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|Title=debate over a dead or lively ball ...lly active in the effort to secure some change, either in the ball used or in the rules, that shall favor the batter.</p>

...whenever a ball should be batted over the fence, or out of certain bounds in any direction, the striker could take no more than two bases for the same.<

...ally in New York City on the streets where such fixtures as a fire hydrant or an abandoned car serve as bases."</p>

...pied either by an organized club of players or a party of chosen sides for a temporary game.</p>

|City=Troy ...g any street or alley in the first, second, third, or fourth wards of said city; and every person who shall violate either of the prohibitions . . . shall,

...which declared war to the knife of the Union Association. It was inserted in section 7, of article 3, and reads as follows:</p> ...ved player unreleased; or any club which belongs to any association where a club belonging to either of said associations is located.”</p>

|Title=talk of a player's union ..., Ryan, Devlin, McGeary, and other prominent professionals, are interested in this new move that will give the League more trouble than they anticipate.<

|Headline=Fitchburg Levies $1 fine for Striking balls with a bat-stick |City=Fitchburg

...ing ball. It is the player who by making the bold attempt and drawing out a fielder—it is he who should be encouraged. The Sporting Life August 25, ...tention to stolen bases and others do; therefore the base stealing record in that organization must of necessity be unreliable and unsatisfactory. The

|City=Newburyport ...ball or balls in any of the streets, lanes, or alleys of this town, . . ." a fine of 25 cents to one dollar was to be assessed.</p>

|Headline=The "Citty of New Yorke" Sets a Fine for Sunday "Gameing or Playing: Ten Guilders ...Person or Persons soe found drinkinge Gameing or Playing Either in Priuate or Publicke Shall forfeict Tenn Guildrs for Euery such offence." Note that bal

...f a violation of this by-law, the penalty may be recovered from the parent or guardian." The fine also applied to bowling, kite-flying, and hoops. <u>N

...s hit to the short stop. The short stop could easily retire the runner at first base, but instead tries to catch the man who is running for third, and fail ...ything else? Even if it was by slow fielding it cannot be called an error or base hit. The Sporting Life January 18, 1888</p>

|Name=Club of Glencoe, OR v Club of Cornelius on 4 July 1875 |State=OR

|Title=English Baseball in Norfolk on November 15 1862 ...n the game; so in their studies let them take care that whatever they took in hand they did it fairly and earnestly."</p>

|Headline=Baseball Arrives in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada ...ntil about 1840.' Whether of not this was actually the game of "Rounders" or "Town Ball" is debatable.</p>

|Name=in St. Louis in 1875 |City=St. Louis

|Headline=Baltimore MD Bans Ballplaying on Sundays and within City Limits ...n 7 covers Sabbath play, again including ball, and adding "pitching quoits or money." The penalty was $1.00. The ordinance is dated March 2, 1827.</p>

...the West. Whether any such concession will ever be made by the League is a matter of doubt, as the League has always maintained that the rate is only

...rties spoke in high praise of it, for it was apparent to all that they had a thoroughly fair and competent umpire for their game.</p>

...s which we played in Pittsburg and Cincinnati, while those played here and in Chicago were well patronized.</p>

...who earns a base for himself twice as often, and makes a weak hit or foul or strikes out when the bases are loaded.</p>

|Headline=John Oliver Plays Base Ball in Baltimore |City=

...gates in the National and Olympic games, was demanded. The subject led to a protracted discussion between the Internal Revenue officers and the mangers ...ration from such representations, plays, performances, exhibitions, shows, or musical performances.</p>

|Name=Club of Glencoe, OR |State=OR

|Name=Base in Cambridge in 1858 - 2 |City=Cambridge

|Headline=Rural Boys "Played Bass Ball" in Western Ohio ...en logs." Alice Carey, <u>Clovernook, or Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West</u> (Redfield, Clinton Park, NY,, 1852), page 280. Provided by

|City=Middlebury ...version in or near the College-building." [A first offense brought a fine, a second offense brought suspension.]</p>

|Name=Club of Baker City |Club Name=Baker City

|Name=round or base ball in Barre in 1848 |City=Barre

...d for–and when the next third ball was pitched he would call “two balls.” In the meantime, he called every wide ball as soon as delivered, he not counti ...in over the home base and at the height called for. Philadelphia All-Day City Item April 5, 1874 [See also PSD 4/12/1874 below.]</p>

