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- |Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games232 bytes (36 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
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- |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 de3 KB (467 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
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- ...thampton) in 1791 and another thing in other towns (such as the names ball games were known by Pittsfield). </p>527 bytes (79 words) - 14:45, 8 April 2013
- |Description=Bat Ball. From "Little Charley's Games and Sports" (1854) p. 26348 bytes (46 words) - 14:47, 11 July 2023
- ...l-the-Bat," <em>Southwest Folklore</em> 4 (1980) pp. 84-86; Cohen, <em>The Games We Played</em> (2001), p. 77</p>780 bytes (135 words) - 20:21, 12 March 2022
- |Game=Base Ball, Bat-Ball ..." reads: "How they poured the soul of gay and joyous boyhood/ Into roaring games of marbles, <strong>bat and base-ball</strong>!/ Thinking that the world wa1 KB (212 words) - 18:20, 14 October 2015
- |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
- ...nstructor at the Round Hill School in Northampton, MA, where baseball-like games were part of the physical education curriculum (see, entry [[1823.6]]; also3 KB (381 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2015
- ...year shows that the very reverse of this is the case. Out of twenty-three games in which the home team went to the bat first at Washington Park last season911 bytes (164 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- ...ion as what we now know as the Champs Elysee? Can we learn what bat/ball games were so popular the mid 1700s - Soule? Some form of street tennis? A form o747 bytes (126 words) - 17:31, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=<u>Book of Games</u> Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball |Text=<p>Among the games described in this book are cricket and trap-ball, which has this concise ac839 bytes (159 words) - 17:36, 6 September 2012
- ...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
- ...en painted the bat to hide it, and he made twenty-six base hits in sixteen games by it. All that is needed is to take off enough wood on one side, within a674 bytes (118 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
- ... Is it possible that may other "plaing ball" references denote fungo games? </p> <p>Do we know of any other fungo games in which more than a single bat is used?</p>2 KB (399 words) - 14:26, 18 September 2013
- |Headline=German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game |Text=<p>Included among the games is <em>das Giftball</em> (the venomball, roughly). Block observes that this938 bytes (143 words) - 11:01, 21 August 2015
- |Headline="Games of Ball and Bat" Played in Nova Scotia ...and at which, 'Quadrille 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
- |Title=games take too long ...ggards who keep the spectators waiting on their laziness. Patrons of ball games have a right to demand promptness in this matter, and it is the duty of the917 bytes (168 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
- |Term=Bat-Ball |Description=<p>We have references to bat-ball from 1791 (when it was banned in both Pittsfield and Northampton MA), but t789 bytes (130 words) - 09:30, 7 April 2016
- ...o have an hour of recreation each day with sports, among bat and ball-type games." -- Tom Altherr</p>811 bytes (116 words) - 07:01, 28 January 2020
- ...l game of ball on Saturday afternoon. Ball-playing was one of the favorite games with the boys. . . . [Nat comes to bat.] 'I should like to see a ball go by1 KB (204 words) - 18:36, 14 October 2015
- <p><span>Emily Elmore and M. O’Shea, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span> </span>(Macmillan, New York, 1922)<span>, pages 36-39.</span></1,017 bytes (173 words) - 09:46, 28 November 2012
- ...Ball]] that was mostly found in the vicinity of Leeds. These latter games were played without a bat, like English base-ball, whereas . . . ball-2 KB (254 words) - 10:22, 10 December 2013
- |Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games232 bytes (36 words) - 18:43, 28 July 2019
- ...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 shoulder2 KB (296 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- |Sources=<p><span>MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." <em>Folklore</em> 16, no. 1 (1905), pages 87-88.</span></677 bytes (110 words) - 09:41, 28 November 2012
- |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 de3 KB (467 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- ...err, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine1 KB (168 words) - 06:46, 28 January 2020
- |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 and632 bytes (105 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
- ...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 bat1 KB (175 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
- ...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 the1 KB (204 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- ...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 many871 bytes (141 words) - 08:20, 13 March 2022
- ...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,1 KB (185 words) - 18:19, 14 October 2015
- ...Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians—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>704 bytes (106 words) - 07:37, 27 June 2013
- |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, "[St798 bytes (123 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
- ...was commonplace, according to a historian of that school. 'The only games seem to have been old-fashioned 'bat and ball', which, in the spring, was p1 KB (231 words) - 06:13, 6 March 2022
- ...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 of800 bytes (137 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>In the Boston-Syracuse games at Boston, Mass., the home team has almost always won the toss, and, instea467 bytes (74 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
