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• 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 <i>Little Pretty Pocket-Book</i> 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 <u>Little Pretty Book</u> 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)
• 1609.1  + (Polish Origins of Baseball Perceived in Jamestown VA Settlement)
• 1680.1  + (Political Tract Uses Trap-stick Metaphor)
• 1862.48  + (Pork, Hard-Tack, Beans, and Baseball in the 5th Mass Artillery)
• 1857.18  + (Porter's Project: Collect Rules of Play)
• 1805.2  + (Portland ME Bans "Playing at Bat and Ball in the Streets" in 1805, Retains Ban in 1824)
• 1828.2  + (Portland Newspaper Reports Boys Playing at "Bat-and-Ball.")
• 1795.1  + (Portsmouth NH Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games)
• 1828.14  + (Portsmouth NH Reminder: No Ballplaying, Betting in Public Places)
• 1586.2  + (Possible Early Rounders Reference?)
• 1838.14  + (Possible Game of Base Ball at School)
• 1867.12  + (Post-War Spread of Baseball Noted)
• 1860.14  + (Potomacs "Conquer" Nationals in Washington)
• 1854.17  + (Pre-modern Base Ball in Michigan)
• 1583.1  + (Pre-teens Risk Dungeon Time For Selves, or Their Dads, by Playing Ball)
• 1840s.4  + (Preppies Brought Base Ball to College Campuses?)
• 1862.108  + (President Lincoln to Umpire a Game?)
• 1857.38  + (President's Peace Medal Depicts Baseball Game in Background)
• 1830c.35  + (Pretty Darn Early Ballplaying Card)
• 1299.1  + (Prince of Wales Plays "Creag," Seen By Some as a Cricket Precursor)
• 790c.1  + (Princess Nausica and Maids Play Catch)
• 1761.1  + (Princeton Faculty [NJ] Disparages "Playing at Ball")
• 1857.23  + (Princeton Freshmen Establish Nassau Base Ball Club)
• 1844.9  + (Print Medium Credited with New Popularity of Cricket in Britain)
• 1863.29  + (Print of artillerymen playing ball)
• 1864.100  + (Prize baseball from Decatur?)
• 1871.12  + (Pro Clubs to Meet in March, National Association Starts Its Fade)
• 1872.2  + (Pro Players Disparaged in Newspapers As Worthless, Dissipated, Buyable)
• 1871.16  + (Professionals Edge Away from NABBP; Modern Standings Begin to Take Shape)
• 1859.33  + (Prolix Lecturer Explains What Base Ball and Cricket Mean)
• 1755c.7  + (Prominent Patriot Regrets Wasting Time Playing Cat (and Fives))
• 1871.11  + (Pros' Leading Averages Reported In Buffalo Newspaper)
• 1859.66  + (Proto-Sports Bar)
• 1830.25  + (Proud Father Lauds Son's Ballplaying Prowess)
• 1823.5  + (Providence RI Bans "Playing Ball" in the Streets)
• 1771.2  + (Province of New Hampshire Prohibits Christmas "Playing With Balls" in the Streets)
• 1829.9  + (Pupil in Class Seen to "Scamper like a Boy at Bass-ball")
• 1720.1  + (Puritans Thwarted Fun, "Even at Stool-ball")
• 1856.3  + (Putnams Rules Arrive on the Scene)
• 1500s.2  + (Queen Elizabeth's Dudley Plays Stoolball at Wotton Hill?)
• 1840c.15  + (R is for Richard "With His Bat and Ball")
• 1815c.5  + (RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing)
• 1864.18  + (RI Soldier Cites “:A Game in Our Regt, Nine Innings a Side”)
• 1861.31  + (RI Soldier Mentions Game of Ball)
• 1859.50  + (Rain, Peevishness Disrupt 100-Tally Mass Game at Barre)
• 1863.65  + (Ravaged By War)
• 1859.27  + (Reader Catches "A Slight Error" - Base Ball is English, not American)
• 1832.6  + (Reading Book Contains a Story, "Playing at Trap Ball")
• 1863.93  + (Rebel POWs at Fort McHenry)
• 1863.101  + (Rebel POWs play town ball at Camp Butler)
• 1862.29  + (Rebel Prisoners Seen Playing Ball in WI Prison Camp)
• 1863.50  + (Rebel Soldier Plays “Fine Game of Town Ball” in Georgia)
• 1863.95  + (Rebels seen playing ball)
• 1836c.11  + (Recollections of a Jersey City Boy -- And A Different Rule for Plugging)
• 1870.16  + (Red Stocking Leader Explains Background for Club Decision to Exit Pro Base Ball Scene)
• 1860.79  + (Regatta Cancelled Due To Base Ball)
• 1861.34  + (Regiment Plays “Favorite Game” After Dress Parade in Elmira NY)
• 1780.8  + (Regular Monday NYC Cricket Matches Planned Again.)
