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|Source=Baltimore American

...on that Barnie would never again be permitted to enter the councils of the American Association in any capacity. Necessity, especially base ball necessity, kn

|Headline=American Chapbook Reuses "Playing at Ball" Woodcut

|Text=<p>The American Association will probably approve of all the National League did in the way ...lding, of Chicago, is making strong appeals, by mail and in person, to the American Association delegates for the adoption of his pet “two substitutes” rul

|Sources=<p>Daily True American, 10/22/1866</p>

|Sources=<p>Daily True American, 7/17/1867</p>

...d unanimously decided to take no steps looking to an amalgamation with the American Association. Of course not. The amalgamation scheme was only a blind to t ...he certainly does not relish the prospect., quoting the Philadelphia North American</p>

|Text=<p>The Mirror of American Sports has suspended publication. The proprietors say it will appear again

...Once more there is a war cloud between the League and its humble ally, the American Association, due, as usual, to a slight imposed upon the junior organizatio ...can sign with a club of any other association until the other clubs of the American Association have waived all claims to his services and they are allowed ten

|Sources=<p>Daily True American, 9/29/1869</p>

|Sources=<p><span>William Wells Newell, </span><em>Games and Songs of American Children</em><span> </span>(New York: Dover [1963 reprint], 1883)<span>.,

|Sources=<p>Daily True American, 9/12/1866</p>

...nd he kept up his overhand throwing all through the game., quoting Chicago American Sports</p>

</p><p>Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Volume 38 (1914, page 290.

...game, August 26, he struck out seventeen men, which tops the record in the American Association. Sweeny has the League record with nineteen, and one-armed Dai

|Description=<p>An 1857 game of "American baseball" was played here, though the exact rules are doubtful.</p>

...as happy as if they had just witnessed a first-class marriage. Baltimore American August 26, 1872</p>

.... … The league cannot at such a crisis afford to lose its prestige to the American association, nor to endanger its own future, nor that of its members, and i

|Name=American Club of Newark

|Sources=American Standard, 8/19/1869