- ...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 mentio1 KB (175 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- |Sources=<p><span>Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</em><span> (Davit Nutt, London, 1898)382 bytes (60 words) - 09:42, 28 November 2012
- <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
- {{Family of Games |Description=Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, pitching, and a bat (but no teams).150 bytes (22 words) - 06:55, 2 June 2012
- {{Family of Games |Description=Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, a bat, pitching, and two distinct teams.158 bytes (22 words) - 06:52, 2 June 2012
- |Title=crowds like high scoring games ...Ross ball to bat against, and the result was one of those splendid batting games which the crowd so delight in.</p>375 bytes (57 words) - 19:30, 29 February 2020
- |Title=practice games are useless ...on. Ordinary in training up a nine, as no earnest effort is made in such games; but when an incentive for extra exertion is offered in the way of prizes f1 KB (199 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- |Sources=<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>., page 298.</span339 bytes (49 words) - 09:39, 28 November 2012
- |Text=<p>"The games of bat-and-ball in former years were various, but most popular were "four o ...e 83. <b>Caveat</b>: The section in which this excerpt resides evidently games played half a century earlier, but other interpretations are possible.</p>861 bytes (138 words) - 17:44, 6 September 2012
- |Headline=Harvard Man Recalls Cricket, "Various Games of Bat and Ball" on Campus ...;c. . . . [w]e wrestled and ran, played at quoits, at cricket, and various games of bat and ball, whose names perhaps are obsolete."</p>1 KB (176 words) - 08:44, 7 March 2022
- ...dealer, on Church street. This promises to be one of the most interesting games of the season."</p>2 KB (245 words) - 16:42, 30 December 2014
- ...ation. There are 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
- ...n professionals, who have used LYMAN’S PATENT BAT in their most successful games the present season, fully endorse them in every respect, and will use none3 KB (481 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |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
- |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
- |Text=<p>Wall inscriptions in Egyptian royal tombs depict games using bats and balls.</p> ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 20.</p>1 KB (203 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
- ...bbell intends to present the bat to the Hartford Amateurs, and a series of games is to be played for the possession thereof by the several amateur clubs of1,001 bytes (168 words) - 18:56, 29 February 2020
- ...with the common bat. Anson certainly made a remarkable record in the two games in which he used it. June 23d, Buffington pitcher, in three times at bat h3 KB (610 words) - 19:54, 29 February 2020
- ...l, hurled with almost giant strength, often caused stomach sickness." Some games were played against teams from neighboring towns.</p>1 KB (184 words) - 13:59, 8 March 2024
- ...y Sean Lahman describes 1959 play in Jefferson that uses teams of 14, with games decided at 100 runs, noting that base-ball had been played by "early settle1 KB (185 words) - 07:02, 15 May 2015
- <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 Pe459 bytes (72 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
- ...dealer, on Church street. This promises to be one of the most interesting games of the season."</p>1 KB (173 words) - 21:26, 27 June 2015
- ...German advocate of physical education, devotes a chapter of his survey of games to "Ball mit Freystaten (oder das Englische Base-ball)" that is, Ball with ...an>. This roughly translates as: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Games for the Exercise and Recreation of Body and Spirit for the Youth and His Ed2 KB (335 words) - 09:46, 9 February 2014
- |Game=Games of bat and ball ...;c. . . . [w]e wrestled and ran, played at quoits, at cricket, and various games of bat and ball, whose names perhaps are obsolete." </p><p><br /> </p><p>Si1 KB (165 words) - 14:12, 27 February 2024
- ...l Tavern," where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."</p>1 KB (196 words) - 05:35, 29 April 2018
- ...Protoball's <em>Glossary of Games</em> includes many nonrunning games in which the ball (or cat, or other object) is put in play by a batter who |Sources=<p><span>Culin, S. (1891). "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn." <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal of3 KB (486 words) - 09:32, 23 June 2023
- |Text=<p>There will be two umpires in the great games this fall between the League and Association pennant winners for the champi848 bytes (146 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
- ...laying: “It is the purpose of this book to show that all modern games played with bat and ball descend from one common source: an ancient fertili ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], page 4.</p>2 KB (314 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
- ...the Covington being fifteen ahead and two innings to play [all tournament games were five innings due to time constraints]. The game will probably be finis2 KB (340 words) - 08:00, 12 December 2015
- |Text=<p>The posters for advertising the league games of 1882 are gorgeous affairs. They are about two and one-half feet in widt958 bytes (158 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
- ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], page 19; the image itself is reproduced oppo954 bytes (148 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
