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Boston, Other Towns Eye "First-Class Professional Nines" Like the Red Stockings
+Boston-Style "Bat and Ball" Seen in Honolulu HI
+Box Score Shows D Company Over H Company, 40-15
+Boy Plays Chermany and Prisoner's Base in Petersburg
+Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME
+Boys Play Bat Ball in New Orleans
+Boys Play goal and ball
+Boys and Girls Play Old Cat at Recess in Wisconsin
+Brighton Women Play Stool Ball Despite Weather, Forego Merry Dance
+Brimmed Uniform Caps Introduced
+Bristol CT Bests Waterbury in Wicket
+Britannica: Stickball Dates to Late 18<sup>th</sup> Century?
+British Base Ball Tour Is Planned
+British Book Shows Several Safe-Haven Games - Cricket, Rounders, Feeder, Nine Holes, Doutee Stool, and Stoolball
+British Children's Book Includes Scene of "Trap and Ball"
+British POWs Linger in Colonies -- Did They Help Sew Base Ball's Seeds?
+British Paper Snitches on Ringer Playing on a County Cricket Club
+British Science Text Uses "Base-ball" Heuristic Example
+British Soldiers Seek Amusements, Rebels Yawn
+British Sports Anthology Shows Evolved Rounders, Other Safe Haven Games
+British Trade Unionists Play Base Ball
+Brooklyn 22, New York 1: The First-Ever "Modern" Base Ball Match?
+Brooklyn BBC Established, May Become "Crack Club of County?"
+Brooklyn Games Organized as Benefits for Sick and Wounded Soldiers
+Brooklyn Soldiers Play Ball “in Seccesia”
+Brooklyn Youth "Mistook Another Youth for a Ball," Riot Ensues
+Brooklyn and New York to Go Again in Hoboken
+Brooklyn's Base Ballists and Cricketers Are Among the Thankful
+Brooklyn's First Cricket Match?
+Brooklynite Takes A Census - There Are 59 Junior Clubs in Brooklyn
+Brooklynites and Philadelphians Play Series of Games
+Brown U Student Reports "Play at Ball"
+Bruegel's "Corn Harvest" Painting Shows Meadow Ballgame
+Buckeye BBC Forms in Cincinnati OH
+Buffalo Editor on NY Game - "Child's Play"
+Buffalo NY Council and "Playing at Ball"
+Buffalo NY Feels Spring Fever, Expects Many New BB Clubs
+Buffalo NY Sees its First Club
+Buffalo base ball club sticks to "old-fashioned" game
+Burlesque Baseball Performances in Baltimore, MD
+Buzz For Fly Game Begins
+CSA Prisoners Said to Learn Base Ball from “New Orleans Boys”
+CT Boy "Played Base Ball til Noon"
+CT Boys Play Ball on March to Fredericksburg
+CT Lad Plays Base Ball Much of the Morning
+CT Man Reports 13-on-8 games, Asks for Some Rules
+CT State Wicket Championship Attracts 4000
+CT Wicketers Trounce CT Cricketers at Wicket
+CT and MA Teams Match Up for Five Games of Wicket
+CT soldiers indulging in ball playing and swimming
+California Clubs Hold Conventions, View Championship Games
+Calls for an American National Game
+Canadian Baseball Association Forms
+Canterbury Stoolballer Bloodies Pious Critic
+Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc.
+Careful Scorer Starts "Complete Lists" of the Yearly Grand Cricket Matches
+Carlisle PA Bans Playing Ball
+Carver's <u>The Book of Sports</u> [Boston] describes "Base, or Goal Ball"
+Cat and Trap-ball Seen as Boys' Games [The Men Play Foot-ball]
+Cat, Town and Corner Ball recalled in Pittston
+Catcher Felled by Bat-Stick
+Cause of Death: "Surfeit of Playing Ball"
+Cavalry Plays Baseball near Manassas
+Cavalry Unit Challenges the 2nd Corps
+Cavalry defeats Infantry in VA
+Central Park a Boon to National Prowess in Base Ball, Cricket, Etc.
+Chadwick Agrees: The Parent of Base Ball is Two-Old-Cat . . . Not English Rounders, After All?
