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  • ...er, I was an expert at ball catching in rounders (cricket being unknown in Wales at the time), and when I left school, my name was the only one inscribed or ...29 in Wales, here recalls his time at a school in Holywell in the north of Wales.</p>
    662 bytes (108 words) - 17:48, 6 September 2012
  • |Headline=Prince of Wales Plays "Creag," Seen By Some as a Cricket Precursor |Notables=Prince of Wales
    454 bytes (62 words) - 17:54, 30 October 2012
  • |Name=Minerva Club of North Wales |City=North Wales
    694 bytes (99 words) - 09:10, 9 January 2022
  • |Title=English Baseball in Wales on November 29 1895 |Block Location=Wales
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  • |State=New South Wales |First in Location=New South Wales, Australia
    548 bytes (79 words) - 23:24, 25 December 2013
  • |Country=Wales ...of a mix of baseball, softball and cricket that was often played in Wales in the 1890s.</p>
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  • |Headline=Traveler in Wales Reports "Laudable" Sunday Games of "Trap, Cat, Stool-ball, Racket &amp;c" ...he notes a lack of religious fervor, "so that people do exercise and edify in the churchyard at the lawful and laudable games of trap, cat, stool-ball, r
    592 bytes (96 words) - 17:27, 6 September 2012
  • |Title=English Baseball in Worcestershire, Monmouthshire on September 25 1875 ...ect and admire the ruins, others to play at foot-ball and enjoy themselves in a variety of ways, such as base-ball, fencing, &c.”</p>
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  • |Location=Wales, UK ...bs were playing in 1921, and five Cardiff schools formed a baseball league in 1922.</p>
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  • |State=New South Wales ...article mentions teams in Melbourne, Richmond and Victoria, and also clubs in Adelaide, Broken Hill, and Tasmania.</p>
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  • |Title=English Baseball in Monmouthshire on August 28 1885 ...uting by members of the Cambrian Archaeological Association to Monmouth in Wales. Upon visiting St. Thomas church, the vicar pointed out the hagioscope at t
    983 bytes (149 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
  • |Country=Wales, UK ...Devil takes you all." Inscription on the Church Wall of a small village in Wales.</p>
    808 bytes (124 words) - 18:23, 9 May 2015
  • |Location=Wales and England ...t features, it is known in Liverpool England and in Cardiff and Newport in Wales.</p>
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  • |Title=Prince of Wales Plays "bass-ball": September 19 1749 ...ss the Prince of Wales, and Lord Middlesex, played at Bass-Ball, at Walton in Surry (sic); and notwithstanding the Weather was extreme (sic) bad, they co
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  • |Name=In Pembroke in 1763 |Country=Wales
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  • |Headline=Cricket Lore: Ball Kills the Prince of Wales, Pretty Slowly <p><strong>[A]&nbsp;</strong>"Death of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, as a result of a blow on the head from a cricket ball."&nbsp;</p>
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  • ...e back to 1825, the year the colony gained its independence from New South Wales, but there is no detailed mention of matches before 1832."</p> <p>Egan, Jack, <u>The Story of Cricket in Australia</u> (ABC Books, 1987), page 16</p>
    384 bytes (57 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
  • |Name=in Broken Hill in April 1889 |State=New South Wales
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  • |State=New South Wales |Description=<p>"The first recorded baseball match, played at Sydney's Moore Park on July 9, 1878, was
    1 KB (202 words) - 10:45, 10 February 2021
  • |Title=English Baseball in South Glamorgan on May 7 1881 ...' when the debtors would persist in playing 'baste' against his orders, or in refusing to to give up the ball when he demanded it.”</p>
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  • |Name=In Sydney in 1832 |State=New South Wales
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  • |Name=In Sydney in 1803 |State=New South Wales
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  • |Headline=Surreymen Play Londoners in Cricket for 500 Pounds a Side ...n eleven Men of the said County, chose by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the same Number chose out of the London Club by his Grace the Duke of
    607 bytes (100 words) - 17:29, 6 September 2012
  • |Title=English Baseball in Monmouthshire in 1886 ...logical journal: “The west door is quite modern, having been first erected in 1830. Old people tell me that they remember the church, with simply a blank
    889 bytes (131 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
  • |Headline=Aging Prince Spends "Several Hours" Playing Bass-Ball in Surrey |Notables=Prince of Wales, Lord Middlesex
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  • |Title=English Baseball in Suffolk on March 21 1863 ...part of that village's celebration of the recent wedding of the Prince of Wales: "After this the men and youths of the parish resorted to a meadow lent by
