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• Clipping:Baseball's ubiquity; Sunday ball playing
  |Title=Baseball's ubiquity; Sunday ball playing ...ort was made to satisfy the numerous complainants, and about fourteen base ball players, mostly under age, and all belonging to the ward, were arrested dur
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• Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813
  |Name=Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813 |Game=Playing ball
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• Playing "Ball" In Canada In 1803
  |Title=Playing "Ball" In Canada In 1803 ..., along with the United States. The following article lays out proof of a “ball” game in Canada as early as 1803.
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• 1863.108
  |Headline=Ball playing popular in 1st Minnesota ...ry "Reading, writings, & playing ball." March 23 entry notes that ball playing is very popular in the regiment. The regiment was stationed near Falmouth,
  762 bytes (109 words) - 10:08, 16 June 2019
• 1862.62
  ...e Atlanta Southern Confederacy, April 11, 1862, editorializes against ball playing in the city streets:</p> ...the boys of their pleasure--particularly of the healthful exercise of ball playing--but it is inconvenient and dangerous in our streets."</p>
  907 bytes (130 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
• 1841.18
  ...e formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>
  1 KB (169 words) - 06:06, 22 October 2012
• 1849.17
  |Headline=Montpelier Threatens Ball Players with prosecution |Game=Ball Playing
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• Clipping:Spring training by playing handball
  |Title=Spring training by playing handball ...ers of out national game. Of course, very little can be learned in a hand ball alley in regard to the very essential point of batting; but if the men bec
  1 KB (188 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
• New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia
  #REDIRECT [[New Englander Confronts Impious Sunday Ball-playing in Virginia]]
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• 1823.5
  |Headline=Providence RI Bans "Playing Ball" in the Streets |Text=<p>"The Town of Providence have passed a law against playing ball in any of their public streets; the fine is $2. Why is not the law enforce
  946 bytes (145 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
• 1795.4
  |Headline=Deerfield&#39;s Fine for Playing Ball: Six Cents ...one's room during study. In contrast, a one dollar assessment was made for playing cards, backgammon, or checkers, or walking or visiting on Saturday night or
  783 bytes (124 words) - 07:00, 29 May 2019
• 1856.30
  |Headline="Ball playing" Schoolboy Essay |Tags=Ball in the Culture
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• 1862.118
  |Headline=Ball Playing at Shiloh ..."engaging in a game of ball:" the day prior to the battle of Shiloh. Ball playing mentioned 2-20-63 and 1-20-1864 in Memphis, TN.&nbsp;</p>
  624 bytes (96 words) - 14:03, 14 December 2023
• 1854.6
  |Headline=In Rome, Sculptor Fashions Statue of a Boy Playing Ball ...ble statue of Childhood, and has a fine statue of a boy engaged in playing ball, modeled in plaster. He is about returning to America."</p>
  523 bytes (83 words) - 18:27, 18 February 2013
• Clipping:Rising stature of professional ballplayers
  ...highest degree commendable if a young man has the requisite skill to play ball so that it will command a financial return, and he is thus enabled to defra
  717 bytes (125 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
• 1828c.4
  |Headline=NH Man Recalls Boyhood Habit of Playing Ball ..., born in 1818 in rural NH, refers in 1835 to his boyhood habit of playing ball.</p>
  544 bytes (80 words) - 17:41, 6 September 2012
• New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802
  |Title=New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802 New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802
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• 1812.3
  |Headline=NYC Council Finds Ball Playing Among "Abounding Immoralities" ...called Sunday, are . . . Horse Riding for pleasure . . . Skating ['] Ball playing, and other Plays by Boys and Men, and even Horse-racing." Minutes of the C
  653 bytes (94 words) - 17:51, 21 October 2012
• In Harrisburg in October 1860
  ...wn for playing base ball and getting exercise, but complains that the ball-playing has broken windows on Mulberry Street.</p> ...se Ball Club--We understand that efforts are being made to organize a base ball club."</p>
  786 bytes (114 words) - 07:16, 31 October 2015
• 1861.22
  |Game=Base Ball, ...icester's Improved SELF-FASTENING BASES, and the PATENT CONCAVE PLATES for Ball Shoes, which are free from all the danger, and answer all the purposes, of
  982 bytes (142 words) - 17:12, 19 July 2018
• In Springfield in 1858
  ...ng men of our city have organized a club for playing this favorite game of ball."</p> ...gfield Wicket Club" which urges the players to "Weild [ic] club, weild the ball.."</p>
  897 bytes (134 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
• Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813
  |Name=Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813 |Game=Playing ball
  941 bytes (127 words) - 08:43, 31 January 2022
• 1813.1
  |Headline=Newburyport MA Reminder - "Playing Ball in the Streets" is Unlawful ...nd Guardians are also requested to forbid, those under their care, playing Ball in the streets of the town; as by this unlawful practice much inconvenience
  616 bytes (90 words) - 17:37, 6 September 2012