- ...Knickerbocker, Eagle and Gotham clubs. Chadwick was always present at the games, sitting on the benches, invariably carrying an umbrella under his arm. Th5 KB (874 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>"Town-ball is one of the old games from which the scientific but not half so amusing "national game" of base-b ...story about boys tarrying at recess, and can be dated 1845-1850. In other games, a "cross-out" denotes the retiring of a runner by throwing the ball across1 KB (162 words) - 18:27, 9 May 2015
- |Block Data=<p>“Ball-bias” was one of the games enjoyed by 200 children at the annual treat for students of the Wesleyan Ch705 bytes (106 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- |Headline=Vicar of Winkfield Advises Against Bat/Ball Games in Churchyards; First Stoolball Reference? ...instructions to parish priests, advising them to forbid the playing of all games of ball in churchyards: "Bats and bares and suche play/Out of chyrche-yorde1 KB (216 words) - 17:25, 6 September 2012
- ...ways. Among the most popular methods employed in the playing of burlesque games of base ball. The bases are marked in the gymnasium as the regular diamond1,008 bytes (171 words) - 19:52, 29 February 2020
- <p>Do we know know if this and other fungo style batting games were known elsewhere in the US? </p>957 bytes (166 words) - 12:53, 7 February 2021
- ...that anybody can field reasonably well, but that batting is what wins the games. … Let the members of the nine practice at the bat to the exclusion of f704 bytes (120 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...e, and for the crowd’s applause less; and they would then help to win more games than was done last season.</p>2 KB (333 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>"Other forms of bat and ball games, like trap-ball and stool-ball, became well established in Louisville in th888 bytes (131 words) - 06:53, 5 March 2013
- ...possible that the term was used for diverse variations of local safe-haven games in other areas.</p> <p>One might speculate that later still, such games would be thought of as “town ball.”</p>3 KB (528 words) - 08:26, 8 June 2021
- ...ll [p. 28], Northern Spell [p. 33] and Trap, Bat, and Ball [p 33]. The cat games and barn ball and town ball are not listed. In feeder, the ball is served f2 KB (423 words) - 21:12, 10 March 2016
- |Text=<p>Horseman, who is a great caterer for the ladies in sports and games, has lately introduced a capital lawn game for parties who have hitherto be2 KB (287 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- ...Andrews, in his history of England, cites a source for his passage on ball games, but I can not make it out from the photocopy in my possession."</p>1 KB (212 words) - 17:34, 6 September 2012
- ...ween the nines belonging to Turin and Constableville, who are playing five games for the championship of the county. … The first man was called to the ba604 bytes (101 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- ...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> ...p>This reference is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball p961 bytes (150 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...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
- ...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
- There is no limit to the number of innings as games will be timed. ...ricket. Each team alternately takes turns in batting and fielding. In some games, a rule from dodgeball is incorporated, where the player can be considered3 KB (587 words) - 13:29, 8 March 2016
- ...e of McGeary, the second striker of the Athletics, being second in hits to games and fourth in averages of times at bal.</p>2 KB (303 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- ...ylaw was written, perhaps the authors of the Bylaw were not thinking about games involving the "trap" device. In classical physics terminology, a baseball b ...bat. This is akin to how these ordinances often give a list of ball games they are regulating, then add something on the lines of "or any other game6 KB (969 words) - 09:26, 9 November 2020
- ...ted in Wilson Green’s, Red River Revelations (Hignell Printing, 1974) says games of "bat" were played in the 1830s by Scottish immigrants in the Red River S2 KB (241 words) - 14:46, 27 February 2024
- ...sborough, Buckinghamshire) at their annual treat: "After an excellent tea, games were freely indulged in, such as base ball, bat and trap, &c., the older fo618 bytes (91 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- .... . " "We may summarize: The game and name of cricket stem back to ancient games played with a curved stick and ball, starting with <i>la soule</i>, and evo <p>Henderson, Robert W., <u>Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</u> [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 130-131. Henderson's ref 17 is Bodleian Li1 KB (198 words) - 17:25, 6 September 2012
- ...ce Bertha Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unsp666 bytes (93 words) - 06:21, 14 March 2017
- ...ers of the city of Hartford to . . . play at Wicket Ball, the best in nine games for Dinner and Trimmings. The Rules to be as follows: [1] The ball to be ro2 KB (387 words) - 13:40, 4 March 2022
- ...and mentioning that “there being plenty of room to engage in all sorts of games, cricket, trap bat, base ball, French tag, and kiss-in-the-ring, were indul790 bytes (113 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...ity resident Michael Frank: “Hardball? Never. Other baseball-related games we played included Stickball in the street and “Flies-Up” in th ...om/christianog/games.html"><span>http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</span></a></p>996 bytes (166 words) - 12:06, 13 October 2018
- ...n that the rules of the American Association should govern the Clevelands’ games in Cincinnati. These rules differ only in respect to foul balls from the L2 KB (303 words) - 19:41, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>"Of formalized games, choices for males [in NC] appear to have been 'town-ball, bull-pen,' 'cat, ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32.</p>2 KB (250 words) - 19:05, 29 January 2020
