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  • ProtoPix:Ball Playing at NYC City Hall c1838
    |Source Image=Ball Playing at NYC City Hall c1838.jpg |Title=Ball Playing at NYC City Hall c1838
    390 bytes (60 words) - 12:11, 23 June 2023
  • 1832.6
    |Headline=Reading Book Contains a Story, "Playing at Trap Ball" <p>1832.7 - Playing Ball on the Prairie</p>
    354 bytes (55 words) - 17:43, 6 September 2012
  • 1843.3
    |Headline=Playing Ball at Recess ...l the recess in play." But for now, studies come first, fellows: "Bat and ball is a very good play for the summer season."</p>
    488 bytes (84 words) - 17:48, 6 September 2012
  • 1847.19
    |Headline=Woodsfield fines ball players 25 cents |Game=Ball Playing
    740 bytes (102 words) - 06:09, 1 June 2022
  • ProtoPix:Civil War Soldiers Playing Foot Ball
    |Title=Civil War Soldiers Playing Foot Ball |Descriptors=Civil War Soldiers Playing foot-ball
    229 bytes (31 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
  • Clipping:Reaction to the spread of Sunday baseball
    ...games absolutely necessary to the clubs which had hitherto abstained from playing on the first day of the week, at home, at least. [Goes on the discuss Wash
    686 bytes (103 words) - 20:44, 29 February 2020
  • 1823.10
    |Headline=Hagerstown bans ball playing at the Court House |Game=Ball Playing
    712 bytes (93 words) - 06:37, 17 July 2022
  • 1863.98
    |Headline=Playing ball during a bombardment ...elling. Thursday afternoon several of the men of this brigade were playing ball just in the rear of our skirmishers, heedless of the shrieking of the shell
    806 bytes (120 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • 1795.3
    |Headline=Playing Ball Cited as Major New England Diversion ...s a favorite one of both sexes. Sleighing in winter, and skating, playing ball, gunning, and fishing are the principal."</p>
    486 bytes (72 words) - 17:34, 6 September 2012
  • ProtoPix:Monks Playing ball c. 1340?
    |Title=Monks Playing ball c. 1340? |Descriptors=Monks playing ball c. 1340
    300 bytes (39 words) - 05:47, 15 June 2023
  • Clipping:A schoolboy essay
    |Text=<p class="p1">BALL PLAYING</p> ...">&nbsp; </span>Two of the boys take the bats, and the other two throw the ball from one to the other past the boys who have the bats, at the same time one
    1 KB (208 words) - 07:50, 23 June 2019
  • 1861.15
    |Headline=First Sunday in the Army: "Ball-playing, Wrestling, and Some Card-Playing" |Game=Base Ball
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  • 1844c.8
    |Headline=Base Ball Begins in Westfield MA? ...at the south end of the park. . . . [I have?] spent many a happy hour ball-playing on that ground . . . . I have known that ground for twenty-five years and
    965 bytes (154 words) - 17:49, 6 September 2012
  • 1821.3
    |Headline=Schenectady NY Bans "Playing of Ball Against the Building" |Text=<p>The Schenectady City Council banned "playing of Ball against the Building or in the area fronting the Building called City Hall
    486 bytes (71 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
  • 1846.26
    |Headline=Boys Play goal and ball |Game=Goal Ball
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  • ProtoPix:Cantigas de Santa Maria Ball Playing
    |Title=Cantigas de Santa Maria Ball Playing |Descriptors=Ball Playing Spain 1280s
    275 bytes (38 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
  • 1825.9
    |Text=<p>"BALL PLAYING: There will be Ball playing in Washington Street, a few rods South of the College, every Saturday after
    482 bytes (67 words) - 17:40, 6 September 2012
  • 1777.1
    |Headline=Revolutionary War Prisoner Watches Ball-Playing in NYC Area ...it [sic] a number of our Offrs . . . who were Zealously Engaged at playing ball . . . .</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Oxfordshire on June 6 1891
    ...aying with a small ball,” and “one of the boys said they were playing base ball,” the newspaper added. Nevertheless, they were found to have abused “th
    772 bytes (114 words) - 20:36, 17 October 2020
  • 1773.3
    |Headline=Ball-Playing by Slaves Is Eyed in SC ...f Negroes in the Town [Beaufort, SC] on Sundays, and playing games of Trap-ball and Fives, which is not taken proper notice of by Magistrates, Constables,
    805 bytes (125 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
  • 1863.108
    |Headline=Ball playing popular in 1st Minnesota ...ry "Reading, writings, &amp; playing ball." March 23 entry notes that ball playing is very popular in the regiment. The regiment was stationed near Falmouth,
    762 bytes (109 words) - 10:08, 16 June 2019
  • 1862.62
    ...e Atlanta Southern Confederacy, April 11, 1862, editorializes against ball playing in the city streets:</p> ...the boys of their pleasure--particularly of the healthful exercise of ball playing--but it is inconvenient and dangerous in our streets."</p>
    907 bytes (130 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
  • 1841.18
    ...e formation of a club to indulge in the manly and refreshing sport of ball-playing?"</p> ...Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 40-41.</p>
    1 KB (169 words) - 06:06, 22 October 2012
  • 1849.17
    |Headline=Montpelier Threatens Ball Players with prosecution |Game=Ball Playing
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  • Clipping:Spring training by playing handball
    |Title=Spring training by playing handball ...ers of out national game. Of course, very little can be learned in a hand ball alley in regard to the very essential point of batting; but if the men bec
    1 KB (188 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
  • New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia
    #REDIRECT [[New Englander Confronts Impious Sunday Ball-playing in Virginia]]
    77 bytes (9 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2013
  • 1823.5
    |Headline=Providence RI Bans "Playing Ball" in the Streets |Text=<p>"The Town of Providence have passed a law against playing ball in any of their public streets; the fine is $2. Why is not the law enforce
    946 bytes (145 words) - 17:39, 6 September 2012
  • 1795.4
    |Headline=Deerfield&#39;s Fine for Playing Ball: Six Cents ...one's room during study. In contrast, a one dollar assessment was made for playing cards, backgammon, or checkers, or walking or visiting on Saturday night or
    783 bytes (124 words) - 07:00, 29 May 2019
  • 1856.30
    |Headline="Ball playing" Schoolboy Essay |Tags=Ball in the Culture
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  • 1862.118
    |Headline=Ball Playing at Shiloh ..."engaging in a game of ball:" the day prior to the battle of Shiloh. Ball playing mentioned 2-20-63 and 1-20-1864 in Memphis, TN.&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1854.6
