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• Chronology:Games of bat and ball
  30 bytes (4 words) - 18:11, 10 February 2013
• Clipping:Experimental games: square bat a cork ball
  |Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball ...note the effect of these two innovations, especially the use of the square bat, and the game to-day bids fair to be both entertaining and instructive. Chi
  3 KB (467 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
• Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
  |Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
  232 bytes (36 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019

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• Clipping:The flat bats; a doctored bat
  |Title=the flat bats; a doctored bat ...ed is to take off enough wood on one side, within a foot of the end of the bat, so as to take off the roundness., quoting the Philadelphia Item</p>
  674 bytes (118 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
• Brian Turner, April 2013
  ...thampton) in 1791 and another thing in other towns (such as the names ball games were known by Pittsfield).&nbsp;</p>
  527 bytes (79 words) - 14:45, 8 April 2013
• ProtoPix:Bat Ball
  |Source Image=Bat Ball.jpg |Title=Bat Ball
  348 bytes (46 words) - 14:47, 11 July 2023
• Clipping:The advantage of batting last
  ...ntage of being last at the bat gives a team confidence in their ability to bat well...</p>
  911 bytes (164 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
• Clipping:Durable bats
  ...ix and sometimes seven of the nines, in over one hundred match games. The bat is appropriately styled “Old Reliable.” It is good for many a game yet
  871 bytes (141 words) - 08:20, 13 March 2022
• Hit the Bat
  |Term=Hit the Bat ...to a group of fielders. If one of them can roll the ball back and hit the bat so that the ball hits the ground before the batter can catch the ricochet,
  780 bytes (135 words) - 20:21, 12 March 2022
• Clipping:A trophy bat made from the Charter Oak
  |Title=a trophy bat made from the Charter Oak ...bbell intends to present the bat to the Hartford amateurs, and a series of games is to be played for the possession thereof of the several amateur clubs of
  800 bytes (137 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
• Clipping:Batting first voluntarily
  ...ad of sending their opponents to the bat, as is usual, they have taken the bat first themselves, and in such cases invariably started off with too strong
  467 bytes (74 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
• 1852.2
  |Headline=Lit Magazine Cites "Roaring" Game of "Bat and Base-ball" |Game=Base Ball, Bat-Ball
  1 KB (212 words) - 18:20, 14 October 2015
• 1852.4
  |Headline=Bass-ball "Quite Too Complicated" for Children's Book on Games |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball,
  965 bytes (146 words) - 15:53, 11 February 2014
• Scrub (Family of Games)
  {{Family of Games |Description=Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, pitching, and a bat (but no teams).
  150 bytes (22 words) - 06:55, 2 June 2012
• Baseball (Family of Games)
  {{Family of Games |Description=Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, a bat, pitching, and two distinct teams.
  158 bytes (22 words) - 06:52, 2 June 2012
• 1760.2
  |Headline=Bat and Ball . . . in Paris? ...ion as what we now know as the Champs Elysee? Can we learn what bat/ball games were so popular the mid 1700s - Soule? Some form of street tennis? A form o
  747 bytes (126 words) - 17:31, 6 September 2012
• Clipping:The flat bat 2
  |Title=the flat bat 2 ...mes played, gaining a batting average for the trip of .419. He pained the bat carefully after doctoring it, and the trick was not discovered. The surfac
  1 KB (175 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
• Clipping:The advantage of batting second
  ...hus far played in the championship arena this season the teams last at the bat have won. It is a blunder beyond question to give an opposing team the cha
  1 KB (204 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
• 1864.49
  |Headline="Base Ball" and "Bat and Ball" Seen as the Same Game |Game=Base Ball, Bat-and-Ball
  3 KB (381 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2015
• Clipping:Games take too long
  |Title=games take too long ...ggards who keep the spectators waiting on their laziness. Patrons of ball games have a right to demand promptness in this matter, and it is the duty of the
  917 bytes (168 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
• 1841.7
  |Headline="Games of Ball and Bat" Played in Nova Scotia ...adrille and Contra dances were got up on the green - and games of ball and bat, and such sports proceeded.'"</p>
  682 bytes (103 words) - 17:48, 6 September 2012
• Bat-and-Ball
  |Term=Bat-and-Ball ...all" is a term that can help you find very early references to predecessor games in the US.</p>
  1 KB (250 words) - 11:56, 15 May 2020
• 1805.3
  |Headline=<u>Book of Games</u> Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball ...re than twice, without striking the ball, I am out and one of you take the bat, and come in, as it is called."</p>
  839 bytes (159 words) - 17:36, 6 September 2012