Americans)
- 1852.10 + (Fictional "Up-Country" Location Cites Bass-Ball and Wicket)
- 1830c.28 + (Fictional Mom Recalls Liking to Bat Ball as a Girl)
- 1858.1 + (Fifty Clubs Said Active in New York Area - Plus Sixty Junior Clubs)
- 1821.6 + (Fifty-cent Fine in New Bedford for Those Who Play at Ball)
- 1854.14 + (Finally, Cricket Played in America Without Mostly English Immigrants!)
- 1866.7 + (Finally, Substitutes Make the Box Score)
- 1861.44 + (Fire Zouaves Play Baseball in DC)
- 1857.48 + (First Known Appearance of Term "New York Game")
- 1862.9 + (First Admission Fees for Baseball?)
- 1856.33 + (First Ball of the Base Ball Clubs Attracts 200 Couples at Niblo's Saloon)
- 1860.52 + (First Base Ball Match in St. Louis MO)
- 1857.39 + (First Baseball Attendance of a Thousand or More)
- 1845.34 + (First Baseball played in Brooklyn?)
- 1870c.7 + (First Catcher's Glove? About 1870, Perhaps)
- 1858.58 + (First Chicago Club Forms)
- 1858.55 + (First Club Forms in St. Paul MN)
- 1869.11 + (First Club to Wear Checked/Plaid Stockings)
- 1871.8 + (First Co-Ed college baseball game?)
- 1808.2 + (First Cricket Club in Boston is Established, Then Fades)
- 1867.20 + (First Cricket Match in Memphis)
- 1867.28 + (First Detailed Set of Rules for Stoolball Appear)
- 1727.1 + (First Documented Cricket Playing Rules Agreed to, for One-time Use)
- 1859.55 + (First Fly Baseball Game)
- 1859.41 + (First Game in Canada Played by New York Rules?)
- 1865.8 + (First Integrated (Adult) Club Takes the Field?)
- 1862.102 + (First Inter-City AA Game?)
- 1867.18 + (First Inter-Racial Baseball Game?)
- 1859.1 + (First Intercollegiate Ballgame: Amherst 73, Williams 32)
- 1860.46 + (First International Game Played by New York Rules)
- 1855.40 + (First Jr. Base Ball Club Founded)
- 1858.19 + (First KY Box Score Appears in Louisville Newspaper)
- 1869.14 + (First Known Inter-racial Game of Base-Ball)
- 1739.1 + (First Known Picture of Cricket Appears)
- 1866.6 + (First Known Table-top Base Ball Game Appears)
- -700c.1 + (First Known Written Depiction of Ball Play?)
- 1744.1 + (First Laws of Cricket are Written in England)
- 1886.1 + (First League Championship Trophy is Commissioned)
- 1867.17 + (First Multi-Racial Baseball Team?)
- 1838.12 + (First Murder in a Baseball Game?)
- 1863.34 + (First New Jersey Brigade Plays Ball in 1863 and 1864.)
- 1854.2 + (First New England Team, the Olympics, Forms to Play Round Ball)
- 1856.7 + (First Official Use of the Term "Rounders" Appears?)
- 1865.27 + (First Organized Base Ball Game in NC?)
- 1827.3 + (First Oxford-Cambridge Cricket Match Held)
- 1867.30 + (First Patented Baseball Object)
- 1855.38 + (First Printing of Rules)
- 1871.18 + (First Pro League Game Doesn't Feature Offense)
- 1838.4 + (First Recorded Base Ball game in Canada [as reported in 1886]?)
- 1858.29 + (First Recorded College Game at Williams College)
- 1756.1 + (First Recorded Game by Hambledon Cricket Club)
- 1751.1 + (First Recorded US Cricket Match Played, "For a Considerable Wager," in NYC; New Yorkers Win, 167-80)
- 1859.54 + (First Reference to Change-of-Pace Pitching?)
- 1856.18 + (First Reported Canadian Base Ball Game Occurs, in Ontario)
- 1856.31 + (First Scholastic Play?)
- 1859.69 + (First Seasonal Analysis Includes Primordial Batting Statistic)
- 1861.15 + (First Sunday in the Army: "Ball-playing, Wrestling, and Some Card-Playing")
- 1866.13 + (First Team Name on Uniform Shirt)
- 1859.13 + (First Tour of English Eleven to US and Canada)
- 1838c.8 + (First US Baseball Poem[?]: There is No "Puling Cry" in Baseball)
- 1844.2 + (First US-Canada Cricket Match Held)
- 1866.14 + (First Uniform with Graphic Design)
- 1867.15 + (First Uniform with Serif Letter on Shirt)
- 1857.8 + (First Western club, the Franklin Club, forms in Detroit)
- 1859.5 + (First [or Second?] Pacific Coast Club, the Eagles, Forms)
- 1863.55 + (First and Second Nines of 9th NY Prevail at Yorktown VA)
- 1862.99 + (First ball playing in Wyoming)
- 1865.43 + (First baseball in North Carolina?)