    |Headline=In Rome, Sculptor Fashions Statue of a Boy Playing Ball ...ble statue of Childhood, and has a fine statue of a boy engaged in playing ball, modeled in plaster. He is about returning to America."</p>
    523 bytes (83 words) - 18:27, 18 February 2013
  • Clipping:Rising stature of professional ballplayers
    ...highest degree commendable if a young man has the requisite skill to play ball so that it will command a financial return, and he is thus enabled to defra
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  • 1828c.4
    |Headline=NH Man Recalls Boyhood Habit of Playing Ball ..., born in 1818 in rural NH, refers in 1835 to his boyhood habit of playing ball.</p>
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  • New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802
    |Title=New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802 New England Woman Observes Ball Play in Norfolk, Virginia in 1802
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  • 1812.3
    |Headline=NYC Council Finds Ball Playing Among "Abounding Immoralities" ...called Sunday, are . . . Horse Riding for pleasure . . . Skating ['] Ball playing, and other Plays by Boys and Men, and even Horse-racing." Minutes of the C
    653 bytes (94 words) - 17:51, 21 October 2012
  • In Harrisburg in October 1860
    ...wn for playing base ball and getting exercise, but complains that the ball-playing has broken windows on Mulberry Street.</p> ...se Ball Club--We understand that efforts are being made to organize a base ball club."</p>
    786 bytes (114 words) - 07:16, 31 October 2015
  • 1861.22
    |Game=Base Ball, ...icester's Improved SELF-FASTENING BASES, and the PATENT CONCAVE PLATES for Ball Shoes, which are free from all the danger, and answer all the purposes, of
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  • In Springfield in 1858
    ...ng men of our city have organized a club for playing this favorite game of ball."</p> ...gfield Wicket Club" which urges the players to "Weild [ic] club, weild the ball.."</p>
    897 bytes (134 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
  • Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813
    |Name=Playing ball in Newburyport in 1813 |Game=Playing ball
    941 bytes (127 words) - 08:43, 31 January 2022
  • 1813.1
    |Headline=Newburyport MA Reminder - "Playing Ball in the Streets" is Unlawful ...nd Guardians are also requested to forbid, those under their care, playing Ball in the streets of the town; as by this unlawful practice much inconvenience
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  • Clipping:Rowdy ball playing; breaking up a double play
    |Title=rowdy ball playing; breaking up a double play ...ouble would have ensued. Welch, in extenuation said: “Well, we’re playing ball to win.</p>
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  • 1815c.5
    |Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing ...ng, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed."&nbsp;</p>
    1 KB (153 words) - 13:58, 29 January 2020
  • Town ball in TX in December 1861
    |Name=Town ball in TX in December 1861 ...ng unusual transpiring in Camp. The boys are passing the time playing Town-Ball."
    790 bytes (113 words) - 10:19, 10 February 2013
  • 1797.1
    |Headline=Daniel Webster Writes of "Playing Ball" While at Dartmouth |Text=<p>Daniel Webster, in private correspondence, writes of "playing at ball," while a student at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.</p>
    1 KB (175 words) - 21:10, 27 January 2020
  • Clipping:Grabbing the runner's belt
    ...ddenly Glasscock let go and Gore fell on all fours. When he recovered the ball had been fielded in.</p>
    805 bytes (140 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
  • In Springfield in May 1860
    |Game=Town Ball |Description=<p>Abe Lincoln is reported to have been playing "town ball... with a parcel of boys" in Springfield when he was notified of the GOP no
    636 bytes (97 words) - 14:49, 27 February 2024
  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on August 3 1850
    ...es by playing at cricket and other games, and the girls by playing at base ball, &c."</p>
    572 bytes (85 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • 1828.2
    |Headline=Portland Newspaper Reports Boys Playing at "Bat-and-Ball." |Game=Bat-and-Ball
    957 bytes (137 words) - 11:42, 28 January 2020
  • 1849c.5
    ...ive ball are most common." <b>Note: "</b>Up-ball?" "Drive ball?" No town ball?</p>
    598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
  • Tom Altherr, April 2013
    ...games, to the evolution of base ball.&nbsp; He remains convinced that ball-playing was more common in North America than most sports historians allow . . . an
    969 bytes (157 words) - 07:21, 13 May 2013
  • 1864.69
    |Headline=Lithograph shows soldiers playing bat-ball game ...ol's. Near Brandy Station" published in 1864, shows soldiers playing a bat ball game.</p>
    594 bytes (86 words) - 10:19, 16 June 2019
  • Clipping:The decline of regular amateur clubs
    ...commercial nine matches have come to be the great feature of amateur ball playing in the metropolis; and by amateur play we do not mean that so called amateu
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  • Clipping:Dirty ball playing
    |Title=Dirty ball playing ...<p>[Chicago vs. Pittsburgh 8/30/1889] ...there was considerable dirty ball playing. Carroll collided with Pfeffer in stealing second in the third, and Anson
    701 bytes (112 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
  • New Englander Confronts Impious Sunday Ball-playing in Virginia
    |Title=New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia ...ile traveling around the Norfolk area, twice she mentioned witnessing ball playing.
    2 KB (251 words) - 08:58, 18 November 2013
  • 1659.1
    |Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...ice on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di
    760 bytes (105 words) - 21:03, 21 October 2012
  • Clipping:Playing points
    |Title=playing points ...ength of teams nowadays. Nearly all professional ball players can catch a ball when it is thrown to them, and he is a poor one, incd3eed, who cannot make
    759 bytes (138 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
  • 1656.1
    |Headline=Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands. ...Law in New Netherlands, including fine of a one pound Flemish for "playing ball," . . . cricket, tennis, ninepins, dancing, drinking, etc.</p>
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  • 1830s.21
    |Headline=Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball ...rs call playing. He much preferred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."