+Chadwick Criticizes Playing the National Pastime for Money
+Chadwick Explains Rule Shifts on Called Strikes, Deliberate Flubs Afield
+Chadwick Foresees Amateur Base Ball's "Revival"
+Chadwick Ponders Red Stockings' Decline: Lack of Onfield Harmony?
+Chadwick Wants to Start Richmond VA Team, but the Civil War Intervenes
+Chadwick [Later] Reports That "The New York Club" is Organized
+Chadwick on the Evils of Betting
+Chadwick's Beadle's Appears, and the Baseball Literature is Launched
+Challenge Match Played Among Manchester Printers on Fast Day
+Challenge to a game of Two Old Cat
+Challenges for Cricket Matches between Englishmen and Americans
+Chapbook Gives "Papa's Advice:" Don't Play During Study Hours!
+Chapbook Illustrates Trap-ball
+Chapbook Includes Engraving Depicting Trap-Ball
+Chapbook Reprises Illustration from Contemporary Book.
+Chapbook Shows Baseball-like Game Under "Trap-ball" Heading
+Chapbook Shows a Ball Game, Recycles the "Butter Fingers" Lines
+Chapbook of Games: "Now a Knock, and Swift it Flies"
+Chapbook: Trap Ball and Cricket and Windows Don't Mix
+Chaplain Reports Many Games of Ball in 16th New York
+Character in Fictional Autobiography Played Cricket, Base-Ball
+Charleston Newspaper Urges Cricket to help "Physical Education"
+Chicago Club Expires A Month After Great Chicago Fire
+Chicago Marine Plays Base Ball in Louisiana
+Chicago Switches to the Dead Ball, Starts Winning Again
+Chicago artillerist plays baseball in Baton Rouge, earns $5
+Chichester Redesigns the Base
+Children's Book Calls Cricket "Noblest Game of All," and Trap-ball is Pleasing Too
+Children's Book Describes Trap Ball and its Benefits
+Children's Book Recommends Regular Play with "Trap, Bat, Ball," etc.
+Children's Poem Traces Bouncing Ball
+Children's Story Includes Promise to Provide Bats and Balls
+Christian Visitor to Indiana Commune Unimpressed with Sunday Ballplaying There
+Christmas Baseball in Camp
+Christmas Bash Includes "Good Old Fashioned Game of Baseball"
+Christmas Day on Hilton Head
+Christopher Columbus and the Coefficient of Restitution
+Cincinnati Club Forms as First All-Professional Nine
+Cincinnati Club Introduces 50-cent Admission Fee
+Claim: Cartwright Laid First Base Ball Field in Hawaii, Taught Baseball Widely
+Clerks Take on Clerks in Albany, Field 16-Player Teams
+Cleveland OH Bans "Any Game of Ball"
+Cleveland's NA Club Dissolves; League Financial Incentives to Blame?
+Clevelanders Play Ball at Sunset on Water Street
+Clipper Article Favors A Bare Alley Between Pitcher and Catcher
+Clipper Backs Off Fly Game Support
+Clipper Editor: NYC Now Has Five Clubs "in Good Condition"
+Clone of 1841 Book Covering Rounders and Feeder Appears
+Club Claims County Championship in MA
+Club Forms at College of New Jersey
+Club Organized in St. Louis MO
+Clubs Form in New Orleans LA, Interclub Play Begins
+Col. Jas. Lee Recalls Playing Baseball as a Youth.
