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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  +
Catcher Felled in ME  +
Cause of Death: "Surfeit of Playing Ball"  +
Cavalry Plays Baseball near Manassas  +
Cavalry Unit Challenges the 2nd Corps  +
Cavalry defeats Infantry in VA  +
Celebrity Spectators  +
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  +
Change Pitchers  +
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  +
Clear Score  +
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  +
Dead Ball Adopted  +
Debra Shattuck lists early female base ball  +
Debunking DeBost  +
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!  +
Donkey Ball  +
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  +
Eager for Base Ball  +
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  +
Educatin' the Readers  +
Edward III Prohibits Playing of Club-Ball.  +
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Egyptian Tomb Has Earliest Depiction of Catching (Fielding) a Ball?  +
Egyptian Tomb Inscriptions Show Bats, Balls  +
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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  +
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First Known Written Depiction of Ball Play?  +
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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 Scholastic Play?  +
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-Home Run game  +
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  +