- 1875.2 + (First female baseball team outside the US?)
- 1874.1 + (Firsts recorded African-American club in Louisville)
- 1848.22 + (Fitchburg Levies $1 fine for Striking balls with a bat-stick)
- 1865.21 + (Fitz Credited With Originating Tournaments)
- 1852.9 + (Five Fined in Brooklyn NY for Sunday Ballplaying Near a Church)
- 1570c.1 + (Five Indicted for Stoolball Play on Sunday)
- 1866.3 + (Five-Home Run game)
- 1856.19 + (Five-Player Base Ball Reported in NY, WI)
- 1864.17 + (Florida Regiments Mix it Up in Town Ball)
- 1863.44 + (Florida Sergeant Notes Baseball Fever – Well, Town-Ball Fever, Actually)
- 1863.43 + (Floridian: “Game of Ball . . . Has Become a Great Amusement Here”)
- 1858.27 + (Flour Citys First Base Ball Club in Rochester)
- 1860.72 + (Fly Game Again Swatted Down)
- 1860.9 + (Fly Game Wings Its Way to Boston)
- 1841.12 + (Fond OH Editor on Youthful Ball-playing: "We Like It")
- 1824.4 + (Fondly Remembering the First Ballplaying Richie Allen)
- 1872.1 + (Forest City Club Lists Player Duties, Role of Team Captain, Etc.)
- 1086.1 + (Form of Stool Ball Possibly Found in Domesday Book in Norman England?)
- 1564.1 + (Formal Complaint in Surrey: Stoolball is Played on Sunday)
- 1845c.7 + (Former Catcher Recalls Ballgame with Soaking and "Fugleing" in NYS)
- 1864c.52 + (Former Mass-Game Champs Form Winning Wartime Team)
- 1861.90 + (Fort Wayne soldiers play town ball)
- 1858.16 + (Four Jailed for "Criminal" Sunday Play in NJ)
- 1800c.4 + (Four Old Cat and Three Old Cat Well Known in MA)
- 1860c.4 + (Four Teams of African-Americans, All in the NYC Area, Are Reported)
- 1858.10 + (Four-day Attendance of 40,000 Souls Watch Famous Roundball Game in Worcester)
- 1672c.2 + (Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described)
- 1818c.7 + (Franz Schubert Watches a "Game of Ball" Near Vienna)
- 1779.4 + (French Official Sees George Washington Playing Catch "For Hours")
- 1856.10 + (French Work Describes Poisoned Ball and La Balle au Baton)
- 1611.1 + (French-English Dictionary Cites "Cat and Trap" and Cricket)
- 1440c.1 + (Fresco at Casa Borromeo shows Female Ball Players)
- 1845c.24 + (Future Congressman Plays Ball at Phillips Andover?)
- 1850s.40 + (Future Historian Plays Ball in NYC Streets)
- 1810c.8 + (Future Lord Prefers Studies to Rounders, Cricket)
- 1850s.45 + (Future NL President Plays ball in Mohawk Valley of New York)
- 1861.21 + (Future Nurse Muses on Enlistees Playing Ball)
- 1830s.21 + (Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball)
- 1825c.14 + (Future Ohio Governor is "Best Ball Player at the College")
- 1830s.16 + (Future President Lincoln Plays Town Ball, Joins Hopping Contests)
- 1863.117 + (Future President notes ballplaying in camp)
- 1770c.3 + (Future Professor Sneaks a Smoke When He Can't Play Bat and Ball)
- 1790s.11 + (Future Ship Captain Chooses Reading Over Boyish Sports)
- 1856.35 + (Future Star Dickey Pearce Discovers the Decade-old No-Plugging Rule)
- 1795.6 + (Future Tennessee Governor, at age 50, "Played at Ball")
- 1840c.33 + (Future University Head Plays Two Types of Ball in NC)
- 1661.1 + (Galileo Galilei Discovers . . . Backspin!)
- 1786.2 + (Game Called Wicket Reported in England)
- 1860.59 + (Game Set for CA Mining Town)
- 1862.30 + (Game Suspended When BIG Fight Breaks Out)
- 1836c.12 + (Game With Plugging of Runners Later Recalled in Jersey City)
- 1850s.60 + (Game of "Round-Ball" Recalled Much Later)
- 1828.19 + (Game of Base Mentioned in Account of Life at Harvard)
- 1720c.4 + (Game of Base was "A Peculiar Favorite")
- 1848.14 + (Game of Baseball Attains Official Perch in Lexicon!)
