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  • ProtoPix:Bat Ball
    |Source Image=Bat Ball.jpg |Title=Bat Ball
    348 bytes (46 words) - 14:47, 11 July 2023
  • 1852.4
    |Headline=Bass-ball "Quite Too Complicated" for Children's Book on Games |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball,
    965 bytes (146 words) - 15:53, 11 February 2014
  • 1852.2
    |Headline=Lit Magazine Cites "Roaring" Game of "Bat and Base-ball" |Game=Base Ball, Bat-Ball
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  • Hit the Bat
    |Term=Hit the Bat ...ielders. If one of them can roll the ball back and hit the bat so that the ball hits the ground before the batter can catch the ricochet, the two exchange
    780 bytes (135 words) - 20:21, 12 March 2022
  • 1805.3
    |Headline=<u>Book of Games</u> Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball ...an twice, without striking the ball, I am out and one of you take the bat, and come in, as it is called."</p>
    839 bytes (159 words) - 17:36, 6 September 2012
  • Clipping:The advantage of batting last
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=the advantage of batting last
    911 bytes (164 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
  • 1864.49
    |Headline="Base Ball" and "Bat and Ball" Seen as the Same Game |Game=Base Ball, Bat-and-Ball
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  • 1845.10
    |Headline=German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game ...and that an illustration of two boys playing it "shows it to be a bat-and-ball game." For the French game, see the [[1810c.1]] entry above.</p>
    938 bytes (143 words) - 11:01, 21 August 2015
  • 1760.2
    |Headline=Bat and Ball . . . in Paris? ...were so popular the mid 1700s - Soule? Some form of street tennis? A form of field hockey? Not croquet, presumably.</p>
    747 bytes (126 words) - 17:31, 6 September 2012
  • 1841.7
    |Headline="Games of Ball and Bat" Played in Nova Scotia ...le and Contra dances were got up on the green - and games of ball and bat, and such sports proceeded.'"</p>
    682 bytes (103 words) - 17:48, 6 September 2012
  • Clipping:Games take too long
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=games take too long
    917 bytes (168 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
  • BC2000 to 1000ADc.1
    |Headline=The Ball in Ancient Play |Age of Players=Unknown
    704 bytes (106 words) - 07:37, 27 June 2013
  • Bat-and-Ball
    |Term=Bat-and-Ball ...all" is a term that can help you find very early references to predecessor games in the US.</p>
    1 KB (250 words) - 11:56, 15 May 2020
  • Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
    |Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games |Year of Publication=1947
    232 bytes (36 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
  • 1853.4
    |Headline=<i>School Reader</i> has Description of Bat and Ball |Game=Bat and Ball, Fungo
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  • 1839.4
    |Headline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...former utilized a bat while Strutt's sketch of stool-ball stated that the ball was struck by the bare hand."</p>
    798 bytes (123 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
  • Ball-Bias
    |Term=Ball-Bias ...o 1898, was evidently the name of a batting-running game in the south-east of England.</p>
    2 KB (254 words) - 10:22, 10 December 2013
  • Bat-Ball
    |Term=Bat-Ball ...hball. It is clear that a club was not always required for hitting, as the ball could instead be slapped into play by the hand.</p>
    789 bytes (130 words) - 09:30, 7 April 2016
  • 1810.3
    |Headline=Children's Book Recommends Regular Play with "Trap, Bat, Ball," etc. |Age of Players=Juvenile
    811 bytes (116 words) - 07:01, 28 January 2020
  • Clipping:Benefits of mixing baseball and cricket
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=benefits of mixing baseball and cricket
    2 KB (296 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
  • 1860.24
    |Headline=Mighty Nat at the Bat: A Morality Story |Game=Base Ball,
    1 KB (204 words) - 18:36, 14 October 2015
  • German Bat Ball
    |Term=German Bat Ball ...o stay at the distant base to avoid being put out. A caught fly is an out, and a three-out-side-out rule applies.</p>
    1,017 bytes (173 words) - 09:46, 28 November 2012
  • Speilinn
    ...alaichean (harbors). Points are scored by measuring the lengths of hits in bat-lengths.</p> |Sources=<p><span>MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." <em>Folklore</em> 16, no. 1 (1905), pages 87-88.</span></p>
    677 bytes (110 words) - 09:41, 28 November 2012
  • Clipping:Crowds like high scoring games
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=crowds like high scoring games
    375 bytes (57 words) - 19:30, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Experiment with a flat bat, cork-centered ball
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=experiment with a flat bat, cork-centered ball
    632 bytes (105 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Experimental games: square bat a cork ball
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball
    3 KB (467 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
  • 1802.4
    |Headline=Philadelphia Book: "Bat and Ball is an Inferior Kind of Cricket" |Game=Cricket, Bat and Ball
    1 KB (168 words) - 06:46, 28 January 2020
