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  • |Title=early slides in a country club ...bases when they were hopeless, by an ingenious mode of slipping into them, in the teeth of the base men.</p>
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  • |Title=accusation of hippodroming in a country club ...ed by the Empires the balance of the season, on a salary. He is evidently a good pitcher. Evening City Item August 3, 1871, quoting an unnamed newspap
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  • |Title=how to hire a ringer ...med Henry Smith, who is quite an effective twirler, and generally succeeds in puzzling the rural sluggers.</p>
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  • |Title=a 'club' nine vs. a 'picked' nine ...s the strong point several leading clubs of the country have lost sight of in the organization of their nines, and none more so than the Mutual Club.</p>
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Lithuania in 1922 |Country=Lithuania
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  • |Title=the advantages of a professional 'club' nine ...nine. It is this esprit de corps which is an essential element of success in club nines, and it is these which nearly every prominent club now lacks mor
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Livorno in 1884 |Country=Italy
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  • |Title=English Baseball in Norfolk on July 29 1871 ...a most agreeable day at cricket, base, and other sports, they say down to a well-spread table furnished by Mr. Welton.”</p>
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  • |Title=a mid-season tryout for the next season ...he Bostons from defeat, they winning by only one run, in a score of 4 to 3 in eleven innings.</p>
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  • {{Other First |Name=First Use of Two Catchers in on One Team?
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  • |Title=Draft Chapter on Beginnings of Ballplaying in KY |Is in library=No
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  • ...ap in the air, a whirr, a grating sound, and a white face ppers up through a cloud of dust asking judgment from the umpire. This sort of thing is enoug
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  • ...ing away. The ball-holder can then call “stop,” and the others must freeze in position while he attempts to plug one of them.</p>
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  • ...e. Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but the only three in the country I know of are Bushong of Brooklyn, Cook of Louisville and Daniels of Kansas
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  • |Title=a player agency ...eans of securing them an engagement. No charge will be made in the way of a commission, as is the custom with other professional agencies.</p>
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  • ...ready in three different clubs, and then announce himself ready to play in a fourth.</p>
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  • ...ome with a flea in their ears, and a good share of their previous winnings in the pockets of their contestants.</p>
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  • |Name=in Vasteras in 1910 |Country=Sweden
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  • |Title=English Baseball in London on January 22 1859 ...has enormous limbs, a back broad enough to play at base-ball upon, and was a capital runner.”</p>
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  • |Name=A. H. C. Quick Club of Amsterdam |Club Name=A. H. C. Quick
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  • |Name=in Abadan in 1956 |Country=Iran
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  • ...his class who, as a general thing, think themselves fully competent to run a baseball nine–on paper. Let club-managers avoid the pernicious influence
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Modlin on 30 May 1919 |Country=Poland
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  • |Title=a catcher's glove manufacturer ...so that in the years which have followed the German and his wife have made a small fortune. Snyder's visit to that little room on that spring morning n
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  • ...g by a quarter of a mile broad–is to be placed in fielding condition early in April for the use of the school and academy clubs of Brooklyn, and amateur ...and will not only be the largest, but one of the best-kept grounds in the country. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch March 17, 1872</p>
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  • |Title=a German language baseball column ...s. It is done because a great many German citizens are taking an interest in the new Club.</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...rted fellows roll, one over another, in a wrestling match, a foot race, or a party at base ball are the leading variations on the more formal duties of
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  • |Title=a proposed round robin tournament for the championship ...lity each year. National Chronicle March 12, 1870 [see also NC 4/2/70 for a refinement to this proposal.]</p>
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  • |Title=a description of the Cuban Giants ...playing, and, from a spectative point of view, it is one of the best teams in the city to see., quoting the New York Sun</p>
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  • ...season) he was transformed while in the box from a cool-headed general to a nervous and excited amateur. He was afraid to use his deceptive inshoot fo
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  • |Country=United States ...om Childress ...Less than a month later, in July, the Amarillo team hosted a series of games against Roswell [NM]."</span></p>
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  • ...e the nerve to keep it up all the season round. Een the Phillies weakened in sliding as the season advanced last year.</p>
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  • |Name=Ball in Fort Smith in January 1864 |Country=United States
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  • |Name=in Broadview in 1883 |Country=Canada
