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|Description=English Baseball 1880s ({{#ask:[[Block Game::English Baseball]][[Date::>1880]][[Date::<1890]][[Dat |Short Name=1880s

|Headline=Base Ball on Ice |Tags=Ball in the Culture

...ase Ball Club has accepted a challenge from the &ldquo;Pulaski&rdquo; Base Ball Club to play on Pulaski&rsquo;s home grounds at the arsenal on May 11.</p> ...t. Johns College, established by the Freemasons, operated from 1850 to the 1880s.</p>

|Headline=Base Ball Attendance Practices at the Dawn of the Pro Era |Game=Base Ball,

...ase Ball Club has accepted a challenge from the &ldquo;Pulaski&rdquo; Base Ball Club to play on Pulaski&rsquo;s home grounds at the arsenal on May 11.</p> ...t. Johns College, established by the Freemasons, operated from 1850 to the 1880s. The college grounds were used as a training camp during the Civil War.</p>

...e very simple [around 1800] . . . games of ball, not base-ball, as is now [1880s?] the fashion, yet with wickets . . . "&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> ...days than now.&nbsp; We had more holidays, more games in the streets -- of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling."</p>

...nbsp;<em>Caldwell Tribune</em>, Aug. 29, 1891, reports that the Nampa base ball team will be touring the state, the tour being arranged by Col. Stearns.</p <p>Nampa was founded in the 1880s, and incorporated in 1890.</p>

...Sept. 7, 1883 mentions the "Chloride base ballists" that the Fairview base ball team has played five times. Same Aug. 3, 1883 has a long article on the Chl ...view, Grafton and Chloride were silver mining towns that flourished in the 1880s but are today ghost towns.</p>

...fledged base ball clubs in Flagstaff," the east end and the west end base ball clubs. Same May 17, 1884, calls these the old town and new town clubs, who <p>Flagstaff was funded in the early 1880s. It had 964 residents in 1890.</p>

...us of baseball activity in Puget Sound prior to the advent of professional ball in 1890. Levy's efforts to promote dozens of games throughout the Northwest ...other team in the county. Levy is listed on the roster of the Seattle Base Ball Club, which accepted the challenge and beat the Newcastle Miners 51-0.</p>

...Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32.</p> ...ad not the resources for healthful physical recreation of the present day [1880s]. We had football and baseball, though the latter was much less formal and

|Game=Rounders,Stool-ball,Northern Spell,Feeder ...ibes a game without running or fielding, in which the object is to hit the ball farthest - "this pastime possesses but little variety, and is by no means s

...ld at a reservation in NM in the 1860s may have been taught a form of base ball, and continued to play and modify the game for many years thereafter. ...e in 1907 that there was a "Navaho game of baseball" played as late as the 1880s, and that "the Navaho learned the game from the whites when imprisoned at t

|Game=Base Ball, ...t him in the eye. Then I learned the new rule was to throw the ball to the base player and let him touch the runner."</p>

|Title=Was it ever really "Ball nine, take your base?" |Issue=<p>Are we misinterpreting the early base-on balls rule?</p>

|Game=Base Ball, ...ot considered shameful in the early 1870s. The shaming started in the late 1880s and 1890s when the infielders and outfielders starting using very large glo

.... 7, 16, says that baseball teams were organized by Tampa residents in the 1880s. And Tampa had a team in the first short-lived Florida State League in 1892 <p>Tallahassee&nbsp;<em>Sentinel</em>, May 8, 1875: "A Base-Ball Club has been organized in Tampa."</p>

...c.&nbsp; And the physical dimensions of the ball are close to that of base ball.</p> ...ore; Estonia--1855 (British naval officers, outside Reval/Tallinn); Kenya--1880s; Oman--1979; Antigua--1895; Fiji--1874; Tanzania--1890; Gambia--1927; Ugand

|Game=Base Ball ...n format. That passed by me without my consciously noting. Sometime in the 1880s, maybe?"</div>

|Game=Base Ball ...team is the Boston Base Ball Association. The fans will be the Boston Base Ball Club ("club" reflecting its social nature), which will take over the block