    1 KB (176 words) - 20:18, 29 January 2020
  • 1837.7
    |Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. ...cket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in any public place, shall . . . " [be fined one dollar].</p>
    2 KB (233 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
  • 1832.3
    ...<u>Mary&#39;s Book of Sports</u> [New Haven CT] Has Drawing of "Playing at Ball" ...y! I should not think you could see at play. Oh, it is too late to play at ball, my lads. The sun has set. The birds have gone to roost. It is time for you
    733 bytes (122 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
  • 1857.10
    |Headline=Rib-and-Ball Game in the Arctic: Baseball Fever Among the Chills? |Game=Bat and Ball
    876 bytes (124 words) - 18:33, 9 May 2015
  • 1863.73
    |Headline=CT soldiers indulging in ball playing and swimming ...VA: "The soldiers are delighted with the position--were indulging in ball playing and swimming."</p>
    635 bytes (86 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • 1863.72
    |Headline=Soldiers confront idleness with ball playing ...Cleveland) saying that on the 25th "the day was spent in idleness and ball playing" because needed quartermaster supplies had not yet arrived.</p>
    706 bytes (97 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • 1761.1
    |Headline=Princeton Faculty [NJ] Disparages "Playing at Ball" ...te of the Princeton faculty of May, 1761, frowns upon students "playing at ball."</p>
    772 bytes (104 words) - 05:20, 24 October 2015
  • 1778.1
    |Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison ...t by chance happened to lodge n the eave spout. One climbed up to take the ball out, and a sentry without the wall seeing him, fired at him, but did no har
    998 bytes (149 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2020
  • 1862.76
    |Headline=Ball playing, running and jumping ...left and to spare for them to enjoy themsleves as they wish, such as ball playing, running, and jumping."</p>
    656 bytes (93 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
  • 1846.23
    |Headline=New Jersey Youths Spotted "playing 'base ball'" |Game=Base Ball,
    963 bytes (149 words) - 13:18, 7 January 2020
  • 1861.69
    |Headline=Pitching Quoits and Playing Ball ...ecreation are generally employed by the men in pitching quoits and playing ball."</p>
    646 bytes (92 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
  • 1811.7
    |Headline=Cause of Death: "Surfeit of Playing Ball" |Text=<p>"DIED.&nbsp; Last Evening of surfeit, playing ball, M[r] John McKibben, merchant of this city."</p>
    1,014 bytes (136 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
  • 1861.66
    |Headline=Ball Playing popular in Wisconsin Camp ...p.....Chess constitutes an agreeable and profitable pastime. Card and ball playing are more general favorites in which a large proportion of the men engage."<
    835 bytes (119 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
  • Clipping:A description of the Cuban Giants
    ...it among them, which carries the spectators back a good many years in ball playing, and, from a spectative point of view, it is one of the best teams in the c
    1,011 bytes (178 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
  • 1832.5
    |Headline=Boston Spelling/Reading Book Describes Cricket and "Playing at Ball" ...chool house in Boston. It is now recess time, and some lads are playing at ball on the green lawn before the portico of the brick building."</p>
    942 bytes (139 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
  • Clipping:Prospects for Sunday baseball
    ...ball playing has been pretty generally successful in the East, and Sunday playing in this section will for some time to come be only tolerated in spots. …
    601 bytes (92 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
  • 1862.71
    |Headline=Confederate Surgeon encourages ball-playing ...wing quoits, racing, wrestling &mdash; any of which are preferable to card-playing, which, in camp, is inseparable from gambling."</p>
    1 KB (171 words) - 10:43, 1 May 2024
  • Clipping:Stalling; the wait game
    ...latterly was well supported by his worthy coadjutor, one of whom, when the ball was about to be thrown tot he first base, called out to “throw high way, ...hole of the Champion nine had become impregnated with Slatterly’s style of playing, they all came in from the field before one of the Stars had been put out,
    2 KB (373 words) - 18:20, 29 February 2020
  • 1863.79
    |Headline=Thousands of soldiers playing ball ...osite Fredericksburg, VA: "...in camp the man are out by thousands playing ball, pitching horseshoe quoits, running foot races and indulging in other athle
    730 bytes (101 words) - 10:18, 16 June 2019
  • Niagara Grounds, Buffalo
    ...tion=<p>At Main and Virginia Sts. "Opposite the Medical College." Also the ball grounds of the early Frontier BBC.</p> ...65 the Niagaras were playing at the Arsenal (which see). By 1867 they were playing at York (now Porter) and 6th (now Busti).</p>
    554 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 21 August 2020
  • Clipping:Players who won't play on Sunday
    ...revival here, has been a conscientious Christian and believes that playing ball is not the proper way of keeping the commandment – ”Remember the Sabbat
    736 bytes (124 words) - 20:12, 29 February 2020
  • 1863.95
    |Headline=Rebels seen playing ball ...etter from the 27th CT: "From Falmouth, the rebels are daily seen, playing ball and apparently enjoying themselves."</p>
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  • Bandy
    ...modern field hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> ...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>
    1 KB (202 words) - 06:01, 14 October 2023
  • 1365.1
    |Headline=Edward III Prohibits Playing of Club-Ball. ...f . . . ." Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. The actual term for "club-ball" in the proclamation was, evidently, "bacculoream."</p>
    1 KB (219 words) - 13:25, 3 November 2012
  • 1795.2
    |Headline=Survey Reports Cricket in New England, Playing at Ball in TN ...ock notes that Winterbotham is sometimes credited with saying that bat and ball was popular in America before the Revolutionary War, and that adults played
    1 KB (160 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1856
    ..., the chief enjoyment of which appears to consist in sending a hard wooden ball into the face of every stray passenger they can hit...”</p> ...all, rather than baseball, because of the mention of a bat and because the ball is described as being hard and made of wood.</p>
    1 KB (175 words) - 20:34, 17 October 2020
  • BC750.1
    ...s that loosely resemble very physical forms of keepaway and rugby, and the playing of a complicated form of catch, one that involved feints to deceive other p ...ng to milder forms of ball play, he said "I believe that in this form ball playing is also superior to all the other exercises." His partiality to ballplaying
    2 KB (310 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
  • Three-Base Ball
    |Term=Three-Base Ball ...le its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two Old Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p>
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  • 1795.5
    |Headline=Playing At Ball in the Untamed West (Now Kentucky?) |Text=<p>"Wrestling, jumping, running foot races, and playing at ball, are the common diversions."&nbsp;</p>
    1,018 bytes (142 words) - 14:10, 29 January 2020
  • Clipping:Rumors of professionalism in the Atlantics; a situation does not make a man a professional
    ...on’t think I have done anything on the “square,” either. But this playing ball for so much a week, or for a suit of clothes, or for “license fees,” or
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  • 1864c.56
    |Headline=Confederate Prisoners Play Ball in Chicago |Game=Town Ball,
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  • 1865.12
    |Headline="Professional" Players? Yes. Playing For Money? No |Game=Base Ball,
    1 KB (209 words) - 19:15, 14 October 2015
  • In Westfield in 1844
    |Game=Play ball ...eptember 1869, written by "1843." As cited in Genovese, Daniel L, The Old Ball Ground: The Chronological History of Westfield Baseball (2004), pages 1-2.
