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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 Northanger Abbey.)
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 Rules 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)

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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 Herald 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)
1859.28 + (New Yorker Dies Playing Base Ball)
1864.3 + (New Yorker Plays January Games of Ball)
1751.3 + (New Yorkers Beat London Players in "Great Cricket Match", 167-80)
1864.33 + (New Yorkers Lose Their Only Ball, and Their Centerfielder)
1855.47 + (Newark Club Hosts Jersey City -- Earliest Knick-rules Tilt in NJ?)
1744.2 + (Newbery's Little Pretty Pocket-Book Refers to "Base-Ball," "Stooleball, "Trap-Ball," Cricket)
1797.2 + (Newburyport MA Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games)
1813.1 + (Newburyport MA Reminder - "Playing Ball in the Streets" is Unlawful)
1780s.6 + (Newell Sees Baseball's Roots in MA)
1858.7 + (Newly Reformed Game of Town Ball Played in Cincinnati OH)
1845.31 + (News Writer (Whitman, Perhaps?) Extols "Base," Cricket)
1771.4 + (Newspaper Quotes Odds for 2-Day London Cricket Match)
1838.13 + (Nicholson Map shows Possible Ball Grounds on Manhattan Island)
1550c.1 + (No English Reference Claimed for the Word "Cricket" Found Before 1550)
1859.99 + (No It Isn't! Yes It Is!)
1863.74 + (No fear of breaking windows)
1788.2 + (Noah Webster, CT Ballplayer?)
1540c.2 + (Nobleman Recalls "Palm Play" in Royal Court)
1816.10 + (Norfolk VA Cricket Club Reported)
1767.2 + (North-South Game of Cricket in Hartford CT)
1791.2 + (Northampton MA Prohibits Downtown Ballplaying (and Stone-Throwing))
1832.9 + (Norwich CT Sets $2 Fine for Playing Ball)
1878.1 + (Nostalgia for old games of Two Old Cat, Three Old Cat, Bull Pen, Run Around)
1857.44 + (Not Glued or Sewn to Second Base)
1844.6 + (Novel Cites "the Game of Bass in the Fields")
1870.13 + (November News: Will the Atlantic Club Stay Strong?)
1855c.32 + (Numerous Base Ball Clubs Now Active in NYC)
1858.54 + (OFBB Variant Played in Buffalo NY; 11 Players, 12 Innings)
1847.7 + (Occupation Army Takes Ballgame to Natives In . . . Santa Barbara?)
1850s.19 + (Occupational, Company Teams Appear)
1820c.26 + (Octogenarian Recalls Frequency of Play, How Balls Were Made in NY)
1864.101 + (Officers Play Baseball on Folly Island)
1864.6 + (Officers in 30th MA Play Base Ball In February 1864)
1863.128 + (Officers of 44th NY defeat officers of the 12th)
1861.94 + (Officers of US Chasseurs Play Base Ball)
1863.199 + (Officers of the 24th MA play baseball)
1862.31 + (Officer’s Wife Reports on an Evening at Camp with 16th NY Regiment)
1862.44 + (Ohio Soldier Sees “Most of Our Company “ Playing Pre-battle Bat Ball)
1861.62 + (Ohio Soldiers box and play ball)
1863.75 + (Ohio soldiers play at Lexington, KY)
1864.24 + (Ohioan in Sherman’s Force Plays Near Atlanta)
1835.8 + (Old Woodcut, New Caption Uses the Term "Knock")
1840c.23 + (Old-Fashioned Ballgame Noted in Antebellum GA)
1860.47 + (Old-Fashioned Base Ball in Buffalo NY)
1829c.1 + (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Plays Ball as a Harvard student.)
1824.6 + (Oliver Wendell Holmes Recalls Schoolboy Baseball and Phillips Academy in MA)
1837.6 + (Olympic Ball Club Constitution Requires Umpires)
1857.30 + (Olympic Club's Version of MA Game Rules Published)
1845.18 + (On "Second Anniversary," The NY Club Plays Intramural Game)
1857.47 + (On Boston Common, "Several Parties Engaged in Matches of Base Ball" on Fast Day)
1865.4 + (On Last Day of Service, PA Soldiers Play Ball)
1843.4 + (On Yale's Green, Many a "Brisk Game of Wicket")
1838.11 + (On a Day Trip to Camden NJ, Philly Man Documents Olympic Club)
1859.57 + (On to Texas)
1700.1 + (One of the Earliest Public Notices of a Cricket Match?)
1846.19 + (One-Horse Wagon's Driver 1, Wicket Players 0)
1840.7 + (One-handed Bat Shown in Book of Children's Verse)
1803.1 + (Ontario Diarist Reports Joining Men "Jumping and Playing Ball")
1861.7 + (Ontario Lads to Try the New York Game, May Forego "Canadian Game")
1835c.12 + (Oops, He Missed It; Will He Be Called "Old Butter Fingers?")
