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|Term=Baste Ball ...’s diary entry for 1786 (5 years before the first known use of "base ball" in the US), which reveals only that the game involves catching and hitting

...e repast the party engaged in various sports, consisting of cricket, baste ball, dancing, &c."</p>

...e the afternoon was passed in swinging, cricket, trap ball, racking, baste-ball, &c.”</p>

...ny repaired to the meadow, where cricket, trap-ball, baste-ball, and other games were soon entered into with juvenile zest.”</p>

...after which they dispersed for games, including swinging, baste-ball, trap-ball, cricket, &c.”</p>

...Suffolk. A newspaper reported that “various games, such as cricket, baste ball, and the much patronised one of kissing in the ring, &c., were heartily ind

...ootball (kindly lent by the Rev. A.C. Daymond), swinging, trap-ball, baste-ball, racing, kissing-in-the-ring, scrambling for nuts, apples, &c.”</p>

...ches, recitations, music and singing, with outdoor games of croquet, baste ball, kissing in the ring, dancing, etc., took place and were heartily entered i

...watermill. The games included swinging, cricket, croquet, baste-ball, trap ball, bathing, boating, kissing-in-the-ring, up-and-down, racing in sacks, scram

...et, quoits, archery, croquet, swinging, red-white-and-blue, foot and baste ball, &c.”</p>

...the afternoon was passed in various games such as swinging, cricket, baste-ball, kissing in the ring, racing, jumping &c. At five they were all regaled wit

|Headline="Bafeball" Among Games Banned in Pittsfield MA - also Cricket, Wicket |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball, Wicket,

|Title=A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball ...are oblige’d to walk 4 miles to day to find a place leavel enough to play ball.”<ref name="ref1" /> On the face of it, the two journal entries might not