+College Prez Was a Klutz at Ball and Cricket
+Collegiate Game [the First Played by NY Rules?] in NYC
+Colonel calls off drill so game can be played
+Colored Clubs Play in Philly: Frederick Douglass Attends a Game
+Colored Union Club Beats Unknowns, 33-24, in Brooklyn
+Compendium Describes [Pentagonal] 5-Base Rounders, Feeder
+Competitive "Old-Fashioned" Game Still Alive in Syracuse NY
+Competitive Base Ball Suddenly Fills NY Metropolitan Area
+Confederate Base Ball Players Finds Field "Too Boggy" in VA
+Confederate Base Ball Players Finds Field “Too Boggy” in VA
+Confederate Cavalry plays ball in WVA
+Confederate Major pitches Town Ball
+Confederate POWs in Indianapolis play base ball
+Confederate POWs play baseball at Rock Island
+Confederate POWs play baseball in New York City
+Confederate Prisoners Play Ball in Chicago
+Confederate Prisoners Play Bull Pen at Fort Warren
+Confederate Soldier Reports “Several Kinds of Ball”
+Confederate Soldier's Diary Reports on Town Ball Playing, 1861-1863
+Confederate Soldier’s Diary Reports on Town Ball Playing, 1861-1863
+Confederate Surgeon encourages ball-playing
+Confederate government clerks should play ball
+Confederate soldiers in need of base ball and cricket bats
+Confederate soldiers play ball near Fredericksburg
+Confederates Play Ball at Fort Sumter
+Conservative Protestants Decry Sunday Play, See Grave Danger in it
+Convention of "colored" clubs in New Orleans
+Cooper Novel <u>Home as Found</u> Mentions Ballplaying in Cooperstown
+Cooperstown NY Bans Downtown Ballplaying Near Future Site of HOF
+Correspondent Sees Playing Base Ball and Cricket As Common Pastimes
+County-wide Wicket Challenge Issued Near Rochester NY
+Coup d'grace for the Amateur Era
+Cover of Chapbook Shows Boys Playing Ball
+Cover of Children's Book Depicts Ball Play
+Cover of Widespread <u>School Reader</u> Shows Two Boys Playing Ball
+Creation Wars Begin! English Author Takes on Strutt Theories on the Origins of Cricket and "Bat-and-Ball"
+Creighton Analyzed-- Is He Cheating?
+Cricket "The Great Match at Hoboken" [US vs. Canada]
+Cricket Allows Species of Round-Arm Bowling
+Cricket Along the Erie Canal
+Cricket Ball Whacks School Prexy in the Head
+Cricket Balls Advertised in US by James Rivington
+Cricket Becoming "The National Game" in US: "Considerable Progress" Seen
+Cricket Challenge in GA
+Cricket Club Formed in San Francisco
+Cricket Club Forms, Lasts a Year in NYC
+Cricket Club To Play at New York Tavern
+Cricket Club formed in Savannah, GA in 1859
+Cricket Club in Philadelphia, "Young America CC," Started for US-Born Only
+Cricket Clubs Form in Upstate NY
+Cricket Clubs, "Other Ball Clubs" Welcomed at Philadelphia PA Facility
+Cricket Crowd is Eyed Nervously as Possibly Seditious
+Cricket Flourishes at Haverford College PA
+Cricket Forerunner an "Unlawful Game?"
+Cricket Game To Be Played at Cannon's Tavern, New York City
+Cricket Gets Improved Wicket - A Third Stump Added
+Cricket Lore: Ball Kills the Prince of Wales, Pretty Slowly
+Cricket Match Scheduled for the Green, Near Shipyards,
+Cricket Match in Hawaii
+Cricket No Longer Played Only With Rolled Deliveries to Batsmen
+Cricket Not New in South Carolina
+Cricket Outshines Base Ball in Press Coverage
+Cricket Pitch Thought to be Established at 22 Yards
+Cricket Play Begins at Haverford College
+Cricket Play at Eton Seen as Common
+Cricket Played On Grounds near NYC's Brooklyn Ferry.
+Cricket Played at Southern Outings
+Cricket Played in Georgia Town Square
+Cricket Plays Catch-up; Plans a National Convention
+Cricket Prohibited On or Near English Highways, We <i>Mean</i> It
+Cricket Reaches Australia
+Cricket Reaches Tasmania
+Cricket Reported in Louisville KY?
+Cricket Rules Adjusted - Visitors Bat First, LBW Added
+Cricket Rules Revised a Little
+Cricket Stories in the May 23 <u>Clipper</u>
+Cricket To Be Played Near NYC Shipyards
+Cricket [or Maybe Wicket?] Played by Harvard Class of 1841
+Cricket [or Wicket?] Challenge in CT
+Cricket a "Popular Recreation" in Sydney
+Cricket and Base and Football at Harvard?
+Cricket and Bass Long Played in Pittsfield MA
+Cricket and Town Ball Recalled in Philadelphia PA
+Cricket as Played in Hamburg Resembled the U.S. Game of Wicket?
