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• Twenty-One  + (<p>This game is a fungo game that en … <p>This game is a fungo game that enhances fielding skill. A batter hits a ball, fungo style, to a number of fielders. A fielder receives 7 points for a caught fly, 5 points for a ball caught on one bounce, 3 points for catching a bouncing ball, and 1 point for retrieving a ball at rest. Points are similarly lost for muffed balls. Fielders who amass 21 points become the batter. Another form of this game is [[<span class="toctext">Five Hundred]]</span>, which proceeds similarly.</p>[[<span class="toctext">Five Hundred]]</span>, which proceeds similarly.</p>)
• Swede Ball  + (<p>This game is mentioned, along wit … <p>This game is mentioned, along with Norwegian Ball in a 1908 book on North Dakota folkways. Said to be taught to local children by Swedish newcomers and a Swedish teacher, the game is only depicted as being “played somewhat like ‘one old cat.’” It seems conceivable that this game is related to Brannboll. Maigaard (1941) lists two Swedish variants for Long Ball.</p>1) lists two Swedish variants for Long Ball.</p>)
• Norwegian Ball  + (<p>This game is mentioned, along wit … <p>This game is mentioned, along with Swede Ball in a 1908 book on North Dakota folkways. Said to be taught to local children by Swedish newcomers and a Swedish teacher, the game is only depicted as being “played somewhat like ‘one old cat.’” It seems conceivable that this game is Brannboll. Maigaard (1941) notes a Norwegian form of Long Ball, noted as “probably recent,” that uniquely uses a field that resembles baseball’s use of a 90-degree fair territory delimitation.</p> of a 90-degree fair territory delimitation.</p>)
• Podex  + (<p>This game is modification of cric … <p>This game is modification of cricket evidently designed to expedite play, and is played at several English schools. Batters must run when they make contact with a bowled ball. Bowled balls can not hit the ground in front of the wicket, and a baseball bat is used instead of a flat cricket bat.</p>sed instead of a flat cricket bat.</p>)
• Strike-Out  + (<p>This game is most often seen as a … <p>This game is most often seen as a schoolyard game with from two to five players. A strike zone is drawn on a suitable wall, and a batter stands before it, attempting to hit a tennis ball, a rubber ball or another type of projectile. Baserunning is not usual. All other rules - for base advancement by imaginary runners, changing of batters, etc., seem flexible to circumstance. (Verification needed.)</p></br><p>As of Fall 2013, it is our preliminary impression that there are several local variants of strike-out, the name used in Central New York, and we group them together here under that name; they include [[PeeGee ball]] and [[Indian Ball]].</p></br><p> </p></br><p> </p></br><p> </p>[[Indian Ball]].</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>)
• Capital BBC of Springfield IL v Morgan BBC of Jacksonville on 11 October 1866  + (<p>This game is scheduled for "Friday afternoon next."</p>)
• Off the Stoop  + (<p>This game is the same as [[Off The Wall]] … <p>This game is the same as [[Off The Wall]], except ball is thrown off the front steps of the house.  If the ball goes over the head of the fielder and over the car parked on he near side of the street it is an out.  If the ball its the car, behind the fielder and stays on the same side of the street it is in play.</p></br><p><em>Skill points:</em>  [a] throw the ball of the point of the stoop to get a hard line drive at the feet of the fielder.  [b] throw ball across your body to obstruct the view of the ball coming at the fielder.</p>ruct the view of the ball coming at the fielder.</p>)
• Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 16 July 1847  + (<p>This game is undated but appears in the Knick books between the games of July 9 and July 23 (making a good educated guess to be that of July 16).</p> <p>the hand written score for Team A is 25 but a count of hash marks only equals 24.</p>)
• Rounders -- Hungary  + (<p>This game resembles contemporary … <p>This game resembles contemporary British rounders. The bases form a regular pentagon, a pitcher stands at its center, fly balls are outs, and there is plugging. A baserunner, however, could make plays on subsequent batter-runners as a member of the fielding team.</p>er-runners as a member of the fielding team.</p>)