- 1850.52 + (Game of Wicket Near Springfield Goes Bad)
- 1857.27 + (Game of Wicket Reaches IA)
- 1862.57 + (Games Between NY and MA Regiments Punctuated by Artillery)
- 1807.2 + (Games Recalled at Phillips Exeter Academy)
- 1851.8 + (Games of Ball Seen in Sacramento CA in 1851, 1854)
- 1863.145 + (Games of Foot and Base ball between drills)
- 1575.1 + (Gascoigne's Poem "The Fruits of War" Refers to Tut-ball)
- 1863.136 + (Gen. Grant enjoys watching ball game)
- 1856.13 + (General Base Ball Rules Are Published)
- 1864.53 + (General Hooker's Players "Pretty Badly Beat", 70-11)
- 1863.59 + (General Supports Ballplaying by RI Unit)
- 1869.13 + (George Wright Joins the All-Professional Cincinnati Club)
- 1836.6 + (Georgetown U Students "play Ball")
- 1863.57 + (Georgia Corporal Plays Town Ball)
- 1863.150 + (Georgia solders play town ball)
- 1862.117 + (Georgia soldiers play town and base ball in NC)
- 1863.100 + (Georgians change from base to snow-balling)
- 1815.3 + (German Book Apparently Shows a Batting Game)
- 1836.2 + (German Book of Games Copies Gutsmuths' Base-ball Piece)
- 1845.10 + (German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game)
- 1837.13 + (German-English Dictionary Cites "Base-ball")
- 1301.1 + (Ghistelles Calendar Depicts Vigorous-Looking Bat/Ball Game)
- 1859.51 + (Girls Play Base Ball at Eagleswood School)
- 1852.13 + (Gotham Club Forms; Knicks Have First Rival Team)
- 1856.12 + (Gothams 21, Knicks 7; Fans Show Greatest Interest Ever; "Revolver" Controversy)
- 1864.35 + (Government Promotes Base Ball)
- 1862.13 + (Government Survey: Athletic Games Forestall Woes of Soldiers Gambling)
- 1835c.16 + (Graduate Grimly Recalls Rounders at Greenwich School in England)
- 1858.52 + (Grand Wicket Match in Waterbury CT)
- 1863.104 + (Grant's Men Play Town-Ball in the Swamps)
- 1839.1 + (Graves Letters of 1905 Say that Doubleday Invented Base Ball)
- 1815.6 + (Group at Dartmouth Ponders Worth of Ballplaying, Nocturnal Cowhunting)
- 1835c.15 + (Grown Man Mourns as Trenton's Playing Fields Vanish)
- 1850s.15 + (Gunnery School in CT Imports Base Ball from NY)
- 1796.1 + (Gutsmuths describes [in German, yet] "Englische Base-Ball")
- 1823.10 + (Hagerstown bans ball playing at the Court House)
- 1847.5 + (Halliwell's 960-Page Dictionary Cites Base-ball, Rounders, Tut-ball)
- 1861.64 + (Happy Pennsylvanians near DC)
- 1872.4 + (Harry Wright Offers Game, Players, to Harvard)
- 1856.1 + (Harry and George Wright Both at St. George CC in New York)
- 1853.20 + (Hartford Courant describes Long Ball)
- 1852c.11 + (Hartford Lads Play Early Morning Wicket on Main Street)
- 1840.44 + (Hartford Players Best Granville MA Players at Wicket)
- 1810s.5 + (Harvard Library Worker Recalls Occasional Bi-racial Ball Play in Harvard Yard)
- 1842.3 + (Harvard Man George Hoar Writes of Playing "Simple Game We Called Base")
- 1760s.1 + (Harvard Man Recalls Cricket, "Various Games of Bat and Ball" on Campus)
- 1820s.33 + (Harvard Man: "We had Baseball")
- 1862.6 + (Harvard Seeks Base Ball Rivals, Settles on Brown)
- 1858.8 + (Harvard Student Magazine Notes "Multitude" Playing Base or Cricket There)
- 1863.56 + (Have Fast Ball Will Travel)
- 1842c.9 + (Haverford Students Form Cricket Team of Americans)
- 1863.76 + (Hawkeyes beat Suckers in Corinth, MS)
- 1863.126 + (Hawkins' Zouaves Play 51st NY)
- 1862.47 + (Hawthorne Sees Ballplaying at Washington-area Camp)
- 1861.87 + (Heavy battle losses don't stop baseball playing)
- 1865.41 + (Helath Benefits of Baseball to Soldiers)
- 1864.39 + (Helping the Sanitary Commission)
- 1861.4 + (Henry Chadwick Links Base Ball to Rounders - But It's More "Scientific")
- 1847c.1 + (Henry Chadwick Plays a "Scrub" Game of Baseball?)