|Title=a proposal for interleague play ...on could continue its championship series. It is too late now to advocate a scheme of this kind, but it will receive attention before 1888.</p>

|City=Williamstown ...not be permitted to play at ball, or use any other sport or diversion, in or near the College Edifice, by which the same may be exposed to injury."</p>

|Headline=Manufacture of Base Balls Begins in NYC |Location=Greater New York City,

|Title=a hint that not every club will be allowed to enter the IA championship ...an ever they have done, for the utmost economy in this respect, as well as in their salary lists, will be absolutely necessary to carry them through.</p>

|Headline=Playing of Hole-less Two-Old-Cat in Providence RI |City=Providence

|Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME |City=Bangor

|Title=a discussion of underhand throwing ...om throwing to bases from it, it does not begin to pay as well as strategy in pitching. To be consistent, the next time Chapman set as umpire he should

...nd proceed to get there. And get there as quickly as possible, in any way or manner you like, by any means, so they are honest and fair, and by any rout

...e is the point on which it is to be decided whether a club is professional or amateur.</p> ...and the proceeds going to the club, being divided among the players of the first nine.</p>

|Headline=Ban in Richmond Threatens Fine, Whipping |City=Richmond

...erve rule. The rumor has not penetrated beyond the smoky confines of that city and has probably no foundation. The Arbitration Committee has provided to ...hat has reserved them or go to work at something else–cashier in a bank or a brick-yard. Let us organize, by all means.</p>

...ts in the middle of the season. We could not replenish the stock for love or money, and the bat-makers told us the above story and added that they had u

|Headline=In NC, Negroes Face 15 Lashes for Ballplaying |City=Fayetteville

|Title=rumor of a sale of the Metropolitans ...ed of money, notwithstanding its poor success last season, it having still a considerable amount to its credit standing over from 1882.</p>

...organization now located in Indiana. Denny will not be sold to Washington or any other club, but will remain just where he is.</p>

|Title=umpire not calling balls or strikes ...ouraging, we admit, but still, we think Dick [McBride] should have kept on in his usual way. It established the fact very clearly that Hall wanted his b

|City=Philadelphia ...d angering or humiliating the base players. It is almost impossible to put a player out who is determined to enforce this manner of avoiding the ball, u

...f the opposing nine, and, if persisted in, he should not be allowed to aid in captaining his team.</p>

|State=OR |City=Cornelius

|Name=In Boston in 1854 |City=Boston

...pped by the crowd, the ball cannot be used to put a player out until it is first held by the pitcher while he stands within the lines of his position.</p> |Source=Philadelphia City Item

|Title=a fight with a gambler ...ing to the contest gave it a variety and spice never before connected with a game on the Union Grounds, we believe.</p>

|City=Cleveland ...whereby the grass or grounds of any Pubic place or square shall be defaced or injured." (Fine is $5 plus costs of prosecution.)</p>

|Title=the new delivery; a proof of the curve ...fan the air in vain attempts to hit the ball, when it is delivered in such a deceptive manner.</p>

|Name=in Austin in February 1859 |City=Austin

|Title=a prize fight under cover of being baseball games ...portion of Brooklyn; but beyond their immediate circles nobody knew where or when they were going.</p>

...majority play spectators, it is not to be expected that either good order or any fair field will be shown the visiting club.</p>

{{Other First |City=Chicago

|Title=rumor of a players' association; labor versus management ...hat has reserved them or go to work at something else—cashier in a bank or a brick-yard. Let us organize, by all means. The Sporting Life July 15, 188

|Name=In Chicago in 1844 |City=Chicago

|Text=<p>In calling balls, under the code of playing rules for 1873, the Umpire must ob ...all delivered to each striker, as the first ball is dead as far as calling or counting it is concerned.</p>

|Title=a prohibition of collusion between the NL and AA New York Clubs ...eague or American nine to strengthen the other. In other words, the clubs in that metropolis, it having control of both nines, can not now, if it finds

...arned run? In order to define this important point, we will take it first in its simplest form:</p> <p>A clean home run is an earned run.</p>