- ...ose of the day continued with little intermission. There were also several games, such as bat-and-trap, and bass ball, which occupied the attention of the m699 bytes (102 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- |Game=Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball,847 bytes (119 words) - 18:37, 9 May 2015
- ...years past “heavy batting nines” have made it a “point” in making up their games to secure the privilege of selecting the ball, and having had balls special2 KB (374 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
- ...reful minute has been made of the direction of Anson's hits in the fifteen games played on the Chicago grounds this season. Out of 65 times at bat he has m2 KB (396 words) - 19:48, 29 February 2020
- ...me help to new Origins diggers who were looking for search terms for local games that may have morphed into base ball. We thought is those days to loo == List of Predecessor Games ==2 KB (324 words) - 08:56, 24 May 2023
- ...played a game of "base ball" in Sept. 1853 against the Olympic. See games tabulation. They probably played under the MA rules, or variant. They pract ...all Club" has 60 members, who exercise on the Commons in the morning with "games of bat and ball."</p>1 KB (165 words) - 05:23, 20 July 2022
- Editors Note: Each issue we plan to highlight a bat-ball game that preceded baseball. Several early bat-ball games bore resemblance to our modern baseball. These games (among them, Stool-ball, Pize-ball, Tut ball and Rounders) all featured str4 KB (704 words) - 14:23, 12 September 2021
- |Description=Bats for Longball and other early bat-ball games363 bytes (51 words) - 17:54, 15 June 2023
- ...err, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine2 KB (284 words) - 13:13, 23 November 2023
- ...The new rule governing these points will have a tendency to put a stop to games made long by wild pitching.</p>2 KB (281 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
- ...e some arrangement to bulletin on the grounds during the season reports of games, by innings, as they are played on the same day at other points. Cincinnat730 bytes (114 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- ...a legitimate account of the earliest, recorded at the time, baseball-type games. The influence for the play is likely British.</p><p>Halifax, Nova Scotia (1 KB (215 words) - 14:33, 27 February 2024
- 16. In playing all match games, when one is out, the side shall be considered out. 17. In playing all match games, one hundred tallies shall constitute the game, the making of which by eith4 KB (664 words) - 08:16, 6 March 2016
- ...mes. This device is intended not only to indicate the progress of distant games, but actually to be used at the opposite end of the ball field from the gra1 KB (256 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- ...the practice of so many youth spending the very time of public worship in games – to say the least – only suitable to the gayest festival. It t3 KB (479 words) - 11:06, 22 April 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab1 KB (204 words) - 20:21, 1 February 2016
- ...re deadly weapons, have not forgotten the use of bat and ball, as the many games played by them during their three years service will prove.’ He proposed1,012 bytes (165 words) - 18:12, 6 September 2012
- |Title=reporting juvenile games ...e most pleasurable emotions, and we consider it our duty to encourage them games by every means in our power, even to the publication of the scores of their1 KB (227 words) - 07:56, 13 March 2022
- ...spaper articles about Staffordshire Customs, this one entitled “Children's Games, Pastimes and Amusements.” After a lengthy discussion of rounders, the wr811 bytes (119 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...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
- ...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,2 KB (255 words) - 14:34, 27 February 2024
- |Headline=Youth Ball Games Widespread at London Schools.849 bytes (133 words) - 17:26, 6 September 2012
- ...al Schools of Chesham, Buckinghamshire. A newspaper reported that “various games were indulged in, such as cricket, base ball, bat and trap, drop glove, &c.545 bytes (74 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...mean tricks of the kind characteristic of corner lot loafers in their ball games. All these so-called “points” in base ball are beyond the pale of fair2 KB (306 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
- ...whatever, you would use in a professional baseball game. . . . But pepper games are gone. . . . It would still be worth putting every player through a pepp1 KB (212 words) - 18:26, 14 May 2013
- ...from Babcock also mentions drive ball as the last mentioned of six common games played with a ball, naming "base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b <p>[2] Drive: A ball game, listed along with the Old Cat games and Baseball, is mentioned in the memoirs of a New Hampshire man born in 185 KB (798 words) - 08:13, 28 July 2023
- |Term=Unnamed Games - Czech <p>Endrei, <em>Fun and Games in Old Europe</em>.</p>1 KB (190 words) - 09:43, 28 November 2012
- ...style="text-decoration: underline;">The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games</span> [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books.<974 bytes (145 words) - 18:34, 9 May 2015
- ...as the leading athletic game on the campus. . . . [The] fiercely contested games drew many spectators from among the young ladies and aroused no common inte2 KB (374 words) - 08:40, 27 May 2023
- ...bat-and-ball for this period. There is no indication if or how these games differed, or whether they are direct antecedents of the Mass Game rules of3 KB (455 words) - 07:59, 12 November 2023
- ...to warm our blood not long since.” “Good old bat and ball” was one of the games. Tom Altherr located a fictional story in The Child’s Friend (Jan 1848) ...ball” and play base ball on the grounds of schoolyards or in local pick-up games with boys. In 1859, feminist and abolitionist Frances Dana Barker Gage com2 KB (379 words) - 17:39, 8 October 2014
