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Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
|Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games

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Chronology:Games of bat and ball

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Clipping:Experimental games: square bat a cork ball
|Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball ...interesting experiments are to be made to-day and to-morrow in exhibition games between the Chicago and Buffalo teams. In to-day's game two radical new de

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Brian Turner, April 2013
...thampton) in 1791 and another thing in other towns (such as the names ball games were known by Pittsfield). 

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ProtoPix:Bat Ball
|Description=Bat Ball. From "Little Charley's Games and Sports" (1854) p. 26

348 bytes (46 words) - 14:47, 11 July 2023
Hit the Bat
...l-the-Bat," Southwest Folklore 4 (1980) pp. 84-86; Cohen, The Games We Played (2001), p. 77

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1852.2
|Game=Base Ball, Bat-Ball ..." reads: "How they poured the soul of gay and joyous boyhood/ Into roaring games of marbles, bat and base-ball!/ Thinking that the world wa

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1852.4
|Headline=Bass-ball "Quite Too Complicated" for Children's Book on Games |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball,

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1864.49
...nstructor at the Round Hill School in Northampton, MA, where baseball-like games were part of the physical education curriculum (see, entry [[1823.6]]; also

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Clipping:The advantage of batting last
...year shows that the very reverse of this is the case. Out of twenty-three games in which the home team went to the bat first at Washington Park last season

911 bytes (164 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
1760.2
...ion as what we now know as the Champs Elysee? Can we learn what bat/ball games were so popular the mid 1700s - Soule? Some form of street tennis? A form o

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1805.3
|Headline=Book of Games Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball |Text=Among the games described in this book are cricket and trap-ball, which has this concise ac

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Bat-and-Ball
...all" is a term that can help you find very early references to predecessor games in the US.

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Clipping:The flat bats; a doctored bat
...en painted the bat to hide it, and he made twenty-six base hits in sixteen games by it. All that is needed is to take off enough wood on one side, within a

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1853.4
...  Is it possible that may other "plaing ball" references denote fungo games?  Do we know of any other fungo games in which more than a single bat is used?

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1845.10
|Headline=German Book of Games Lists das Giftball, a Bat-and-Ball Game |Text=Included among the games is das Giftball (the venomball, roughly). Block observes that this

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1841.7
|Headline="Games of Ball and Bat" Played in Nova Scotia ...and at which, 'Quadrille and Contra dances were got up on the green - and games of ball and bat, and such sports proceeded.'"

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Clipping:Games take too long
|Title=games take too long ...ggards who keep the spectators waiting on their laziness. Patrons of ball games have a right to demand promptness in this matter, and it is the duty of the

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Bat-Ball
|Term=Bat-Ball |Description=We have references to bat-ball from 1791 (when it was banned in both Pittsfield and Northampton MA), but t

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1810.3
...o have an hour of recreation each day with sports, among bat and ball-type games."  -- Tom Altherr

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1860.24
...l game of ball on Saturday afternoon. Ball-playing was one of the favorite games with the boys. . . . [Nat comes to bat.] 'I should like to see a ball go by

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German Bat Ball
Emily Elmore and M. O’Shea, A Practical Handbook of Games (Macmillan, New York, 1922), pages 36-39.</

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Ball-Bias
...Ball]] that was mostly found in the vicinity of Leeds.  These latter games were played without a bat, like English base-ball, whereas . . . ball-

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Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
|Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games

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Clipping:Benefits of mixing baseball and cricket
...ve their play, both at the bat and in fielding, by practicing each other’s games. In batting, at base-ball, the cricketer learns a free use of his shoulder

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Speilinn
|Sources=MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." Folklore 16, no. 1 (1905), pages 87-88.</

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Clipping:Experimental games: square bat a cork ball
|Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball ...interesting experiments are to be made to-day and to-morrow in exhibition games between the Chicago and Buffalo teams. In to-day's game two radical new de

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1802.4
...err, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine

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Clipping:Experiment with a flat bat, cork-centered ball
|Text=The Chicagos twice defeated the Buffalos in exhibition games at Chicago, Ill., on Oct 1 and 2, by the respective scores of 12 to 10 and

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Clipping:The flat bat 2
...trip of the team last season, and made twenty-six base hits in the sixteen games played, gaining a batting average for the trip of .419. He pained the bat

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Clipping:The advantage of batting second
...e benefit of an opportunity for a winning rally. In the large majority of games thus far played in the championship arena this season the teams last at the

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Clipping:Durable bats
...en used by six and sometimes seven of the nines, in over one hundred match games. The bat is appropriately styled “Old Reliable.” It is good for many

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1840.38
...the ardor with which the native youth of both sexes engage in the same old games which used to warm our blood not long since. There's good old bat and ball,

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BC2000 to 1000ADc.1
...Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians—play primitive ball games for recreation, as fertility rites and in religious rituals. ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 8-21.