...to join in the agreement. In the meantime President Hulbert is to perfect a plan of arranging salaries, and it is safe to say that it will take definit

|City=Portsmouth ...e: medium;">&rdquo; played in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he was born in 1804. </span></span></p>

|Headline=<u>Boy&#39;s Book of Sports</u> Describes "Base Ball", "Base or Goal Ball" |City=New Haven

...incerity of the Judge. The talk about giving decisions in favor of runner or of ball, ahs long since gone out of fashion. Every Umpire makes mistakes� |Source=Philadelphia City Item

|Name=Dysodias Club of Eugene v Dysodias Club of Eugene in August 1867 |State=OR

...power of any more Sperings, or Concannons, or Hayhurts to steal either men or money. It took them only two years to do it, and it was thoroughly done.</

|Title=a call for minor league representation on the Board of Arbitration ...d beyond the possibility of destruction through ignorance, malice, caprice or selfishness.</p>

...nd the peculiar tactics of two or three members of the nine. The fact is, a new New York nine is wanted.</p>

...ball-player, but his conduct Saturday indicate that in private life he is a blustering bully., quoting the Cleveland Herald</p>

|Title=an experimental game in Cincinnati ...iness only two squares from the ball field, had heard nothing of the game, or the intention of the clubs to play, until about the middle of the eighth in

...out it. There should be no Al Wright in it, and no Spering, or Concannon, or Porter, at the head of it. The players are plenty, the grounds are good, th

|City=Camden ...tive, but hardly definitive.&nbsp; Some tracking down of old maps would be in order to pin this down.</div>

|Title=every pitch a ball or a strike; criticisms of this rule ...a ball pass after the first one, without it was called either “strike” or a “ball.”</p>

|City= ...the same boy mast take his chance again. Its great amusement was in being a trial of speed. Strutt says that it was known as early as the time of Edwar

...and that Toronto and Toledo will do likewise, keeps the old chain without a missing link.</p>

|Title=Kansas City's prospects of staying in the League ...as the franchise is the property of the League, and the longer it persists in its fruitless opposition to the will of the League just so much less chance

...such cities as Indianapolis, Detroit, Louisville, Kansas City, Minneapolis or even Milwaukee to draw upon.</p> ...l to that level we are sure the League would reduce itself for a season to a six-club basis.</p>

|Headline=Soldiers&#39; Christmas in Virginia - Ballplaying "on Many a Hillside" |City=Fredericksburg

|State=OR |City=Ashland

...will be only too happy, if this is done, and they would at once put clubs in two American Association cities.</p>

|Headline=Banned in Boston&#39;s Public Garden: "Games of Ball, Foot-ball" |City=Boston

|Headline=First Baseball Attendance of a Thousand or More |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball,

|City=Sacramento ...of the gentlemanly apothecary, who had not anticipated such unceremonious a carronade."</p>

...ground, cut off some fifteen feet from the left field in order to lay down a third track. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury April 7, 1872</p> ...ot even the directors of the visiting club or of the Boston Club. Evening City Item April 6, 1872</p>

...atch-game, such as was played last Thursday, between the Endeavors fo this city and the Americus of Newark, on the grounds of the latter, at Irvington. Ne ...rtainly the National Game is a profession, and nothing else! Philadelphia City Item October 3, 1868</p>

...eld hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> ...NC banned the playing of bandy in the streets. In 1858 boys were arrested in DC for playing bandy on the streets (Washington Star, Nov. 27, 1858).</p>

|City=New Bedford ...challenge any of the other clubs in the city to a trial either of New York or Massachusetts game."</p>

|Name=Ballgame in Modlin on 30 May 1919 |City=Modlin

|Name=In Plymouth Circa 1855 |State=IN

|Title=Magazine Writer Bemoans Lack of "bass-ball" Venues in 1828 ...off in this particular. Where can they assemble for cricket, or trap-bat, or bass-ball?"</p>

...is the game in miniature complete, and as much interest can be centered in a contest between expert players on the board as between rival clubs on the g |Source=Philadelphia City Item

...o him to “get them down” or to “pitch lower,” should promptly call balls. In regard to strikes, more latitude is allowed, no strike being permitted to b |Source=Philadelphia City Item

