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- Baseball in its Adolescence + (2)
- 'Old Fashioned Base Ball' in Western New York, 1825-1860 + (2)
- Missionaries, Cartwright, and Spalding: The Development of Baseball in Nineteenth Century Hawaii + (2)
- The Baseball Fad in Chicago, 1865-1870 + (2)
- Henderson, Cartwright, and the 1953 US Congress + (2 (Fall 2014))
- The Origin and History of Baseball + (215)
- Baseball in the 19th Century + (3)
- The Celtic Claim to the Grand Old Game + (3)
- Rural Games in Libya + (3)
- Batter Up: Fort Wayne's Baseball History + (3)
- Baseball and Rounders + (4)
- The Ongoing Fable of Baseball + (4)
- Baseball's Age of Innocence + (4-5)
- Baseball in Illinois + (7)
- Baseball in the Seventeenth Century + (75-76)
- Some Cricket Records + (80)
- Most Wanted: Track Newly-Released Research Reports + (<p>Add new research findings to appropriate parts of the Protoball site.</p>)
- Most Wanted: Was it ever really "Ball nine, take your base?" + (<p>Are we misinterpreting the early base-on balls rule?</p>)
- Berber Base Ball in the Stone Age? + (<p>As recounted at http://protoball. … <p>As recounted at http://protoball.org/-3000c.1, 66 years ago an Italian researcher reported that Berbers in Libya were playing a two-base safe-haven game with several base-ball-like rules. He suggested that the game had come to Africa centuries earlier. It’s time to poke a bit at that conjecture. Is this the only claim for a base ball predecessor game in Africa? If it were a common pastime, shouldn’t we now have many additional sightings by now? Can we at least locate someone who might do some web searches in Arabic? Can we rule out the possibility that later forms of base ball were taught to locals, say 70 or 100 years ago?</p>locals, say 70 or 100 years ago?</p>)
- A Lingering Death for Old-Style Plugging? + (<p>Protoball Chronology Item [[1837.1]] … <p>Protoball Chronology Item [[1837.1]] reports that William Wheaton said that the plugging of base-runners had been outlawed in the late 1830s in New York. However, Henry Chadwick (item [[1850s.24]])reported that, nearly two decades later, some base ball clubs in Greater New York still retained the practice.</p>reater New York still retained the practice.</p>)
- Most Wanted: Contribute by adding new data on early ballplaying in your area + (<p>Protoball is undertaking to document the local origins of modern base ball -- and the baserunning games than may have preceded base ball -- throughout the US. </p>)
- Most Wanted: A Special Chronology for Early Female Play? + (<p>Protoball's <em>Chronology& … <p>Protoball's <em>Chronology</em> includes about 1500 key events in the evolution of base ball, but this far (2020) it has fewer than a dozen accounts of female play in the United States up to the Civil War. In contrast, there are nearly 30 cases of known female play in England for this period. </p></br><p> </p>lay in England for this period. </p> <p> </p>)
- Most Wanted: Was the 'Double Eight' Style of Base Ball Cover Invented in the United States? + (<p>The now-familiar single-seam base ball covering appears to have been introduced to base ballin about 1876 [?] Was it a new innovation, or had prior ballgames (real tennis, cricket, stoolball) already adopted the pattern in earlier days?</p>)
- Most Wanted: Support Host Chapters of SABR Conventions in Documenting Local Base Ball Origins + (<p>To support the presentation of lo … <p>To support the presentation of local origins of base ball in cities that will host Annual SABR Conventions, it may be useful to support local chapter members on available data on earliest base ball -- and local predecessor games -- for summary in Convention handouts, possibly including a article in the <em>National Pastime.</em> </p>in the <em>National Pastime.</em> </p>)
- Most Wanted: Adding Links to You-Tube-Style Clips on Baserunning Games + (<p>We have identified nearly 150 baseball varients. For many. YouTube clips show how such baserunning games are or were played. Such clips often convey a sense of the game that words alone cannot describe.</p>)
- Most Wanted: How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? + (<p>While base ball has long been seen as an American game, many of the modern game's earliest rules are known in juvenile games in Britain. Which of the Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>)
- Most Wanted: Locate Depictions of Less Well-Known Baserunning Games + (<p>YouTube and other sources have videos that help conveys the nature of various baseball-like games, including many listed on Protoball’s [[Glossary of Games]]. URLs cos such can be added to the Glossay entries.</p>)
- The Base Ball Convention of 1857 + (Fall 2013)
- The Young and the Restless: George Wright 1865-1868. + (Fall 2016)
- The Seventeenth Century Game of Cricket: A Reconstruction of the Game + (Number 20)
- Baseball in the Bronx, Before the Yankees + (Spring/Fall 2013)
- There is Nothing Now Heard of, in our Leisure Hours, But Ball, Ball, Ball + (The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture -- 1999 (McFarland, 2000), pp. 187-213.)
- Most Wanted: The Origins of the Hungarian game of Longa Meta + (We do not know if Hungarian game of "meta," a baserunning game, has been documented prior to 1945.)
- The First Baseball Game, the Newspaper References to Baseball, and the New York Club + (Winter)