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...German advocate of physical education, devotes a chapter of his survey of games to "Ball mit Freystaten (oder das Englische Base-ball)" that is, Ball with ...an>. This roughly translates as: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Games for the Exercise and Recreation of Body and Spirit for the Youth and His Ed

|Game=Games of bat and ball ...;c. . . . [w]e wrestled and ran, played at quoits, at cricket, and various games of bat and ball, whose names perhaps are obsolete." </p><p><br /> </p><p>Si

...l Tavern," where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."</p>

...Protoball's&nbsp;<em>Glossary of Games</em> includes many &nbsp;nonrunning games in which the ball (or cat, or other object) is put in play by a batter who |Sources=<p><span>Culin, S. (1891). "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn." <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal of

|Text=<p>There will be two umpires in the great games this fall between the League and Association pennant winners for the champi

...laying:&nbsp;&ldquo;It is the purpose of this book to show that all modern games played with bat and ball descend from one common source: an ancient fertili ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], page 4.</p>

...the Covington being fifteen ahead and two innings to play [all tournament games were five innings due to time constraints]. The game will probably be finis

|Text=<p>The posters for advertising the league games of 1882 are gorgeous affairs. They are about two and one-half feet in widt

...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], page 19; the image itself is reproduced oppo

...Knickerbocker, Eagle and Gotham clubs. Chadwick was always present at the games, sitting on the benches, invariably carrying an umbrella under his arm. Th

|Text=<p>"Town-ball is one of the old games from which the scientific but not half so amusing "national game" of base-b ...story about boys tarrying at recess, and can be dated 1845-1850. In other games, a "cross-out" denotes the retiring of a runner by throwing the ball across

|Block Data=<p>“Ball-bias” was one of the games enjoyed by 200 children at the annual treat for students of the Wesleyan Ch

|Headline=Vicar of Winkfield Advises Against Bat/Ball Games in Churchyards; First Stoolball Reference? ...instructions to parish priests, advising them to forbid the playing of all games of ball in churchyards: "Bats and bares and suche play/Out of chyrche-yorde

...ways. Among the most popular methods employed in the playing of burlesque games of base ball. The bases are marked in the gymnasium as the regular diamond

<p>"Long Ball"&nbsp; is generally known as a baserunning bat-and-ball game in Europe.&nbsp; However, Steven Katz (email of 2/5/2021) notes that, <p>Do we know know if this and other fungo style batting games were known elsewhere in the US?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

...that anybody can field reasonably well, but that batting is what wins the games. … Let the members of the nine practice at the bat to the exclusion of f

|Text=<p>"Other forms of bat and ball games, like trap-ball and stool-ball, became well established in Louisville in th

...e, and for the crowd’s applause less; and they would then help to win more games than was done last season.</p>

...possible that the term was used for diverse variations of local safe-haven games in other areas.</p> <p>One might speculate that later still, such games would be thought of as &ldquo;town ball.&rdquo;</p>

...ll [p. 28], Northern Spell [p. 33] and Trap, Bat, and Ball [p 33]. The cat games and barn ball and town ball are not listed. In feeder, the ball is served f