...is over, when enough votes will be secured to reduce the percentage to 25 or less. It has been done before. Remember Detroit, 1887, and Boston's hog p

|City=Watlngton ...to argue that the lord of the manor, or some other landowner, should take a section of otherwise unusable land and create appropriate playing fields fo

|City=Sandusky ...y within a club. Their was a club in Sandusky and another nearby in Toledo in 1860."</p>

|Name=In Blountville Circa 1850 |City=Blountville

...re too few players for stick-ball in The Bronx, New York in the mid-1950s. A fielder who caught the ball on the fly went &ldquo;up&rdquo; to bat.</p> ...in the playground. The latter game is not further described, but could be a species of Fungo.</p>

|Title=the Forest City of Cleveland training rules ...t=<p>With a view to good order and efficiency, the directors of the Forest City Base Ball Association have adopted the following rules and regulations for

|Headline=Ballgame Marks Anniversary in MA |City=Barre

|Name=In Monroe in 1849 |State=IN

|Headline=Bat/Ball Game Depicted in <u>Children&#39;s Amusements</u> |City=

|Headline=Like It or Lump It, Gents |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Newspaper Coverage,

{{Other First |Name=First Baseball Attendance of a Thousand or More

|Title=surprising the fielders with a bunt ...a strategic safety-block, (a mere tip,) between 3d and “home,”... All-Day City Item June 10, 1873</p>

...rmanent and numbered wickets, and using them in rotation, or as their wear in service suggests.</p>

|State=OR |City=Albany

|State=OR |City=Salem

|Title=the switch from town ball to base ball in Cincinnati ...f the season. So we expect exciting time in the way of match-games before a great while.</p>

|Title=early baseball in Philadelphia ...character of the play of the Philadelphia clubs, and also a vast increase in the popularity of the game.</p>

...e to play either an interesting or a fair contest. The lack of enterprise in not attending to these important “points” speaks badly for the Resolute |Source=All-Day City Item

|City= ...held privately, became known to researchers in the 1990s and was published in 2003.</p>

<p>1. Never call on the first ball.</p> <p>2. Never call a ball until the pitcher has been warned.</p>

|City=Philadelphia ..., make any indecent Noise, or behave in any way rudely in the College Yard or Streets adjacent.'" (Source:&nbsp;&nbsp;College Academy and Charitable Scho

...ease for eight years, and have recentlyf laid out several thousand dollars in preparing it for use.</p>

...ry with them the sympathy or good wishes of the lovers of base ball in any city which they may visit.</p>

|Title=a call for a convention of professional clubs ...her to call a convention of delegates from each club, and let them draw up a set of championship rules, which shall govern all contests for the champion

|Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |City=Springfield

|Title=Florida as a spring training site ...lub, and if they could get good local material so much the better. With a first-class club, arrangements could easily be made with Northern teams to come d

{{Other First |Name=First Compensated Player

...ld tell when the pitcher was about to deliver a ball out from the plate or in close to the batsman. The Chicago man changed his position too quickly.</p

|Name=in Corvallis in 1856 |State=OR

|Title=William McLean running a gymnasium ..., No. 929 Girard avenue, their headquarters. Billy has recently fitted up a gymnasium, where most of the prominent ball-tossers are exercising for the

...gh or low ball, and he must strike at the balls called for when delivered, or strikes must be called on him.</p>

...m clubs, thereby keeping a club in a stew from the beginning to the end of a season.</p> |Source=Philadelphia City Item

|Headline=Ladies and Gentlemen of Dansville NY Play Ball in Afternoons |City=Dansville

|Headline=A Drawing of Ballplaying in New York -- in the area where Central Park would later be, possibly?? |City=New York

|Title=Pickett case; a player enjoined ...the Court at length last Saturday, when Mr. Rogers represented the Kansas City Club, and John M. Vanderslice and John G. Johnson appeared for Pickett.</p>

...rch, so that in the mean time they will secure a large down-town office as a starter. New York Sun January 4, 1889</p> ...t. Mr. Becannon will try to secure teams from the largest business houses in town. New York Sun January 11, 1889</p>

