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Chronology:Playing with Balls

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Clipping:Playing for a base on balls
|Title=playing for a base on balls ...he sixth with one strike called. His chances in either case for a base on balls is far better than it is in any other way.

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Clipping:Bases on balls no longer in the error column
|Title=bases on balls no longer in the error column ...fest error and cannot be cited as a precedent for a material change in the Playing Rules in the middle of a championship season. By order of the Joint Commit

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1862.62
|Headline=Atlanta Boys harass pedestrians with flying balls ...e Atlanta Southern Confederacy, April 11, 1862, editorializes against ball playing in the city streets:

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Clipping:Playing for a base on balls
|Title=playing for a base on balls ...he sixth with one strike called. His chances in either case for a base on balls is far better than it is in any other way.

454 bytes (79 words) - 19:46, 29 February 2020
Clipping:Scoring bases on balls
|Title=scoring bases on balls ...en called.” To ignore such time at bat, though he take his base on called balls, or on three strikes not caught, and afterwards scores a run because he doe

793 bytes (134 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
Clipping:Young does not credit earned runs on bases on balls
|Title=Young does not credit earned runs on bases on balls ...it was generally understood by the playing rules committee that a base on balls figured no longer as a factor in an earned run. The Sporting Life May 15,

1,003 bytes (172 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
Clipping:The catcher playing close behind the bat
|Title=the catcher playing close behind the bat ...balls, two of them from fly tips, besides keeping down the score of passed balls to a couple only.

525 bytes (85 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
Clipping:Passed balls not counted as errors
|Title=passed balls not counted as errors ...any readers why a passed ball is not an error. Suppose that two Clubs are playing: the first makes no earned runs, the second makes no errors, but the first

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1825.9
...every Saturday afternoon, through the season, the weather permitting, Bats Balls and Refreshments provided by Emmons Rudge." American Mercury [Hartf

482 bytes (67 words) - 17:40, 6 September 2012
1494c.1
...iscovered vulcanization [1839], "India rubber" balls were to be identified with the New York game of baseball.

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Clipping:Umpire must call a ball or a strike
...lled two balls and two strikes. The next ball must have made either three balls or three strikes.

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Clipping:Critique of four balls for a walk, foul. tips
|Title=critique of four balls for a walk, foul. tips ...im to hit the ball. It is also likely to lead to complications as regards balls that do not come straight from the bat but that rise a little., quoting the

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Clipping:Over-weight balls
|Title=over-weight balls |Text=...playing with , which are all the rage among the batting-clubs of Philadelphia...

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Clipping:Playing the right fielder in
|Title=playing the right fielder in ...to the outfield as often as it was likely to be at right short, and by the playing of the second baseman well back of second, an open place was covered, which

785 bytes (133 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
1771.2
|Headline=Province of New Hampshire Prohibits Christmas "Playing With Balls" in the Streets ...ioned within the town of Portsmouth . . . by boys and fellows playing with balls in the public street: . . . [when] there is danger of breaking the windows

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1849c.5
|Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls ...n is the observation that "[t]here are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-ball and drive ball

598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
1771.1
|Game=Playing with Balls ...rtmouth students to engage in "that which is puerile, such as playing with balls, bowls and other ways of diversion."

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Clipping:A high delivery
...out this defect of Mr. Lamb's pitching now so that he may reform it before playing in the college-championship games.

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Clipping:Fewer balls for a walk; too much pitcher and catcher
|Title=fewer balls for a walk; too much pitcher and catcher ...ctive when they could deliver nine balls without penalty than they are now with seven, and the reduction to six will have naught but a beneficial effect.