  • Clipping:The flat bat 2
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=the flat bat 2
    1 KB (175 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:The advantage of batting second
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=the advantage of batting second
    1 KB (204 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
  • 900c.1
    |Headline=Mayan Games Played at Chichen Itza, Mexico |Text=<p>Mayan Indians play stick and ball games in ceremonial courts in Chichen Itza, Mexico</p>
    643 bytes (106 words) - 15:43, 16 June 2013
  • 1840.38
    |Headline=Boston-Style "Bat and Ball" Seen in Honolulu HI |Game=Bat and Ball
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  • Clipping:Practice games are useless
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=practice games are useless
    1 KB (199 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
  • 1835c.5
    |Headline=Base Ball Recalled as Very Popular at Exeter |Game=Base Ball
    861 bytes (138 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
  • Trounce-Ball
    |Term=Trounce-Ball ...version of [[Trap Ball]], but with a hole for the trap and a cudgel for a bat.</p>
    382 bytes (60 words) - 09:42, 28 November 2012
  • 1840.5
    <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 161-162. No reference given.</p>
    435 bytes (64 words) - 17:52, 21 October 2012
  • 1800c.1
    |Headline=Sports at Exeter Academy include "Old-Fashioned Bat and Ball". . . and Football |Game=Bat-and-Ball,Football
    1 KB (231 words) - 06:13, 6 March 2022
  • 1760s.1
    |Headline=Harvard Man Recalls Cricket, "Various Games of Bat and Ball" on Campus |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
    1 KB (176 words) - 08:44, 7 March 2022
  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1856
    |Type of Date=Day ...nt of which appears to consist in sending a hard wooden ball into the face of every stray passenger they can hit...”</p>
    1 KB (175 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • BC1460.1
    |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective |Age of Players=Adult
    1 KB (203 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
  • Clipping:Overhand deliveries in the AA
    |Type of Date=Day ...any number of pitchers who deliver the ball illegally in games every day, and it is seldom indeed that umpires interfere.</p>
    462 bytes (72 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
  • One O’ Cat
    ...ith each out, until they become one of two batters. “An ordinary base-ball bat is used.”</p> |Sources=<p><span>Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn<span>, N.Y.." pages 231-232.</span></p>
    483 bytes (79 words) - 09:40, 28 November 2012
  • In Cambridge in 1760
    |Type of Date=Year |Number of Players=
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  • 1800c.3
    |Text=<p>Lee was made an honorary member of the Knickerbocker Club in 1846, when he made this observation.</p> <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 150. No ref given. Also referenced in Pe
    459 bytes (72 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
  • Fungo
    ...n), Corkball (St. Louis), 500, Half-ball, Indian Ball (MO), Sky Ball (CT), and Tip-Cat.</p> ...ngoes balls to a set of fielders. A fielder who first catches a set number of balls on the fly becomes the batter.</p>
    3 KB (486 words) - 09:32, 23 June 2023
  • 1845c.13
    |Headline=Town-ball in IN Later [and Vaguely?] Recalled |Game=Town Ball,
    1 KB (162 words) - 18:27, 9 May 2015
  • 1796.1
    |Headline=Gutsmuths describes [in German, yet] "Englische Base-Ball" |Game=English Base-Ball
    2 KB (335 words) - 09:46, 9 February 2014
  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
    |Type of Date=Day ...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p>
    961 bytes (150 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
  • Clipping:A vicious fair-foul
    |Type of Date=Day ...<p>[Philadelphia vs. Baltimore 7/29/1874] Hicks...after waiting for a good ball, hit a vicious “fair foul” for two bases. New York Clipper August 8, 1
    1,001 bytes (168 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
  • 1330.1
    |Headline=Vicar of Winkfield Advises Against Bat/Ball Games in Churchyards; First Stoolball Reference? ...ng of all games of ball in churchyards: "Bats and bares and suche play/Out of chyrche-yorde put away."</p>
    1 KB (216 words) - 17:25, 6 September 2012
  • Nashville Base Ball Club
    |Name=Nashville Base Ball Club |Club Name=Nashville Base Ball Club
    2 KB (245 words) - 16:42, 30 December 2014
  • 1794.2
    |Headline=Historian Cites "Club-ball" ...to "club-ball" than Strutt's. It is James Pettit Andrews, <u>The History of Great Britain</u> (Cadell, London, 1794.), page 438. Email from David, 2/2
    1 KB (212 words) - 17:34, 6 September 2012
  • BC2400c.1
    ...dline=Was Egypt the Well-Spring of Ballplaying? Text Has &#8220;Strike the Ball&#8221; Reference |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
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  • Clipping:Two umpires for the World Series
    |Type of Date=Day ...t bat McQuade will go to second base and the League umpire will call balls and strikes.</p>
    848 bytes (146 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
  • 1840c.25
    |Headline=Wicket Played with "Huge Bat" at Barkhamsted CT |Tags=Equipment, The Ball,
    1 KB (184 words) - 13:59, 8 March 2024