• Danish Longball  + (<p>This game resembles other norther … <p>This game resembles other northern European safe-haven games like lapta.  Batters bat, then run to a single distant base, trying to return as later batters have their turns.</p></br><p>Some unique aspects of this game are that only one (good) pitch is allowed, and the batter runs whether the ball is hit or not; multiple runners can occupy the single base if they don't think they can reach home safely; once a runner leaves the runing base, he/she cannot return; fielders cannot run with the ball; a three-out-side-out rule obtains, except for the case of a caught fly, which immediately retires the in team; runners are out if tagged, or plugged below the knee.</p></br><p>This game is apparently played today in Canada and Australia.  The paper does not discuss the origins or history of the game.</p></br><p>For its origins, see David Block, <em>Baseball Before we Knew It</em> pp. 260-274.</p>see David Block, <em>Baseball Before we Knew It</em> pp. 260-274.</p>)
• Monticello Club of Charlottesville v Pastimes Club of Richmond on 2 July 1867  + (<p>This game was billed as being played for the state championship of Virginia.</p> <p>The Old Fairgrounds is at Monroe Park, near VCU.</p> <p>A "sweltering crowd of several thousand" was reported.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>)
• Eckford Club of Brooklyn v Constellation Club of Brooklyn on 18 June 1862  + (<p>This game was played between second nines and should not be reflected in the final NABBP standings for the year.</p>)
• Dutch Long  + (<p>This game, called “long out of da … <p>This game, called “long out of date” in an 1867 newspaper article, seemed to resemble Long Ball but with three bases. A “tosser” lofted the ball and a nearby batter hit it, then ran to a base [a “bye”] a few feet away, then to a second base 25-30 feet distant, then home. Completing this circuit before the ball was returned by fielders to the tosser gave the striker another turn at bat. The account does not say whether this was a team game, whether it employed plugging, or whether runners could elect to stay on base.  It seems possible that the adjective "dutch" indicated that the game came from Holland or Germany.</p> that the game came from Holland or Germany.</p>)
• German Baseball  + (<p>This game, described as an amalga … <p>This game, described as an amalgam of Baseball and traditional German Schlagball, was introduced in 1986 by Roland Naul in the context of a revival of Turner games for German youth. In the mid-1990s, a one-handed wooden bat was developed especially for the game. As of October 2009, we are uncertain how the two sets of rules were blended to make this new game. The author mentions that the fielding team can score points as well as the batting team.</p></br><p>From 2012 searches, it is not clear that this game is still played.</p>earches, it is not clear that this game is still played.</p>)
• Cora  + (<p>This game, encountered in Upper E … <p>This game, encountered in Upper Egypt in the 1850s, is briefly described: it is “played likewise with a ball; one tosses it, and another strikes it with his hand, and runs to certain limits, if he can, without being hit by a ‘fag’ who picks up the ball and throws in.”</p> ‘fag’ who picks up the ball and throws in.”</p>)
• Shut Out Reported as the First Ever; Excelsiors 25, St. George Nine 0  + (<p>This game, played on the St. Geor … <p>This game, played on the St. George grounds at Hoboken, occurred on November 8, 1860.</p></br><p>[A] "the score of the Excelsiors being 25 to nothing for their antagonists! This is the first match on record that has resulted in nine innings being played without each party making runs." It was the last game of the season for the Excelsiors, who played two "muffin" players and allowed St. George borrow a catcher [Harry Wright] from the Knickerbockers and a pitcher from the Putnams. </p></br><p>[B] "a match was played at Hoboken, between a picked nine of the St. George's Cricket Club -- players noted for their superior fielding qualifications as cricketers-- and nine of the well-known Excelsior Club, of South Brooklyn."</p></br><p><span>According to the WSOT article, the Excelsior lineup included Creighton as pitching and third batter, Brainerd at 2B, and Leggett as catcher. Mr. Welling of the Knickerbockers served as umpire.</span></p>atcher. Mr. Welling of the Knickerbockers served as umpire.</span></p>)
• PeeGee Ball  + (<p>This game, similar to the game kn … <p>This game, similar to the game known in other locations at [[strike-out]], involved the use of plastic  golf-ball-sized balls and regular baseball bats. </p></br><p>A batter stands before a wall marked with a strike zone and attempts to hit pitched PeeGee balls.  Balls hit to particular zones are counted as singles, doubles, etc., and imaginary runners advance to score runs.  There is no live baserunning or fielding in this pastime.</p></br><p> </p>his pastime.</p> <p> </p>)