    1 KB (213 words) - 14:53, 27 February 2024
  • 1841.12
    |Headline=Fond OH Editor on Youthful Ball-playing: "We Like It" |Game=Base Ball
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  • Clipping:Spread of the game among boys
    ...the boys. Even when no engaged in a game, they are practicing throwing a ball from one to the other; and after schoolhours, every vacant lot or suitable
    973 bytes (169 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
  • 1812.2
    |Headline=Soldier Van Smoot&#39;s Diary Notes Playing Catch at New Orleans LA ...ound a soft ball in my knapsack, that I forgot I had put there and started playing catch with it."</p>
    483 bytes (81 words) - 06:05, 22 October 2012
  • 1859.28
    |Headline=New Yorker Dies Playing Base Ball |Game=Base Ball,
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  • 1863.35
    |Headline=Correspondent Sees Playing Base Ball and Cricket As Common Pastimes ...other amusements between parades and drills, pitching quoits, playing base ball and cricket, and horse racing are their every day pastimes.”</p><p>“Pen
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  • Clipping:The Columbia grounds
    ...men of our country. The following clubs have secured the ground for ball playing:</p> <p>Swiftfoot Base Ball Club, Tuesday and Friday.</p>
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  • 1802c.1
    |Headline=South Carolina Man Lists Ball-Playing Among Local Amusements |Text=<p>"[A]musements are few: consisting of dancing, horse racing, ball playing and rifle shooting."</p>
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  • Clipping:The condition of the Beacon Club
    ...eur playing, will soon set the ball rolling in their annual revival, first playing an opening game, new nine versus old. With several of the strongest of the
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  • Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856
    |Name=Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856 |Description=<p>"The match game of Base Ball between the Empire and Excelsior Clubs, came off yesterday on the Cricket G
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  • 1790s.2
    |Headline=Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast" ...p>" [Five of us] were playing ball on the common before breakfast: and the ball fell into a hole where one of the booth's stakes had been driven the day be
    1 KB (166 words) - 06:55, 29 January 2020
  • 1755.6
    |Headline=NYS Traveler Notes Dutch Boys Playing "Bat and Ball" |Game=Xenoball, Bat and Ball
    1 KB (188 words) - 15:40, 9 November 2012
  • 1861.49
    |Headline=Playing Ball in Racine Camp ...ave until two o'clock to rest, which time is generally occupied in playing ball, jumping, throwing dumb bells, running foot races, and wrestling."</p>
    756 bytes (110 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
  • Corner Ball
    |Term=Corner Ball |Game Family=Hat ball
    481 bytes (84 words) - 08:05, 6 January 2016
  • 1832.8
    |Headline=Buffalo NY Council and "Playing at Ball" ...to make laws regulating the rolling of hoops, flying of kites, playing at ball, or any other amusement having a tendency to annoy persons passing in the s
    775 bytes (125 words) - 17:43, 6 September 2012
  • Clipping:Al Reach discusses base ball versus town ball
    |Title=Al Reach discusses base ball versus town ball ...nd related one or two humorous instances of his experience in playing town ball.</p>
    556 bytes (91 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
  • Most Wanted: How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games?
    |Title=How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games? ...n juvenile games in Britain.&nbsp; Which of the Knickerbocker's initial 14 playing rules had precedents in prior English games?</p>
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  • Clipping:Early professionalism hinted at; political patronage
    ...f the several party leaders and committees have begun to see that the base ball community are sufficiently numerous and influential to be looked after.</p>
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  • 1862.67
    |Headline=Playing Ball near Yorktown ...ty, they engage in almost every variety of exercise and amusement, playing ball, pitching quoits, and other athletic sports."</p>
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  • 1861.51
    |Headline=Ball Playing competes with fencing in camp ...leisure hours "in great part to athletic exercises--fencing, boxing, ball playing--while their evenings are passed in singing."</p>
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  • 1863.71
    |Headline=Ball Playing a "Favorite Amusement" ...h NY) datelined St. Helena Island [near Port Royal], March 21, 1863: "Ball playing is a favorite amusement with them. They, however, are tired of inactivity,
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  • Clipping:A critique of pitching for strike outs
    ...se out the catcher, himself, and the audiences. It may be more scientific playing, but it is not nearly so satisfactory to the crowd. Spectators enjoy the s
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  • 1823c.9
    |Headline=Kentucky Abolitionist Recalls Playing Base-ball ...athletic sports - riding on horseback . . . playing base-ball, bandy, foot-ball and all that - so I had confidence in my prowess."</p>
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  • 1817.2
    |Headline=Riddle Game Cites "Fourteen Boys at Bat and Ball" |Game=Bat-Ball
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  • 1858.8
    |Headline=Harvard Student Magazine Notes "Multitude" Playing Base or Cricket There |Game=Cricket, Base Ball,
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  • 1863.91
    |Headline=Confederate soldiers play ball near Fredericksburg ...rom Virginia." "The amusements of the army are rational and generous. Ball playing is a common game when the weather is pleasant..."</p>
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  • Clipping:A barnstorming team to play exhibitions with the PL
    ...and I am pleased to say that I have this day completed the entire circuit, playing two games in each city with each club as follows...</p> ...y with men of honor, such as those who compose the Brotherhood, instead of playing against contract jumpers, oath violators, etc.? For good practice for any
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  • Clipping:Gambling will Destroy Baseball
    ...has brought on horse-racing and billiard playing will attach to base ball playing which will lose its popularity with the better class of our citizens. It is
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  • 1865.38
    |Headline=Ball Playing at Andersonville POW Camp ...es me a pass to go to hospital. Have been down there all afternoon playing ball.&rdquo;</p>
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  • ProtoPix:Drive Ball at Camp Doubleday
    |Title=Drive Ball at Camp Doubleday ...76th NY Soldiers at Camp Doubleday playing bat-ball game that may be drive ball
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  • Clipping:The season in the South; Sunday baseball
    ...ball-playing day in New Orleans is Sunday; and every fine Sunday, all the ball grounds are occupied, except those of the best social status. New York Sun
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  • 1840.35
    |Headline=Carlisle PA Bans Playing Ball ...persons . . . to frequent and use the market-house as a place for playing ball or any other game."</p>
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  • 1870c.17