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  • ...e end of the season. Cincinnati Enquirer July 4, 1882 [N.B. The purpose in cutting the ball was to force its being replaced.]</p> ...000. The managers propose to double this next season in order to secure a first-class nine. Philadelphia Times July 9, 1882</p>
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  • ...of misfortune was one of the most esteemed and worthy ball-players in the country.</p>
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  • |Headline=Stoolball Played, in Co-ed Form |Country=England
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  • |Title=dissension in the Baltimore Club ...next, it is to be hoped that the Boston club will be sent home with a flea in its ear.</p>
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Hualien in 1921 |Country=Taiwan
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  • |Title=Tut Ball in Staffordshire on January 4 1924 ...precluded the possibility of providing other apparatus than a penny ball.” A description of the game then followed.</p>
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  • |Name=Midland v Colorado in Midland on 22 July 1890 |Country=United States
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  • |Headline="A Balk Is A Base" |Country=United States
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  • ...1859 -- State Championship Wicket Game in Connecticut: A Hearty Hurrah for a Doomed Pastime |Is in library=Yes
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  • |Name=Amarillo team v Childress team in 1899 |Country=United States
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  • |Headline=Hawkeyes beat Suckers in Corinth, MS |Country=United States
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  • |Title=a proposal to give a base hit on a sacrifice ...sacrifice hitting credits, would met the approval of every manager in the country.</p>
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  • |Title=Ted Sullivan a League scout ...ball organizations. He is probably the best judge of a ball player in the country...</p>
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  • |Name=in Seoul on 23 October 1894 |Country=Korea
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  • ...hey would not support a picayunish management. We are free to say this is a mistake, and believe it will be corrected. Cincinnati Enquirer May 15, 187 ...simply carrying out a policy practiced in every other city where there is a Club. Cincinnati Enquirer May 16, 1877</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...s think it no harm to play Ball, Draughts, or play the Fiddle and dance of a Sunday . . . "</p>
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  • |Name=in Jayapura in 1944 |Country=Indonesia
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  • ...on its outskirts runs a small stream which finds it way from the mountains in the distance. The Sporting Life November 3, 1886 [N.B. This appears to b
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  • |Title=a country catcher and the chest protector ...ith a sharp foul tip. Once more he took a drop and has been catching with a mask ever since. St.</p>
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  • |Title=a proposal for a minor league convention to reduce salaries ...hand at once, they will vote themselves the most royal band of “producers” in the land. The Sporting Life August 22, 1888</p>
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  • |Name=in Madrid on 5 July 1918 |Country=Spain
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  • |Name=in Djibouti in 2004 |Country=Djibouti
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  • |Is in library=No |Is in main bibliography=No
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  • |Name=in Illiopolis in 1868 |Country=United States
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  • |Title=organization and finances of a western tour ...en let the remainder of the nine travel around and have their fun with the country clubs.</p>
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  • |Headline=Sunday Ballplaying Eyed Everywhere: "Is This a Christian Country?" ...e upper end of Pearl-street; and a third in the Park. Is this a Christian country? Are there no laws, human or divine, to enforce the religious observance o
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  • |Title=a resume of Wright & Ditson ...d his firm has control of nearly all lawn tennis appurtenances of any note in the United States and Canada.</p>
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  • ...anufacture a ball of the kind. We hope to learn that the name on the ball in question has been fraudulently used; if not, we shall feel called upon to e
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  • ...am at home and abroad. They are in use in all the base-ball cities in the country.</p>
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  • |Title=the Mutuals can't buy a pennant; managing a professional nine ...he organization he plays with. Until this is done, no club may expect tow in with their nine, no matter who the players are or what their celebrity who
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  • |Headline=Scottish Dictionary Calls "Cat and Dog" a Game for Three |Country=Scotland
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  • ...s services. It is a great deal easier to win games in the fall and winter in the imagination and on paper than it is on the field during the next season
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  • |Title=desparate for a catcher ...tinger says he will give any manager in the country a bonus of$1,000 for a first-class catcher, and will pay the catcher himself an increase on present sala
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  • |Headline=First Known Picture of Cricket Appears ...2 feet wide and 1 foot tall, with two stumps and a single bail." Received in an email from John Thorn, 2/1/2008. Source:</p>
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  • |Headline=Base Ball in Melbourne? |Country=Australia
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  • ..."indoor baseball." There is a single&nbsp;base to run to, scoring by runs, a three-out-side-out rule, and no foul ground. Plugging is allowed.</p> ...nd England, <em>Schlagball</em> in Germany and Silesia and <em>Palant</em> in Poland.</p>
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  • |Title=A Century of Philadelphia Cricket |Author=Lester, J. A.
