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• 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)
• 1782.3  + (NH Diarist Notes that Local Youths "Play Ball Before My Barn")
• 1830s.19  + (NH Lad Had Happy Games of Ball)
• 1778.6  + (NH Loyalist Plays Ball in NY; Mentions "Wickett")
• 1828c.4  + (NH Man Recalls Boyhood Habit of Playing Ball)
• 1864.27  + (NH Officers and Men Together on the Ball Field)
• 1805c.7  + (NH Versfier Recalls Ballplaying at Exeter)
• 1863.147  + (NJ Artillerymen Play Ball in Virginia)
• 1776.2  + (NJ Officer Plays Ball Throughout His Military Service)
• 1863.5  + (NJ Regiment Plays Ball on the Rappahannock in VA)
• 1864.11  + (NJ Regiment Takes on Massachusetts and New York Units)
• 1855.4  + (NY <i>Herald</i> Previews Several June Games for Five Area Clubs)
• 1864.13  + (NY Artilleryman Notes Two Inter-regimental Games)
• 1845.32  + (NY Atlas Advises: THE OLD GAME OF BASE REVIVED)
• 1827.7  + (NY Boy Celebrates "Releasement" from School By Playing Ball)
• 1833.6  + (NY Chapbook: Jack Hall Will Play at Ball)
• 1799.2  + (NY Cricket Club Schedules Match Among Members)
• 1860.23  + (NY Game Gets to ME)
• 1838c.1  + (NY Game Reportedly Played on Long Island Well Before Knicks Formed)
• 1849.3  + (NY Game Shown to "Show Me" State of MO)
• 1860.5  + (NY Game is Called Dominant in CA)
• 1864.32  + (NY Horseman Gets Banged Up Playing Ball)
• 1845c.6  + (NY Man: "We Used to Say Come Let Us Play Ball or Base Ball")
• 1821.5  + (NY Mansion Converted to Venue Suitable for Base, Cricket, Trap-Ball)
• 1787.5  + (NY Newspaper Prints "Laws of the Noble Game of Cricket")
• 1811.3  + (NY Paper Carries Notice for "English Trap Ball" at a Military Ground)
• 1863.6  + (NY Private Plays a Lot of Ball Over Seven Weeks)
• 1861.16  + (NY Regiment Plays "Favorite Game" After Dress Parade in Elmira NY)
• 1858.36  + (NY Rules Printed in Georgia)
• 1841.14  + (NY State Senator Tests the Sabbath Law)
• 1845.4  + (NY and Brooklyn Sides Play Two-Game Series of "Time-Honored Game of Base:" Box Score Appears)
• 1862.15  + (NY and MA Regiments Play Two Games Near the Civil War Front)
• 1860s.2  + (NY game, Mass game, Cricket co-exist)
• 1843.2  + (NY's Washington Club:" Playing Base Ball Before the Knickerbockers Did?)
• 1821.9  + (NYC "Ball Club" To Shift Next Meeting, at Broadway Hotel)
• 1812.3  + (NYC Council Finds Ball Playing Among "Abounding Immoralities")
• 1849.8  + (NYC Firemen Find "A Little Excitement" in a Winter Game of Ball)
• 1842.1  + (NYC Group Begins Play, Later [1845] Will Form Knickerbocker Base Ball Club)
• 1839.2  + (NYC Ordinances Permit No Ballplaying, "Or Any Other Sport Whatsoever.")
• 1780.1  + (NYC Press Cites Regular Monday Cricket Matches Again)
• 1846.18  + (NYC: Inky Mob of Ballplayers 1, Policeman 0)
• 1811.2  + (NYCC Calls Meeting - First Cricket Meeting Since 1804?)
• 1830.17  + (NYS Squirrel Hunters Stop for Ballplaying)
• 1755.6  + (NYS Traveler Notes Dutch Boys Playing "Bat and Ball")
• 1859.38  + (NYU Forms a Base Ball Club)
• 1853.109  + (Nantucket Bans "Playing Ball" in the City streets, to protect the windows)
• 1858.60  + (Natick MA Company Introduces the "Figure 8" Base Ball Stitching)
• 1858.49  + (Nation Plays Nation - Senecas and Tuscaroras Have an Inter-tribal Game of Base Ball?)
