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Beachville Deconstruction (The New York Game Comes to Canada) posted 1 May 2015: version 1.0

Length of Games, 1860-1865 1.0 posted 1 October 2019: How Long Did Games Take 160 Years Ago?

Runs, Runs and More Runs: Baseball 1866-1870. By the Numbers posted 1 December 2021: Baseball statistics from the pre-pro era. From BRJ, Fall 2021
Number of Known BB Clubs in 40 Largest US Cities, 1870 5.0 posted 11 July 2021: Which Cities Had the Most Early Ballclubs Per Capita?
Number of Known BB Clubs in 40 Largest US Cities, 1870 3.0 posted 8 September 2020: Which Cities Had the Most Early Ballclubs Per Capita?
Base Ball on the Field, 1858-1865 posted 27 March 2020: Tracking Run-scoring and Some Other On-Field Data Before 1866 [Published in Baseball Research Journal, Spring 2020, pages 85ff]
Ballplaying by Civil War Soldiers 1.0 posted 1 September 2018: Nearly 400 Finds Let Us Understand the Frequency and Nature of Military Ballplaying During the War
Cricket and the Rise of Baseball posted 1 June 2015: Version 1.0
The Spread of Base Ball, 1859 - 1870 posted 26 September 2013: Some New Data on the Spread of Base Ball in the United States (Version 1.0, 9/26/2013)

1857 Rules posted 30 July 2013: A Rule-by-Rule History Analysis of the Rules Adopted by the 1857 Convention of Base Ball Clubs
1845 Knickerbocker Rules posted 5 April 2013: Evolution or Revolution? A Rule-By-Rule Analysis of the 1845 Knickerbocker Rules
What Was The Massachusetts Game, Anyway? posted 19 December 2012: A Sourced-Based Description of Massachusetts Game Play
What Was Rounders, Anyway? posted 7 November 2012: A Source-Based Description of Rounders Play
What Was Town Ball, Anyway? posted 2 October 2012: A Source-Based Description of Town Ball Play

What Was Rounders, Anyway? posted 7 November 2012: A Source-Based Description of Rounders Play
Early Championships posted 12 October 2012
What Was Town Ball, Anyway? posted 2 October 2012: A Source-Based Description of Town Ball Play
Ballplaying in Civil War Camps posted 1 July 2009: An Overview of an Enriched Data Base: NOTE -- This article was updated and re-cast by Bruce Allardice in 2018

Stoolball Today -- The Rejuvenation of an Ancient Pastime posted 15 November 2013

Very Early (pre-1857) Rules on Base Advancement After Caught Fly Balls posted 19 June 2018: Did Runners Have to Tag Up?
Early Evidence on Base Stealing posted 23 February 2016
The Play-Testing of Early Base Ball Rule Modifications, version 1.0 posted 2 January 2016
Judgment! posted 23 July 2014: At first, most umpiring calls were only made on appeal, and then things changed (7 pages)
Called Pitches posted 23 July 2014: When Did Umpires Start Calling Balls and Strikes? (8 pages)
Pitchers Covering First posted 23 July 2014: When did pitchers start covering first base on grounders to the right side? (2 pages)
The Backstop posted 23 July 2014: Were Foul-Ground Barriers Always Part of Base Ball? (3 pages)
Sliding posted 1 October 2013: Evidence on Sliding in Early Base Ball Accounts (4 pages)

The Evolution of the Baseball Up To 1872 posted 1 March 2007: A Chronology of Ballmaking up to 1872 – and a list of 32 Ballmakers, 1858 to 1890

Ethnicity in 19C Base Ball -- A General Introduction posted 5 May 2020
Sons of Liberty posted 19 June 2019: The Meaning of Early Base Ball Club Names [Published in Base Ball, Volume 11 (2019), pages 29ff]