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|First Name=Eric |Location=Islip, NY

|State=NY ...not to be implicated.”)</p><p>(NYT (14): [long description])</p><p>(NDA: “In the great match between the Atlantics and Excelsiors, of Brooklyn, for the

|State=NY ...d Atlantic Clubs play their home and home match this afternoon at East New York. From the high reputation of these clubs the contest is likely to prove a m

...base ball played on ice skates occurred on in January 1861 near Rochester NY.&nbsp; Skating was very popular, and the hybrid game was played into the la ...ries were pitches, not throws; a dead ball was used and the bound rule was in effect.&nbsp; A ten-player team deployed a left shortstop and a right short

|State=NY ...itical movement n Columbia County did not remember that 'a balk is a base' in the children of a larger growth. When the frequent and flagrant outrages of

...bsp; &nbsp; "Hoboken and the Affluent New Yorker's Search for Recreation," New Jersey History, 95 (1977), pg, 133-44.</p> ...om Wikipedia Elysian Fields entry: horse track opened 1834; Knickerbockers first game June 19, 1846 (note that there is evidence of 37 prior games before th

|Headline=A Founder of the Gothams Remembers "First Ball Organization in the US" |State=NY

...bsp; &nbsp; "Hoboken and the Affluent New Yorker's Search for Recreation," New Jersey History, 95 (1977), pg, 133-44.</p> ...om Wikipedia Elysian Fields entry: horse track opened 1834; Knickerbockers first game June 19, 1846 (note that there is evidence of 37 prior games before th

...all games such as cricket and town ball, which featured 360 degree fields. In fact this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played thei ...question is: was Manhattan Island really devoid of open space for baseball in the 1840s and 1850s? Or was it instead because the open space was so far no

'''Email Discussion, Topic Two -- Why Were New Jersey's Elysian Fields Needed for Playing Space:''' ...all games such as cricket and town ball, which featured 360 degree fields. In fact this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played thei

...ntroduction on the current knowledge about the Elysian Fields and its role in base ball history.&nbsp; '''&nbsp;Available Playing Space in the 1840s and 1850s'''

|Related Pages=Chronology:Civil_War, Chronology, Ballplaying in Civil War Camps ...the Civil War (Millen 2001; Kirsch 2003)<ref>George B. Kirsch, <u>Baseball in Blue and Gray</u> (Princeton U., 2003); Patricia Millen, <u>From Pastime to

| <p>Green Mountain Boys (W)</p> <p>Olympic (L)</p> <p>(first match)</p> | <p>(1) “Exciting Game of Base Ball,” <i>New York Clipper,</i> vol. 4, no. 5 (24 May 1856), p. 35, col. 4</p>

|Location=Greater New York City, |State=NY

|Region=Greater New York City, 1861 - 1862 ...of nine players on a side, and of only five innings.  Other players joined in as some left, and more innings were played, but it was only a regular game

Version 1.0, posted 9/19/2014 -- ''Local-Origins Issue #1 – Uniforms in Early Base Ball'' ...ouis IL . . . I wonder if they ever played the Dirty Feet BBC of Rushville IN?) Craig’s group will be sorting through these bits, and producing images

|Region=New York State, Capital Area | <p>(1) “Ball Play: Base Ball,” <i>New York Clipper,</i> vol. 4, no. 13 (19 Jul 1856), p. 99, col. 4</p>

|Region=Greater New York City ...o Invented Baseball,</i> pp. 72-73</p> <p>(3) Zoss and Bowman, <i>Diamonds in the Rough,</i> p. 57</p>

...Abner Doubleday allegedly invented the game in the sleepy east central New York village of Cooperstown.</p> ...s march might have been fifteen miles, to locate a spot flat enough to get in the game. Clearly this game meant something more to Henry Dearborn and his