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  • ...ccordingly laid his wires to get even on the St. Louis gentleman. He kept a sharp lookout for his players while at home.</p> ...reatened with expulsion. He had been doing the town the night before with a young friend from Philadelphia and did not care to play any ball.</p>
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  • |Headline=11th MA and 26th PA Play by Mass Game Rules for $50 a Side. ...oted: &lsquo;we have four clubs in our brigade, and there are several more in the division.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
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  • |Name=in Kenitra in 1943 |Country=Morocco
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  • |Name=Old Cat?? in Milwaukee in 1836 |Country=United States
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  • |Title=Pize Ball in West Yorkshire on August 9 1879 ...en played according to rule—and it is seldom played otherwise—it is a game in which spectators take almost an equal interest with the participants.”</p
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  • ...$1000 rule is abominable. For instance, a $2500 player an be reserved by a club for $1000, and if he is dissatisfied he has no redress whatever, and i
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  • |Name=in Tama on 4 July 1871 |Country=United States
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  • |Name=Ballgame in Spain in 1889 |Country=Spain
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  • |Title=a proposal to eliminate the recording of errors ...y beat the record of the best catcher in the country. The error column is a constant source of jealousy among players, and causes more internal dissens
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  • |Country=United States ...on running must be put out by being hit with the ball when he is more than a pace from his pace, etc."</span></p>
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  • |Name=in Tbilisi in 1987 |Country=Georgia
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  • |Title=a proposal for a professional championship tournament ...The idea is to have a week’s play in which the four leading clubs of the country would meet each other, thereby playing six games, the winner of the greates
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  • ...d a herculean game in which a cannonball was hurled into one of nine holes in the ground.&rdquo;</p> ...ment involved.<strong> Note:</strong> can we locate the article? There was a juvenile English game called None Holes.</p>
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  • |Country=United States ...fair, provided full pitched balls be sent in, as it is neither a jerk nor a throw, and what is neither one nor the other is fair pitching, according to
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  • |Country=United States ...l on the comon, their would be an other class piching quaits, an other set a wrestling."&nbsp;</p>
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  • |Title=winter baseball in Florida ...fe of ease and comfort in a beautiful climate with expenses guaranteed and a good profit assured. Besides base ball, the park will be used for bicycle,
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  • |Name=Athlete Club of Princeton, IN |Country=United States
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  • ...es as the older players grow rust and drop out, as they invariably must in a certain number of seasons. St.</p>
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  • |Name=In Boston in 1854 |Country=United States
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  • {{Other First |Name=First Known Interstate Challenge of a Men's Team by a Female Team
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  • |Title=A Short History of Baseball in Miami and Miami Beach |Is in library=No
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  • ...District - dating back centuries and, by the 1920s, the game of Palant had a popular following.”</p> ...t [Pilka Palantowa] as the Silesian game played in Jamestown VA in 1609 by a small group of Polish craftsmen.</p>
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  • ...hronicle of Sports and Pastimes March 12, 1868 (see issue of 3/19/1868 for a long description of the scoring method.)</p>
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  • |Title=a pickpocket at the Fashion Course game ..., alias Jackson, alias “Squib Nickson,” was discovered on the ground, with a professional companion, and both were arrested on suspicion.</p>
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  • |Title=a record crowd; clearing the field ...The excitement was intense throughout and it appeared to be bordering on a riot at one time.</p>
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  • |Country=United States |State=IN
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  • ...icap shall bring them on an equality. ... The League, as it now stands, is a powerful and self-asserting minority. The League should be an overwhelming
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  • ...en let the remainder of the nine travel around and have their fun with the country-clubs.</p>
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  • ...dom carry with them the sympathy or good wishes of the lovers of base ball in any city which they may visit.</p>
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  • |Name=in Sulaymaniyah Circa 1970 |Country=Iraq
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  • |Name=in Guyana in 2012 |Country=Guyana
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