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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 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")

(Played-20ball-20"in-20a-20new-20way")

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;")
1755.4 + (Satirist Cites Base-Ball as "An Infant Game")
1400c.1 + (Savior Son Wants "To Go Play at Ball")
1821.3 + (Schenectady NY Bans "Playing of Ball Against the Building")
1855.16 + (Scholar Deems 1855 the Peak of Cricket-playing in America)
1853c.15 + (Scholar Ponders: Why Were the Knickerbockers So Publicity-Shy?)
1830.4 + (School Boys Play Base Ball Regularly at Portsmouth NH Grammar School)
1761.2 + (School Rule in PA; No Ballplaying in the College Yard, Especially in Front of Trustees and Profs)
1761.3 + (School Trustees Prohibit Playing Ball and Other Diversions, Ignoring Advice of Ben Franklin)
1840c.26 + (Schoolboy Game of "Three Base Ball" Recalled in Brooklyn)
1827.5 + (Science of Trap Construction Revealed)
1860.44 + (Score it 7-5-4: "Three Hands Out in a Jiffy")
1818.6 + (Scots Ballplaying Variants -- Including 'Ba'-baises' -- Found to the North)
1862.110 + (Scots Soldiers Play Base-Ball and Cricket)
1836.7 + (Scots Still Play "Ball Paces," a Type of Trap Ball with Running)
1819.2 + (Scott's Ivanhoe Mentions Stool-ball)
1841.11 + (Scottish Dictionary Calls "Cat and Dog" a Game for Three)
1857.25 + (Season Opens in Boston with May Olympics Victory, Best-of-Three Format)
1861.72 + (Secesh and Unionists fraternize on ball field)
1860.19 + (Second Annual Chadwick Guide Prints Season Stats for the Year)
1861.27 + (Second NJ 27, First NJ 10, in Virginia Camp)
1861.19 + (Second NJ Regiment Forms BB Club in Virginia Camp)
1863.14 + (Sergeant from 15th MA Plays Round Ball with 34th NY)
1858.5 + (Seven More Clubs Publish Their Rules)
1864.93 + (Seventh Wisconsin Infantry plays baseball in Petersburg tranches)
1856.4 + (Seventy Games Played, All in New York City Area.)
1784.2 + (Seymour Notation Adverts to Evidence that Town Ball Was Exported to England)
1855.5 + (Seymour Research Note: "7 Clubs Organized" [But We Now Know of 30])
1857.6 + (Seymour: Cricket Groups Meet to Try to Form US [National] Cricket Club)
1863.23 + (Sgt. in the 6th Maine Reports “Huge Game of Ball” in VA)
1669.1 + (Shadwell Play Said to List Rural Games, including Stool-ball.)
1600c.2 + (Shakespeare Mentions Rounders? Pretty Doubtful)
1857.45 + (Sharon MA Victory in Boston Seen As State Championship)
1865.34 + (Sherman's army plays base-ball in SC)
1839.8 + (Shinty Played in Hoboken)
1836.14 + (Shinty Played in Hoboken in 1836)
1648.1 + (Short Herrick Poem Proposes a Wager on Stool-ball Game)
1850c.11 + (Short Moral Tale Centers on Boy's Bat and Ball)
1861.40 + (Shortstops to Soldiers)
1831.3 + (Should Boys Prefer Bats over Books?)
1861.45 + (Shrunken NABBP Meeting Does Little)
1860.42 + (Shut Out Reported as the First Ever; Excelsiors 25, St. George Nine 0)
1864.40 + (Signals for Throwing to Base)
1867.8 + (Signs Go Back To At Least 1867)
1815.4 + (Six-Hour "Wicket" Match Played in Canada)
1857.29 + (Six-Player Town-ball Teams Play for Gold in Philly)
1859.8 + (Sixty Play for Their Suppers)
1854.19 + (Sixty-foot Liner Breaks Schoolhouse Window in "Game of Bass")
1533.1 + (Skelton Poem Traces Cricket to Flemish Immigrants?)
1869.6 + (Slugging Stat Arrives in Early Form)
1829.3 + (Small Cambridge MA Schoolground Crimps Base and Cricket Play)
1863.139 + (Soildiers play "Baste ball" in Virginia)
1863.156 + (Soldier Play in KY)
1847.8 + (Soldier Recalls Town-ball)
1847.2 + (Soldier Sees January Ball Games at Camp at Saltillo)
1863.15 + (Soldier Under General Rosecrans Sees Ballplaying in Tennessee)
1812.2 + (Soldier Van Smoot's Diary Notes Playing Catch at New Orleans LA)
1775.1 + (Soldier in CT "Played Ball All Day")
1775.2 + (Soldier in MA Played Ball)
1864.71 + (Soldier in TN asks sister to send him a baseball)
1863.20 + (Soldier: “Our Camp is Alive with Ball-Players”)