- ...he bat. All play was forward of the wicket, as it is now in single wicket games of less that five players a side. With these exceptions, the game was very1 KB (187 words) - 17:30, 6 September 2012
- </p><p>"In Benton Harbor the games were played on the Morton ball ground on Morton Hill." ...ld Congregational Church on East Main Street. . . . When playing practice games on this ground a few of the players would occasionally bat the ball to the2 KB (258 words) - 18:39, 6 June 2020
- ...g game, while their batting was equal to any they have done in first-class games this season. People express some surprise at the weakness, as they term it1 KB (177 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- |Headline="Poisoned Ball" Appears in French Book of Games ...t=<p>The rules for "Poisoned Ball" are described in a French book of boy's games: "In a court, or in a large square space, four points are marked: one for t2 KB (280 words) - 08:03, 11 March 2022
- ...e pic-nic ground, makai of the Stone Church, where, after a few appetizing games of ball, they sat down to a sumptuous repast..."</p> ...(Castle) introduced the new baseball game to Hawaii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".</p>2 KB (385 words) - 06:23, 20 May 2018
- ...blishing the score, however, as we intend to do after the present week, in games which merit a detailed account, the merits of each player, both at the bat2 KB (403 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- ...onal tendencies. But in the actual case the generative principles of both games between the same, the investigator is confident at once that the explanatio ...nd change produces. And to any one who carefully watches the two national games it becomes evident that they also differ in the same way—cricket being th3 KB (543 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- ...bout the same as early baseball, yet in looking over the old score-book of games of townball played in Cincinnati during the war, we find one of 146 to 21.721 bytes (118 words) - 20:14, 10 March 2016
- {{Subtitle|A compilation of {{#ask: [[Category:Games]] | format = count }} games with a resemblance to baseball, most often using base-running and run-scori ...Games is dedicated to Francis Willughby (1635-1672), compiler of a Book of Games, an early member of the England's pathbreaking Royal Society, and perhaps n6 KB (926 words) - 06:08, 19 June 2023
- ...ot interfere with the players as it did last season during the progress of games. A new reporters’ stand is among the improvements to be introduced, the2 KB (355 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- ...of ball" [Beleth, 1165]. "In certain places in our country, prelates play games with their own clerics on Easter in the cloisters, or in the Episcopal Pala ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 37-38. Page 37 refers to an 1165 prohibi2 KB (259 words) - 16:58, 9 May 2015
- |Title=comparing the New York and Massachusetts games2 KB (278 words) - 18:20, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=New York "Boys' Book" of Games Covers Stoolball, Rounders, Wicket ...Book of Sports,</span> attributed to "Uncle John," describes more than 200 games, including, rounders (pp. 20-21), stool-ball (pp. 18-19), and wicket (label3 KB (553 words) - 12:05, 8 January 2022
- ...f having the records of the players in the matter of hits which may decide games, as well as the important matter of properly calling balls and strikes, wel3 KB (573 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- ...ds, while the batsman who has the best average of clean hits in over fifty games is placed down in the two-hundreds of percentage, and at the close of the s2 KB (413 words) - 20:21, 29 February 2020
- ...t as to which can make the most homeruns from heavy hitting, while in such games skillful fielding—which is the attractive feature of baseball, is of but2 KB (396 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
- ...means. Clearly it is a bat-and-ball game, and given the documented earlier games of baseball (in some form or other) in California and the absence of docume2 KB (241 words) - 18:22, 14 October 2015
- .... Let me illustrate: Captain Ollie Bear, let us say, has played in eight games. He has these figures to his credit:</p>2 KB (418 words) - 20:43, 29 February 2020
- ...vy batting, long games, large scores and the bound catch of our school-boy games of twenty years ago. In fact, no such splendid displays of the beauties of1 KB (266 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
- ...hem, which I believe to be the most popular with boys." [Page 37.] Other games describes are Fives, Nine-Holes, or Hat-Ball [a game with running/plugging2 KB (323 words) - 17:43, 6 September 2012
- ...hits sending runners home. Deliver me from the home run slugging batting games of the Players' League lively ball, please. I prefer single figure contest1 KB (222 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
- <p><span>[A.] Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Traditional Games of England, </span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sc ...e New England game was also descended from a family of English traditional games, of which perhaps the nearest equivalent was called bittle-battle. Its rule4 KB (707 words) - 18:10, 8 December 2021
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...ol. 25, no. 32 (22 Sep 1855), p. 373, col. 3 [list of Knickerbocker-Gotham games]</p>1 KB (204 words) - 18:32, 7 July 2020
- ...ere they enjoyed themselves much with bat-and-trap, croquet, and the usual games, while the boys adjourned to a meadow . . . and indulged in cricket, base b738 bytes (104 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...the school and then marched in procession to a nearby park, “where various games of cricket, bat and trap, base ball, swings, etc. were very heartily engage675 bytes (99 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