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1847.8
...house, pelting each other with snow-balls and playing town-ball. [but the balls a soldier plies] are dangerous, and when they strike they leave more painfu

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Clipping:Calling and counting balls
|Title=calling and counting balls |Text=In calling balls, under the code of playing rules for 1873, the Umpire must observe the appended rules–

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Clipping:Umpire giving too many warnings, should call balls
|Title=umpire giving too many warnings, should call balls ...ng out to 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

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Clipping:A fifth infielder
...times, and not a chance for a catch was missed at right field, as no high balls were sent there off the swift pitching. For a swift pitcher, delivering on

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Clipping:Umpires not calling balls; strikes should be called only if batter wilfully refusing to strike
|Title=umpires not calling balls; strikes should be called only if batter wilfully refusing to strike ...ng out to 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

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Clipping:Scoring base on balls as an error
|Title=scoring base on balls as an error ...L first adopted scoring rules in 1877.] It is section 7 of rule 70 of the playing rules which says: “An error should be given for each misplay which allows

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1861.22
...ertisement) JOHN C. WHITING, 87 FULTON STREET, N. Y., manufacturer of BASE BALLS and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in everything appertaining to BASE BALL and ...Greater New York City area playing the game, providers of playing grounds, playing manuals, and equipment sprang up.

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1807.1
|Headline=Book Includes Hermit's Promise to Bring Children "Bats, Balls &c" ...n playing ball games approved of their play and promised 'to provide bats, balls, &c' at his next visit."

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Clipping:Intimidating the umpire; time of game
...hin two feet of the plate, or to call balls that were properly strikes bad balls. After the game the crowd jumped over into the field, and the private watc

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BC1460.1
|Headline=Egyptian Tomb Inscriptions Show Bats, Balls ...t=Wall inscriptions in Egyptian royal tombs depict games using bats and balls.

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Clipping:A player dishonorably working a base on balls?
|Title=a player dishonorably working a base on balls? ...o obtain his base in that manner. There is an honorable and honest way of playing ball, and a dishonorable, tricky style. We must say that we prefer the for

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1801.6
|Headline=Baltimore school boys urged to stop playing bandy ...1, urges school boys to stop playing bandy in the streets, as their struck balls endanger passers by. Otherwise, the police will have to put a stop to it.</

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Clipping:A ground rule for the outfield crowd
...laying field, so that it was found necessary to make an agreement that all balls hit to the fence should be only two-base hits.

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Clipping:Playing for a release 2
|Title=playing for a release 2 ...ompetition is very likely to enhance their salaries. The only way to deal with determined obstinacy and willful misplaying is to fine, suspend or expel.</

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1781.1
|Headline=Teen Makes White Leather Balls for British Officers' Ball-Playing ...icked and gamed much.  One amusement in which they indulged much, was playing at ball.  A Ball-Alley was fitted up at the Court-House, where some of

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Clipping:Basemen adjusting where they play
...lders will be able to consolidate their forces so as to secure more ground-balls than they did before.

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Clipping:Wasting time looking for foul balls
|Title=wasting time looking for foul balls ...ime was consumed in waiting for the ball to be brought in than was used in playing the game...

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Clipping:Pitching unfair balls
|Title=pitching unfair balls ...as an attractive feature of the game, than half-a-dozen catches from high balls hopped up nearly even the pitcher's head, or from tips from foul ball, both

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Clipping:Inconsistency in scoring errors
...mparatively few score an error to the pitcher for giving a base on “called balls,” although the book of rules expressly provides that it shall be so score

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1861.71
|Headline=Irish Soldiers play ball with Rebel shells ...the Hibernian Guard actually stacked their arms and commenced playing ball with the six pounders that the enemy sent among them, tossing them about as cool

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Clipping:Murnane on infielder positioning
...introduced several new points of play at second base while in this city. With a man on first base he always played close up to the base line. If the bal

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Clipping:Rebuttal to a proposal to return to straight-arm pitching; reduce the number of balls for a walk
...al to a proposal to return to straight-arm pitching; reduce the number of balls for a walk ...of decreased latitude in the number of balls than in any foolish tinkering with the rules governing the style of delivery.

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Clipping:Uniform rules under the National Agreement; official balls
|Title=uniform rules under the National Agreement; official balls ...under these rules. This is done so as to prevent the use of light or dead balls in games between the clubs of different bodies, a has frequently been the c

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Clipping:The veterans insist on playing under modified current rules
|Title=the veterans insist on playing under modified current rules ...d to obey, and the game was played under the present rules, except that no balls or wides were called, as the old-fashioned pitch marked the delivery of the

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Clipping:Catchers playing close to the bat too often
|Title=catchers playing close to the bat too often ...short from the bat, but the wear and tear of an unnecessary amount of the “playing up close” is indulged by catcher, the incentive generally being because i

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Clipping:Playing without a short stop, the third baseman tries to cover the ground
|Title=playing without a short stop, the third baseman tries to cover the ground ...t-stop became very noticeable, balls being hit low between 2d and 3d bases with impunity, as it was impossible for Mills to cover the ground.

