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...years past “heavy batting nines” have made it a “point” in making up their games to secure the privilege of selecting the ball, and having had balls special

...me help to new Origins diggers who were looking for search terms for local games that may have morphed into base ball.  We thought is those days to loo == List of Predecessor Games ==

...reful minute has been made of the direction of Anson's hits in the fifteen games played on the Chicago grounds this season. Out of 65 times at bat he has m

...played a game &nbsp;of "base ball" in Sept. 1853 against the Olympic. See games tabulation. They probably played under the MA rules, or variant. They pract ...all Club" has 60 members, who exercise on the Commons in the morning with "games of bat and ball."</p>

Several early bat-ball games bore resemblance to our modern baseball. These games (among them, Stool-ball, Pize-ball, Tut ball and Rounders) all featured str Alice Gomme, in her 1894 work on British games,1 writes that Rounders was generally played by boys, with one side (called

|Description=Bats for Longball and other early bat-ball games

...err, &ldquo;A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine

...The new rule governing these points will have a tendency to put a stop to games made long by wild pitching.</p>

...e some arrangement to bulletin on the grounds during the season reports of games, by innings, as they are played on the same day at other points. Cincinnat

...a legitimate account of the earliest, recorded at the time, baseball-type games. The influence for the play is likely British.</p><p>Halifax, Nova Scotia (

16. In playing all match games, when one is out, the side shall be considered out. 17. In playing all match games, one hundred tallies shall constitute the game, the making of which by eith

...mes. This device is intended not only to indicate the progress of distant games, but actually to be used at the opposite end of the ball field from the gra

|Entry Origin=Games Tab

...the practice of so many youth spending the very time of public worship in games &ndash; to say the least &ndash; only suitable to the gayest festival. It t

...re deadly weapons, have not forgotten the use of bat and ball, as the many games played by them during their three years service will prove.’ He proposed

|Title=reporting juvenile games ...e most pleasurable emotions, and we consider it our duty to encourage them games by every means in our power, even to the publication of the scores of their

...spaper articles about Staffordshire Customs, this one entitled “Children's Games, Pastimes and Amusements.” After a lengthy discussion of rounders, the wr

...her on the nine might have won the Baltimore one and perhaps both of those games.</p>

|Game=Bat-and-Ball ...the ardor with which the native youth of both sexes engage in the same old games which used to warm our blood not long since. There's good old bat and ball,

|Headline=Youth Ball Games Widespread at London Schools.