- ...the same rules their fathers did before them. We also find that many games are played, differing but little from the well-known game of Base.</p>5 KB (833 words) - 18:15, 14 October 2015
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- ...the heavy batting [Mutual had 31 hits and 29 runs]. Both the Olympic games of yesterday and Monday were played with a ball that contained but half an ...ressed the issue by requiring clubs to use a standard Spalding ball in its games, thus lessening suspicion the club that provides a game ball thereby gains2 KB (357 words) - 15:14, 15 September 2020
- |Block Data=<p>“Base ball” was reported to be among the games played at the annual fete for members of the Mechanics Institute of West Wy716 bytes (106 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...<span> </span><span>John has an ongoing project of bat and ball games over history, from Wicket to Wiffleball, but hasn't determined whether it a942 bytes (151 words) - 08:20, 17 June 2012
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab ...the good fortune of the Union Club to be a participant in some of the best games on record, and though of late quite unsuccessful, yet they always require a2 KB (366 words) - 12:48, 23 June 2020
- ...e knocked all over the field, and an end would be put to the fine fielding games incident to the underhand throw delivery.</p>1 KB (169 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...ap for the SABR site, and anyone else who may have stopped by to watch the games, let me know your impressions.</p> <p>Great games, the Renegades were ahead - wicked ahead in the standings.</p>2 KB (417 words) - 09:45, 8 July 2017
- ...riences to relate about the devices people employ to gain admission to the games. “The worst class of cranks,” said he, “that we have to deal with ar2 KB (317 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
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- .... My opinion is that the spectators will not like the rules, and that the games will lack interest and the patronage drop off. I failed to hear one person1 KB (279 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- ...e townspeople and others from the surrounding neighbourhood, and the usual games such as cricket, football, bassball, and bat-trap, were entered into with g659 bytes (93 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
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- ...two games the Boston Club made but seven runs and earned five. In the two games in which the Athletic Club suffered defeat his pitching has never been exce652 bytes (106 words) - 18:41, 29 February 2020
- ...their example should be followed, and that is, that even in their practice-games they play according to the strict rules of the game, balls being called for767 bytes (133 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab 21 KB (180 words) - 14:21, 7 April 2020
- |Block Data=<p>A children's book, Jolly Games for Happy Homes, includes two separate game descriptions, one of "base ball |Sources=<p>Jolly Games for Happy Homes, by Georgiana C. Clark, London, 1875 (est.), Dean & Son., p2 KB (314 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
- ...(Castle) introduced the new baseball game to Hawaii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".</p>1 KB (226 words) - 05:44, 20 December 2018
- ...=<p>[A.] Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</span> (Dover Pr3 KB (406 words) - 18:48, 8 December 2021
- |Block Data=<p>“Bass ball” was among a selection of games played at the annual Parochial Schools Festival held in the town of Chesham849 bytes (124 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...k, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, pages 211-212. This book's section "Games with Toys" includes two variants of rounders. Block's summary:</p> <p><b>Note:</b> Were none of the other traditional English safe-haven games - cricket, stool-ball, etc., included in this book?</p>2 KB (395 words) - 17:51, 6 September 2012
- ...ld have been to have engaged a staff of regular salaried umpires to umpire games behind the bat, and to have appointed a local staff of three umpires from w2 KB (300 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- ...nal vs. St. Louis (Union) 10/11/1884] For the past two weeks, to hurry the games through as quickly as possible, two balls have been used at the Union groun2 KB (387 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab913 bytes (141 words) - 09:12, 8 April 2020
- ...urn, of the Bostons, says:--”The best pitcher is the one who wins the most games for his club, and not the one who suffers for fewest base hits.” Under t522 bytes (88 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- ...nt: originally published in 1894), volume I. [Page not shone; listed games are presented alphabetically]</p>2 KB (354 words) - 08:11, 26 January 2020
- |Sources=<p><span>Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games," </span><em>Genus</em><span> 5 </span>(1941)<span>. R2 KB (285 words) - 12:37, 7 February 2021
- |Tags=Championship Games, ...n eight games is a far different thing from doing so after having won four games out of twenty. Add to this the fact that three straight victories were gain3 KB (536 words) - 21:08, 6 October 2020
- <p>For these games, oncoming traffic was marked by a common shriek -- "Carrr!!!" -- that ...kies" sometimes did. A floppy half-Pinkie could be employed in fungo games, but not in a continuation of a stickball game. (Email of 1/1/2020).<3 KB (457 words) - 07:23, 8 January 2020
- ...d and third games." The scores were 25 to 18, 25 to 7, 25 to 14. The three games occupied three hours, and the players runs scored and outs made totals are2 KB (367 words) - 15:44, 6 June 2020
- .... A newspaper reported that, following some further speeches, “the various games and amusements were then again indulged in, including cricket, swings, base918 bytes (130 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- |Submission Note=Waff games2 KB (252 words) - 11:20, 30 November 2020
