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• In Lake Bluff in 1886  + (A picnc at Lake Bluff featured baseball.)
• In New Bedford in 1868  + (A picnic will feature "the game of wicket, just revived after having been almost forgotten for thirty years.")
• Hoina  + (A predecessor of Oina.)
• Upper Canada College Club of Toronto  + (A prep school)
• In Salisbury Circa 1845  + (A reminiscence of schoolboy days talks of playing "town ball" and prisoner's base during the lunch hour, and notes that town ball was the precursor of baseball.)
• In Charlestown in 1837  + (A report of "bass ball" at the McLean Asylum in Charlestown, MA, published in the Boston Messenger, March 9, 1837. See Chronologies 1838.9. This asylum for the insane was well known. This part of Charlestown became part of Somerville in 1842.)
• John Thorn's "Our Game" Blog Posts On Origins  + (A selection of John Thorn's ''"Our Game"'' blog posts that focus on origins-era topics)
• Spirit Letters From X, 1857-8  + (A series of 14 letters to the Spirit of the Times, from "X," October 1857- January 1858)
• Local-Origins Bibliography  + (A tabular listing of resources regarding a specific region of baseball origins)
• In Waltham in August 1857  + (A visitor sees a game of base ball in Waltham, with ex-Gov. N. P. Banks being one of the players)
• In Hartford in 1866  + (A wicket club, the Mercantile, has just been formed in Hartford, with S. G. Tracy as president)
• North Western Base Ball Club of Chicago  + (A year-end ball of this BBC is announced in the Tagliche Illinois Staats-Zeitung of Chicago, Oct. 22, 1860. From the names in the announcement, it appears this is a German-American club advertising in a German language Chicago newspaper.)
• In Canton in 1867  + (A young man of Canton was killed playing town ball recently, when he ran into a tree)
• Lux Club of Nashville  + (AKA Lucks, John Lucks)
• In Tyler Circa 1850  + (About 1847 to 1850 the principal amusement … About 1847 to 1850 the principal amusements were circuses which would travel through the country in wagons, exhibiting elephants, lions, tigers, rhinoceros, and other animals such as we see at the present time. There were no opera houses in Tyler in those days. Dances would be held, the cotillion, or square dance, being in vogue. Sometimes waltzing would be engaged in and card parties be given, euchre being the favorite game, as well as checkers. Games of marbles and town ball and horse racing were also some of the principal sports of the day.o some of the principal sports of the day.)
• Union soldiers v Union soldiers on 3 June 1863  + (According to a soldier of the 21st MA stationed at Mt. Sterling, on June 3, 1863, "A Grand Match Game of Base-Ball was played outside of town on the Ticktown Pike." June 12th saw another "grand match game of base-ball..." )
• Lincoln Boys v McClellan Boys on 8 October 1864  + (According to the Buffalo Courier, Oct. 10, 1864, the "Lincoln Boys" were losing after 4 innings so they quit and left)
• Sycamore Club of Milton v Club of Acton on 13 August 1870  + (Acton defeated Milton. No score provided)
• In Baltimore in 1804  + (Ad for a meeting of the Baltimore Union Cricket Club, to meet on Federal Hill)
• In Pittsburgh in 1830  + (Ad for a meeting of the cricket club in Allegheny)
• In Charleston in 1817  + (Ad for a meeting of the cricket club.)
• Athletic Club of Santa Barbara  + (Ad for the formation of this club, T. B. Curley, president, in the Santa Barbara Weekly Press, Dec. 19, 1868)
• In Philadelphia in 1822  + (Ad for trap ball playing in Philadelphia)
• Club of Streetsville  + (Ad seeking opponents. Streetsville is now a neighborhood in Mississauga.)
• Hunkidori Club of Adamsville  + (Adamsville in a part of Lansingburgh)

• 1854 Unified Kinickerbocker-Eagle-Gotham Rules  + (Adopted April 1, 1854)

• Rules of the Massachusetts Association of Base Ball Players  + (Adopted May 13, 1858 at Dedham, Massachusetts)
• The 20 Rules of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club  + (Adopted September 23, 1845)
• Adriatic Club of Newark v Pioneer Club of Orange on 14 November 1858  + (Adriatic 2nd nine)
• Maitland Club of Ainleyville  + (Ainleyville changed its name to Brussels in 1872)
• Union Club of Seaforth v Maitland Club of Ainleyville on 1 August 1870  + (Ainleyville won by 22 runs)
• Glendon Club of East Boston v Maverick Club of East Boston on 25 August 1860  + (Aka Maverick of the South End?)
• Metropolitan Club of Albany v Albany Club of Albany on 10 May 1860  + (Albany 2nd nine)
• In Chatham  + (Albert Dunavan, born 1812, while a schoolboy got a broken cheek while playing a game of "bull pen" with the school boys)
• Clifton Club of Brooklyn v Alert Club of Brooklyn on 7 July 1860  + (Alert 2nd nine)
• In Brooklyn in 1838  + (Alleged first cricket match in Brooklyn)
• Star Club of Morton  + (Allentown is to play the Morton Stars next week. Morton had 426 residents in 1880 and 657 in 1890.)
• Starlight Club of Jersey City v Amity Club of New York on 24 September 1858  + (Amity 2nd nine)
• Amity Club of Rahway v Excelsior Club of Rahway on 26 September 1860  + (Amity 2nd nine)
• Starlight Club of Jersey City v Amity Club of New York on 9 September 1858  + (Amity 2nd nine)
• In Windham in 1863  + (Amity Wicket Club of Windham Centre)
• In Providence in 1828  + (An 1828 newspaper article writes of a youth named Dick Hefferline who was so athletic he could "beat the beater at four old cat.")
• In Westfield in 1831  + (An 1831 letter says that at the Westfield … An 1831 letter says that at the Westfield Athenaeum (High School) they were "playing ball" Wednesdays and Saturdays, and the letter writer had a sore hand from the play.This is clearly a bat-ball reference, but we cannot be more exact as to the game. cannot be more exact as to the game. )
• In Mays Lick Circa 1796  + (An 1848 letter recalls as a school boy in Mayslick, KY, playing "that admirable game, a favorite of all country schools, corner ball.")
• In Pittsburgh Circa 1838  + (An 1883 reminisce of town ball played in Pittsburgh 45 years past is amazingly detailed. The game as described used paddles, not bats, with bases ("corners") 50 feet apart, and soaking.)
• In Newark Valley Circa 1838  + (An 1888 letter to the editor by D. William Patterson of Newark Valley, Tioga County, NY says he recalls 50 years ago the boys of the area played old cat.)
• In Montague in 1840  + (An 1895 history of Montague interviewed an old resident who claimed, when he was a youth, "to play round ball every Saturday afternoon." 13 a side, and he was the pitcher)
• In Tirana in 2024  + (An American church group is bringing baseball to Tirana, Albania in 2024. A "smugmug" set of photos, onlinbe, has Americans and natives playing baseball in Tirana on March 16, year unspecified but within a few years of 2024.)
• In Christchurch in 1864  + (An English cricket club toured NZ in early 1864, playing Otago, Dunedin, Christchurch and Canterbury.)
• Ballplaying in Civil War Camps  + (An Overview of an Enriched Data Base: NOTE -- This article was updated and re-cast by Bruce Allardice in 2018)
• In Cincinnati in 1856  + (An advertisement for the "Old Woodward Club" announces a meeting to arrange for the 'annual Oration, Foot, Town Ball Games and supper" to be held Sept. 5th. This is a club for Woodward College.)