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

...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

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

|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

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

|Text=<p>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

...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

...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

...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

...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,

...Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians&mdash;play primitive ball games for recreation, as fertility rites and in religious rituals.</p> ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 8-21.</p>

|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

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

...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

|Text=<p>In the Boston-Syracuse games at Boston, Mass., the home team has almost always won the toss, and, instea

...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=<p>It is possible that “bat-ball base” may refer to trap-ball, rather than baseball, because of the mentio

|Sources=<p><span>Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</em><span> (Davit Nutt, London, 1898)

<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>

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

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