- ...60]), pp. 54-56), the father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more like4 KB (684 words) - 03:49, 9 April 2013
- ..."text-decoration: underline;">The Boy's Modern Playmate: A Book of Sports, Games. and Pastimes</span> (Frederick Warne and Co, London and New York, 1891), p2 KB (290 words) - 10:15, 23 March 2021
- ...nded readership was teachers rather than boys themselves. Not all of these games were German, and for modern researchers the most notable section is that de ''from'' <big>Games for Exercise and Relaxation of Body and Spirit</big> <br>10 KB (1,777 words) - 07:40, 15 March 2016
- <p>It was. A case in point occurred in one of the Brooklyn-Columbus games of September. Collins bunted a short ball in the air which fell on fair gr2 KB (380 words) - 20:40, 29 February 2020
- ...t Phillips Academy) has a lot on early baseball here. Evidently "bat-ball" games were popular here in 1811.By 1852-53 they were playing "base ball,' but the <p>The 1853 games were played in an open field in the rear of the Seminary buildings. One gam2 KB (264 words) - 04:09, 25 June 2022
- ...arming 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel4 KB (699 words) - 08:46, 18 November 2013
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- ...’s idea that the rule is cumbrous will fade away after he has scored a few games with it. It really appertains to only a few men anyway, and there is no fe5 KB (972 words) - 19:03, 29 February 2020
- |Comment=<p>Per Maigaard's 1941 survey of "battingball games" includes a Polish variant of long ball, but does not mention pilka palanto3 KB (456 words) - 04:52, 25 June 2017
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- </p><p>Under the heading "Games Derived from Europeans," Culin wrote in 1907 that there was a "Navaho game |Sources=<p>Stewart Culin, Games of the North American Indians, 1907. Special thanks to John Thorn and Bruc1 KB (236 words) - 18:55, 6 June 2020
- ...me rules, the game should be better balanced. As it is, in the exhibition games, the League clubs have the worst of it, as the pitchers of the opposing tea1 KB (239 words) - 20:00, 29 February 2020
- ...trong brac'd Nerve are thine [cricket's] / Scorn Eunuch Sports; to manlier Games [we] incline" [lines 68-71]</p>2 KB (378 words) - 17:30, 6 September 2012
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab1 KB (201 words) - 20:12, 1 February 2016
- ...ing so inclined could experiment with other substances in their exhibition games and thus come to the next meeting better prepared to legislate intelligentl545 bytes (86 words) - 19:58, 29 February 2020
- |Headline="Bafeball" Among Games Banned in Pittsfield MA - also Cricket, Wicket |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball, Wicket,2 KB (386 words) - 09:36, 13 April 2013
- ...ition, a game isn’t hockey if ANY of these six characteristics is missing. Games considered closest to hockey share most of these characteristics. Thus fiel ...antly. Nine inning games were only made the standard in 1857. And pre-1857 games were often played to a set score, usually 21 or 100.8 KB (1,255 words) - 11:50, 14 September 2021
- ...was there a two-player version of the game then (in the 1800s competitive games of cricket were similarly reported with only two named players)?</p>2 KB (333 words) - 12:57, 20 September 2021
- ...he 36-page Mayhew/Baker manual covers the rules and field layouts for both games. It gamely explains that both game require "equal skill and activity," but ...olor: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">In playing all match games, when one is out, the side shall be considered out.</span></p>10 KB (1,572 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2015
- ...hat it is a large factor in the problem of their club's success in winning games. Latham's mode is very ingenious and displays an acuteness on his part tha2 KB (345 words) - 20:10, 29 February 2020
- ...y dislodging a wicket, and thus resembling field hockey. Were two separate games conflated in memory? </p>2 KB (262 words) - 07:26, 29 January 2020
- |Query=<p>Are other baserunning games known that were to be played on horseback?</p>2 KB (335 words) - 11:54, 25 October 2021
- ...well all 11 men had to be retired before the other team came to bat. Both games allowed the pitcher to throw the ball in the modern style, rather than unde1 KB (226 words) - 05:55, 15 April 2020
- |Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel5 KB (822 words) - 07:48, 11 January 2022
- ...ay but simply sore from constant use. He expects to catch in all the four games with the Athletics. (St. Louis)</p>547 bytes (92 words) - 20:00, 29 February 2020
- |Entry Origin=Games Tab930 bytes (143 words) - 20:30, 1 February 2016
- ...-Bat]] option for returned throws is employed. Land’s review of schoolyard games includes two references to 500. It is also evidently called [[Twenty-One]]601 bytes (88 words) - 09:46, 28 November 2012
- ...hill above the workhouse, where cricket, baseball, bat and trap, and other games were indulged in until teatime.”</p>742 bytes (109 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
- ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 75.</p>2 KB (353 words) - 07:00, 22 June 2022
- ...ll mit Freystäten (oder das englische Base-ball)" in a German book on games and sports. This is the earliest description of a game called baseball and1 KB (241 words) - 08:36, 24 October 2020
- |Headline=Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described ...llughby (1635-1672) compiled, in manuscript form, descriptions of over 130 games, including, stoolball, hornebillets, kit-cat, stowball, and tutball [but no2 KB (312 words) - 06:15, 2 July 2022
- ...nbsp; </span><span>Part of the exhibition will focus on bat and balls games prior to 1840, and Beth is looking into stoolball history and the 1755 Will652 bytes (106 words) - 06:31, 18 June 2012