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1839.4
|Headline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...3. "Games with a Ball" treats stool-ball, trap-ball, tip-cat, among other games, and owes much to Strutt (see 1801 entry, above). The writer advises, "[St

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1800c.1
...was commonplace, according to a historian of that school.  'The only games seem to have been old-fashioned 'bat and ball', which, in the spring, was p

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Clipping:A trophy bat made from the Charter Oak
...bbell intends to present the bat to the Hartford amateurs, and a series of games is to be played for the possession thereof of the several amateur clubs of

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Clipping:Batting first voluntarily
|Text=In the Boston-Syracuse games at Boston, Mass., the home team has almost always won the toss, and, instea

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Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1856
...h, in flying kites, to the terror of all horses on the road, in playing at bat-ball base, the chief enjoyment of which appears to consist in sending a hard woo |Block Notes=It is possible that “bat-ball base” may refer to trap-ball, rather than baseball, because of the mentio

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Trounce-Ball
|Sources=Alice B. Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Davit Nutt, London, 1898)

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1840.5
Henderson, Robert W., Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 161-162. No reference given.

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Scrub (Family of Games)
{{Family of Games |Description=Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, pitching, and a bat (but no teams).

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Baseball (Family of Games)
{{Family of Games |Description=Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, a bat, pitching, and two distinct teams.

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Clipping:Crowds like high scoring games
|Title=crowds like high scoring games ...Ross ball to bat against, and the result was one of those splendid batting games which the crowd so delight in.

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Clipping:Practice games are useless
|Title=practice games are useless ...on. Ordinary in training up a nine, as no earnest effort is made in such games; but when an incentive for extra exertion is offered in the way of prizes f

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Kibel and Nerspel
|Sources=Gomme, Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1., page 298.</span

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1835c.5
|Text="The games of bat-and-ball in former years were various, but most popular were "four o ...e 83. Caveat: The section in which this excerpt resides evidently games played half a century earlier, but other interpretations are possible.

861 bytes (138 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
1760s.1
|Headline=Harvard Man Recalls Cricket, "Various Games of Bat and Ball" on Campus ...;c. . . . [w]e wrestled and ran, played at quoits, at cricket, and various games of bat and ball, whose names perhaps are obsolete."

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Nashville Base Ball Club
...dealer, on Church street. This promises to be one of the most interesting games of the season."

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Clipping:Overhand deliveries in the AA
...ation. There are any number of pitchers who deliver the ball illegally in games every day, and it is seldom indeed that umpires interfere.

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Clipping:Martin's pitching 2
...n professionals, who have used LYMAN’S PATENT BAT in their most successful games the present season, fully endorse them in every respect, and will use none

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900c.1
|Headline=Mayan Games Played at Chichen Itza, Mexico |Text=Mayan Indians play stick and ball games in ceremonial courts in Chichen Itza, Mexico

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One O’ Cat
|Sources=Culin, "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.." pages 231-232.

483 bytes (79 words) - 09:40, 28 November 2012
BC1460.1
|Text=Wall inscriptions in Egyptian royal tombs depict games using bats and balls. ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 20.

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Clipping:A vicious fair-foul
...bbell intends to present the bat to the Hartford Amateurs, and a series of games is to be played for the possession thereof by the several amateur clubs of

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Clipping:A composite bat 2
...with the common bat. Anson certainly made a remarkable record in the two games in which he used it. June 23d, Buffington pitcher, in three times at bat h

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1840c.25
...l, hurled with almost giant strength, often caused stomach sickness." Some games were played against teams from neighboring towns.

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In Jefferson OH in July 1859
...y Sean Lahman describes 1959 play in Jefferson that uses teams of 14, with games decided at 100 runs, noting that base-ball had been played by "early settle

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1800c.3
Henderson, Robert W., Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 150. No ref given. Also referenced in Pe

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Stonewall Base Ball Club of Edgefield
...dealer, on Church street. This promises to be one of the most interesting games of the season."

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1796.1
...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: Games for the Exercise and Recreation of Body and Spirit for the Youth and His Ed

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In Cambridge in 1760
|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." Si

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1850.22
...l Tavern," where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."

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Fungo
...Protoball's Glossary of Games includes many  nonrunning games in which the ball (or cat, or other object) is put in play by a batter who |Sources=Culin, S. (1891). "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn." Journal of

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Clipping:Two umpires for the World Series
|Text=There will be two umpires in the great games this fall between the League and Association pennant winners for the champi

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BC2400c.1
...laying: “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 [Rockport Press, 1947], page 4.

