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• 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
• 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 ...interesting experiments are to be made to-day and to-morrow in exhibition games between the Chicago and Buffalo teams. In to-day's game two radical new de
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• 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
  |Description=Bat Ball. From "Little Charley's Games and Sports" (1854) p. 26
  348 bytes (46 words) - 14:47, 11 July 2023
• Hit the Bat
  ...l-the-Bat," <em>Southwest Folklore</em> 4 (1980) pp. 84-86; Cohen, <em>The Games We Played</em> (2001), p. 77</p>
  780 bytes (135 words) - 20:21, 12 March 2022
• 1852.2
  |Game=Base Ball, Bat-Ball ..." reads: "How they poured the soul of gay and joyous boyhood/ Into roaring games of marbles, <strong>bat and base-ball</strong>!/ Thinking that the world wa
  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
• 1864.49
  ...nstructor at the Round Hill School in Northampton, MA, where baseball-like games were part of the physical education curriculum (see, entry [[1823.6]]; also
  3 KB (381 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2015
• Clipping:The advantage of batting last
  ...year shows that the very reverse of this is the case. Out of twenty-three games in which the home team went to the bat first at Washington Park last season
  911 bytes (164 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
• 1760.2
  ...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
• 1805.3
  |Headline=<u>Book of Games</u> Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball |Text=<p>Among the games described in this book are cricket and trap-ball, which has this concise ac
  839 bytes (159 words) - 17:36, 6 September 2012
• Bat-and-Ball
  ...all" is a term that can help you find very early references to predecessor games in the US.</p>
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• Clipping:The flat bats; a doctored bat
  ...en painted the bat to hide it, and he made twenty-six base hits in sixteen games by it. All that is needed is to take off enough wood on one side, within a
  674 bytes (118 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
• 1853.4
  ...&nbsp; Is it possible that may other "plaing ball" references denote fungo games?&nbsp;</p> <p>Do we know of any other fungo games in which more than a single bat is used?</p>
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• 1845.10
  |Headline=German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game |Text=<p>Included among the games is <em>das Giftball</em> (the venomball, roughly). Block observes that this
  938 bytes (143 words) - 11:01, 21 August 2015
• 1841.7
  |Headline="Games of Ball and Bat" Played in Nova Scotia ...and at which, 'Quadrille 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
• 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
• Bat-Ball
  |Term=Bat-Ball |Description=<p>We have references to bat-ball from 1791 (when it was banned in both Pittsfield and Northampton MA), but t
  789 bytes (130 words) - 09:30, 7 April 2016
• 1810.3
  ...o have an hour of recreation each day with sports, among bat and ball-type games."&nbsp; -- Tom Altherr</p>
  811 bytes (116 words) - 07:01, 28 January 2020
• 1860.24
  ...l game of ball on Saturday afternoon. Ball-playing was one of the favorite games with the boys. . . . [Nat comes to bat.] 'I should like to see a ball go by
  1 KB (204 words) - 18:36, 14 October 2015
• German Bat Ball
  <p><span>Emily Elmore and M. O’Shea, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span> </span>(Macmillan, New York, 1922)<span>, pages 36-39.</span></
  1,017 bytes (173 words) - 09:46, 28 November 2012
• Ball-Bias
  ...Ball]] that was mostly found in the vicinity of Leeds.&nbsp; These latter games were&nbsp;played without a bat, like English base-ball, whereas . . . ball-
  2 KB (254 words) - 10:22, 10 December 2013