+Cricket in Kent; Londoners Beat Kent Eleven, But Two Are Konked Out
+Cricket in Madison, Wisconsin
+Cricket is Gradually "Cleaned Up;" Club Play Strengthens
+Cricket reaches Galena Illinois
+Cricket's First County Match?
+Cricket's First Wicket is Pitched
+Cricket, Long After Reaching Tazmania, Gets Past Hadrian's Wall
+Cricketer Experiments with Round-Arm Bowling
+Cricketers Form All England Eleven
+Cromwellians Needlessly Ban Cricket from Ireland
+Crowd of 40,000 Said to Watch Christmas Day Game on SC Coast
+Cummings' Curve Curtails Crimson's Clouting
+Curate Can't Beat the Rap as Cricketer
+Curling is "Bass Ball," or "Goal," or "Hook-em-Snivy," on the Ice?
+DC Cavalry play in camp
+Daily Base Ball Games Found in Public Square in Cleveland
+Daily Eagle Sees Base Ball Now Played Throughout US North (East of the Mississippi)
+Daniel Webster Writes of "Playing Ball" While at Dartmouth
+Dartmouth College Fine for Ballplay - Two Shillings
+Dartmouth President Finds Gardening "More Useful" Than Ballplaying
+Daybreak Club Forms in Providence RI
+Debra Shattuck lists early female base ball
+Deerfield's Fine for Playing Ball: Six Cents
+Delaware Resident Writes of Playing Trap Ball, with Cider as Reward
+Delhi NY bans Goal, Ball
+Deliberate Bad Pitches Noted
+Demo Game of Wicket, Seen as a CT Game, Later Played in Brooklyn
+Detachment Forms BB Club in Trenton
+Devotion to MA Game Erodes Significantly
+Diana Base Ball Club of Northwestern Female Seminary
+Diarist Records 12 References to Ball-Playing, 1863-1864
+Diarist at White Oak Church Camp in VA Plays Ball
+Diarist in 8th Minnesota Mentions Ballplaying 4 Times – Maybe 5 Times
+Dickens Names Cricket, but not Stoolball or Rounders, Among "Merriest" Games
+Did Cartwright Play Ball on His Way to California?
+Didactic Novel Pairs "Bass-Ball" and Rounders at Youths' Outing
+Dime Admission Free Adopted at More Sites
+Dime for Admission, Two Dimes for Carriages
+Diminished in its Range, Stoolball Still Played at Brighton
+Disconfirmed Poetry Lines Said to Denote Stoolball in Sussex
+Disparate Ball Games Seen in New Hampshire
+Dispute between MA and NY rules
+Ditty: "You Take the Bat, and I'll carry the Ball"
+Doc Adams Creates Modern Shortstop Position
+Doc Adams Enters the Field
+Doc Adams Plays a Ball Game in NYC He [Later] Understands to be Base Ball
+Doc Adams' Sister Writes of Bat and Ball Play
+Doc Adams, Ballmaker: The Hardball Becomes Hard
+Doctor Writes of North Carolina Game Resembling Ireland's Trap Ball
+Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing
+Documents Said to Describe Baseball-like Romanian Game of Oina
+Does Alexander Pope "Sneer" at Cricket in Epic Poem?
+Don't Play Ball Inside the House!
+Draftees Play Ball on Rikers Island
+Drama by Philip Massenger Refers to Cat-Stick
+Drawing Shows 1st NJ Artillery Playing Ball Game on a Diamond
+Drill, baseball and glee clubs
+Drummers defeat Fifers on Hilton Head
+Du Cange Mentions "Criquet" Game in his Glossary
+Duke of Richmond Issues Challenge to Play Single-Wicket Cricket
+Duke of Wellington Requires Cricket Ground for Every Military Barrack.
+Dutch Handbook for Boys Covers "Engelsch Balspel," Trap-ball, Tip-cat
+Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands.
+Dutch Publication Covers "Engelsch Balspel," "Kat," Other Batting Games
+Eagle Article Describes Early Ball-Making
+Eagle Ball Club Rulebook Appears
+Eagle Eyes Height and Weight
+Earliest Base Ball in Colorado Territory
+Earliest Full Cricket Scorecard for the "Greatest Match Ever Known"
+Earliest Games in Chicago IL?