...s to this future intentions, although it is rumored that he will pitch for a nine that Fergy Malone intends organizing to represent Philadelphia. New Y ...ntly neither Devlin nor any other player can be given the right to paly in a National club. Only the League can reinstate him, he never having been exp

|Title=talk of putting an AA club in Chicago ...ved that the public will have ample facilities for visiting the grounds in a comfortable manner...”</p>

|Headline=Roundball Recalled in Maine |City=Norway

|Name=In Salem in 1762 |City=Salem

|City=Johnson Island ...y within a club. Their was a club in Sandusky and another nearby in Toledo in 1860."</p>

...//www.spaldeen.com/punchball.html">http://www.spaldeen.com/punchball.html</a>. Johnson (1910) lists Punch Ball under &ldquo;Baseball games.&rdquo;</p> ...f this game is recalled by Gregory Christiano as being played in The Bronx in the 1950s:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

...endency to annoy persons passing in the streets and sidewalks of the city, or to frighten teams of horses."</p>

|Name=In Saint John in 1840 |City=Saint John

|Title=poor support for a minor league team in Chicago ...ous towns in the West and Northwest, the Western Association games in this city draw hundreds only where the League team attracts thousands.</p>

...club delegates in favor of the proposed organization is to be held shortly in Philadelphia. That is the proper place for the convention of all the “ou ...st without the active assistance of nearly every regular professional club in the county. New York Clipper December 30, 1876</p>

...already entered into negotiations with the Boston manager with that object in view.</p>

|Headline=Was Lewis Wadsworth the First Paid Player? |Location=Greater New York City,

|State=OR |City=Jacksonville

...arly having a Brotherhood last season, did you?” inquired Long John Reilly in the Cincinnati Enquirer office, the other day.</p> <p>“Yes, the Brotherhood had the Association in line, but Latham was the cause of its death before it got out of the swaddl

|Headline=African-American Game is Played by "Henson Club" July 4 and/or November 15 |Location=Greater New York City,

|Headline=Organized Round Ball in New England Morphs Toward the "MA Game" |City=Boston

|Name=In Pownal on 5 May 1853 |City=Pownal

...urve pitcher. He has but little command of the ball, or showed but little in this game, and he apparently knows nothing of strategic effect. New York C ...asier it is to judge. Every ball delivered above the line of the wiast is a “foul-baulk,” and the umpire has no option but to declare it such. New

...the case of single postponed games which it may be impossible to play off in any other way.</p>

|Headline=A Ballplayer&#39;s Progress: "Bound and Catch," "Barn Ball," "Town Ball" |City=Elba

|Title=a question on allowing substitutes ...e score. This not being the only case in which a man has been substituted in the latter part of the game, I would like to have your views on the subject

...ting at the averages of the club must therefore be more or less irregular, or incorrect. New York Sunday Mercury November 26, 1871</p> ...of reference? It would seem that one of the chief points of advantage to a professional club would be something they could consult while making their

|Title=a threat of legal action against a revolver ...ati team. A responsible person as bondsman, also, will be secured in each city, whom the Club will indemnify. If the League will take advantage of weak-k

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=NYC

|City=Chicago ...n the hilarious sport of 'base ball.' We had no regulation balls or clubs, or even rules." Goes on the describe how the students made balls and bats.&nbs

|Name=In New Bedford in 1858 |City=New Bedford

|Title=Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on July 11 1862 ...amount of enjoyment in the less dignified pastimes of “tut-ball' or 'kiss-in-the-ring;' thus proving that the spirit of juvenility remains with man thro

|City=Road Town |Description=<p>In the 2010 Little League Caribbean Regional, a club from George Town, Cayman Islands, competed.</p>

|City=Washington ...s think it no harm to play Ball, Draughts, or play the Fiddle and dance of a Sunday . . . "</p>

...king he may need, as he has made many friends during his residence in this city [Baltimore]. Cincinnati Enquirer November 2, 1884</p> ..., and now that he has no one with whom he must share either money, censure or praise, he declares that affairs at Oriole Park will be conducted more libe

|Text=<p>The following communication from a well known citizen is worthy of consideration:</p> ...ve the same evil to complain of. My sons appear to have lost all interest in their studies; and the claims of the Athletic and Atlantic, and what the Me

|City= ...be seen coming out of his little swing-gate, with a big hat aforesaid, and a cane. He enjoyed the game as much as the youngest of us, but came mainly to