• Over-the-Line  + (<p>This game[141] is described as a … <p>This game[141] is described as a reduced form of softball with no running (ghost runners determine when runs score) and soft tossing by a team-mate as pitching. Fair ground is defines by an acute angle much smaller than 90 degrees, and a line is drawn about 20 yards from home. Three or four players make up a team. Balls hit past the line and not caught on the fly are counted as singles, unless they pass the deepest fielder. A bobbled grounder is counted as Reached on Error. The game is played as a beach game in the San Diego area[142].  Pitches are gentle lobs. Peter Morris writes that this game is an offshoot of softball.</p>t this game is an offshoot of softball.</p>)
• Ripton Club of Lowell  + (<p>This has no connection to the hoax town of Ripton MA, invented in 1985 to mock the ignorance of state government bureaucrats--who had allocated funds to the non-existent town.</p>)
• Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 17 June 1846  + (<p>This intra-club game was between … <p>This intra-club game was between the "Black" and the "White" squads of the team.  Interestingly, before "White" had been written down, the book listed the opponent as "New York," but it was scratched out.  This evidence indicates that the famous "first game" between the Knicks and New York Ball Club (formerly the Gothams) was scheduled to take place two days before it ultimately happened. However, mitigating all of this is the fact that the game does not appear until the very end of the first volume, after the 1849 season, when a number of other games from the 1846 and 1847 seasons are also recorded.  It is uncertain as to why these games appear out of order.</p>se games appear out of order.</p>)
• Union Club of East Pembroke v Union Club of East Pembroke in August 1858  + (<p>This intramural game (marrieds 49 … <p>This intramural game (marrieds 49, singles 52) appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by the Batavia Herald and then by Porter's Spirit on August 28, 1858.</p></br><p>East Pembroke NY is about 30 miles E of Buffalo, and within 10 miles of Batavia.</p>t 30 miles E of Buffalo, and within 10 miles of Batavia.</p>)
• Club of Canandaigua v Club of Canandaigua on 20 July 1859  + (<p>This intramural game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was covered by the Rochester Union and Advertiser on July 21, 1859.</p> <p>Canandaigua is about 25 miles SE of Rochester NY.</p>)
• Priam Club of Troy v Priam Club of Troy on 30 August 1859  + (<p>This intramural game appears on t … <p>This intramural game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation (NYS Capital Area Table) compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by the Troy Daily Whig, August 27, 31, 1859. The article stated that the game was played under the rules of the Gotham Club of NYC.</p></br><p>President Greene's side 51, other side 12.</p>> <p>President Greene's side 51, other side 12.</p>)
• Matball (Big Base)  + (<p>This invented game, an invented f … <p>This invented game, an invented form of Kick Ball, is an indoor game reportedly played in many US schools. It uses large mats instead of bases, and multiple runners can safely occupy a base. The standard format uses an all-out-side-out rule to define a half-inning, can involve large teams, can have areas (e.g., a scoreboard or a basketball hoop) for designated home runs, a fly rule, tagging, and scoring only when a runner passes home and successfully returns to first base. Some schools use the infield format of Massachusetts base ball - the striker hits from between the first and fourth base. Foul territory varies, but forward hits are required.</p>itory varies, but forward hits are required.</p>)
• Empire Club II of Jersey City  + (<p>This is a different team than the 1865 Empire Club of Jersey City</p>)

• Aetna Club II of Jersey City  + (<p>This is different from the 1861 Aetna club.</p>)

• Club of West Boylston  + (<p>This is probably the Beaman Club of West Bolyston, which published its club constitution in 1858.</p>)
• Club of Big Patch  + (<p>This is probably the Eagle Club of Big Patch. See the Lancaster <em>Grant County Herald</em>, July 7, 1868</p>)
• Club of Cannon Falls  + (<p>This is probably the Union Club of Cannon Falls</p>)
• Kaiserball  + (<p>This is reported to be the local name for schlagball as played in Austria.  Another name was "Imperial ball."</p>)