    ...little afraid, from [what] Uncle says, that overexertion and excitement in playing baseball will injure your hearing.&nbsp; Now, you are old enough to judge o
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  • 1856.11
    ...nbsp;&nbsp;This elementary school book has an illustration of boys playing ball in a schoolyard.&nbsp;</p> |Query=<p>What are the "other sources" for playing&nbsp;<em>theque?</em>&nbsp;Is it significant that this book features games
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  • Clipping:A 4-3 line drive double play; second baseman playing off the bag
    |Title=a 4-3 line drive double play; second baseman playing off the bag ...he assemblage. New York Herald June 29, 1869 [Thus implying that Pike was playing on the first base side of the bag]</p>
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  • 1852.9
    ...ar practices in the public streets . . . . [Three were nabbed] for playing ball in front of the church, corner of Butler and Court streets, during divine s
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  • Clipping:Indoor baseball in Brooklyn 3
    ...ts, and considering the defective light, which fault will be remedied, the playing was of a passable order. Owing to a time limit, only four innings were pla ...eived quite an ovation on the occasion. The armory is not fitted for ball playing as that of the Twenty-third Regiment is. The Sporting Life January 22, 189
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
    ...children's access to this traditional ball playing venue: "Rounders, base ball, bat and trap, games as old as cricket, will be forbidden under irksome reg ...as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball playing.</p>
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  • 1790s.1
    |Headline=Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing ...nth yeares were spent in youthfull folley.&nbsp; Fidling, frolicking, ball playing and hunting . . . .&nbsp; These are called inocent amusements and were not
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  • 1779.5
    |Headline=Army Lieutenant Cashiered for "Playing Ball with Serjeants" ...s of war "unofficer and ungentlemanlike conduct in associating and playing ball with Serjeants on the 6<sup>th</sup> instant."</p>
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  • 1805.6
    ...ay [Sunday] for amusement &amp; great numbers are seen about, some playing ball, some with things for sale &amp; some dressed up going to meeting."&nbsp; & ...Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 29-30. Tom [ibid, page 29]
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  • Games Tab:Louisville
    ! City/Town Playing Field ...Louisville Base Ball Club intra-club game with score of 52-42</p> <p>(base ball)</p>
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  • Games Tab:New York State, Northern
    ! City/Town Playing Field | <p>(1) “Base Ball at Ogdensburg, N.Y.,” <i>New York Clipper,</i> [?] Jun 1860</p>
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  • Clipping:Reduced attendance; high admission fee
    ...can scarcely pay their traveling expenses. There is either too much ball playing or else the admission fee is more than the public can afford to pay during
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  • 1860.83
    |Headline=Long Ball |Game=Base Ball
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  • 1781.1
    |Headline=Teen Makes White Leather Balls for British Officers' Ball-Playing ...p; One amusement in which they indulged much, was playing at ball.&nbsp; A Ball-Alley was fitted up at the Court-House, where some of them were to be seen
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  • Clipping:Switching a live and a dead ball
    |Title=switching a live and a dead ball ...ores were playing with two balls, the live one for themselves and the dead ball for their competitors. Intense excitement and confusion ensued. Four or f
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on June 22 1907
    ...ding to a newspaper notice, a policeman “found the defendants playing base-ball in the long grass in a field near to the Worting-road allotments.”</p>
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  • Games Tab:Miscellaneous
    ! City/Town Playing Field | <p>W.D.’s side 43</p><p>P.B.’s side 19</p><p>(town ball – 2 innings)</p>
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  • 1779.2
    |Headline=Lieutenant Reports Playing Ball, and Playing Bandy Wicket ...2, 1779; 'until the 22<sup>nd</sup>, the time was spent playing shinny and ball.'&nbsp; Incidentally, Shute distinguished among various sports, referring e
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  • Clipping:George Wright retires
    ...nal base-ball. He will devote himself to his business, and what base-ball playing he does will be with the Beacons, a local amateur club.</p>
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  • Clipping:A lawsuit over a trophy ball
    |Title=a lawsuit over a trophy ball ...ummer. The Buckeyes put in among its defences the plea that playing for a ball was gambling under the laws of New Jersey. The court refused to allow the
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  • 1672.1
    |Headline=Rev. Wilson Decries Sunday "Stool-Ball" and "Cricketts" Playing ...ane town, in as much as I have seen morrice-dancing, cudgel-playing, stool-ball, cricketts, and many other sports openly and publicly indulged in on the Lo
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  • In Boston in 1854
    ...lged in to a great extent all over the land. The first regularly organized Ball Club in this section was doubtless the Olympic Club, of Boston, which was f ...records a game of "base ball" with the "Olympic Club" playing the "Aurora Ball Club"</p>
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  • In Springfield in 1834
    |Game=Town Ball ...ricket, cat, town ball, corner ball, over ball, fives or any other game of ball..." under pain of a $1 fine.</p>
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  • 19CBB Digest, April-May 2013
    [] Another base ball court. Bob Tholkes posted an 1860 note about a base ball practice facility operator in Paterson, N.J.; the only previous notes about ...hose days- Richard Hershberger posted an 1858 note about a player who kept playing after injuring his finger-- which later required amputation.
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  • 1803.1
    |Headline=Ontario Diarist Reports Joining Men "Jumping and Playing Ball" ...rio] . . . walk'd out and joined a number of men jumping and playing&nbsp; Ball, perceived a Mr. Joseph Randle to be the most active."&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
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  • Clipping:The obligation to try to steal a base; batter swinging to protect the runner
    ...playing for his club and not for a record, will never miss striking at the ball as the base runner starts.</p>
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  • 1855.23
    |Headline=Modern Base Ball Rules Appear in NYC, Syracuse Papers |Game=Base Ball,
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  • 1865.31
    ...9th Corps, thousands of our boys threw down their arms and engaged in ball playing with the rebel soldiers. The utmost good feeling prevailed..."</p> <p>If true, this would be perhaps the first verified instance of ball playing between the two sides, in a battlefield situation. The story was printed in
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  • 1861.44
    |Game=Base Ball ...11th New York Infantry) while in camp "are kicking foot-ball, playing base ball..."