...uarters, and the Bank Street grounds, which it has used, have been leased, or at least another party has the refusal for next year.</p> ...rty had taken the initiatory steps toward securing the Cincinnati Park for a term of years.</p>

|Name=Homeolithics of Corvallis v Juniors of Salem in June 1875 |State=OR

...solation of knowing that our conduct on the fied as players, gained for us a reputation that will certainly outlive our defeat.</p> ...to arrange such games for us, or advise us as to the propriety of playing in such places:</p>

...the patrons of the game in Troy would be enabled to witness the contest at a less rate of admission than fifty cents.</p>

|Title=a claim that the AA asked to put a franchise in Chicago or Boston ...ions relative to such new club. My impression, however, is that there was a limit fixed to the privilege and that the limit has expired. Cincinnati Co

|City=NYC ...spectators applaud his tom-foolery, just so long will he enact the part of a clown."</p>

|Title=Al Wright once worked for the City Item .... Wright–no desire to call him a blackguard, a toady, a New York renegade, or any thing of that sort: quite the contrary! Egad, we think he ought to be

|Title=a players' relief association proposednot a brotherhood or union ...ve no hesitancy in signing, as the scheme is a grand one and is sure to be a success. The Sporting Life March 10, 1886</p>

...But it looks as if they would be compelled to charge fifty cents, or even a dollar, for important games. The public have themselves only to blame for ...arge fifty cents. Any smaller price than that would only lead to disaster in the long run; therefore, our citizens will not grumble when they see the ma

|Title=a condemnation of Sunday baseball ...r some other species of crime and horrible transactions. It is, no doubt, a judgment visited on them, however, for their sacrilegious and Sabbath-break

|City=New Bedford ...challenge any of the other clubs in the city to a trial either of New York or Massachusetts game."</p>

...llows in the infield, makes it next to impossible to properly gauge a ball or handle it with any precision.</p>

...shall expect to see the Athletics priding themselves on the possession of a fine ground and clubhouse, and the Keystones another. New York Sunday Merc ...practicing on them twice a week. In view of the fact that the former was a rival organization, their course of action merits praise. New York Clipper

|Title=no series loss a prerequisite for the championship? ...als, won’t do. We don’t want a constructive championship. The real thing or nothing.</p>

...e them, or should they pay Mr. Deery his bill, secure new plans, and erect a less expensive building...</p>

...arters, and the Bank-street grounds which it has used to have been leased, or at least another party has the refusal for next year.</p> ...rty had taken the initiatory steps toward securing the Cincinnati Park for a term of years.</p>

|Name=In Rushville Circa 1830 |State=IN

..., of the Atlantic club. We should like to see a few more of the same sort in the fraternity., citing the New York Sunday Mercury</p> |Source=Philadelphia City Item

...greater number in the summer evenings, by other attractions, the increase in the traffic would be very considerable, without much additional cost for ha ...e or fall of a continental dynasty. Further, this interest indicated that in the business and its attendant traffic were possibilities of profit beyond

|City=Bern <p>"During a general game, in which some of the masters join (rounders I think the English boys called it

...land ME Bans "Playing at Bat and Ball in the Streets" in 1805, Retains Ban in 1824 |City=Portland

...e of balls will fall short of the regular out-field positions, as they did in this game.</p>

|Date Note=Club began in 1864 or 1865 |City=Lexington

|Title=a fake team scam ...cher to be here on time of the game yesterday. Luckily the rain prevented a continuance of the fraud.</p>

...heir fill of the Hoosier Hippodrome, and refuse further to allow a bet for or against them.</p> ...e has been on our table for several weeks the following communication from a responsible party:</p>

|City=Boston ...tianity,"&nbsp;</em>appeared to respond to critics of Fast Day ballplaying in an unsigned article titled "Why Give It Up?"</p>

|Name=in McMinnville in June 1874 |State=OR

...gest to Mr. Brockway to call “one” or “two balls” instead of simply “ball” in the future, as the simple cry of “ball” sounds like “foul”, and may ...a boy’s game having vanished as they saw the manliness requisite to excel in the game. New York Sunday Mercury July 21, 1867</p>

|City= ...attached to a club nine which either pays its players a regular salary or a share of gate receipts.&nbsp; This appears to be the boundary line between

|City=Seattle ...e Seattle Driving Park. The Meadows Race Track (1903--) is situated a mile or two south.</p>

|Title=a reminiscence of the placement of the second baseman in the 1860s ...game made Reach what he is to-day. He made himself popular here and from a poor boy grew up into one of Philadelphia's leading merchants.+</p>