- 1868.4 + (Henry Chadwick's Cholera Scare May Have Doomed American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes)
- 1865.30 + (Henry Chadwick, Shortstop)
- 1863.30 + (Herald Reports [Presumably] NY/NJ Match in Army of the Potomac)
- 1819.3 + (Herefordshire: "Large Parties" Play Wicket ("Old-Fashioned Cricket"))
- 1859.71 + (Hidden Ball Trick is Effective as a "Dodge" for the Atlantic Club)
- 1863.41 + (High-Stakes Matches Dot VA as Winter Camps Thaw Out)
- 1844.17 + (Hilarious "Base Ball" and "Two Old Cat" Recalled by Chicagoan)
- 1613.1 + (His and Her Stool-ball Banter: Play, or Foreplay?)
- 1794.2 + (Historian Cites "Club-ball")
- BC100.1 + (Historian Dates Early Cricket to 100 BC - Others Disagree)
- 1854.8 + (Historian Describes Facet of 1850s "School Boys' Game of Rounders")
- 1799.1 + (Historical Novel, Set in About 1650, Refers to Cricket, Base-ball)
- 1869.5 + (Hits Elevated to Prominent Status in Box Scores)
- 1862.25 + (Hitting Creighton: Patience Pays)
- 1837.9 + (Hoboken, NJ - Already a Mecca for Ballplayers)
- 1860.89 + (Holder Whiffs Smoking)
- 1847.14 + (Holiday Encroached by Round Ball, Long Ball, Old Cat)
- 1847.18 + (Holiday Round Ball in NH)
- 1720.2 + (Holiday in Kent: Cricket, Stool-Ball, Tippling, Kissing)
- 1820s.20 + (Horace Greeley Lacks the Knack, Fears Getting Whacked)
- 1820c.35 + (Horace Greeley No Ballplayer)
- 1861.24 + (Houston, We Have A Problem)
- 1727.2 + (How To Score at Cricket, Olde Style)
- 1804.5 + (Hudson (NY) Bee Prints "The Laws of Cricket")
- 1800.10 + (Hudson NY Council Prohibits Boys' Ballplaying, Preserves Turf. Etc.)
- -2000000c.2 + (Humans Evolve as Runners)
- 1857.46 + (Hundreds Gather to Watch Exciting Game of Corner Ball)
- 1858.61 + (IL "Base Ball and Wicket Club" Takes the Field for 3.6 Hour Game)
- 1856.38 + (IL Ballclubs Play Town Ball in 1856, 1858)
- 1868.3 + (IL Club Supplies Public Bulletin Board for Trip Updates)
- 1847.10 + (Ice Bowl)
- 1853.8 + (If Balls and Bats Were Coinage, They Were Millionaires)
- 1850s.25 + (If It's May Day, Boston Needs All its Sam Malones at the Commons!)
- 1865.2 + (Illinois Soldier Plays Wicket Near War’s End)
- 1862.18 + (Impact of War Lessens in NYC)
- 1820s.34 + (Impromptu Ballplaying Recalled at Transylvania University)
- 1816.5 + (In "The Year Without a Summer," CT Lads Play Ball on Christmas Day)
- 1863.38 + (In 10th MA: Ballplaying Has “Become a Mania” in 1863 Camp, Wicket Also Played in 1864)
- 1863.17 + (In 19th MA Camp, “Base Ball Fever Broke Out” in 1863)
- 1844.16 + (In Bass Ball, Club is "Skinned from Top to Stem")
- 1790s.7 + (In Boston, "Boys Played Ball in the Streets?")
- 1855.43 + (In Boston, Olympic Beats Elm Tree, 75-46)
- 1828.18 + (In Brighton England, 'Women of the Mill' Play Stool Ball Alongside Cricketers)
- 1855.27 + (In Brooklyn, the Washington Club and Putnams Lift Off)
- 1817.4 + (In Brunswick ME, Bowdoin College Sets 20-Cent Fine for Ballplaying)
- 1830s.15 + (In Buffalo NY, Balls Formed from Fish Noses)
- 1859.42 + (In Chicago IL, Months-old Atlantic Club Claims Championship)
- 1828.13 + (In Christian Story, a Young Girl Chooses Batting Over Tatting)
- 1848.13 + (In Cincinnati OH, Game of "Batt and Ball" Played at Picnic)
- 1863.9 + (In Coastal SC: Union Men Played Ball “In Almost Every Camp”)
- 1845.23 + (In Cricket, Pha Foursome Defeats NY Quad, 27-19, Pockets $500)
- 1818.2 + (In Cricket, Well, It's . . ."One Man Out")
- 1858.42 + (In Downstate Illinois, New Club Wins by 134 Rounds)
- 1858.37 + (In English Novel, Base-Ball Doesn't Occupy Boys Very Long)
- 1830s.20 + (In GA, Men Played Fives, Schoolboys Played Base and Town Ball)
- 1838.5 + (In Georgia, "Baseball and Cricket Had Not Evolved")
- 1632.1 + (In Germany, Ballplaying Associated With Scabies, Other Diseases)
- 1847.20 + (In Harlem, Men Play 330- Minute Game of Single Wicket for $100 Stake)
- 1819.4 + (In Hartford CT: Legislative Session Associated with Ball-playing?)
