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George Thompson, November 2013 +

<div class="source"> </div> <div class="source">[[George Thompson]] contributed two essays to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball this May: </div> <ul> <li> <div class="source">"<a title="1805 -- An Enigmatic 1805 "Game of Bace" in New York">1805 -- An Enigmatic 1805 'Game of Bace' in New York</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 55 - 57. </div> </li> <li> <div class="source_note">"<a title="1823 -- Game of Baseball Reported in "National Advocate"">1823 -- Game of Baseball Reported in "National Advocate"</a>." Base Ball. 51: 61 - 64.</div> </li> </ul> +

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Craig Waff, May 2011 +

<div class="source">[[Craig Waff]] contributed two essays to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball the spring:</div> <ul> <li> <div class="source">"<a title="1856 -- The New York Game in 1856: Poised for a National Launch">1856 -- The New York Game in 1856: Poised for a National Launch</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 114 - 117 (co-written with [[Larry McCray]].</div> </li> <li>"<a title="1860 -- Atlantics and Excelsiors Compete for the "Championship"">1860 -- Atlantics and Excelsiors Compete for the "Championship"</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 139 - 142.</li> </ul> +

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David Block, May 2011 +

<div class="source">[[David Block]] contributed two essays to the "Special Protoball is of Base Ball," Guest-edited by Protoball functionary Larry McCray: </div> <div class="source"> </div> <ul> <li> <div class="source">"<a title="1609: Polish Workers Play Ball at Jamestown, Virginia: An Early Hint of Europe's Influence On Base Ball">1609: Polish Workers Play Ball at Jamestown, Virginia: An Early Hint of Europe's Influence On Base Ball</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 5 - 9.</div> </li> </ul> <ul> <li> <div class="source">"<a title="1796 -- German Book Describes Das Englisch Base-ball: But Was It Baseball or Rounders?">1796 -- German Book Describes Das Englisch Base-ball: But Was It Baseball or Rounders?</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 50 - 54.</div> <div class="source"> </div> </li> </ul> <div class="source"> </div> <div class="source"> </div> +

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Tom Altherr, May 2011 +

<div class="source">[[Tom Altherr]] contributed two essays to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball this May:</div> <ul> <li> <div class="source">"<a title="1841 -- Barn Ball">1841 -- Barn Ball</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 85 - 88.</div> </li> <li> <div class="source">"<a title="1850 -- Southern Ball-Games">1850 -- Southern Ball-Games</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 103 - 105. </div> </li> </ul> <div class="source_note"> </div> <div class="source"> </div> +

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Gregory Christiano, August 2013 +

“Baseball in the Bronx, before the Yankees,” is Gregory Christiano’s new book. It focuses some on the Morrisania Unions, and draws extensively on Craig Waff’s Games Tab (<a>http://protoball.org/Games_Tabulation</a>) and other PBall data. A google search of <”Gregory Christiano” Bronx> takes you to Amazon page for Gregory’s book. +

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Brian Sheehy, January 2013 +

“I can read all about variant games in books and on the net, but I find I don’t really understand them until I play them,” reports Brian Sheehy. Brian teaches “Sports of the Past” to upperclassmen at North Andover High School, north of Boston. Among the safe-haven games the students have studied (and played) are Knickerbocker rules base ball, the Massachusetts game, wicket, cricket, stoolball, and rounders. He is thinking about trying the ancient Russian game of lapta, and perhaps Irish rounders, in the spring. +

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Jeffrey Kittel, January 2013 +

“This Game of Games”, a snazzy website dedicated to the history of 19th century St. Louis baseball, is the creation of Jeff Kittel. See (<a href="http://thisgameofgames.blogspot.com/">http://thisgameofgames.blogspot.com/</a>.) Jeff has agreed to help curate Protoball’s “Glossary of Games” feature, which is meant to serve as a registry for diverse baseball-like games, both those that precede our game and that appear to have later been derived from it (<a>http://protoball.org/Glossary_of_Games</a>). In that role he has helped write short accounts of evidence about town ball, the Massachusetts game, and English Rounders (<a>http://protoball.org/Essays</a>.) He has contributed essays to SABR’s Pioneer Project reports and to The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rank-Century-Major-League-Baseball/dp/0786468904">http://www.amazon.com/Rank-Century-Major-League-Baseball/dp/0786468904</a>) Jeff is currently working on an extensive monograph on baseball’s full history in St. Louis, in which he traces the roots of the game in the city back to the 18th century. +

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Eric Miklich, June 2013 +

Eric is working on a book on the World Baseball Tour of 1874. +

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Beth Hise, May 2011 +

[[Beth Hise]] contributed two essays to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball this May. <ul> <li> <div class="source_note">"<a title="1744 -- "How Is It, Umpire?" The 1744 Laws of Cricket and Their Influence on the Development of Baseball in America">1744 -- "How Is It, Umpire?" The 1744 Laws of Cricket and Their Influence on the Development of Baseball in America</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 25 - 31.</div> </li> <li> <div class="source">"<a title="1862 -- American Cricket in the 1860s">1862 -- American Cricket in the 1860s</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 143 - 148. </div> </li> </ul> <div class="source_note"> </div> +

Brian Turner, May 2011 +

[[Brian Turner]] co-wrote a contribution to the "Special Protoball Issue" of Base Ball this Spring: <ul> <li>Turner, Brian and Larry McCray (2011) "<a title="1621 -- Pilgrim Stoolball an the Profusion of American Safe-Haven Ballgames">1621 -- Pilgrim Stoolball and the Profusion of American Safe-Haven Ballgames</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 10 -16.</li> </ul> The article surveys base ball's the many predecessor games before the New York game was established. +

