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- 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 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)