- 1830s.11 + (In MO, the Slowly Migrating Mormons Play Ball)
- 1820s.9 + (In Middletown CT, "Wicket" Recalled, but Not Base Ball.)
- 1859.45 + (In Milwaukee, Base Ball is [Cold-] Brewing)
- 1797.5 + (In NC, Negroes Face 15 Lashes for Ballplaying)
- 1850s.24 + (In NYC - Did "Plugging" Actually Persist to the mid-1850s?)
- 1860.39 + (In Oberlin OH, It's Railroad Club 49, Uptown Club 44.)
- 1850s.58 + (In Paterson NJ, Old Fashioned Game Played After Civil War)
- 1872.11 + (In Rare Extramural Game, Knickerbockers Fade, Lose 26-17 in Base Ball Game with Cricketers)
- 1837.10 + (In Recession, Doughty Ex-Workers Play Ball, Leave Town for Home)
- 1869.10 + (In Reconstruction SC, Riot Follows a Ball Game)
- 1854.6 + (In Rome, Sculptor Fashions Statue of a Boy Playing Ball)
- 1840c.13 + (In Rural OH, Boy Takes Risk of Being "Knocked Breathless" in Sock-About)
- 1805.6 + (In SC, Some Slaves Use Sundays for Ballplaying)
- 1830s.23 + (In South-Central Illinois, Teachers Joined in On Town Ball)
- 1860.36 + (In Thick Gloves All Encased)
- 1829.4 + (In Upstate NY, A Teen's Death on the Ballfield)
- 1863.54 + (In VA Camp, “Base Ball was the Popular Amusement”)
- 1864.12 + (In Virginia, Two PA Regiments Play “Great Base Ball Game”)
- 1863.32 + (In Virginia: Select Nine 29, 2nd NJ Brigade 15)
- 1863.53 + (In Virginia: Tenth Mass 15, First New Jersey 13)
- 1820s.25 + (In Western MA, Election Day Saw Town vs. Town Wicket Matches)
- 1834.6 + (In Wicket, It's Hartford CT 146, Litchfield CT 126)
- 1859.37 + (In Wisconsin, Bachelors Win 100-68)
- 1862.66 + (In camp near Rochester, New York)
- 1861.88 + (In camp on Rikers Island)
- 1865.35 + (Indiana Regiment plays Town Ball in NC)
- 1850s.42 + (Indianans Play Town Ball, Two Old Cat)
- 1858.70 + (Indirect acknowledgement of varying size of baseballs.)
- 1830c.9 + (Indoor Batsman Reappears in Publication)
- 1840c.3 + (Influx of English Immigrants Brings "Rough Form" of Cricket to NE and Philadelphia PA?)
- 1853.17 + (Initial Regular Newspaper Coverage Pairs Base Ball with Cricket)
- 1849.6 + (Inmates Play Base Ball at Worcester MA "Lunatic Hospital")
- 1872.9 + (Innovator Harry Wright's Custom on Called Strikes)
- 1869.3 + (Inter-Racial Game in Philadelphia)
- 1845.17 + (Intercity Cricket Match Begins in NY)
- 1855.42 + (Interclub Meeting Attempt Fizzles)
- 1857.2 + (Interclub Meeting Reshapes the Game)
- 1854.21 + (Interclub Second Nine Play)
- 1740s.1 + (Intervillage Cricket Played by Women in Surrey and Sussex)
- 1862.83 + (Irish Brigade plays near Richmond)
- 1861.71 + (Irish Soldiers play ball with Rebel shells)
- 1772.1 + (Irish soldiers play Hurling in NYC)
- 1819.5 + (Irving Surveys Pastimes at Fictional British School; Includes Tip-cat)
- 1864.42 + (Is THIS How Bunting Started?)