    720 bytes (112 words) - 20:35, 17 October 2020
  • |Name=in Wrangell on 4 July 1915 ...from the Prince of Wales Island Cannery. A 2nd game that day is mentioned in the Juneau&nbsp;<em>Alaska Daily Empire</em>, July 8, 1915.</p>
    761 bytes (116 words) - 09:46, 25 March 2020
  • |Title=English Baseball in Monmouthshire on August 2 1890 ...ure being a tug of war between 10 boys and 10 girls, the latter succeeding in pulling the boys over twice out of three times and thereby became the victo
    870 bytes (130 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
  • |Title=English Baseball in Essex on August 7 1874 ...'March of the men of Harlech,' 'Rule Britannia,' 'God bless the Prince of Wales,' &c., concluding with 'God save the Queen.'"</p>
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  • |Description=<p>An 1893 book published in Ottawa, Canada, "Changers Rules," lay out the rules and fields of a fungo-s ...it, but after the first hit a "feeder" (pitcher) lobs the ball (underhand) in to the batter, who hits the ball with the intent of either driving it throu
    926 bytes (159 words) - 05:38, 28 May 2022
  • |Title=Tut Ball in Shropshire on July 25 1866 ...ish of Chetwynd. According to a newspaper report, the school children were first served tea and then “after the repast, the girls formed several of those
    962 bytes (137 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
  • <p>1878 saw mentions of the Pownal, Rochford, and Prince of Wales BBCs.</p> |First in Location=Prince Edward Island, Canada
    917 bytes (127 words) - 06:05, 24 November 2020
  • |Title=English Baseball in London on August 13 1874 ...ry Lepel, Lady Hervey, written in 1748, the family of Frederick, Prince of Wales, are described as 'diverting themselves with base-ball, a play all who are
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  • ...6 - LM] . . . . There were present the their Royal Highnesses the Princeof Wales and Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Richmond, Admiral Vernon, and many othe
    1,002 bytes (152 words) - 17:30, 6 September 2012
  • |Headline=Lady Hervey Reports Royal 'Base-ball' in a Letter": Game Is 'Well Known to English Schoolboys' ...describes in a letter the activities of the family of Frederick, Prince of Wales:</p>
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  • |Title="Base-ball" Mentioned in Lady Hervey's Letter: November 14, 1748 ...olboys are well acquainted with; the Ladys (sic) as well as Gentlemen join in this amusement..."</p>
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  • |Title=English Baseball in West Midlands on January 20 1892 ...ate Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence and Avondale, that appeared in a Coventry, West Midlands, newspaper. Entitled "The Death of the Duke," the
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  • |Headline=First Laws of Cricket are Written in England <p>The 5-ounce ball is, likely, heavier than balls used in very early US ballplaying.</p>
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  • <p>The game is (arguably) recorded in 1300 in England, and for sure in 1598. See Altham, "A History of Cricket" p. 18-19, and Green, "A History of ...ates, led by Connecticut and Massachusetts.&nbsp; It seems to have crested in the post Civil War era, and town vs. town matches, some using teams of as m
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  • |First Name=Jacob 'Jack' ...t appeared in Distant Replay! Washington's Jewish Sports Heroes, published in 2014 by the Washington State Jewish Historical Society.</p>
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  • ...was expelled by the Boston Club for leaving its service without consent. In reference to the above, The Cincinnati Enquirer, which is championing Jones ...remain in Boston than they would to make the same request of the Prince of Wales. Why, if Jones can be expelled for such action, then why not expelled for
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  • ...n this singular find at George Thompson, "An Enigmatic 1805 "Game of Bace" in New York,"&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>& ...>Post</span> report, and also found meeting announcements for the Diagoras in the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Daily Advertiser</span> for 4
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  • ...rounders, a pastime with a 200-year history and played by as many Britons in the 20th century as cricket, has never escaped its stigma as a game for the ...A third reference established that rounders (and baseball) had been played in a Welsh prison yard around the year 1820.
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  • ...ball has a long history in Britain. Literary references to it can be found in the eighteenth century and even ...ounders city and was home to The Rounders Reporter, a publication launched in 1885.<br>
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  • ...in Sussex and other counties in the south of England. Yet many gaps remain in our understanding of stoolball’s history and development. What follows is Stoolball in 1767, from wikipedia
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