1847.15 + (Soldiers Play Ball During Western Trip)
1865.40 + (Soldiers Play Baseball while waiting to be mustered out)
1862.84 + (Soldiers Play Philadelphia Champs)
1863.121 + (Soldiers Play Wicket in Little Rock)
1863.143 + (Soldiers Play cricket in Virginia)
1863.72 + (Soldiers confront idleness with ball playing)
1864.55 + (Soldiers on leave play ball in Chicago)
1862.111 + (Soldiers play Round Town Ball in camp)
1861.56 + (Soldiers play ball in Denver)
1863.149 + (Soldiers play the "New York game")
1862.23 + (Soldiers' Christmas in Virginia - Ballplaying "on Many a Hillside")
1867c.17 + (Some First Female teams and games in US cities)
1621.1 + (Some Pilgrims "Openly" Play "Stoole Ball" on Christmas Morning: Governor Clamps Down)
1862.114 + (Some interesting games of ball)
1850s.43 + (South Carolina College Students Make Do with Town Ball, "Cat")
1802c.1 + (South Carolina Man Lists Ball-Playing Among Local Amusements)
1864.85 + (South Carolina soldiers Play Ball near Petersburg)
1862.53 + (Southern Brigade’s Play Base . . . Somewhere)
1859.7 + (Southern Game Takes Place in Aristocratic Setting)
1863.114 + (Southern Girls Play Town Ball and Cat in Clarksville)
1859.73 + (Southern Militia Members Visit Elysian Fields on NY Tour)
1862.27 + (Southern Newspaper Urges: “More Manly Sports Like Cricket and Base Ball, Less Cardplay”)
1864.23 + (Southern Officers Play Ball in Ohio Prison)
1790s.4 + (Southern Pols Calhoun and Crawford: Ballplaying Schoolmates?)
1864.1 + (Southern Soldier Notes Repeated Ballplaying, Including Game of Cat)
1860.70 + (Space Wanted)
1255.1 + (Spanish Drawing Seen as Early Depiction of Ballplaying)
1842.5 + (Spelling Book Seems to Show a Fungo Game)
1830s.32 + (Spiked Egg-Nog Between Innings?)
1860.3 + (Split Doubleheader:Mass Game, NY Game)
1851.1 + (Sport of Cricket Gets its First Comprehensive History Book)
1855.34 + (Sporting Press Notices Base Ball, Regularizes Reporting)
1800c.1 + (Sports at Exeter Academy include "Old-Fashioned Bat and Ball". . . and Football)
1846.13 + (Spring Sports at Harvard: "Bat & Ball" and Cricket)
1844.18 + (Springtime Ballplaying on the Common -- by Girls)
1853.22 + (St. Augustine bans Shinny and any "game of ball")
1838.2 + (St. George Cricket Club Forms in NYC)
1845.21 + (St. George's Cricket Club Plays Series with All-Canada Eleven)
1840.10 + (St. George, NY Cricket Club, [Accidentally] Plays Toronto for a $250 Side Bet)
1862.4 + (State Championship Base Ball Game in PA)
1871.9 + (State-wide Base Ball Association for California?)
1855.18 + (Stodgy Novel Makes Brief Mention of Former Ballplaying)
1831.7 + (Stool ball, Cricket, Bread, and Beer for Crowd of 500)
1640.1 + (Stoolball Attracts Gentry, Rascals, Boys)
1450.2 + (Stoolball Dated by NSA to 1450 in "Don Quixote")
1630c.2 + (Stoolball Play Makes Maidstone a "Very Profane Town")
1789.3 + (Stoolball Played at Brighthelmstone in Sussex)
1630.4 + (Stoolball Played in Sherston, England)
1861.2 + (Stoolball Played, in Co-ed Form)
1300s.3 + (Stoolball Said to Originate Among Sussex Milkmaids)
1866.18 + (Stoolball in Selmeston)
1615.1 + (Stoole Ball Goes North with Early Explorer)
1585c.1 + (Stoole-ball, Nine Holes Included Among Country Sports)
1600.3 + (Stooleball popular in 1600)
1827.2 + (Story Places Baseball in Rochester NY)
1853.9 + (Strolling Past a Ballgame in Elysian Fields)
1855.12 + (Students Bring Cricket to Saint John and Fredericton NB)
1823.6 + (Students Play Ball Game at Progressive School in Northampton MA)
1808.3 + (Students get 10 lashes for playing bandy)
1659.1 + (Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day)
1801.5 + (Sunday Ballplaying Eyed Everywhere: "Is This a Christian Country?")
1858.64 + (Sunday Mercury Acknowledges English Origin of Base Ball)
1857.14 + (Sunrise Base Ball)
1773.1 + (Surrey/Kent Cricket Match Draws 12,000, Spawns Poetic Duel)
1737.1 + (Surreymen Play Londoners in Cricket for 500 Pounds a Side)

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