+Earliest Published Rules of Cricket [?]
+Early African American Club in Philly Plays Initial Game Agains Albany Visitors
+Early African American baseball
+Early Ball Contents: Nuts, Bullets, Rocks, Fish-eyes
+Early Ballplaying on the SF Plaza (Horses Beware!)
+Early Cricket Clubs in the South
+Early Cricket Match "To Be Plaid . . . for 11 Guineas a Man"
+Early Cricket: Addington Club Takes On All-England, Five on Five
+Early Geographer Sees Variety of Types New England Ballplaying
+Early Limeys Take "Krickett" to Far Mediterranean Coast
+Early Season Game Goes to Knicks, 27-14; Wadsworth Chided
+Early Spanish-English Dictionary Mentions the "Trapsticke"
+Early Town-Ball Mention
+Early Use of "Battery" As Pitcher-Catcher Pairing
+Early Use of "Cricket" Seen in Rabelais Translation
+Early Use of the Term "Town Ball" in <i>NY Clipper</i>
+Early-Days Monster in Left Field?
+Earned Runs Concept Advanced
+Easter Ball Play at Churches Ends in France
+Eastport bans "bat and ball"
+Editor Sees Stoolball in Verse on Bachelorhood
+Editorial Rips Base Ball "Mania" as a "Public Nuisance"
+Editorial: Cricket is OK, But Only for Rural Holiday Play
+Edward III Prohibits Playing of Club-Ball.
+Egyptian Tomb Has Earliest Depiction of Catching (Fielding) a Ball?
+Egyptian Tomb Inscriptions Show Bats, Balls
+Elizabeth Cady Stanton describes Female Baseball Game in Peterboro, NY
+Elysian? Yes. Sacred? No.
+Empire Club Begins Play
+Empire Club Constitution Appears
+Empire Club Fields Two Catchers at Elysian Fields
+English Anthology of Games Puts "Squares" Among Safe-Haven Ballgames
+English Boys Play Ball "To the Grave Peril of Their Souls"
+English Cleric Promotes Co-ed Rounders
+English Crew Teaches Rounders to Baltic Islanders
+English Cricketers Play Two-Day Match Again New Yorkers
+English Essayist Praises Youth Playing Bass-ball and Cricket
+English Gent in NYC Goes Off to a Ball Game
+English Immigrants from Surrey See Cricket, Trap Ball in IL
+English Novel Briefly Mentions Base-Ball
+English Novel Mentions, Thread-the-Needle, "Base-Ball:" "Such Games!
+English Parish Rewards Informant for Ratting on Sunday Trap-baller
+English Poet Condones Students' Yens "To Tosse the Ball, To Rene Base, Like Men of War"
+English Residents of Richmond, VA Try Unsuccessfully to Form A Cricket Club, Then Try Base Ball
+English Social Event Includes Base Ball as Well as Cricket
+English Translation of Horace Refers to "the Stoole Ball"
+English Village Green Had Cricket, Bass-Ball
+English Visitor Sees Wicket at Harvard
+English Writing Cites Base-ball as Girls'; Pastime, Limns Cricket Match
+English excursion features cricket and "base-ball"
+Englishman Sees Base-ball as Commonly Played by Adult Men and Women
+Englishman's Book of Games Refers to Rounders, Feeder
+Englishmen Forbidden to Play Ball; Archery Much Preferred
+Engraving Shows Game with Wickets at Dartmouth College
+Enigmatic Report: NY Gentlemen Play Game of "Bace," and Score is Gymnastics 41, Sons of Diagoras 34.
+Entire Regiment Plays Sports
+Erasmus Hall School Alum Recalls Three-Base Game with Plugging
+Eton Cricketers Flogged at School for Playing Match. Ouch.
+Eureka! A Press Credential
+Even the Australians Are Bothered by Sunday Baseball
+Eventual National League Prexy Sticks with Cricket in War Camp
+Ewing Reports Playing "At Base" and Wicket at Valley Forge - with the Father of his Country
+Excelsior Base Ball Club Forms in Albany NY
+Excelsior Brigade amuses itself
+Excelsior Brigade plays base ball in camp
+Excelsior Club Expels Turncoat Surgeon
+Excelsior Club Forms in Brooklyn
+Excelsiors Conduct Undefeated Western NY Road Trip. . ."First Tour Ever? First $500 Player Ever?