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Larry McCray, May 2011 +

[[Larry McCray]] participated in several short articles in the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball this spring. He also served as Guest Editor of the issue: <ul> <li>"16<a title="1621 -- Pilgrim Stoolball an the Profusion of American Safe-Haven Ballgames">21 -- Pilgrim Stoolball an the Profusion of American Safe-Haven Ballgames</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 10 -16 (with Brian Turner).</li> <li>"<a title="1672 -- The Amazing Francis Willughby, and the Role of Stoolball in the Evolution of Baseball and Cricket">1672 -- The Amazing Francis Willughby, and the Role of Stoolball in the Evolution of Baseball and Cricket</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 17-20. </li> <li>"1<a title="1829 -- The Rise and Fall of New England-Style Ballplaying">829 -- The Rise and Fall of New England-Style Ballplaying</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 69 - 72. </li> <li> "<a title="1830 -- Thoreau's Diary Entry and Other Tiny Clues as to Who Played Early Ball">1830 -- Thoreau's Diary Entry and Other Tiny Clues as to Who Played Early Ball</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 73 - 76.</li> <li>"<a title="1845 -- The Knickerbocker Rules, and the Long History of the One-Bounce Fielding Rule">1845 -- The Knickerbocker Rules, and the Long History of the One-Bounce Fielding Rule</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 93 - 97. </li> <li>"<a title="1856 -- The New York Game in 1856: Poised for a National Launch">1856 -- The New York Game in 1856: Poised for a National Launch</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 114 - 117 (with Craig Waff).</li> <li>"<a title="1859 -- State Championship Wicket Game in Connecticut: A Hearty Hurrah for a Doomed Pastime">1859 -- State Championship Wicket Game in Connecticut: A Hearty Hurrah for a Doomed Pastime</a>." Base Ball. 5(1): 132 - 135. </li> </ul>

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Bob Tholkes, February 2013 +

“Not Likely to Flourish,” appearing in Base Ball,volume 6, number 2 (Fall 2012), pp. 22 ff, is [[Bob Tholkes’]] survey of the New York game for the 1862 base ball season. The season began with the sadly mistaken conjecture that the Civil War would end soon enough to save the ballplaying season. Still, 1862 saw William Cammeyer’s historic opening of the enclosed ballfield at the Union Grounds, the June visit of Philadelphia clubs to New Jersey, Brooklyn and games with three NYC clubs at Elysian Fields, and the October death of Excelsior Club great Jim Creighton. +

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Monica Nucciarone, August 2013 +

Monica Nucciarone has been contributing to a new documentary about base ball in Hawaii. The film, by former Boston University student Drew Johnson, touches on the influence of base ball on the political evolution of Hawaii, starting with 1840s ballplaying there as introduced by missionaries. Drew notes that Japanese baseball, as well as the US game, was part of the later story of Hawaiian baseball. +

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Sam Marchiano, December 2008 +

Base Ball Discovered continues to charm audiences. The MLB Advanced Media documentary on baseball’s origins, written and produced by Sam, received the Award for Baseball Excellence at the 3rd annual Baseball Film Festival at the Hall of Fame in September. The award recognizes the film that best captures “research, factual accuracy, historical context, and appreciation of the game.” This follows the warm reception Sam was given at this year’s SABR Convention in Cleveland, where she addressed the SABR Origins Committee and screened the film for a packed house of conventioneers. Others agree: Vin Scully calls the film a “grand slam,” and the unexcitable George Will calls it “fascinating.” +

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Beth Hise, February 2013 +

Swinging Away (Marylebon Cricket Club and Scala Press, 2010) is curator [[Beth Hise]]’s new book on her exhibitions on base ball and cricket at Lord’s and at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Besides writing two essays on cricket in the United States for the recent Origins Issue of Base Ball, Beth has contributed a paper on the English response to exhibition base ball games in England in the early 1900s. +

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Howard Burman, January 2008 +

“Gentlemen at the Bat” is the working title of Howard's current book project, one that focuses on the Knickerbocker Club. The book’s story is told by club members in the form of a collective oral history, in which Howard’s historical research is presented through the medium of fictionalized dialog. His earlier books include one on Shoeless Joe Jackson and one on 1950’s stickball inNew York. +

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Monica Nucciarone, March 2007 +

“The Cartwright Conundrum: Fact and Fiction of Cartwright’s Baseball Legacy” was the subject of a poster session by Monica Nucciarone at the SABR 36 convention. She is in the rewrite phase of her treatise on Alexander Cartwright, and may present some results at the St. Louis SABR convention. She spent part of last April doing research in Hawaii. +

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Andrew Schiff, January 2008 +

Andrew notes that his new biography of Henry Chadwick, The Father of Baseball, is scheduled for early 2008. To order this $29.95 McFarland offering, or for more details, go to <a href="http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/">http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/</a> and search “Schiff.” +

Angus Macfarlane, March 2007 +

Angus is investigating the earliest days of California base ball. He identifies the local Knickerbockers as the first CA team, and is working with Mexican historian Cesar Gonzalez to ascertain the role of the New York Volunteer Regiment, which sailed to CA in 1846, in implanting baseball in Mexico. +

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Beth Hise, December 2008 +

Beth notes that April 2010 is the time slotted for her exhibition on Cricket and Baseball at the Marylebone Cricket Club [Lord’s Grounds] in London. It is possible that the exhibit would also be shown in Australia and at Cooperstown afterward. Part of the exhibition will focus on bat and balls games prior to 1840, and Beth is looking into stoolball history and the 1755 William Bray diary as well. +

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