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  • Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on March 27 1869
    ...atedly cautioned the defendants and other young men of their playing 'base ball,' and their general bad conduct on Sunday afternoon, but to no effect. The
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  • 1820.1
    |Headline=Bat/Ball Game Depicted in <u>Children&#39;s Amusements</u> ...'s Amusements</span>&nbsp;. The book&nbsp;contains an illustration of ball playing (page 9) and this text (page 10):</p>
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  • Clipping:Catching technique
    ...ke the opening and closing of a clam; his hands fly open and close on the ball with a wrist movement.</p>
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  • Clipping:St. Louis Maroons frozen out by the League
    ...m is out of the question. For him to play in the league with a weak club, playing no Sunday games and charging 50 cents admission, is bound to prove a losing
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  • 1858.30
    |Headline=Playing Rules Given for New Britain CT Wicket Ball Match |Text=<p>"The great game of Wicket Ball between a party of the married and unmarried men of New Britain, came off o
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  • Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 5 October 1858
    |Name=Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 5 October 1858 |Home Team=Syracuse Base Ball Club
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  • Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on June 11 1900
    ...Albert Ball, 15, George Smart, 17, and George Eisey, 17, were charged with playing baseball in Willis-road on the 3rd, and were mulcted in a penalty of 1s. ea
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  • 1861.30
    |Headline=Confederate Soldier’s Diary Reports on Town Ball Playing, 1861-1863 ...ng unusual transpiring in Camp. The boys are passing the time playing Town-Ball.&rdquo;</p>
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  • Clipping:The Central Park ball grounds
    |Title=the Central Park ball grounds ...d it well pays a person to visit the grounds while the clubs are playing. Ball Players Chronicle July 25, 1867</p>
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  • 1840s.42
    |Headline=Town Ball Club Finds Spot in NYC For Playing |Game=Town Ball
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  • ProtoPix:Bat-Ball game, 1300s
    |Title=Bat-Ball game, 1300s |Source Image=Men-playing-a-game-from-bl-royal-10-e-iv-f-94v-10ec2f.jpg
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  • Block:English Baseball in London on June 21 1880
    ...er he believed that Hyde Park was too heavily used by the public to permit ball play.</p> ...The speaker might have been uncertain which of the sports the boy had been playing; or he mentioned both names because he thought the sport could be identifie
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  • 824.1
    |Headline=15-Year-Old Chinese Emperor Criticized for Excessive Ball-Playing ...peror's couch and eat his dinner, 'for nowadays he is always away, playing ball or hunting.'" The prank was carried out, but those prankish dyers . . . wel
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  • In Marietta Circa 1841
    |Game=Town Ball ...ll, a game of fives on ball battery ..."Judge Green invariably won playing ball.
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  • 1862.44
    |Headline=Ohio Soldier Sees “Most of Our Company “ Playing Pre-battle Bat Ball ...t Ball and perhaps in less than half an hour, they may be called to play a Ball game of a more serious nature.&rdquo;</p>
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  • Clipping:Caylor doesn't understand economics
    ...when a player demands $3,000 or $3,500 for seven months’ services at ball playing, and it is patent to him and his feinds that he couldn’t earn a thousand
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  • Clipping:Catchers playing close to the bat
    |Title=catchers playing close to the bat ...there is one chance for a sharp fly-tip, there are three at least for foul-ball catches, either high flies or low bounds.</p>
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  • In Dedham in 1837
    |Game=Round Ball ...g "base" and "round" ball as a youth. Assuming his memory of playing round ball dated to when he was around 10 in 1837, his recorded memory would be ninete
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  • In Philadelphia in 1822
    |Game=Trap Ball |Description=Ad for trap ball playing in Philadelphia
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  • Clipping:Fan interference does not give a base; block ball
    |Title=fan interference does not give a base; block ball ...player claims that it gives him one base. I claim by Sec. 24 that if the ball is settled in the pitcher’s hands and then passed to the base before he r
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  • 1863.13
    ...dquo; [p. 113], and that for September 22, &ldquo;Played leap frog. Played ball.&rdquo; He called the game &ldquo;baseball&rdquo; in the 1864 entry.</p> ...t it hardly seems a mortally risky game, and it seems possible that &ldquo;playing wicket&rdquo; has a military meaning here. Input from readers on this issue
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  • First Female Play of Modern Base Ball?
    |Name=First Female Play of Modern Base Ball? |Description=<p>Girls, as well as boys, are reportedly playing base ball at the Eagleswood School in Perth Amboy, NJ.</p>
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  • Clipping:Backing up plays; playing the outfield in
    |Title=backing up plays; playing the outfield in ...der's head, the bases so gained will be comparatively few, while the close playing will enable the field to support the diamond and hold runners on short hits
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  • 1824.7
    |Headline=Bat and Ball, Cricket are Sunday Afternoon Pastimes |Game=Bat and Ball,Cricket
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  • 1704.1
    |Headline=Traveler Observes Ball-Playing in CT ...itable journal of her ride from Boston to New York in 1704, speaks of ball-playing in Connecticut."</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Kent on September 8 1888
    ...ishap: “On Friday afternoon, some visitors to Canterbury were playing base ball on the Dane John, when one of the gentlemen accidentally fell and broke his
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  • Clipping:Murnane on infielder positioning
    ...f he was fifteen feet back of the line, as most other men play it. If the ball was not hit and the runner tried to steal second he was sure to be in front
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  • 1861.20
    |Headline=Confederate Soldier&#39;s Diary Reports on Town Ball Playing, 1861-1863 |Game=Town Ball
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  • 1833.11
    ...Fast. Meetings well attended . . . . A part of the people were off playing ball, according to their usual practice . . . . Am very much fatigued. The after ...tt he wrote "Very pleasant. Thermometer rose to 70 [degrees]. Some playing ball."</p>
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  • Amateur Base Ball Club of Lewiston
    |Name=Amateur Base Ball Club of Lewiston ...Eugene Rowley, captain 2nd nine. Same Jan. 13, 1877 "On Saturday the Base Ball Club of this place had several brisk games upon their grounds," which impli
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  • 1869.10
    |Headline=In Reconstruction SC, Riot Follows a Ball Game |Tags=African Americans, Ball in the Culture,
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  • Clipping:A game on ice broken up by competition from outside skaters for the pond
    ...disconcerted them very much in their playing, they being afraid to bat the ball and skate swiftly to the bases, lest they might come in contact with the la
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  • Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 7 August 1860
    ...erity of the game, will promply [sic] put a veto on all such spurious ball playing.&nbsp; Blackball the &lsquo;waiting game.&rsquo; &ldquo;)</p> |Sources=<p>(1) &ldquo;Local Matters: Base Ball,&rdquo; <em>Troy Daily Whig,</em> vol. 26, no. 8044 (9 Aug 1860), p. 3, col
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  • 1863.29
    |Headline=Print of artillerymen playing ball |Game=Base Ball
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  • 1816.2
    |Headline=Worcester MA Ordinance Bans "Frequent and Dangerous" Ball Playing and Hoops" |Text=<p>"[S]uch regulations as will prevent the playing Ball and Hoops in the public Streets&nbsp; . . . a practice so frequent and dang
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  • 1823c.4
    |Headline=Young Man Recalls "More Active Sports of &#39;Playing Ball&#39; or &#39;Goal.&#39;" ...ring boys, we . . . engaged ourselves in the more active sorts of "playing ball" or "goal."</p>
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  • 1863.25
    |Headline=Men in 59th NY Play Ball, Run, Pitch Quarters, Etc ...sist the temptation of joining with the men in there sports. After playing ball for some time I changed the sport by running a foot race with Lt. Murphy, w
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  • 1841.17
    |Headline=Clevelanders Play Ball at Sunset on Water Street ...e pleasant afternoon towards 'set of sun' and see the 'Bachelors' make the ball fly.</p>
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  • 1863.155
    |Headline=51st Illinois Plays Ball and Quoits |Game=Ball
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  • Central Park
    ...has been set apart at Central Park, but the Commissioners are not allowing ball games to be played there, although it appears they allow cricket.</p> <p>The park commission continued to resist baseball playing by organized clubs, even though the original plans for the park included a
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  • In Poultney Circa 1823
    |Game=Ball |Description=Horace Greeley described playing ball in VT in the early 1820s.