+Excelsiors Publish Constitution
+Excelsiors and Union Club play for $500 and MA Championship
+Exciting Round Ball Game Played on Boston Common, Ends With 100-to-98 Tally
+Exciting [Adult] Rounders in the Arctic
+Exhilarating Game of Ball
+Eyewitness On the Massacre of Seven U.S Soldiers at Dartmoor Prison in England
+Famous Baseballists Turn To Cricket
+Fast Day Choice in ME: Hear a "Fact Sermon" or Play Ball?
+Fast Day Game in NH on the Common - Unless Arborism Goes Too Far
+Fast-Day Notice to NH Subscribers
+Fat and Lean Base Ball Club Organized in Buffalo
+Fayetteville NC Bans Sunday Ballplaying by African-Americans
+Fictional "Up-Country" Location Cites Bass-Ball and Wicket
+Fictional Mom Recalls Liking to Bat Ball as a Girl
+Fifty Clubs Said Active in New York Area - Plus Sixty Junior Clubs
+Fifty-cent Fine in New Bedford for Those Who Play at Ball
+Finally, Cricket Played in America Without Mostly English Immigrants!
+Finally, Substitutes Make the Box Score
+Fire Zouaves Play Baseball in DC
+First Known Appearance of Term "New York Game"
+First Admission Fees for Baseball?
+First Ball of the Base Ball Clubs Attracts 200 Couples at Niblo's Saloon
+First Base Ball Match in St. Louis MO
+First Baseball Attendance of a Thousand or More
+First Baseball played in Brooklyn?
+First Catcher's Glove? About 1870, Perhaps
+First Chicago Club Forms
+First Club Forms in St. Paul MN
+First Club to Wear Checked/Plaid Stockings
+First Co-Ed college baseball game?
+First Cricket Club in Boston is Established, Then Fades
+First Cricket Match in Memphis
+First Detailed Set of Rules for Stoolball Appear
+First Documented Cricket Playing Rules Agreed to, for One-time Use
+First Fly Baseball Game
+First Game in Canada Played by New York Rules?
+First Integrated (Adult) Club Takes the Field?
+First Inter-City AA Game?
+First Inter-Racial Baseball Game?
+First Intercollegiate Ballgame: Amherst 73, Williams 32
+First International Game Played by New York Rules
+First Jr. Base Ball Club Founded
+First KY Box Score Appears in Louisville Newspaper
+First Known Inter-racial Game of Base-Ball
+First Known Picture of Cricket Appears
+First Known Table-top Base Ball Game Appears
+First Known Written Depiction of Ball Play?
+First Laws of Cricket are Written in England
+First League Championship Trophy is Commissioned
+First Multi-Racial Baseball Team?
+First Murder in a Baseball Game?
+First New Jersey Brigade Plays Ball in 1863 and 1864.
+First New England Team, the Olympics, Forms to Play Round Ball
+First Official Use of the Term "Rounders" Appears?
+First Organized Base Ball Game in NC?
+First Oxford-Cambridge Cricket Match Held
+First Patented Baseball Object
+First Printing of Rules
+First Pro League Game Doesn't Feature Offense
+First Recorded Base Ball game in Canada [as reported in 1886]?
+First Recorded College Game at Williams College
+First Recorded Game by Hambledon Cricket Club
+First Recorded US Cricket Match Played, "For a Considerable Wager," in NYC; New Yorkers Win, 167-80
+First Reference to Change-of-Pace Pitching?
+First Reported Canadian Base Ball Game Occurs, in Ontario
+First Seasonal Analysis Includes Primordial Batting Statistic
+First Sunday in the Army: "Ball-playing, Wrestling, and Some Card-Playing"
+First Team Name on Uniform Shirt
+First Tour of English Eleven to US and Canada
+First US Baseball Poem[?]: There is No "Puling Cry" in Baseball
+First US-Canada Cricket Match Held
+First Uniform with Graphic Design
+First Uniform with Serif Letter on Shirt
+First Western club, the Franklin Club, forms in Detroit
+First [or Second?] Pacific Coast Club, the Eagles, Forms
+First and Second Nines of 9th NY Prevail at Yorktown VA
+First ball playing in Wyoming
+First baseball in North Carolina?