• 1852.5  + (Religious Chapbook Shows Action in Ball Play at Recess)
• 1830c.39  + (Report: "Groups of Full Grown Players At Base and Cricket" Recalled in New York)
• 1672.1  + (Rev. Wilson Decries Sunday "Stool-Ball" and "Cricketts" Playing)
• 1862.12  + (Reverend Beecher: Base-Ball is Best Form of Exercise)
• 1776c.3  + (Revolutionary War Officer Plays Cricket, Picks Blueberries)
• 1777.1  + (Revolutionary War Prisoner Watches Ball-Playing in NYC Area)
• 1779.3  + (Revolutionary War Soldier H. Records Regimental Ball-Playing PA)
• 1857.10  + (Rib-and-Ball Game in the Arctic: Baseball Fever Among the Chills?)
• 1817.2  + (Riddle Game Cites "Fourteen Boys at Bat and Ball")
• 1862.63  + (Right and Left wings of 13th NY in Suffolk, VA)
• 1871.14  + (Rival Assn of Amateur Players Forms: Includes Clubs from NY, Philly, Baltimore, Boston.)
• 1843.7  + (Robber Caught Again: "Third Time and Out")
• 1851.5  + (Robert E. Lee Promotes Cricket at West Point?)
• 1858.22  + (Rochester NY Editor: Base Ball to Curb Tobacco, Swearing (If Not Spitting))
• 1825c.12  + (Rochester Senior: "How the Game of Ball Was Played")
• 1850s.49  + (Round Ball Played North of Portland, Maine with "Cat Stick" and "Gools")
• 1829.2  + (Round Ball Played in MA)
• 1822.1  + (Round Ball Played in Worcester)
• 1820.2  + (Round Ball played in Upton, MA)
• 1850s.33  + (Round Ball, Old Cat Played in Northwest MA Town)
• 1850s.55  + (Round Ball, Played Near Boston, As Recalled in 1870s Celebrations)
• 1822.2  + (Round-Arm Bowling Disallowed at Lord's Cricket Ground)
• 1835.2  + (Round-arm Bowling Officially Permitted in Cricket)
• 1850c.56  + (Roundball Recalled in Maine)
• 1857.31  + (Rounders "Now Almost Entirely Displaced by Cricket:" English Scholar)
• 1842.11  + (Rounders Reported at Swiss School)
• 1851.10  + (Rounders on the Ice)
• 1857.40  + (Rules Experiment Suggested-- Six outs)
• 1857.1  + (Rules Modified to Specify Nine Innings, 90-Foot Base Paths, Nine-Player Teams, but not the Fly Rule)
• 1840s.29  + (Rural Boys "Played Bass Ball" in Western Ohio)
• 1839.3  + (Rutherford Hayes Plays Ball as Student at Kenyon College, OH)
• 1870c.17  + (Rutherford Hayes Sees Harm to Hearing in Ballplaying)
• 1804.1  + (SC School Opens, Students Play Town Ball and Bull Pen)
• 1863.115  + (SC soldier writes of chuck a luck and town ball in camp)
• 1846.24  + (Saco bans "bat and ball")
• 1854.15  + (Sacramento "Hombres" Play Ball Before Several Hundred, Break Stuff)
• 1842.8  + (Sad Boy, Grounded, Misses His Recess Sports)
• 370c.1  + (Saint Augustine Recalls Punishment for Youthful Ball Games)
• 1791.3  + (Salem MA Diary Covers "Puerile Sports" Including Bat & Ball, and "Rickets")
• 1762.2  + (Salem MA Ordinance Outlaws Bat-and-Ball, Cricket)
• 1858.39  + (San Francisco Organizes for Base Ball . . . Again)
• 1852.7  + (San Francisco Plaza Again Active, This Time with "Town Ball;")