...of consequence, or had an effect upon the runs. Brown, whose fingers were in anything but playing order, did not make his usual effort to stop balls whe ...every time they have an encounter. Let some of them send the “Champions” a challenge. New York Atlas July 10, 1859</p>

|Headline=OFBB Variant Played in Buffalo NY; 11 Players, 12 Innings |City=Buffalo

...t, but we regard this as extremely unlikely, as Pittsburg is too important a geographical point to the American Association to be lightly lost. The Spo

|Title=a late question about tagging up ...ird base, claiming a double play. By answering whether the runner was out or not, you will oblige Yours, &c., AN AMATEUR</p>

|Title=a resume of the history of thrown games ...en of the highest standing, and players are well paid, and there is little or no room for operations of the kind.</p>

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=NYC

|Title=calls for a paid umpire corps ...ce greater correctness may be expected. The contending clubs can each pay a moiety of the expenses, and it will fall heavily on neither. New York Disp

|Tags=Ball in the Culture, |City=Milwaukee

...interests of our noble game. Let the hired men take notice. Philadelphia City Item June 30, 1866 [citing the New York Tribune]</p> ...until he could obtain work. “Only this, and nothing more!” Philadelphia City Item July 14, 1866</p>

|Title=awaiting a feeding frenzy ...ey proposed to transact business. The majority of them will remain in the city until some final disposition is made of the Maroons. St.</p>

|Name=in Falmouth on 4 July 1857 |City=Falmouth

|State=OR |City=Roseburg

|Title=the first game played on the home ground of the challenged party ...challenge them, in order that they, as the challenged party, may have the first game played upon their grounds.</p>

...$1000 rule is abominable. For instance, a $2500 player an be reserved by a club for $1000, and if he is dissatisfied he has no redress whatever, and i

|Title=trying to explain a legal delivery ...ll can possibly be thrown, and the main object of the amendment was to put a stop to the jerking and throwing style of delivery which prevailed to such

|Headline=Three Ball Clubs Form in VT Village |City=Pawlet

|City=Salem ...f Bat-and-Ball, or Cricket . . .&nbsp; within the Body of this Town, under a Penalty of One Shilling and Six Pence."</p>

|Title=dispelling a rumor of the Lowell Club throwing a game ...a recent meeting, the following report, which they were ordered to publish in the daily papers, over their own signatures –</p>

...safe place! As nearly all our players have yet to the science of batting, a few “point” that have come under our constant observation may be found ...ll is intended to take, and avoid getting too close to the plate; call for a waist high ball, and hit down on it, instead of making the usual round swin

...whose friends they are, or how respectably they may be connected, socially or politically, we ind, if the thing is not stopped, to stop it.</p> ...rom inviting their personal friends. These bummer follow all of our clubs in their peregrinations, and their meanness is only excelled byt heir impudenc

|Title=a block ball for an out; a ground rule ...claimed two bases because the ball had gone to the crowd. But it was not a batted ball.</p>

|City=Newburg |Text=<p>"The Newburg boys excel in running bases with bottles of soda-water, sucking<br />as they run."</p>

|Title=a condemnation of the reserve system; a call for a Players' League ...at a salary he could not earn. And no Ball Club will engage a player for a sum stated unless that Club thinks that player is worth the money asked. �

...y) in the 17th century.&nbsp; The source is a 2009 book's translation from a Dutch ordinance of the 1600s.&nbsp; The translator mentions that while "bal ...in which players propel a ball with their hands.&nbsp; The game described in Item [[1660c.3]] appears to be the game of Kaatsen -- Pamela's summary:</p>

|Title=a revived Cincinnati Club ...last evening, and the rest will be forthcoming immediately. Within a day or two it is to be hoped that the permanent purchase will be accomplished. It