- 1598.4 + (Italian Dictionary's "Cricket-a-wicket" doubted as reference to the Game of Cricket)
- 1598.2 + (Italian-English Dictionary Includes Cat, Trap)
- 1816c.11 + (Jane Austen Writes of "Baseball" in <u>Northanger Abbey</u><i>.</i>)
- 1855.6 + (Jersey City Club is Set Up)
- 1745c.1 + (John Adams Recalls Youthful Bat and Ball Play)
- 1790.5 + (John Adams Refers to Cricket in Argument about Washington's New Title)
- 1666.1 + (John Bunyan is Very Seriously Interrupted at Tip-Cat, one of his Four "Chief Sins")
- 1680.3 + (John Bunyan's Son Yields to "Drunkenness, Card-playing, Stoolball," Maypole Dancing)
- 1800.2 + (John Knox Owns a "Ball Alley" and Racquets Court in NYC, 1800-1803.)
- 1450.1 + (John Myrc Repeats Warning Against Ball Play in the Churchyard, Including "Stoil Ball")
- 1825c.4 + (John Oliver Plays Base Ball in Baltimore)
- 1755.1 + (Johnson Dictionary Defines Stoolball and Trap)
- 1860.84 + (Jolly Good Fellows)
- 1801.1 + (Joseph Strutt Says Stoolball Still Played in North of England; But He Slights Cricket)
- 1685.1 + (Juicy Early Description of Stool-ball is Written, Then Unread for 162 Years)
- 1872.7 + (Junior Championship for Philadelphia, Using Pro Rules)
- 1860.18 + (Juniors Organize in NYC)
- 1843.10 + (Juvenile Book's Chapter: "A Game at Ball": 'Cheating play never prospers')
- 1850c.9 + (Juvenile Story Book has Two Woodcuts with Ballplaying)
- 1858.71 + (Kansans discuss the merits of base ball, bull pen, cat ball)
- 1853.16 + (Kelly Deserves Credit for Originating Shorthand Scoring System)
- 1823c.9 + (Kentucky Abolitionist Recalls Playing Base-ball)
- 1862.109 + (Kershaw's SC Brigade Plays Base Ball and Snow Balling)
- 1617.1 + (King James' Controversial "Book of Sports" Omits Mention of Ballplaying)
- 1847.21 + (Knickerbocker Property at Hoboken is Robbed -- Three Coats Taken)
- 1856.8 + (Knickerbocker Rules Meeting Held)
- 1845.28 + (Knickerbocker Rules Reflect Use of Pickoff Move)
- 1848.1 + (Knickerbocker Rules and By-laws Are Printed; Original Phrase Deleted)
- 1849.15 + (Knickerbockers Lose Impromptu Match to Group of "Amateurs")
- 1860.69 + (Knickerbockers, Inc.)
- 1845.1 + (Knicks Adopt Playing Rules on September 23)
- 1848.20 + (Knicks Begin the Year's Play Days at Hoboken, Cricket Club Chooses Manhattan.)
- 1856.28 + (Knicks Call for Convention of Clubs)
- 1858.20 + (Knicks Compose 17-Verse Song on Current Base Ball)
- 1846.1 + (Knicks Play NYBBC in First Recorded Match Game)
- 1846.5 + (Knicks Play Only Intramural Games Through 1850.)
- 1846.25 + (Knicks Prepare for 1846 Season: Early Match Game in Brooklyn Rained out.)
- 1849.1 + (Knicks Sport First Uniform - White Shirt, Blue Pantaloons)
- 1845.33 + (Knicks and "Other Gentlemen of Note" Hold Season-Ending Banquet)
- 1853.5 + (Knicks, Gothams Play Season Opener on July 1 and Again on October 18)
- 1840c.43 + (Lad in Southern Illinois Played Four Old Cat)
- 1873.12 + (Ladies BB Club Forms in Kansas)
- 1849.12 + (Ladies Cricket Match Reported in London)
- 1858.59 + (Ladies and Gentlemen of Dansville NY Play Ball in Afternoons)
- 1849.10 + (Ladies' Wicket in England?)
- 1793.5 + (Lady Cricketers Play Again in Sussex)
- 1748.1 + (Lady Hervey Reports Royal 'Base-ball' in a Letter": Game Is 'Well Known to English Schoolboys')
- 1816.7 + (Lambert's Cricket <i>Rules</i> Published)
- 1869.8 + (Largest Margin of Victory)
- 1860.37 + (Late Surge Lifts Douglas' over Abe Lincoln's Side in Chicago IL)
- 1872.15 + (Late-season Pro-league Proto-standings)
- 1863c.144 + (Lawrence MA soldiers play cricket near D.C.)
- 1755.2 + (Laws of Cricket are Revised)
- 1861.80 + (Left and Right Wings of 9th NY Play)
- 1864.41 + (Legal Pitching Deliveries)
- 1840s.31 + (Lem: Juvenile Fiction's Boy Who Loved Round-ball)
- 1830c.27 + (Lenox Academy Students Play Wicket)
- 1856.17 + (Letter to "Spirit" Describes Roundball in New England)
- 1833.10 + (Letter to Student Refers to "That Beautiful game - Base Ball")
- 1859.34 + (Lexicographer: "Base Ball" is English!)
