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|Game=Wicket <p>&middot; Huntsville, 3/64: "Games daily in camp, ball, etc." [p. 184]</p>

|Tags=Throwback Games, ...games reported appear to be base ball-like games, but 8 refer to cricket, wicket and trap ball.&nbsp;<span>Ten entries refer to soldierly play during the Ci

|Headline=Disparate Ball Games Seen in New Hampshire ...- it's hard to construe it having a one-out-side-out rule -, but it's not wicket, for the club is named the "Granite Base Ball Club", also of Manchester. Th

...onic feints and ruses which make a distinguishing feature of American card-games. A bowler will watch his opportunity two or three times, and apparently ab

...tend our knowledge of the early roots of base ball and similar baserunning games in the six New England states. The page serves as something of a homepage # Was the game of wicket (called Wicket Ball in some areas) known in your area? What was it like? Are its playing

...se Ball, and Cricket, noble, manly games,/Where Health herself beholds the wicket fall,/ and Joy goes flying for the bounding ball,/And the gay greensward, s

...d in the Oswego Palladium, July 29, 1859, along with 2 cricket clubs and a wicket club.</p> ...b was organized (re-organized?) in June 1865, and goes on to list the 1865 games played by it and the Nationals.</p>

...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 30.</ |Comment=<p>The book has no references to wicket, cricket or roundball.</p>

|Headline=In 10th MA: Ballplaying Has “Become a Mania” in 1863 Camp, Wicket Also Played in 1864 ...256] suddenly lists ballplaying on seven days between April 13 and May 3. Wicket was played on April 13 [10^th vs, 37^th] and April 23<s

<p>The author here is describing Inuit games.</p> |Comment=<p>These rules are similar to those of cricket and single-wicket cricket.&nbsp; When the number of players is limited, is seems likely that

|Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 1867 volume,&nbsp;a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel

...here were more of them in those days than now. We had more holidays, more games in the street, &ndash; of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and ...es NE of Hartford Connecticut. Note: [1] the "game of ball" may have been wicket. [2] More holidays in 1800 than in 1857?

...ce Bertha Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 &ndash; rep ...>A game at ball, having short sticks and a hole in the ground instead of a wicket. --Walter Rye's&nbsp;</span><em>A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia</em

...riginally published 1883) page 184. <strong>Note:</strong> The omission of wicket - and arguably cricket - from Newell's account is interesting here. The cla

|Game=Base Ball, Cricket, Wicket, Massachusetts Game ...sp; Base ball was by a large margin the game of choice among soldiers, but wicket, cricket, and the Massachusetts game were occasionally played.&nbsp; Play w

|Headline=Cricket [or Maybe Wicket?] Played by Harvard Class of 1841 |Text=<p>"Games of ball were played almost always separately by the classes, and in my case

<p>There is a time limit for each team (I think these games were played during lunch hours but that may be wrong!) and at the end of th ...<br /><br /><br />THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPORT [public school games] <br /><br />p. 148

...saying that there were no prior safe-haven ball games [cricket, town ball, wicket] out west, or just that the NY game hadn't arrived until 1849?</p>

...d the absence of documented references of the other usual suspects such as wicket in California, it is a reasonable guess that this was [a form of] baseball.

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...s hard to construe it having a one-out-side-out rule &ndash;, but it's not wicket, for the club is named the "Granite Base Ball Club." The run distribution i