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  • 1830s.37
    |Headline=Cat, Town and Corner Ball recalled in Pittston |Game=Cat Ball
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  • 1862.109
    |Headline=Kershaw's SC Brigade Plays Base Ball and Snow Balling |Game=Base Ball
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  • 1845.9
    |Headline=Cover of Children&#39;s Book Depicts Ball Play ...The cover of this children's book has a small illustration of boys playing ball.</p>
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  • In La Crosse in 1860
    |Game=Town Ball ...ing" reports that some young boy played "a good old fashioned game of base ball" yesterday.</p>
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  • 1805.9
    ...t=<p>"High Street, at Hopkins's Corner, was the favorite battle-ground for ball-players, as early as 1805."</p> ...ced in 1820. At the town meeting that year, it was voted 'that the game of ball, and the pitching of quoits within [a specified area] be prohibited."</p>
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  • Games Tab:Minnesota
    ! City/Town Playing Field | <p>Nininger Base Ball Club intra-club game (score not reported)</p>
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  • Block:Tut Ball in West Sussex on August 1 1898
    |Title=Tut Ball in West Sussex on August 1 1898 |Block Game=Tut Ball
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  • Clipping:The runner kicking the ball
    |Title=the runner kicking the ball ...e must be given out. It lies with the umpire to judge of the intention of playing foully or not.</p>
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  • 1821.8
    |Headline=English Essayist Praises Youth Playing Bass-ball and Cricket |Tags=English Base Ball, Females, Fiction,
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  • 1864.16
    |Headline=14th Louisiana Plays Ball in Virginia ...006. Snakenberg was from Louisiana, and had been a member of the Hope Base Ball and LaQuarte Club, which played weekly in Gretna [across the river from New
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  • 1800c.3
    |Headline=Col. Jas. Lee Recalls Playing Baseball as a Youth. <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
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  • 1755c.7
    |Headline=Prominent Patriot Regrets Wasting Time Playing Cat (and Fives) ...hamed, likewise, in recollecting how much time I have wasted when a boy in playing cat and fives and steal-clothes, &amp;etc . . . . that might have been been
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  • Clipping:Blocking a runner from third
    ...as soon as the ball is hit the entire infield, except the man to whom the ball is batted, will start for home, ostensibly to back up the catcher, but real
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  • In Westfield in 1831
    |Game=Ball ...and the letter writer had a sore hand from the play.This is clearly a bat-ball reference, but we cannot be more exact as to the game.&nbsp;
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  • Clipping:An early use of 'ball-tosser'
    |Title=an early use of 'ball-tosser' ...r hand, the Unions, as soon as they found themselves unable to bat the new ball-tosser, became demoralized...</p>
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  • 1796.2
    ...irst such entry, from April 22, 1796, is "I exercise considerable, playing ball."&nbsp;</p> ...2, 106, and 128. Per Thomas L. Altherr,<em> "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball,"</em> reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span><span style="text-decoration: u
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  • Clipping:The UA playing rules
    |Title=the UA playing rules ...eague rules, and batsmen have to run on a missed third strike. As for the ball and rules book, Wright and Ditson of Boston were awarded the contract to fu
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  • Town Ball in Newport on 31 August 1858
    |Name=Town Ball in Newport on 31 August 1858 |Game=Town Ball
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  • 1840c.34
    |Headline=Ball-Playing at Marshall College in PA ...ns they needed . . . . [In addition to local excursions], [s]ometimes ball-playing was the recreation, and sometimes it was leaping or jumping, that brought t
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  • In Worcester in 1816
    |Game=Ball Playing |Description=<p>"Ball-playing" in the streets of Worcester, Massachusetts is forbidden by ordinance.</p><
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  • Clipping:Bill Parks umpires a game
    ...ame as it is now played. At any rate, what Parks does not know about ball playing would fill a book.</p>
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  • New Marlboro Rules Baseball
    ...ield and all-out innings. The mere fact that the New Marlboro club was not playing the Massachusetts Game is perhaps the most significant finding." (Richard H ...inting the Richard Hershberger article on the New Marlboro Rules in ''Base Ball'', Spring 2010. See Rule Sets, Protoball.</p>
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  • Clipping:Reporting juvenile games
    ...urther remarks that these youngsters form themselves into sides, and after playing their games, send the scores to the Clipper for publication, in order to se
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  • 1829.1
    |Headline=Philadelphians Play Ball |Game=Town Ball
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  • Clipping:Early indoor baseball
    ...ight Indian club, and, in striking, the batter is not allowed to block the ball, but must hit it fairly and squarely. Nine innings constitute a game.</p>
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  • 1837.3
    ...ball player. I can't see where the ball is coming soon enough to put the ball-club in its way."</p> ...flin, Boston, 1909. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 50.</p
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  • 1815.3
    |Game=Bat-Ball ...section of this yearly book has an engraving of children playing a bat-and-ball game. <b>Note:</b> Does the game appear to use bases?</p>
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  • 1849.13
    |Headline=Did Cartwright Play Ball on His Way to California? |Game=Base Ball
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  • 1832.9
    |Headline=Norwich CT Sets $2 Fine for Playing Ball ..., page 1. Provided by John Thorn, email of 1/14/2008. <b>Note: </b> "Sky ball?"</p>
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  • Block:English Baseball in Cumbria on November 15 1879
    ...of work. He also alleged that his master had often played marbles and base ball during working hours, and had encouraged [the apprentice] to play with him.