- 1847.9 + (Li'l Prince's Birthday Party Includes Cricket, Rounders.)
- 1779.2 + (Lieutenant Reports Playing Ball, and Playing Bandy Wicket)
- 1864.43 + (Like It or Lump It, Gents)
- 1860.20 + (Lincoln Awaits Nomination, Plays Town Ball . . . or Handball?)
- 1861c.3 + (Lincoln and Baseball: The Presidential Years)
- 1863.12 + (Line Officers of 17th Maine Play 9 Innings for an Oyster Dinner)
- 1477.1 + (List of Banned Games May Include Distant Ancestors of Cricket?)
- 1852.2 + (Lit Magazine Cites "Roaring" Game of "Bat and Base-ball")
- 1848.18 + (Litchfield CT Bests Wolcottville in Wicket)
- 1690.1 + (Literary Simile: "Catch it Like a Stool-Ball")
- 1827.8 + (Lithograph Shows Ballplaying in City Hall Park, NY)
- 1864.69 + (Lithograph shows soldiers playing bat-ball game)
- 1870.9 + (Lively Ball Suspected in Mutual-Olympic Game)
- 1848.6 + (London Book Describes Two Rounders Variants)
- 1839.4 + (London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat)
- 1857.4 + (London Rounders Players Arrested)
- 1860.83 + (Long Ball)
- 1781s.4 + (Long Ball in Vermont)
- 1857.3 + (Long Island Cricket Club Forms)
- 1733.1 + (Long Poem Describes Stool-Ball in Some Detail; First Evidence of Use of a Bat?)
- 1824.1 + (Longfellow on Life at Bowdoin College: "Ball, Ball, Ball")
- 1740.3 + (Lord Chesterfield Nods Approvingly at Cricket - and Trap Ball!)
- 1846.22 + (Loss of "Fine Grassy Fields" for Base Ball and Quoits is Decried in Manhattan)
- 1807.3 + (Lost Poet Remembers College Ballplay, Maybe in Baltimore)
- 1864.62 + (Louisiana Confederates play in Virginia)
- 1841.18 + (Louisiana Editor Endorses Formation of Clubs for Ballplaying)
- 1730c.1 + (Low Wicket and Circular Hole Said Still Found in Cricket)
- 1671.1 + (Lusty Little Song Mentions Trap as "Innocent" Prelude to Heavy Petting)
- 1839.7 + (MA :Paper Sees Desecration in Older "Bat and Ball" Players)
- 1820s.22 + (MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood)
- 1859.12 + (MA Championship: Unions 100, Winthrop 71, in 101 Innings)
- 1833.11 + (MA Clergyman Notes "Usual" Fast Day Defections For Mattapoisett Ballplaying)
- 1835c.13 + (MA Gents Recall Boyhood Games in 1830s: Cat, Wicket, OFBB)
- 1863.4 + (MA Regiment Organizes a Baseball Club)
- 1862.26 + (MA Regiment Plays Daily Intramural Games in Spring Months)
- 1778.3 + (MA Sergeant Found Some Time and "Plaid Ball")
- 1876.1 + (MLB Is Established)
- 1845.8 + (Magazine Article Likens Ladies' Gait to Ballplayers' Screw Ball)
- 1834.7 + (Magazine Cites "Principle Sports of the Day," One With "Rattllng" Ball-Clubs)
- 1843.6 + (Magnolia Ball Club Summoned to Elysian Fields Game)
- 1864.15 + (Maine Soldier Lame from Ballplaying)
- 1816.9 + (Maine Town Outlaws Ball, Quoits, Sledding)
- 1847.12 + (Mainers' "Bat and Ball" Event Leads to Delayed Catharsis)
- 1843.8 + (Man Flashes Large Wad at New York-Philly Cricket Match, Is Then Nabbed for Robbery)
- 1860c.11 + (Man Played Base Ball in CT Before the War)
- 1828.17 + (Man Recalls July 4th Game Sixty Years Earlier)
- 1856.27 + (Manhattan Cricket Club Forms)
- 1856.14 + (Manly Virtues of Base Ball Extolled; 25 Clubs Now Playing in NYC Area)
- 1855c.24 + (Manufacture of Base Balls Begins in NYC)
- 1344.1 + (Manuscript Shows a Club-and-Ball Game with Stool-like Object)
- 1860.58 + (Many Tackle the New Game in Macon, But a Few Secede)
- 1862.87 + (Maryland Confederates Play Town Ball)
- 1862c.3 + (Marylander Sees Officers Play Base Ball)
- 1754.1 + (Marylanders Play "Great Cricket Match for a Good Sum")
- 1787.3 + (Marylebone Cricket Club, Later Official Custodian of the Game, is Founded)
- 1865.17 + (Mass Game Survived the Civil War)
- 1777.2 + (Mass. Sailor Plays Ball in English Prison)
- 1860.74 + (Massachusetts Group Extends Reach)
- 1862.35 + (Massachusetts Officers Play Ball in May, on July 4)
- 1863.24 + (Massachusetts Private Notes Eight April Games of Ball [One was Wicket])
- 1863.36 + (Massachusetts Regiments Play NY Game Most, Mass Game Some)
- 1855c.11 + (Master Trap-ball, Meet Mister Window)
- 1864.21 + (Match at Coney Island Proposed for Two Returned Regiments)
- 900c.1 + (Mayan Games Played at Chichen Itza, Mexico)
- 640s.1 + (Medieval Writer: Saint Cuthbert [born 634c] "Pleyde atte balle")
- 1861.11 + (Meeting of National Association is Subdued)
- 1715.1 + (Men Top Women in "Merry-Night" of Stoole Balle)
- 1863.25 + (Men in 59th NY Play Ball, Run, Pitch Quarters, Etc)
- 1785.3 + (Men's Stool Ball Match Set in Kent: Winner to Receive 150 Guineas . . . and Some Roasted Lamb!)