- ...and third games." The scores were 25 to 18, 25 to 7, 25 to 14. The three games occupied three hours, and the players runs scored and outs made totals are3 KB (563 words) - 16:12, 6 June 2020
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- <p>See the article on lapta and other early European bat-ball games. Lidstrom and Bjarsholm, <em>Batting, Running, and ‘Burning&rsqu3 KB (463 words) - 18:18, 15 June 2023
- ...e and for the same length of time. During these intermissions the old time games were played - marbles, quoits, prisoner's base, bull-pen, town-ball, cat-ba3 KB (508 words) - 14:10, 27 February 2024
- ...ter, with a view of securing the full strength of the team in championship games.</p>1 KB (200 words) - 20:35, 29 February 2020
- ...ere this. As it is, here we have them catching over a hundred successive games, even beating the old-time records, such as that of Barnie, etc.</p>593 bytes (99 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
- ...honor the memory of Senator Marcus Hanna of OH. The likely location of the games was in Lisbon, in easternmost OH - about 45 miles northwest of Pittsburgh P2 KB (403 words) - 20:33, 27 January 2013
- ...response speaks of "bass ball" played on ice. This is a decade before such games were commonly reported, suggesting that the [later] practice by organized c2 KB (353 words) - 22:18, 5 December 2018
- ...s–or any other disinterested parties, would be for them to witness the two games fairly played, and then to decide which is the genuine game of base ball, a4 KB (671 words) - 18:20, 29 February 2020
- ...rule in force for one season, in order to see how it would work. The few games that have been played have afforded no criterion as to whether the fly-game5 KB (888 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- ...curity with the printed word beginning to define it, along with other folk games, as an element of the national culture. Edward Chamberlyne's <u>Anglia Not ...played. We find no reference to club ball, stick ball, trap ball, or other games suggested as precursors of baseball. The full title of Chamberlayne is <u>A3 KB (432 words) - 17:28, 6 September 2012
- ...they play with our associate clubs, and place it on exhibition during the games, in order that all the contesting clubs may seen the prize for which they a2 KB (292 words) - 20:05, 29 February 2020
- |Description=<p>This game resembles other northern European safe-haven games like lapta. Batters bat, then run to a single distant base, trying to2 KB (257 words) - 18:19, 15 June 2023
- ...such an abuse would be that no catcher in the country could play over two games a week, and even then he would in every contest risk the mangling of his ha2 KB (349 words) - 18:39, 29 February 2020
- |Headline=Dutch Publication Covers "Engelsch Balspel," "Kat," Other Batting Games |Text=<p>John Thorn passed along text of a Dutch book of games printed in 1845.</p>7 KB (1,261 words) - 10:08, 27 October 2016
- ...it related, or relates, to base ball, long ball, or other early safe-haven games.</p> |Sources=<p>Ado<span> Gini, "Rural Ritual Games in </span>Libya<span>," </span><em>Rural Sociology</em><span>&nbs15 KB (2,957 words) - 05:16, 25 June 2023
- ...athering of paying crowds at professional games this season, heavy batting games with large scores no longer being tolerated by the best judges of the game.2 KB (407 words) - 18:55, 29 February 2020
- ...bases or otherwise exert one's self; it would break up any catcher in two games, because he would have to catch almost every ball under the bat, and, final2 KB (459 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- ...work done by the different players of the Chicago Club in the twenty-seven games played in this city. In this showing is included an item not commonly foun657 bytes (109 words) - 19:36, 29 February 2020
- ...not to be played on neutral ground, except in case of each having won four games. He also states that where the first game is played, so should the last be ...to so great a perfection, batting is the only thing that really determines games, and that one gap should be left open for the display of this skill.</p>4 KB (777 words) - 18:51, 29 February 2020
- ...back to Hawaii when he returned in 1866. He also claims that the bat-ball games in Hawaii at the time were two-o-cat and three-o-cat. Castle was born n 184993 bytes (146 words) - 14:33, 27 February 2024
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- |Text=<p>[reporting on a series of experimental games Boston vs. Chicago] The second game, to be played Tuesday, will be an expo1 KB (177 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
- ...a Gomme, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span><em>, </em>Volume 1&749 bytes (114 words) - 05:08, 14 March 2017
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- ...shown that style of delivery to be alike the most conducive to interesting games to the spectators, and to enjoyable contests to the players. Fair pitching2 KB (346 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
- ...as the leading athletic game on the campus. . . . [The] fiercely contested games drew many spectators from among the young ladies and aroused no common inte3 KB (423 words) - 14:34, 27 February 2024
- |Game=Round Ball,Long Ball,Old-Cat Games3 KB (408 words) - 06:14, 5 June 2022
- ...erline;">The Book of Sports </span>(Boston, 1834). See chapter III, "Games with a Ball. The simpler game appears on pages 48-49." Carver d2 KB (404 words) - 15:06, 15 September 2022
- |Sources=<p><span>[A] Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of Englan</em><em>d, Scotland, and Ireland</em> (Davit3 KB (567 words) - 07:41, 4 June 2022
- ...as the leading athletic game on the campus. . . . [The] fiercely contested games drew many spectators from among the young ladies and aroused no common inte4 KB (726 words) - 22:53, 5 December 2018
- ...as uniform practice for the Massachusetts game in earlier years. Examples: games are decided at "say 25" tallies, not at 100; minimum distance from 1B to 2B2 KB (274 words) - 18:29, 14 October 2015