• Massachusetts Game  + (<p>This is the game played according … <p>This is the game played according to rules that were codified in May 1858 in Dedham Massachusetts. It featured short basepaths, an absence of foul ground, plugging of runners, a smaller and softer and lighter ball, wooden stakes in place of sascks as bases,winners definied as the first team to reach 100 “tallies,” and a one-out-side-out rule. It remains unclear how close these rules -- written 13 years after the Knickerbocker rules were codified -- were to round ball, goal ball, and/or base games played in MA for the previous 50-75 years.</p></br><p>The Massachusetts Game declined fairly rapidly after 1860.</p>rapidly after 1860.</p>)
• Wide Awake Club of Oxford  + (<p>This may be the Oxford BBC mentioned in the Worcester <em>Massachusetts Spy</em>, Sept. 11, 1868</p>)
• Cumberland Valley Club of Mechanicsburg  + (<p>This may be the club of the Cumberland Valley Institute. See Waynesboro <em>Village Record</em>, May 28, 1869</p>)
• Minnehaha Base Ball Club of Northfield  + (<p>This paper gives an recap of the … <p>This paper gives an recap of the game played the previous Saturday (June 20) in Faribault between the Minnehaha Base Ball Club of Northfield and the Seabury Club of Faribault. The score was 71-59 in favor of the Minnehahas.</p></br><p>This may not have been the first game for either club, but considering the score, neither club probably had much practice or game experience in 1868 or earlier.</p></br><p>Northfield MN (1880 pop. about 2,300) is about 40 miles S of Minneapolis.</p>field MN (1880 pop. about 2,300) is about 40 miles S of Minneapolis.</p>)
• Marx's Park  + (<p>This park is described as being a … <p>This park is described as being at the southern edge of town in 1866. Sam Marx and the Marx family (bankers) owner land here. It is described as on the Petersburg Turnpike, about a mile from Mayo's Bridge, and within a few hundred yards of the residence of Henry T. Drewry. Looking at the map, this would place it at around I-95 (the modern Petersburg Turnpike) and Maury Avenue.</p>odern Petersburg Turnpike) and Maury Avenue.</p>)
• Union Club of Minneapolis2  + (<p>This recently organized club  was … <p>This recently organized club  was defeated by the Minneapolis Club 76-48. Minneapolis Tribune, June 21, 1868</p></br><p>This club won the "state championship" in 1870, by defeating the Saxons of St Paul 55-30 and 27-25. Minneapolis Tribune, May 21, 28, June 14, 1870.</p>inneapolis Tribune, May 21, 28, June 14, 1870.</p>)
• Club of Lime Springs  + (<p>This report has a box score of a … <p>This report has a box score of a game played against the Hawkeye of New Oregon. New Oregon is a township in Howard County, Iowa.</p></br><p>The newspaper mentions 1868 Excelsior,  Silver Grey and Achilles BBCs, but isn't clear as to which town these clubs are from.</p> isn't clear as to which town these clubs are from.</p>)
• Ironsides Club of New Bedford v Ironsides Club of New Bedford on 25 March 1859  + (<p>This team had a weekly game. See New Bedford Evening Standard, March 24, March 31, April 6, May 3, May 31, June 6, 1859</p>)
• Monitor Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>This was a "colored" club.</p> <p>Tholkes RIM has a Monitor Club of Brooklyn in 1865</p> <p>Brunson, "Black Baseball" says this club started in 1862</p>)
• Camp Douglas  + (<p>This was a Civil War training and … <p>This was a Civil War training and POW camp located between Cottage Grove Avenue and present-day Martin Luther King Drive, between present-day East 31st Street and East 33rd Place (then College Place).<span> It was established in 1861.</span> <span>The Excelsiors, Jr., "Comet" and "Eastman" clubs, among others, played there postwar. Confederate POWs played while the war was still going on.</span></p>nfederate POWs played while the war was still going on.</span></p>)
• Golden Stars Club of Manhattan  + (<p>This was a colored club.</p>)
• Young Americas Club of Manhattan  + (<p>This was a colored club.</p>)
• Eckford Club of Brooklyn v Eagle Base Ball Club of New York on 30 September 1862  + (<p>This was a game between second nines and should not be counted in the final NABBP standings.</p>)
• Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Eckford Club of Brooklyn on 14 August 1862  + (<p>This was a match between second nines and should not be counted in the final NABBP standings.</p>)
• Eckford Club of Brooklyn v Atlantic Club of Brooklyn on 31 October 1862  + (<p>This was a match between second nines and should not be counted in the final NABBP standings.</p>)