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Clipping:Reducing the number of balls for a walk
|Title=reducing the number of balls for a walk |Text=[reporting on the NL convention] The number of called balls was reduced to eight instead of nine, but on what just grounds so limited a

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Clipping:Umpire not calling strikes
...th and eighth innings alone, on which five strikes were called, the R.I.'s playing a waiting game.

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Clipping:Rule changes increase batting
...s. With the abolition of the foul tip, and the reduction of the number of balls allowable, the pitcher has not had the batsman so completely at his mercy,

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Clipping:A late wait game
...oid any appearance of playing a waiting game, by promptly striking at good balls, even if their men are on bases at the time.

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Clipping:NL adopts two ball system
...n that in many cases where Bob Ferguson used two balls this season, it was with good effect.

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Clipping:Switching a live and a dead ball
...of Portsmouth, it was discovered that the Baltimores were playing with two balls, the live one for themselves and the dead ball for their competitors. Inte

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Clipping:Interpreting the new pitching rules; all runners advance on a base on balls
|Title=interpreting the new pitching rules; all runners advance on a base on balls ...due allowance for accidental inaccuracy when the pitchers tried to send in balls to suit the strikers; but he promptly inflicted the penalty of the law in t

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Clipping:The composition of balls; illegal balls; skillful batting
|Title=the composition of balls; illegal balls; skillful batting ...ssociation’s taking some action at the next convention to secure for match playing a perfectly made base ball, which shall give skillful fielding an equal cha

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Clipping:A critique of the system of scoring and pitching stats
...d of actual facts. A score sheet is now in preparation which will do away with a great deal of the difficulty hitherto surrounding the understanding of th

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Clipping:Strategic outfield play
...ed, picked up and thrown in so as to oblige the batsman to content himself with a single base on a hit on which he had hoped to get at least “three bags. ...run on ground balls, or lives given from failures to get under high short balls, owing to the fielders standing too far out for catches.

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Clipping:The state of the Mutual club
...b is in a most prosperous condition, numbering some 300 members, and their playing strength has yet to be seen. New York World April 16, 1867 yet more on called balls being dead

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Clipping:Drying the ball with sawdust
|Title=drying the ball with sawdust ...oyable one that we have witnessed this season. Delays were numerous, foul balls knocked by the scre–more than we have ever seen heretofore in a first-cla

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Clipping:Contracts in an amateur association; only one club per city
...ndments: number of called strikes; no putting runners out on uncaught foul balls, tagging up on foul flies; high and low strike zones ...der and one foot above the ground, that is, includes both “high” and “low” balls. New York Sunday Mercury April 2, 1876

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1869.9
|Headline=Playing the pre-New York Rules Game- 1869 ...served as bases. The principal qualification of the pitcher was to send in balls which could be struck, while fouls were ignored and "tick and catch" was th

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Clipping:The benefit of good drainage
...tter, but every now and then a fielder would drop in up to his ankles, and balls that should have been fielded had to be chronicled as base hits. ...d it was only by a liberal use of sawdust that it was got into any kind of playing condition. The infielders had plenty of fun skating around the base lines,

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Clipping:Behind catcher?
...where in front of the bat and playing him behind the catcher to catch foul balls. We cannot find anything in the rules prohibiting such a course; and there

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Clipping:Wild pitching
...y it is not. Nothing can be gained by it. In the end it will injure ball playing more than is thought. It is not only bothersome to the striker, who is kep ...acrificed to swiftness. Second—It annoys the striker by giving him unfair balls, and thereby much prolongs the game. Third—It is a clearly palpable viol

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Clipping:The Central Park ball grounds
...s, &c.; and it well pays a person to visit the grounds while the clubs are playing. Ball Players Chronicle July 25, 1867 ...members of the club, or some of the first nine, have been prohibited from playing, they being over the age allotted to boys allowed to play in the Park. Bal