+First female baseball team outside the US?
+Firsts recorded African-American club in Louisville
+Fitchburg Levies $1 fine for Striking balls with a bat-stick
+Fitz Credited With Originating Tournaments
+Five Fined in Brooklyn NY for Sunday Ballplaying Near a Church
+Five Indicted for Stoolball Play on Sunday
+Five-Player Base Ball Reported in NY, WI
+Florida Regiments Mix it Up in Town Ball
+Florida Sergeant Notes Baseball Fever – Well, Town-Ball Fever, Actually
+Floridian: “Game of Ball . . . Has Become a Great Amusement Here”
+Flour Citys First Base Ball Club in Rochester
+Fly Game Again Swatted Down
+Fly Game Wings Its Way to Boston
+Fond OH Editor on Youthful Ball-playing: "We Like It"
+Fondly Remembering the First Ballplaying Richie Allen
+Forest City Club Lists Player Duties, Role of Team Captain, Etc.
+Form of Stool Ball Possibly Found in Domesday Book in Norman England?
+Formal Complaint in Surrey: Stoolball is Played on Sunday
+Former Catcher Recalls Ballgame with Soaking and "Fugleing" in NYS
+Former Mass-Game Champs Form Winning Wartime Team
+Fort Wayne soldiers play town ball
+Four Jailed for "Criminal" Sunday Play in NJ
+Four Old Cat and Three Old Cat Well Known in MA
+Four Teams of African-Americans, All in the NYC Area, Are Reported
+Four-day Attendance of 40,000 Souls Watch Famous Roundball Game in Worcester
+Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described
+Franz Schubert Watches a "Game of Ball" Near Vienna
+French Official Sees George Washington Playing Catch "For Hours"
+French Work Describes Poisoned Ball and La Balle au Baton
+French-English Dictionary Cites "Cat and Trap" and Cricket
+Fresco at Casa Borromeo shows Female Ball Players
+Future Congressman Plays Ball at Phillips Andover?
+Future Historian Plays Ball in NYC Streets
+Future Lord Prefers Studies to Rounders, Cricket
+Future NL President Plays ball in Mohawk Valley of New York
+Future Nurse Muses on Enlistees Playing Ball
+Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball
+Future Ohio Governor is "Best Ball Player at the College"
+Future President Lincoln Plays Town Ball, Joins Hopping Contests
+Future President notes ballplaying in camp
+Future Professor Sneaks a Smoke When He Can't Play Bat and Ball
+Future Ship Captain Chooses Reading Over Boyish Sports
+Future Star Dickey Pearce Discovers the Decade-old No-Plugging Rule
+Future Tennessee Governor, at age 50, "Played at Ball"
+Future University Head Plays Two Types of Ball in NC
+Galileo Galilei Discovers . . . Backspin!
+Game Called Wicket Reported in England
+Game Set for CA Mining Town
+Game Suspended When BIG Fight Breaks Out
+Game With Plugging of Runners Later Recalled in Jersey City
+Game of "Round-Ball" Recalled Much Later
+Game of Base Mentioned in Account of Life at Harvard
+Game of Base was "A Peculiar Favorite"
+Game of Baseball Attains Official Perch in Lexicon!
+Game of Wicket Near Springfield Goes Bad
+Game of Wicket Reaches IA
+Games Between NY and MA Regiments Punctuated by Artillery
+Games Recalled at Phillips Exeter Academy
+Games of Ball Seen in Sacramento CA in 1851, 1854
+Games of Foot and Base ball between drills
+Gascoigne's Poem "The Fruits of War" Refers to Tut-ball
+Gen. Grant enjoys watching ball game
+General Base Ball Rules Are Published
+General Hooker's Players "Pretty Badly Beat", 70-11
+General Supports Ballplaying by RI Unit
+George Wright Joins the All-Professional Cincinnati Club
+Georgetown U Students "play Ball"
+Georgia Corporal Plays Town Ball
+Georgia solders play town ball
+