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- ...nd biscuits, and ran races for prizes while their elders indulged in round tag, base ball, and other popular games until dark.”</p>643 bytes (88 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...the elder ones indulged in various popular games, such as base ball, round tag, &c.”</p>588 bytes (81 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...eir arrival various diversions were entered into—cricket, baseball, French tag &c.”</p>649 bytes (87 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...a small town in eastern Cambridgeshire. A newspaper reported that “French tag, base, jolly miller, and other games were freely indulged in, and all prese685 bytes (97 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...Wood, Hertfordshire. A newspaper reported that “cricket, base ball, French tag, and other sports were engaged in till seven, when a start was made for hom690 bytes (99 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...arated for races and sweets, “the friends amused themselves with the round tag, baseball, Captain and round games, and had a lively and busy time of it ke705 bytes (102 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...l out-door games, such as cricket, football, base ball, drop glove, French tag, and other games, including croquet, were resorted to by those who delight731 bytes (101 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...lock till 4-30 various games including cricket, bass ball, captain, French tag, &c., were freely indulged in and thoroughly enjoyed.”</p>702 bytes (100 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...of a larger growth amused themselves and the bystanders by playing French tag, &c.”</p>705 bytes (106 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...and games were at once entered into, including cricket, base-ball, French tag, and many others too numerous to mention.”</p>757 bytes (110 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...hile others patronised Peter Cooley's cocoa nuts, &c. After dinner, French Tag, Base Ball, Cricket, and other games were indulged in.”</p>802 bytes (113 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...in running matches, foot ball, base ball, cricket, twos and threes, French tag, and other games) fully gratified their appetites.”</p>767 bytes (106 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...room to engage in all sorts of games, cricket, trap bat, base ball, French tag, and kiss-in-the-ring, were indulged in pretty freely.”</p>790 bytes (113 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...tors and elder children appeared to enjoy themselves immensely with French tag, ball-bias, the jolly miller, and other games, while many swings and see-sa854 bytes (127 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...sements of the day were swinging, base-ball, bat and trap, cricket, French tag, etc., but the chief attraction was ascending the monument.”</p>968 bytes (149 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...that way; and then there is something which looks much like 'quorum,' and 'tag' too . . . ."</p> ...iption search May 4, 2009. George sees the column as likely written by the newspaper's editor, James Jarves, who was born in Boston in 1818.</p>1 KB (185 words) - 18:19, 14 October 2015
- ...family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Boston newspaper published a letter from a Bostonian traveling in Rheims, France, about his ...venerable things, were playing all the very plays of my school-boy days, 'tag' and 'gould' and 'base ball' and 'fox and geese,' &c." </span></sp3 KB (376 words) - 16:53, 9 December 2015
- {{#ask: [[Category:Clippings]] | format=count }} 19th century newspaper clippings. {{#arrayprint: tags|,<nowiki> </nowiki>|@|[[Clipping:Tag @|@]] ({{#ask:[[Clipping Tags::@]]|format=count}})}}2 KB (324 words) - 15:11, 26 September 2023
- |Tags=Newspaper Coverage, Pre-modern Rules, ..."base" can refer to Prisoner's Base, a running game that seems to resemble tag. So too "goal" by itself.</span></p>3 KB (547 words) - 11:51, 20 January 2022
- ...was this a baserunning ball game, some version of prisoner's base (a team tag game resembling our childhood game Capture the Flag) with scoring, or what? ...re a couple of exceptions. I know of one English example from 1737 where a newspaper reported on a match of prison-bars between eleven men from the city of Ches7 KB (1,217 words) - 07:24, 28 February 2024