...sal is not carried out now, we'll move it at the next Base Ball Convention in New York.</p> |Source=Fitzgeralds City Item

|Headline=IL Ballclubs Play Town Ball in 1856, 1858 |City=Chicago

|Name=In Rockford in 1858 |City=Rockford

...hom were a couple of young gentlemen and ladies, and one of the ladies sat in the ferry home and cried until morning.</p>

|Name=in Bloomington on 12 June 1857 |City=Bloomington

|City=Poultney ...he practice, though I am not sure that any amount of it would have made me a perfect ball-player."</p>

|Headline=Cooper Novel <u>Home as Found</u> Mentions Ballplaying in Cooperstown ...awn, Mr. Effington? . . . Why, sir, I believe they have always played ball in that precise locality.'</p>

|City=NYC ...e ball be &ldquo;pitched, not thrown&rdquo;, pitchers by 1860 were finding a way to get not just movement, but predictable movement, on their deliveries

|Title=the state of the Quaker City club ...to maintain their supremacy. Some other clubs may well emulate the Quaker City.</p>

|Name=In Oxford Circa 1858 |City=Oxford

...d of him because he positively refused to play again in Brooklyn, contract or no contract, and further gives this version of the entire transaction, ende ...rnie got after him again and persuaded him to sign with the Boston Club at a salary said to be about $4000.”</p>

...rican method. This plan is said to have made the fortune of its inventor, a certain John Small...</p>

...that ll the National clubs would stop en route whenever their engagemen5ts in the championship arena admitted of it, they would soon crowd by hundreds to

...les of the Game. We notice that a New York player, in a card published in a Philadelphia paper...calls attention to the fact as follows:</p> ...ns, the Rules should be read, commented upon, and explained at the regular or special meetings of the club; and then every one would understand them.</p>

|Title=a rumor that the AA Brooklyn Club is failing ...lity. The record made by Detroit as a “quitter” and a “wrecker” should be a warning to the American Association. The very fact that Detroit stands wil

|Title=Pize Ball in West Yorkshire in 1862 ...y' is 'burnt,' i.e,the ball is thrown straight to the ground, and the last in the 'ring' has to go back, pick it up, and become the 'pizer.'</p>

...f the fact, especially those which have been complaining of small receipts in the East.</p>

|Headline=Playing "bandy or at ball" banned in Baltimore on Sunday |City=Baltimore

|Title=English Baseball in Berkshire on July 25 1857 ...ech or two (if not dry), trap and base ball, and dozens of ways of passing a pleasant afternoon will suggest themselves to every one.”</p>

|Name=Old Cat?? in Milwaukee in 1836 |City=Milwaukee

|Title=a proposal for an amateur national championship ...o compete for the amateur base ball championship of the United States... [A. G. Mills one of the signatories]</p>

|Headline=Cricket Club Forms, Lasts a Year in NYC ...the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, No. 11 Nassau Street. The club flourishes for a year and then dies.</p>

...e don’t want you to ‘sell’ the game, or anything of that kind, but just go in and play kinder mad, you know.”</p> ...g has since been tried both at Hoboken, where it was publicly exposed, and in Philadelphia.</p>

...iveness of Malone’s throwing. Not a man of the Eckfords attempted to make a base during the entire game.</p> |Source=Evening City Item

|Title=a committee to divide up the St. Louis NL players; plenipotentiary powers ove ...committee shall have the power to dispose of its franchise and players, as in case of purchase thereof. Any action of such committee to be effectual, mu

|Title=Wiman threatens legal action, and a competing league ...team in every American Association city, even if it cost him $500,000(?) [in original].</p>

|Name=Ballgame in San Francisco in March 1851 |City=San Francisco

...Paul. Neither Lucas or Thorner were present at the meeting. Mr. Lucas is in Milwaukee to-day. St. Louis Post-Dispatch January 16, 1885</p> ...ng adjourned, subject to the call of the President, A. V. McKim, of Kansas City, having been selected as temporary occupant of that position. Cincinnati E

...le of friends present was a most flattering testimonial of the high esteem in which he was held.</p>

|Headline=Base Ball in Melbourne? |City=Melbourne