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Vigilant Club of Brooklyn v Exercise Club of Brooklyn in September 1860
resulted in favor of the Exercise. The playing of both clubs was very Vigilants, met with an accident by a foul ball striking him in the

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Clipping:Outfielders backing each other up
...the game was that of considering a player to be only required to attend to balls which came within his reach—that is, if the left-fielder saw a ball going ...xcel in playing points in the outfield, his prompt and accurate returns of balls hit to centrefield which he sent in to send base hurrying the base-runners

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Clipping:The rising reputation of the Atlantics continues
...class="Apple-converted-space">  They never wait for any bound balls, but if they cannot take them on a fly, would almost as soon lose them.

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Clipping:Using two balls to avoid delays
|Title=using two balls to avoid delays ...practice which might be followed with benefit by other clubs. They use two balls and when one is knocked over the fence the second ball is brought into use

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Clipping:Catchers playing too close to the batter
|Title=catchers playing too close to the batter ...but as two to five to those given for long bound-catches and for high foul-balls, and these latter are invariably sacrificed by standing close up behind the

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Clipping:The Atlantics ground
...ned. This lot should not have been considered a portion of the field, and balls struck there should have been decided foul.

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Clipping:Uniform scoring; wild pitches and passed balls and bases on balls; Boston reporters
|Title=uniform scoring; wild pitches and passed balls and bases on balls; Boston reporters ...ing certain errors in the error column. According to League rules, passed balls and wild pitches are not charged against the players making them in the err

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Bunt
...ancement was done by ghost [imaginary] runners. Terrie Dopp Aamodt reports playing a similar game as an adolescent girl. ...ces=C. Bevis, “A Game of Bunt,” in G. Land, Growing Up with Baseball (UNebraska, 2004), pages 128-130.

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1863.61
|Headline=Drawing Shows 1st NJ Artillery Playing Ball Game on a Diamond ...ive side, and reveals little about the game played. There appear to be two balls in play, and one may be served to the batsman in a gentle toss from a soldi

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Clipping:A proposal to change scoring of pitchers stats to encourage offense
...ng batsmen hit the ball so that the in and outfields might do the decisive playing, would not the effect be desirable? Each batsman shall be entitled to three strikes, two called balls entitling him to take first base.

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Clipping:Interpreting called balls and strikes
|Title=interpreting called balls and strikes ...on him, his decisions throughout being thoroughly impartial and consistent with his peculiar definition of the rule.

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1858.30
|Headline=Playing Rules Given for New Britain CT Wicket Ball Match ...noted as differing from Hartford rules: wickets set 75 feet apart, "flying balls only out," no leading, "last [lost]  ball to count 4; but the strikers

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Clipping:The umpire standing behind the catcher
...sult was to improve the sight of the batsmen wonderfully and to render the playing of a waiting game impossible. Our umpires, one and all, are too easy in th

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First Note of Catcher Playing Close to Batter
|Name=First Note of Catcher Playing Close to Batter |Description="The catcher is expected to catch or stop all balls pitched or thrown home; he will, when a player is running from the first to

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Clipping:Trickery of switching balls
|Title=trickery of switching balls ...justice to our boys, I request an insertion of this in The Clipper. Yours with respect., FAIR PLAY.

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Clipping:Position of the third baseman; catcher signals
...t of the peculiar twist on the high balls hit up around third base. These balls must be grabbed and held firmly until they have settled in your hands or th

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Clipping:The Louisville four will never be reinstated
...resulting from their expulsion from the League for alleged dishonest ball-playing, a resolution was adopted to the effect that the Board of Directors would n ...ed back, number of balls and strikes reduced; putting runners out on foul balls

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Clipping:Nolan tiring
...he directors, and it is their duty now to give him to understand that such playing will not be tolerated, and if persisted in the rules will be rigidly enforc Nolan, although suffering with a sore arm, pitched a splendid game yesterday. Indianapolis Sentinel Augus

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Town Ball, Georgia (1830s)
...then made a buckskin cover and stitched it over so nice. Oh, my, how those balls would bounce, and yet they didn’t hurt very bad when hit by them. They we

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Clipping:A complaint baseball being just between the pitcher and catcher
...from standing grinning at their pitcher and catcher, while they do all the playing.

