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<p><span>Monica Nucciarone, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Alexander Cartwright</span><span> (UNebraska Press, 2009), page 201.</span><span>  </span><span>The author cites the source as W. R. Castle, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Reminiscences of William Richards Castle.</span><span> (Advertiser Publishing, 1960), page 50.</span></p> <p><span> </span></p> <p><span>See also Item [[1855c.10]], <span>"New Game" of Wicket Played in HI."</span></span></p>  +
<p><span>Reportedly in the </span><em>Philadelphia</em><em> Mercury</em><span>.</span><span>  </span><span>An account of the article </span><span> </span><span>appeared in the </span><em>Penny Illustrated Paper</em><span> (</span>London<span>), December 17, 1870 (page 370).</span><span>  </span><span>Contributed by Tom Shieber, email of 2/25/2009.</span></p> <p><span>This game is cited -- ("this contrived game proved to be acceptable to no one and was quickly forgotten") in Tom Melville, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Tented Field: A History of Cricket in America</span> (Bowling Green State University Press, 1998), page 149.  Melville attributes the introduction of the game to game to J. Wood, secretary of the Chicago Cricket Club. </span></p> <p><span>Protoball does not have a <em>Philadelphia </em><em>Mercury</em> source for this report. </span></p> <p><span> </span></p>  +
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<p><span>See Protoball Chronology entries [[1805.4]] and [[1805.5]].</span><span>  </span><span>The game was reported in the </span><em>New York Evening Post </em><span>of April 13, 1805.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Emily W. Elmore, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span>, (Macmillan, NY, 1922), pages 16-17.</span></p>  +
<p><span>E. Perrin, et. Al., </span><em>One Hundred and Fifty Gymnastic Games</em><span> (G. H. Ellis, Boston, 1902), pages 58-59.</span></p>  +
<p><span>David Block, email of 5/17/2005.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Dick, ed., </span><em>The American Boys Book of Sports and Games: A Practical Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements</em><span> </span>(Dick and Fitzgerald [reprinted by Lyons Press, 2000], 1864)<span>., pages 112-113. Elliott, <em>The Playground and the Parlour</em> (1868), p. 57.</span></p>  +
<p><span>W. Chapman, </span><em>Every-Day French Talk</em><span> (J. B. Bateman, London, 1855), page 20.</span></p> <p><span><span>P. Maigaard, “Battingball Games,” reprinted in Block, </span><em>Baseball Before We Knew It,</em><span> Appendix 6.</span><span>  </span><span>See page 263.</span></span></p>  +
<p><span>Paul G. Brewster, "Games and Sports in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century British Literature," </span><em>Western Folklore</em><span> 6, no. 2 </span>(1947)<span>., page 143.</span></p> <p><span>Hone, "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England..." (1831) p. 96</span></p>  +
<p><span>Alice Bertha Gomme, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span><em>, </em>Volume 1 (London: David Nutt, 1894)<span>., page 17.</span></p>  +
<p><span>D. C. Beard, </span><em>The American Boy’s Book of Sport</em><strong> </strong><span>(Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1896), pages 341-342.</span></p> <p><span>See also Altherr, "Barn Ball," <em>Base Ball</em> (Spring 2011).</span></p>  +
<p>Thomas Altherr, "Base Is Not Always Baseball: Prisoner's Base From the 13th to the 20th Centuries." <span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Base Ball,</span> Volune 3, number 1 (Spring 2009), pp 67-79.</p> <p>See also 19cBB posting, October 17, 2007; Our Game log, July 16, 2022</p>  +
<p><span>Emily W. Elmore, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span>, (Macmillan, NY, 1922), pages 19-20.</span></p>  +
<p><span>Gomme, <em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em>.2, page 146.</span></p>  +
<p><span>See Protoball Chronology entry [[1786.1]].</span><span>  </span><span>A second entry, [[1848c.9]], includes baste ball in a list of boyhood games played by future US President Benjamin Harrison. A third entry, [[1874.2]], reports its use as a game played in Chattanooga TN.</span></p> <p><span>Email to Protoball from David Block, 2/19/2017.</span></p>  +
<p><span>See Protoball Chronology entries for 1791.</span></p> <p><span>D Wise and S. Forrest, </span><em>Great Big Book of Children’s Games</em><span> (McGraw-Hill, 2003), pages 219-220.</span></p> <p><span>See http://www.askaboutsports.com/boball.htm</span></p>  +
<p><span>F. Dennis, </span><em>The Norfolk Village Green</em><span> (privately printed, 1917), page 72.</span></p>  +
<p><span>The National Beep Baseball Association: see </span><a href="http://www.nbba.org/">http://www.nbba.org/</a><span>, accessed 11/9/2009.</span></p> <p><span>For a story about beep-ball at Harvard, see </span><a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/10/the-beep-ball-player/">http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/10/the-beep-ball-player/</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>  +
<p><span>Amy Stewart Fraser, </span><em>Dae Ye Min’ Langsyne?</em><span> (Routledge, 1975), pages 59-60.</span></p>  +
<p><span>On the Domesday Book s-See Protoball Chronology #[[1086.1]]</span></p> <p><span>[A.] Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Traditional Games of England, </span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Scotland, and Ireland</span><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">,</span> Volume 1 (Dover Press,  New York, 1964 -- orig. 1898), page 34.</span></p> <p><span>[B] Lusted, Andrew, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Girls Just Wanted to Have Fun</span>, 2013, page 3, citing Rev'd W. D. Parish,<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect</span>, 1875.<br/></span></p> <p><span>[C] Lusted, op. cit., page 28.  The source is the <em>Sussex Advertiser, June 21, 1864.</em><br/></span></p> <p><span>[D] David Block, email of 12/6/2021.</span></p>  +