1865.37 + (Opdycke's Tigers Play ball in AL)
1848.19 + (Organization Men at the KBBC in 1848)
1854.3 + (Organized Round Ball in New England Morphs Toward the "MA Game")
1860.53 + (Organized Town Ball in St. Louis)
1865.26 + (Otis MA Bests Lee MA at Wicket, 236 - 232)
1873.11 + (Outfield Duties Evolve -- Red Stockings Credited)
BC 2,000,000c.1 + (Overhand Throwing Evolves in Primates)
1816.12 + (Oxfordshire Churchman Urges Base-Ball Fields for Girls)
1862.10 + (PA Base Ball Moves Beyond Philadelphia)
1830s.29 + (PA Schoolboys Recalled as Playing Town Ball and Long Ball)
1864.10 + (PA Soldier Records Ballplaying in NC)
1863.7 + (PA Unit Tries Cricket and Base-ball)
1864.98 + (POWs form Wicket, Cricket and Baseball Clubs)
1845.19 + (Painter Depicts Some Type of Old-Fashioned Ball?)
1845.20 + (Painting Shows Crossed Bats and Some Balls in School)
1478.2 + (Parliament Speaks: Jail or Fine for Unlawful Gameplaying)
1862.115 + (Parolees play baseball at Camp Douglas)
1855.39 + (Pastime of Despots)
1869.12 + (Pastimes Adopt First Striped Stockings for Uniforms)
1850c.17 + (Patch Baseball Played in Upstate New York)
1731.1 + (Patient Thousands Watch First Known Drawn Match in Cricket)
1863.21 + (Pennsylvania Soldier Notes Ballplaying in the 12th PA)
1802.4 + (Philadelphia Book: "Bat and Ball is an Inferior Kind of Cricket")
1871.17 + (Philadelphia Claims Best 1870 US Record -- Over the Red Stockings? Really?)
1841.8 + (Philadelphia Cricket Club Issues Challenge for Matches at $50 to $100)
1859.10 + (Philadelphia Man Interested in Forming MA Game Club)
1829.1 + (Philadelphians Play Ball)
1859.19 + (Phillips Exeter Academy Used Plugging in "Base-ball?")
1870.10 + (Philly Paper Lists Betting Odds for US Championship Match in Brooklyn)
1860.68 + (Philly Teams Try to Organize)
1862.49 + (Photo Caption Sings of “Marvelous New Game,” Doesn’t Deliver)
1762.1 + (Pirated Version of Little Pretty Book Uses Term "Base-ball.")
1861.69 + (Pitching Quoits and Playing Ball)
1834.10 + (Plattsburgh NY Sets Fifty Cent Fine for Ball Play)
1612c.1 + (Play Attributed to Shakespeare Cites Stool-ball)
1637.2 + (Play Mentions Trap)
1653.1 + (Play Refers to Trapsticks)
1629.1 + (Play Refers to Weakling Who Was "Beat . . . With a Trap Stick")
1863.134 + (Played ball "in a new way")
1871.10 + (Player Salaries Bump Up: Well-funded Mutuals Deplete the Atlantics)
1830s.6 + (Players Drink Egg-Nog in Base Ball Intervals in Portsmouth NH)
1864.14 + (Players “Lamed Badly” at Ballplaying)
1820.36 + (Playing "bandy or at ball" banned in Baltimore on Sunday)
1795.5 + (Playing At Ball in the Untamed West (Now Kentucky?))
1795.3 + (Playing Ball Cited as Major New England Diversion)
1843.3 + (Playing Ball at Recess)
1861.49 + (Playing Ball in Racine Camp)
1862.67 + (Playing Ball near Yorktown)
1858.30 + (Playing Rules Given for New Britain CT Wicket Ball Match)
1863.98 + (Playing ball during a bombardment)
1864.45 + (Playing for Prizes)
1860c.27 + (Playing of Hole-less Two-Old-Cat in Providence RI)
1867.11 + (Playing the Old-Fashioned Game: 1867)
1869.9 + (Playing the pre-New York Rules Game- 1869)
1859.62 + (Plea for Amateurism)
1859.60 + (Please Do Not Kill the Umpire)
1830c.26 + (Plymouth MA Boys Play Round Ball, Other Ballgames: Ballmaking Described)
1706.1 + (Poem Suggests Cricket is Becoming "Respectable")
1665.1 + (Poet Depicts Fleet-footed Mercury as Wielding a Kit-Cat Bat)
1747.1 + (Poet Thomas Gray: "Urge the Flying Ball.")
1614.1 + (Poet Yearns to "Goe to Stoole-Ball-Play")
1744.4 + (Poet: "Hail Cricket! Glorious Manly, British Game!)
1827.4 + (Poisoned Ball Listed in French Manual of Games)
1850c.8 + (Poisoned-Ball Text Recycled in France)
1828.12 + (Police Nine 1, Men and Boy Sabbath-Breakers 0)

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