• 1871.4  + (National Association Urged to Adopt Modern Batting Average)
• 1858.4  + (National Association of Base Ball Players Forms)
• 1867.7  + (Nationals Inaugurate Western Tours)
• 850c.1  + (Nausicaa & Maids Play Ball while Laundry Dries)
• 1850s.37  + (Near Richmond VA, Games of Round Cat and Chermany)
• 1850c.26  + (Needed: More Festival Days - Like Fast Day? For Ballplaying)
• 1863.46  + (New York Soldier Seeks Baserunning Rule from Clipper)
• 1846.3  + (New "Original and Unusual" Manual Has New Slants on Rounders, Trap-ball)
• 1863.60  + (New Bats and Balls Arrive, But 91st NY Loses Again)
• 1822.7  + (New Bedford Bans "Playing at Ball")
• 1836.8  + (New Bedford MA: "No Person Shall Play at Ball")
• 1855c.8  + (New British Manual of Sports Describes Rounders)
• 1849c.5  + (New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls)
• 1865.10  + (New England Association Formed)
• 1866.9  + (New England Association Forms , Intends to "Ignore the New York Game")
• 1820s.14  + (New England Lad Recalls Assorted Games, Illicit Fast Day Ballplaying)
• 1860.28  + (New England Publication Admits New Dominance of NY Game)
• 1802.3  + (New England Woman Sees Ballplaying in Virginia, Perhaps by "All Colors")
• 1863.85  + (New England rules game in camp)
• 1815c.7  + (New Englander Writes of Ballyards in Virginia)
• 1859.65  + (New For 1859: Rumors of Player Movement)
• 1840c.27  + (New Hampshire Farm Boy Plays Baseball, Two Old Cat, Drive)
• 1833.2  + (New Haven Book Portrays Ball Game with Curved Bat)
• 1833.7  + (New Haven Chapbook Sports "Tiny" Woodcut on Ball Play)
• 1788.3  + (New Interpretation of Homer Translations Cites ‘Baste-Ball’.)
• 1855.35  + (New Jersey Club Comes Over to the NY Game)
• 1863.31  + (New Jersey Eighth Trims New Jersey Fifth, 50 to 15)
• 1846.23  + (New Jersey Youths Spotted "playing 'base ball'")
• 1864.72  + (New Jerseyan enjoys watching army baseball)
• 1863.2  + (New Marlboro Match Base Ball Co. Goes Hybrid)
• 1840.6  + (New NY Club Forms - Later to Reconstitute as Eagle Base Ball Club)
• 1660c.3  + (New Netherland (Later NYC) Bans "Balslaen" on the Sabbath)
• 1844.5  + (New Noah Webster Speller Has Woodcut of Ball Play on a Village Green)
• 1835c.11  + (New Northeastern Chapbook Shows Cricket, Bat-and-Ball)
• 1850s.4  + (New Orleans LA: Clubs Formed by German and Irish immigrants to play Base Ball)
• 1859.31  + (New Orleans Leans Toward MA Game?)
• 1841.15  + (New Orleans Reprints Article on Wicket, Barn Ball, Base)
• 1846.4  + (New Primer by Sanders Repeats Illustration from 1840 Reader)
• 1857.11  + (New Primer, Different Illustration**)
• 1856.11  + (New Reader Has Ballplaying Illustration)
• 1858.13  + (New Reader: "Now, Charley, Give Me a Good Ball")
• 1688.1  + (New Royals Reportedly Watch Stoolball)
• 1863.80  + (New Years Day on Hilton Head)
• 1848.5  + (New York "Boys' Book" of Games Covers Stoolball, Rounders, Wicket)
• 1858.2  + (New York All-Stars Beat Brooklyn All-Stars, 2 games to 1; First Admission Fee [A Dime] Charged)
• 1821.1  + (New York Book Has Bat and Ball Poem)
• 1789.2  + (New York Children's Pastimes Recalled: Old Cat, Rounders Cited)
• 1843.9  + (New York Cricket Club Forms with American Membership)
• 1794.1  + (New York Cricket Club Meets "Regularly")
• 1858.46  + (New York Game Arrives in Baltimore MD)
• 1857.35  + (New York Game Likely Comes to Rochester NY)
• 1858.50  + (New York Game Reaches Philadelphia)
• 1858.35  + (New York Game Seen in Boston: Portland [ME] 47, Tri-Mountains 42.)
• 1863.77  + (New York Regiments play in camp near Falmouth)
• 1856.5  + (New York Sunday Mercury and Porter's Spirit of the Times Term Base Ball the "National Pastime")
• 1861.74  + (New York Times advocates baseball for the army)
• 1867.1  + (New York and Philly Colored Clubs Hold Championship -- Philly Win Is Disputed)