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Covington Base Ball Club v Holt Base Ball Club of Newport on 17 October 1866
...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

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Clipping:The League's advertising poster
|Text=The posters for advertising the league games of 1882 are gorgeous affairs. They are about two and one-half feet in widt

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BC2000c.3
...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], page 19; the image itself is reproduced oppo

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Clipping:George Wright on the history of the bat
...Knickerbocker, Eagle and Gotham clubs. Chadwick was always present at the games, sitting on the benches, invariably carrying an umbrella under his arm. Th

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1845c.13
|Text="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

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Block:Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884
|Block Data=“Ball-bias” was one of the games enjoyed by 200 children at the annual treat for students of the Wesleyan Ch

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1330.1
|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

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Clipping:Early indoor baseball
...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

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Long Ball (US Batting Game)
Do we know know if this and other fungo style batting games were known elsewhere in the US?  

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Clipping:Anyone can field; batting is the key
...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

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Clipping:Catchers playing close to the bat too often
...e, and for the crowd’s applause less; and they would then help to win more games than was done last season.

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1850s.13
|Text="Other forms of bat and ball games, like trap-ball and stool-ball, became well established in Louisville in th

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Base Ball
...possible that the term was used for diverse variations of local safe-haven games in other areas. One might speculate that later still, such games would be thought of as “town ball.”

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1847.13
...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

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Clipping:Aerial ball
|Text=Horseman, who is a great caterer for the ladies in sports and games, has lately introduced a capital lawn game for parties who have hitherto be

2 KB (287 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
1794.2
...Andrews, in his history of England, cites a source for his passage on ball games, but I can not make it out from the photocopy in my possession."

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Clipping:Umpire must call a ball or a strike
...ween the nines belonging to Turin and Constableville, who are playing five games for the championship of the county. … The first man was called to the ba

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Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford." ...p>This reference is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball p

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French Cricket
...t the French name for this game is, and whether it relates to earlier folk games in France.

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1801.1
...t Strutt views a game he calls "club ball" as the precursor to this set of games, but notes that modern scholars are skeptical about this proposition.

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Rules of Danish Longball
There is no limit to the number of innings as games will be timed. ...ricket. Each team alternately takes turns in batting and fielding. In some games, a rule from dodgeball is incorporated, where the player can be considered

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Clipping:The denominator in batting average
...e of McGeary, the second striker of the Athletics, being second in hits to games and fourth in averages of times at bal.

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1805.2
...ylaw was written, perhaps the authors of the Bylaw were not thinking about games involving the "trap" device. In classical physics terminology, a baseball b ...bat.  This is akin to how these ordinances often give a list of ball games they are regulating, then add something on the lines of "or any other game

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In Red River Settlement, Manitoba in 1835
...ted in Wilson Green’s, Red River Revelations (Hignell Printing, 1974) says games of "bat" were played in the 1830s by Scottish immigrants in the Red River S

2 KB (241 words) - 14:46, 27 February 2024
Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 26 1899
...sborough, Buckinghamshire) at their annual treat: "After an excellent tea, games were freely indulged in, such as base ball, bat and trap, &c., the older fo

618 bytes (91 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
1344.1
.... . " "We may summarize: The game and name of cricket stem back to ancient games played with a curved stick and ball, starting with la soule, and evo Henderson, Robert W., Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 130-131. Henderson's ref 17 is Bodleian Li

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Codlings
...ce Bertha Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unsp

666 bytes (93 words) - 06:21, 14 March 2017
1841.10
...ers of the city of Hartford to . . . play at Wicket Ball, the best in nine games for Dinner and Trimmings. The Rules to be as follows: [1] The ball to be ro

2 KB (387 words) - 13:40, 4 March 2022
Block:English Baseball in Bedfordshire on August 10 1861
...and mentioning that “there being plenty of room to engage in all sorts of games, cricket, trap bat, base ball, French tag, and kiss-in-the-ring, were indul

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Flys-Are-Up, Flies-Up
...ity resident Michael Frank: “Hardball? Never. Other baseball-related games we played included Stickball in the street and “Flies-Up” in th ...om/christianog/games.html">http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</a>

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Clipping:Confusion over how many balls for a base on balls
...n that the rules of the American Association should govern the Clevelands’ games in Cincinnati. These rules differ only in respect to foul balls from the L

2 KB (303 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
1750s.2
|Text="Of formalized games, choices for males [in NC] appear to have been 'town-ball, bull-pen,' 'cat, ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32.

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 29 1857
...ose of the day continued with little intermission. There were also several games, such as bat-and-trap, and bass ball, which occupied the attention of the m

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1859.16
|Game=Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball,

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Clipping:The composition of balls; illegal balls; skillful batting
...years past “heavy batting nines” have made it a “point” in making up their games to secure the privilege of selecting the ball, and having had balls special

2 KB (374 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
Clipping:Sacrifice hits; scientific batting; early spray chart
...reful minute has been made of the direction of Anson's hits in the fifteen games played on the Chicago grounds this season. Out of 65 times at bat he has m

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Predecessor Games
...me help to new Origins diggers who were looking for search terms for local games that may have morphed into base ball.  We thought is those days to loo == List of Predecessor Games ==

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