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Clipping:A call for the return of straight arm pitching
...ule allowing the pitcher to deliver 11 balls to each batsman. Let six bad balls at the most, give a batsman a base, and stop the warning of “good ball” ...n favor of a return to the old style of straight-arm pitching, adding that with the present curved underhand throwing a base hit is only made by chance. I

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Clipping:A waiting game for bases on balls
|Title=a waiting game for bases on balls ...ed a “waiting game,” and were given their first base seven times on called balls. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury October 10, 1869

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Clipping:A lost ball results in a drawn game
...hat the balls was non est, a member of the Osceolas having made a home run with it. As the continuance of the game under these circumstances was impossibl ...d generally even. He assists the catcher to a great degree in taking foul balls, showing remarkable judgment in directing him where to play for the ball.

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1849.14
|Text="BALL-PLAYING -- Westfield vs. Granville -- ...vanquished; or, as our correspondent expresses it, 'the Gibraltar of ball playing is taken.'  The Granville players were never beaten before but once, b

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Clipping:Flooding on the Pittsburgh grounds
...wing to the high water which has flooded the Exposition grounds, rendering playing there out of the question for several days at least, the Alleghenys will le ...ross right field. As a consequence of this it was necessary to keep three balls handy, a dry one ready for use when the one in play was knocked into the wa

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Clipping:Can a batter put out bat again in the inning?
...the third hand is out. This rule hold good in cases both of fair and foul balls.

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1840c.27
...the easier games of 'one old cat,' 'two old cat,' and 'drive,' played with balls . . . . In such games girls did not join; and the game of cricket, which h

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Clipping:Fielders positioned for the batter
...nged about, coming in nearer or going out further, just as they judged the balls would be sent by the different batters. It is in the lack of judgment like

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1840.20
...cricket is a course of experimental astronomy, and my young master tingles with a faint sense of being a tyrannical Jupiter driving sphere madly from their

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Clipping:Jones returned to Cincinnati
...incinnati people, that they could not have gone on without Jones, and that with him they are all right, then they have much success before them, for they h how crooked umpires affect the game; complaint about balls and strikes

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Clipping:Defining a balk; pitchers' deliveries
...hing; what constitutes effective pitching; batters calling for high or low balls; fooling the umpire ...succeed against his pitching should offset his playing point in this with, with equal judgment in batting, a good umpire being an essential aid to the atta

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Clipping:More on called balls as dead
|Title=more on called balls as dead ...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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Aleut Baseball
...escribed in 2010.  The game is associated locally with Easter Sunday, with some games played in the dawn light after Easter services. [] baserunners can pick up balls thrown at them and try to plug members of the fielding side

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Vernon Club of Brooklyn v Neptune Club of Brooklyn on 18 May 1859
...ed. But there is one thing; pitcher of the Neptune, don’t pitch your balls so wild next time.”)

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1840c.17
...tly around a central mass of India-rubber, and covering the compact sphere with soft, tough leather cut to the proper shape by a shoemaker."

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Lapta
...ls this the “city”] and back without being plugged. Caught fly balls are worth a point, but a successful run is two points. A time clock governs ...awarded for catches (but not runs?), but notes use of a round stick to hit with and also confirms the use of plugging.  Neither account says that runn

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In Finland in 1980
...ded" status as an intermediate fate between "out" and "safe" and fair balls hit out of park are just singles. ...part due to efforts from its Swedish neighbors, less than 200 people were playing the American game in 2006."

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Clipping:Devlin playing in California
|Title=Devlin playing in California ...th or weakness. He preserves an unruffled disposition, and the calling of balls and strikes has no effect in irritating or working him up, but serves only

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Clipping:The third baseman and defending fair-foul hits
...line and closer to home-base than ordinary, in order to be ready for such balls, kept close to his base and thus enabled Barlow to score a base hit every t

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Clipping:Disagreement over what rule are operative
...e League Clubs, in running on foul balls. The Philadelphias claimed to be playing under the professional rules, as adopted by the [rump NA] Convention in Apr

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In Lafayette in 1829
...t Clubs, playing out-door billiards on the green, with painted mallets and balls, large shoe buckles, and a stock of affectation to match.