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  • 1830.1
    |Headline=<u>Children&#39;s Amusements</u> Describes Bat/Ball Play for Brits and Yanks ...an illustration of ball playing (page 9) and this text (page 10): "Playing ball is much practised by school boys and is an excellent exercise to unbend the
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  • Clipping:Fisler, Reach playing with multiple clubs
    |Title=Fisler, Reach playing with multiple clubs ...den and Olympic Clubs of Philadelphia–in that city the cricketers’ plan of playing members belonging to other clubs is in vogue–who is now a member of the E
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  • Clipping:More on called balls as dead
    ...line of his position before a called ball can be in play? 1. Yes, if the ball is not struck at. 2. No. New York Clipper August 10, 1867</p> ...ase Ball Club for violation of section 21 of the Rules and Regulations, in playing Messrs. Wm. Dorsay and D. Clinton, of the Alert club, in a game against the
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  • Clipping:The new League playing rules
    |Title=the new League playing rules ...for some sharp points when the fielder as the preference between letting a ball bound or not in the outfield when it drops foul again, a sharp tip gives a
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  • 1828.8
    ...t Washington Parade, and he will find large groups of men and boys playing ball and filling the air with shouts and yells."</p> ...</u>editorial no date given. This quote comes from Berger, Meyer, "In the Ball Park Every Man's a King," <u>New York</u><u>Times</u>, April 14, 1935. Sub
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  • 1856.36
    |Text=<p>"BALL PLAYING.</p> ...four<br />boys. Two of the boys take the bats, and the other two throw the ball from<br />one to the other past the boys who have the bats, at the same tim
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  • 1804.1
    |Headline=SC School Opens, Students Play Town Ball and Bull Pen |Game=Town Ball
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  • 1861.29
    |Headline=3rd NH Celebrates Thanksgiving in SC “In Playing Ball, Turkey Shooting” ...ag run up, amid a thousand cheers.&rdquo; He does not further describe the ball game.</p>
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  • Block:Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884
    |Title=Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884 |Block Game=Ball Bias
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  • Ball in Little Rock in February 1864
    |Name=Ball in Little Rock in February 1864 ...ell and in fine spirits. ... They are laughing and yelling over their ball playing, and such like amusements"
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  • Mystic Club of Springfield
    ...cription=<p>Robert D. Sampson, "Fields of Battle: The Problem of Base Ball Playing Space in Post Civil War Illinois,"&nbsp;<em>Journal of the Illinois State H <p>Robert D. Sampson, "Fields of Battle: The Problem of Base Ball Playing Space in Post Civil War Illinois,"&nbsp;<em>Journal of the Illinois State H
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  • Clipping:Beer and Sunday games in the Northwestern League
    ...made a feeble protest, but the delegates voted 8 to 2 to authorize Sunday playing. The Sporting Life January 16, 1884</p> <p>The League did well in rescinding the restrictions against Sunday playing and the sale of beer. The experience of the American Association shows tha
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  • Clipping:No reserve team in Pittsburgh
    ...nt in heretofore. We hope to make a good showing, but our ability to play ball can be tested better by the 1 st of May., quoting Denny McKnight</p>
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  • 1862.101
    ...member of the 1st MN light artillery. There are several mentions of Thomas playing baseball&nbsp; in camp:</p> ...(letter from Corinth, MS, June 26, 1862): "As to exercise, quoits and base ball fill up every leisure moment I have..." (with quoits being his favorite)</p
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  • National Base Ball Club of Brooklyn
    |Name=National Base Ball Club of Brooklyn <p>Playing Days - Wednesdays and Saturdays</p>
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  • Clipping:Gentlemen switching from baseball to cricket?
    ...of betting rings and the pool-selling business that professional baseball playing has undoubtedly been.</p>
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  • Clipping:Catcher playing up on the sixth ball
    |Title=catcher playing up on the sixth ball ...ing run on the seventh call, as might be the case if he stood back and the ball should chance to bound into the grand-stand or somewhere else out of reach.
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  • Clipping:Players League suits for injuncitons
    ...Ball Clubs, and against John Clements. The Players' National League Base Ball Club of Philadelphia, is the plaintiff in each case.</p> ..., or organization other than the plaintiff, and that the Philadelphia Base Ball Club, Limited, be restrained from interfering with Thompson or Myers until
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  • Long Ball (US Batting Game)
    |Term=Long Ball (US Batting Game) <p>"Long Ball"&nbsp; is generally known as a baserunning bat-and-ball game in Europe.&nbsp; However, Steven Katz (email of 2/5/2021) notes that,
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  • 1852.12
    |Headline=Ball-playing Prohibited Near UNC Buildings |Text=<p>"There shall be no ball playing in or among the College buildings or against the walls.&nbsp; All athletic
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  • 1861.50
    ...aged in playing ball, some racing, some jumping, and not infrequently some playing leap frog."&nbsp;</p>
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  • 1849.3
    |Game=Base Ball, ...comical to see the mountain men and Indians playing the new game. I have a ball with me that we used back home.'"</p>
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  • 1862.34
    |Headline=51st Pennsylvania Plays Ball 1862-1864 in VA, KY, MD, Sometimes Daily. ...ry creditable playing is done &ndash; some that would do honor to any base ball club extant. [page 539].</p>
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  • Clipping:The effect of a new ball on batting
    |Title=the effect of a new ball on batting ...with which they had been playing ripped. The Browns objected, but the new ball was allowed, and the result was the visitors batted Caruther’s delivery t
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  • 1854.13
    ...bat was a heavy oak thing and they trundled the ball along the ground, the ball being so large it could not get under the sticks.</p> ...had played awhile I said, "You must play the modern game cricket." I had a ball and they made six stumps. Then we went to Delta, the field where the Harvar
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  • Block:English Baseball in Berkshire on January 6 1900
    ...fendant said he struck the complainant accidentally as he was playing base ball. They had to touch a base and this happened to be close to Mrs Simon's step
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  • Baseball5
    ...er. Offensive players can also get themselves out by illegally hitting the ball.</p> ...he batter (offensive player who hits the ball) starting each play with the ball, which is the only equipment used in the game." (wikipedia)</p>
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  • In Rockford in 1858
    ...Court House Square" and wonders why they don't form a base ball or wicket ball club.</p>
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  • Clipping:A new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games
    |Title=a new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games ...be able to trouble any of the regular metropolitan amateur nines to win a ball from them.</p>
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