  • In Jefferson OH in July 1859
    |Type of Date=Month |Number of Players=14
    1 KB (185 words) - 07:02, 15 May 2015
  • Stonewall Base Ball Club of Edgefield
    |Name=Stonewall Base Ball Club of Edgefield |Type of Date=Day
    1 KB (173 words) - 21:26, 27 June 2015
  • Clipping:Martin's pitching 2
    |Type of Date=Day ...oses in effectiveness, but when he gets to work on his slow dropping balls and has decent support in the field only the most skillful batsmen can punish h
    3 KB (481 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
  • 1850.22
    |Headline=British Trade Unionists Play Base Ball |Game=Base Ball, Cricket
    1 KB (196 words) - 05:35, 29 April 2018
  • 1750s.2
    |Headline=Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands? |Game=Town Ball
    2 KB (250 words) - 19:05, 29 January 2020
  • Block:English Baseball in Bedfordshire on August 10 1861
    |Type of Date=Day ...to engage in all sorts of games, cricket, trap bat, base ball, French tag, and kiss-in-the-ring, were indulged in pretty freely.”</p>
    790 bytes (113 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • Predecessor Games
    ...even though many writers had suggested that that English pastime was base ball's progenitor.&nbsp; &nbsp;-- Larry McCray, 5/23/2023&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &n == List of Predecessor Games ==
    2 KB (324 words) - 08:56, 24 May 2023
  • Clipping:The League's advertising poster
    |Type of Date=Day ...d the names of the eight league cities. They are printed in eight colors, and will serve as an attractive advertising medium., quoting an unidentified ex
    958 bytes (158 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:A composite bat 2
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=a composite bat 2
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  • Block:Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884
    |Title=Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884 |Block Game=Ball Bias
    705 bytes (106 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
  • BC2000c.3
    |Headline=Egyptian Tomb Has Earliest Depiction of Catching (Fielding) a Ball? |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
    954 bytes (148 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
  • Clipping:An electric scoreboard
    |Type of Date=Day ...ncourse of spectators, the indicators on which are electrically controlled and operated by an experienced person located close to the diamond.</p>
    1 KB (256 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
  • Covington Base Ball Club v Holt Base Ball Club of Newport on 17 October 1866
    |Name=Covington Base Ball Club v Holt Base Ball Club of Newport on 17 October 1866 |Type of Date=Day
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  • 1344.1
    |Headline=Manuscript Shows a Club-and-Ball Game with Stool-like Object ...games played with a curved stick and ball, starting with <i>la soule</i>, and evolving in England through stoolball . . .".</p>
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  • Base Ball
    |Term=Base Ball ...possible that the term was used for diverse variations of local safe-haven games in other areas.</p>
    3 KB (528 words) - 08:26, 8 June 2021
  • Clipping:Reporting juvenile games
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=reporting juvenile games
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  • Long Ball (US Batting Game)
    |Term=Long Ball (US Batting Game) ...sp;<em>Connecticut Courant,&nbsp;</em>April 23, 1853, was locally the name of something like a fungo game:&nbsp;</p>
    957 bytes (166 words) - 12:53, 7 February 2021
  • Clipping:Early indoor baseball
    |Type of Date=Day ...iking, the batter is not allowed to block the ball, but must hit it fairly and squarely. Nine innings constitute a game.</p>
    1,008 bytes (171 words) - 19:52, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Umpire must call a ball or a strike
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=umpire must call a ball or a strike
    604 bytes (101 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
  • 1850s.13
    |Headline=Trap Ball, Stool Ball, Well Established in Louisville KY |Age of Players=Unknown
    888 bytes (131 words) - 06:53, 5 March 2013
  • Aurora Ball Club of Boston
    |Name=Aurora Ball Club of Boston |Type of Date=Month
    1 KB (165 words) - 05:23, 20 July 2022
  • Clipping:A change pitcher needed for practice
    |Type of Date=Day ...her on the nine might have won the Baltimore one and perhaps both of those games.</p>
    715 bytes (117 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
  • Codlings
    ...short piece of wood being struck up by a long stick instead of a ball by a bat.</td> ...="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unspecified.&nbsp;</p>
    666 bytes (93 words) - 06:21, 14 March 2017
  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 26 1899
    |Type of Date=Day ...er an excellent tea, games were freely indulged in, such as base ball, bat and trap, &c., the older folk apparently enjoying the fun quite as much as the
    618 bytes (91 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • 1801.1
    |Headline=Joseph Strutt Says Stoolball Still Played in North of England; But He Slights Cricket ...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.</p>
    728 bytes (113 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
  • Rounders: Baseball's True Origin?