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Rules of the Massachusetts Association of Base Ball Players
...or more than eight and a half inches in circumference, and must be covered with leather. 6. The Thrower shall stand thirty-five feet from and on a parallel line with the Striker.

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In Dushanbe in 2015
...equipment such as tennis rackets and balls, and softball mitts, bats, and balls, etc."

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Mechanics Club of Port Hope v Live Oak Club of Bowmanville on 6 August 1861
...s they should, and are not composed of as hardy men as the Mechanics, but, with practice will make a good club.”)

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Clipping:Batters should work the count for a walk
.... The only effective delivery is that marked by accuracy of aim, combined with speed and strategic skill. Wild pitching, the result of efforts to obtain

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Clipping:Foul ball dead balls
|Title=foul ball dead balls |Text=About the only change of consequence in the playing rules likely to be made will be the abolition of the penalty for running on

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1862.60
...ts from New York and have organized a regular Base Ball Club. We have been playing considerable today and I feel quite fine in consequence." Drummond, along with his Savannah "Chatham Artillery" unit, were captured at Fort Pulaski, outsi

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Clipping:Analyzing an increase in offense; pitching delivery
...as good as it ever was, and better, too, but the hitting is harder and the balls for that reason far more difficult to handle without error. ...ning games of 1 to 0, and poor batting is now justly regarded as poor ball-playing.

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Clipping:Catcher letting the ball go past if no one on base
...were in anything but playing order, did not make his usual effort to stop balls when the bases were unoccupied. New York Sunday Mercury July 10, 1859 ...them. When they become a senior club, we should like to see them matched with some of the old fogy clubs at Hoboken, who put on a great many airs, assume

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Clipping:Clarkson on pitching strategy 2
..., for that matter, all professional ball-players, are thoroughly familiar with curve pitching. They are, as a rule, not to be deceived by any curve a pit ...ittle chance to “work” or attempt to deceive a batter. He is allowed four balls to “work” the batsman while getting three strikes. Such being the case

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Olympic Club of Brooklyn v Marion Club of Brooklyn on 17 July 1860
...d were present. … Some very heavy balls were struck and the general playing was good.”)

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1820s.22
...broad acres, playing 'one old cat,' and base ball (no scientific games or balls as hard as a white oak boulder in those days) excepted when pressed into se

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Clipping:Playing with eight players
|Title=playing with eight players ...s occasioned by the absence of players on both sides; the Unions beginning with but eight men, and thus played two innings, when F. Durrell, of the second

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1862c.54
...  For want of such things, the time of the soldier is mainly spent in playing cards."

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Club of Eagle Rock
...se ball. they have played two match games, the stakes being beer, bats and balls." ...ball game will be part of the Fourth of July celebration, with Eagle Rock playing some unnamed professionals. Same April 17, 1886 carries an ad from a local

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Clipping:Baseball's ubiquity; Sunday ball playing
|Title=Baseball's ubiquity; Sunday ball playing ...parties thus engaged caused a skedaddle at sight of an officer; bats and balls were often left upon the field to be confiscated, but no arrests were made.

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Indian Ball
...Three-out-side-out innings and five-inning games are prescribed.  The playing field is represented in a figure showing a fair ground of less than 45 degr ...le entails pitching by a member of the batting team, strikes called on all balls that are not hit fair (including pitches not swung at), outs on short fair

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Clipping:Indoor baseball 4
...supporting posts so as to give the fielders full sway in running after fly balls. In this game a deadened ball was used and the fielders experienced no dif

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Clipping:The saloon concession
...s the ball; anyhow, he is sure of his third base, and not then by any good playing on his part. This is as fair for one side as the other, but it makes the g

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1846.19
...nds. A throw hits the man in the pit of his stomach [now remember, wicket balls were darned heavy]. Naturally, he sues the players for trespass. ...eck to the person at the wicket. At this moment, Hollenbeck threw the ball with an intention to throw it to the person at the wicket; but the ball being we

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Clipping:Returning to the base on a run on a foul ball
...nce to the running back on foul balls, it was decided that it was optional with the runner to run back or walk back, but that if he ran back he was exempt

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In Havana in 1864
...g there only a few years later. Bats, balls, leather gloves, and rules for playing the new North American pastime were first carried to Havana by a pair of br ...reenwood Press, 2005), page 2. A key source for this story is an interview with one of the brothers in Diaro de la Marina, January 6, 1924.