• National Club of Oswego v Picked nine from Falley Seminary and Ontario BBC on 27 September 1865  + (<p>This was a match for a silver bal … <p>This was a match for a silver ball trophy to be awarded by the Agricultural Society in Oswego County, NY. The Nationals issued a challenge, which was taken up by the team from Falley Seminary in Fulton and the Ontario BBC, and the two teams formed a picked nine. With the picked nine victorious, the Falley and Ontario teams held a playoff for the trophy on May 19, 1866. Falley won, and was awarded the silver ball; it is now at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. </p>eball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. </p>)
• Falley Seminary v Ontario Base Ball Club on 19 May 1866  + (<p>This was a playoff match for a si … <p>This was a playoff match for a silver ball trophy to be awarded by the Agricultural Society in Oswego County, NY. Previously, on September 27, 1865, a picked nine composed of players from the two teams had defeated the National BBC of Oswego, NY. The teams therefore played this game for the trophy. The Falley team was victorious and was awarded the silver ball, which is now held by the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y.</p>e Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y.</p>)
• University of Washington Club of Seattle  + (<p>This was an amateur team comprise … <p>This was an amateur team comprised of players from the University of Washington. They organized to play the Victoria Independents for Queen Victoria's birthday and then later played other teams, such as Newcastle.</p></br><p>Article Transcription:</p></br><p>THE VICTORIA CELEBRATION, Victoria, B. C., May 24, 1882 Our cousins were assembled at the public park at Beacon Hill at 9:30 to witness a match game of baseball by the University nine, of Seattle, and the Independent nine of Victoria. Score: Seattle 18, Victoria 12.</p></br><p>Closed at noon. The Beacon Hill battery fired several salutes that were responded to by U. S. revenue cutter Wolcott, Capt. Stodder, in honor of Queen Victoria, the sovereign to whom her people delight to do homaged. The Amateur brass band led out to the park and return; also played a few national airs at intervals. Beacon Hill has beautiful surroundings- a fine view of the straits of San Juan de Fuca, of the Olympic range of snow-capped hills, San Juan island, Dungeness, Port Angeles and Race Rocks light houses; also the city, the Cathedral, the Governor's residence, Cedar Hill, Snook Hills, Mt. Baker, Mt. Tolmie, Mt. Baker and the hills beyond Victoria. The park is a native prarie, with a few low scrub oaks. The base is granite, with a few boulders on the surface. There is a race track one mile in circumference around the park. Beacon Hill in the centre.</p></br><p>In the hill caves have been made ages ago, by unknown races, stone and bone implements have been taken out. These places are now covered filled with earth. The park has six 64 lb guns, three 3 in. and one 8 in. gun, that were placed here in the time of the Russian scare of '78. These guns command the roadstead entering the harbor. The park is free for everybody, for picnics, base ball, or trotting horses. The city schools come here for recreation Saturdays. It is used for any public doings, and for private pleasure parties and riding around the park. The sports on the water consisted of double scull races, races of Chinook canoes manned by 12 Indians each, all fitted out in their war paint; single scull races in shells; double sculls; naval whalers race; four-oared race; canoe race for Northern Indians; naval dingy race; four oared race for youths; ladies' dingy race; walking the greased pole; etc. In the evening the Independent Base Ball Club entertained their American cousins, the University boys, in their accustomed whole-souled and gorgeous manner at the Pacific Telegraph Hotel, where an elegant banquet was spread.</p></br><p>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:</p></br><p>The University 'nine' is mentioned in a January 1931 newspaper article in the Seattle Times concerning Harry Jacobs, their pitcher, as being the first Puget Sounder to throw a curveball. This recollection is later challenged in a February 1931 recollection by members of the Seattle Alki's that a Jim Fairburn was 'hired' by Newcastle to be their pitcher, and that he was the first to throw a curve.</p>Alki's that a Jim Fairburn was 'hired' by Newcastle to be their pitcher, and that he was the first to throw a curve.</p>)
• Club of Kingsville Academy  + (<p>This was the Rocket Club.</p>)
• Preston v Derby in Preston on 21 June 1890  + (<p>This was the first ever game in England (and in Britain) in a structured domestic competition. It was the only match completed on Opening Day of Britain's pro baseball league of 1890. </p>)
• Grounds north of the Texas Capitol Bldg.  + (<p>This was the site of the 1859 game. Also the grounds of the Capitol BBC. See Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 3, Nov. 25, 1873</p>)