    Editors Note: Each issue we plan to highlight a bat-ball game that preceded baseball. ...of rounders and also the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond.
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  • Clipping:Aerial ball
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=Aerial ball
    2 KB (287 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
  • ProtoPix:Longball etc bats
    |Description=Bats for Longball and other early bat-ball games |Type of Date=Year
    363 bytes (51 words) - 17:54, 15 June 2023
  • Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 29 1857
    |Type of Date=Day ...bat-and-trap, and bass ball, which occupied the attention of the majority of the ladies during the afternoon."</p>
    699 bytes (102 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • Clipping:George Wright on the history of the bat
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=George Wright on the history of the bat
    5 KB (874 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
  • Rules of Danish Longball
    ...dely in schools in Denmark, Sweden and Britain, as well as by Scout groups and in some American summer camps ...ne to score a point. Batters are allowed to ‘bat the ball anywhere forward of the batting zone but must run inside the boundary markers.
    3 KB (587 words) - 13:29, 8 March 2016
  • French Cricket
    ...r he gets hit on the leg, he is out. Fielders are about 10' away &amp; the ball is thrown quickly at the legs."</p> ...t the French name for this game is, and whether it relates to earlier folk games in France.</p>
    1 KB (231 words) - 10:14, 12 April 2013
  • Flys-Are-Up, Flies-Up
    ...d-1950s. A fielder who caught the ball on the fly went &ldquo;up&rdquo; to bat.</p> ...ayground. The latter game is not further described, but could be a species of Fungo.</p>
    996 bytes (166 words) - 12:06, 13 October 2018
  • 1847.13
    |Age of Players=Juvenile ...ders." In stool ball, "the ball must be struck by the hand, and not with a bat."</p>
    2 KB (423 words) - 21:12, 10 March 2016
  • In Halifax on 1 July 1841
    |Type of Date=Day |Number of Players=
    1 KB (215 words) - 14:33, 27 February 2024
  • 1859.16
    |Headline=<u>Boy&#39;s Own Toy-Maker</u> Covers Tip-cat and Trap-ball |Game=Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball,
    847 bytes (119 words) - 18:37, 9 May 2015
  • Unnamed Games - Czech
    |Term=Unnamed Games - Czech ...es without being hit by the ball.&rdquo; Guarinoni mentions that the Poles and the Silesians were the best players.</p>
    1 KB (190 words) - 09:43, 28 November 2012
  • Clipping:A condemnation of trickery and deception; hidden ball trick
    |Type of Date=Day |Title=a condemnation of trickery and deception; hidden ball trick
    2 KB (306 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
  • Pepper
    ...lizing players for fielding errors and mis-hits.&nbsp; There is no running and no team play in this exercise.</p> ...whatever, you would use in a professional baseball game. . . . But pepper games are gone. . . . It would still be worth putting every player through a pepp
    1 KB (212 words) - 18:26, 14 May 2013
  • Glossary of Games
    ...unt }} games with a resemblance to baseball, most often using base-running and run-scoring}} ...ook of Games, an early member of the England's pathbreaking Royal Society, and perhaps now better known as "the First Ornithologist"'''.
    6 KB (926 words) - 06:08, 19 June 2023
  • In Red River Settlement, Manitoba in 1835
    |Type of Date=Year |Number of Players=
    2 KB (241 words) - 14:46, 27 February 2024
  • Clipping:Bond's delivery 2
    |Type of Date=Day ...comes toward the striker, who invariably yesterday swung the bat under the ball, frequently several inches. Indianapolis News May 5, 1877, quoting the Pit
    730 bytes (114 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
  • 1805.2
    |Headline=Portland ME Bans "Playing at Bat and Ball in the Streets" in 1805, Retains Ban in 1824 |Game=Bat and Ball
    6 KB (969 words) - 09:26, 9 November 2020
  • Rules of the Massachusetts Association of Base Ball Players
    |Title=Rules of the Massachusetts Association of Base Ball Players ...an six and a half, nor more than eight and a half inches in circumference, and must be covered with leather.
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  • Clipping:Confusion over how many balls for a base on balls
    |Type of Date=Day ...cussedness. When forced back to the points he delivered another bad ball and Snyder again took his base.</p>
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  • Don't Forget the Girls
    ...it of the game in a manner worthy of the most ardent devotee, betting kids and other trifles on the result.” ...and 1859 indicate that the “ladies and gentlemen amuse themselves much by ball playing afternoons.”
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