- 1860.16 + (Mercantile BB Club of Philadelphia Subject to Light Poetry)
- BC1500c.1 + (Mexican Game Believed to Use Bat, Rubber Ball)
- 1862.21 + (Michigan Colonel Plays Ball in Tennessee, Still Rebuffs Rebs)
- 1803.4 + (Middlebury College VT Bans Ballplaying)
- 1860.24 + (Mighty Nat at the Bat: A Morality Story)
- 1758.1 + (Military Unit Plays "Bat and Ball" in Northern NYS)
- 1658.2 + (Milton's Nephew Eyes Cricket with Apprehension)
- 1836.9 + (Milwaukee Ballplaying Recalled, and the Ball Long Preserved)
- 1860.32 + (Milwaukee Press Not Unanimous About the "Miserable" New York Rules)
- 1810c.10 + (Minister Reflects on Early Nineteenth Century Sports and Entertainments)
- 1806.4 + (Minister from New England Plays Ball in Western Reserve [OH])
- 1865.5 + (Minnesotans Play Ball in Near Selma Alabama.)
- 1864.2 + (Minnesotan’s Diary Shows Ballplaying on Ten Days Over Ten Weeks)
- 1842.6 + (Missing Poem Describes Ball Playing)
- 1806.3 + (Mister Beldham Really Loads One Up on Cricket Pitch)
- 1825.16 + (Mitford Story Centers on Cricket, Touches on Juvenile Baseball)
- 1867.10 + (Mitts in Michigan)
- 1861.12 + (Modern Base Ball Comes to Sanford ME)
- 1858c.57 + (Modern Base Ball Gets to Exeter Prep [from Doubleday's Home Town!])
- 1861.37 + (Modern Base Ball Played Widely At Outset of War)
- 1855.23 + (Modern Base Ball Rules Appear in NYC, Syracuse Papers)
- 1861.13 + (Modern Game Comes to the Eastern OH Town)
- 1866.5 + (Modern Game Compared to Traditional Town Ball in IL)
- 1820c.6 + (Modified Version of Rounders Played in New England.)
- 1867.13 + (Moneyball 1867)
- 1849.17 + (Montpelier Threatens Ball Players with prosecution)
- 1592c.1 + (Moralist Lists Things for Scholars to Avoid, Including Playing "Stoole Ball Among Wenches")
- 1862.100 + (Mormon soldiers play ball in Wyoming)
- 1867.5 + (Morrisania Club Takes 1867 Championship, 14-13)
- 1800c.9 + (Most English Counties Play Cricket)
- 1863.127 + (Mozart Regiment gets beaten)
- 1858.56 + (Mr. Babcock Shows Base Ball to San Franciscans)
- 1864.56 + (Muffin Game Tactics)
- 1860.80 + (Muffin Matches--Low Skills, High Comedy)
- 1694.1 + (Musical Play Includes Baudy Account of Stoolball)
- 1872.12 + (NA Clubs Struggle to Meet Payroll)
- 1863.63 + (NABBP Curbs Swift Pitching, Swats Fly Rule Again)
- 1867.14 + (NABBP Draws Color Line)
- 1864.48 + (NABBP Hobbles Pitchers)
- 1864.36 + (NABBP Holds Special Meetings)
- 1859.58 + (NABBP Makes One Little Rule Change)
- 1865.23 + (NABBP Meeting Sets Attendance Record)
- 1861.73 + (NC Lt. mentions baseball)
- 1850.32 + (NH Ballplaying Washed Out on Fast Day)