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|Headline=Boston-Style "Bat and Ball" Seen in Honolulu HI |Game=Bat and Ball

|Type of Date=Day |Title=practice games are useless

|Headline=Base Ball Recalled as Very Popular at Exeter |Game=Base Ball

|Term=Trounce-Ball ...version of [[Trap Ball]], but with a hole for the trap and a cudgel for a bat.</p>

<p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 161-162. No reference given.</p>

|Headline=Sports at Exeter Academy include "Old-Fashioned Bat and Ball". . . and Football |Game=Bat-and-Ball,Football

|Headline=Harvard Man Recalls Cricket, "Various Games of Bat and Ball" on Campus |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

|Type of Date=Day ...nt of which appears to consist in sending a hard wooden ball into the face of every stray passenger they can hit...”</p>

|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective |Age of Players=Adult

|Type of Date=Day ...any number of pitchers who deliver the ball illegally in games every day, and it is seldom indeed that umpires interfere.</p>

...ith each out, until they become one of two batters. “An ordinary base-ball bat is used.”</p> |Sources=<p><span>Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn<span>, N.Y.." pages 231-232.</span></p>

|Type of Date=Year |Number of Players=

|Text=<p>Lee was made an honorary member of the Knickerbocker Club in 1846, when he made this observation.</p> <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 150. No ref given. Also referenced in Pe

...n), Corkball (St. Louis), 500, Half-ball, Indian Ball (MO), Sky Ball (CT), and Tip-Cat.</p> ...ngoes balls to a set of fielders. A fielder who first catches a set number of balls on the fly becomes the batter.</p>

|Headline=Town-ball in IN Later [and Vaguely?] Recalled |Game=Town Ball,

|Type of Date=Day ...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p>

|Headline=Gutsmuths describes [in German, yet] "Englische Base-Ball" |Game=English Base-Ball

|Type of Date=Day ...<p>[Philadelphia vs. Baltimore 7/29/1874] Hicks...after waiting for a good ball, hit a vicious “fair foul” for two bases. New York Clipper August 8, 1

|Headline=Vicar of Winkfield Advises Against Bat/Ball Games in Churchyards; First Stoolball Reference? ...ng of all games of ball in churchyards: "Bats and bares and suche play/Out of chyrche-yorde put away."</p>

|Headline=Historian Cites "Club-ball" ...to "club-ball" than Strutt's. It is James Pettit Andrews, <u>The History of Great Britain</u> (Cadell, London, 1794.), page 438. Email from David, 2/2