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1863.59
...1. A General Hayes is mentioned as watching several games, sometimes along with his wife. ...to good advantage. When the general and his wife came galloping into camp, with a number of officers and ladies, our captain went out to greet them and sai

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1861.23
|Headline=War Sinks Silver Balls ...initiate a new system of general rivalry, which will, we hope, be attended with the happiest results to the further progress and popularity of the game of

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Postings to 19CBB, Jan. - Feb. 2013
...skeeper for the 1869 Red Stockings had originated the marking of basepaths with chalk. Bob Tholkes, Richard Hershberger, and Tom Shieber all filed protests ...boro, NY from 1858-59 sent to him by Randall Brown, including reference to playing base ball in Peterboro as early as 1810. Richard Hershberger sent his thoug

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Vitilla
...redictable when thrown, and because the bat is thinner, some . . . believe playing it so regularly helped their hand-eye coordination." ...oball whether batters actually run bases.  A photograph suggests that balls and strikes are determined by whether a pitched cap hits a small (12 inch?)

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1821.7
The etching depicts six players playing wicket.  The long, low wickets are shown and two runners, prominently ...nbsp; Perhaps, as in single-wicket cricket, running was permitted only for balls hit forward from the wicket. 

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Chadwick's Summary of Rules Changes
...quarter of an inch in size. The rule governing the running of bases on fly balls caught was also changed so as to allow the base runner to make his base the ..., the rules were amended so as to require the foul ball lines to be marked with chalk, and in judging of a foul ball, the fact of a ball touching a player

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Games Tab:Canada
! City/Town Playing Field ! City/Town Playing Field

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Elysian Fields Discussion Topic One
As for effect on base ball's playing rules: ...nbsp;I''nventing ''''Fair Territory?'' Years ago -- in a conversation with Tom Heitz, I think -- I understood that there was speculation that EF's bas

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In Mackinac Island in 1871
...r the next two decades baseball grew in popularity across the country and, with liberal amounts of free time and officers who encouraged physical fitness, ...ly laid out diamond on the large parade ground behind the fort.  With a copy of Spaulding’s Base Ball Guide in hand, Pratt and hi

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1830s.22
- at his Cambridge school "there was perpetual playing of ball and fascinating running games [page 20]". ...[Class of 1841] himself, he used "the heavy three-cornered bats and large balls of the game we called cricket [page 60]." Note: sounds a b

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Club of Naperville
...ed a game with the club of that village..." The article gives a box score, with the Chicago team beating the Naperville team 75 to 22. The names of the pla ...tion. Interestingly, not long thereafter three Garden City players started playing for the Naperville team. The Clarion Sept. 28, 1870 says that Naperville on

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Clipping:George Wright on the history of the bat
...ing,” said Mr. George Wright, the veteran base ball player, “in connection with base ball bats and their use by both professionals and amateurs throughout ...shape of base ball bats. It is queer what an effect experience, change in playing rules, and especially the science of curving the ball, have had upon them.

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Clipping:Nolan suspended
...to consideration Petit called the team together last night, and had a talk with them. The result was that the “only” was suspended for one week withou ...the third he threw to one side so far that Flint could not have reached it with a ten-foot pole, and this sort of work was kept up until the game was past

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1834.1
...orts that this is the "first time that the name "base ball" was associated with a diamond-shaped infield configuration." As for the name of the game, Carv ...age 37.] Other games describes are Fives, Nine-Holes, or Hat-Ball [a game with running/plugging but no batting], Catch-Ball [also a running/plugging game]

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Clipping:Defining an error; playing for the record
|Title=defining an error; playing for the record ...ht. “Record players” are soon recognized, and should be unsparingly dealt with. The fielder of the future is the man who tries for everything, and allows

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Clipping:Foul tip outs eliminated
...a foul ball “not rising above the batsman's head and caught by the catcher playing within ten feet of the home base...”]

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Clipping:The neighbor keeps the ball
...ofessor Wagner, of the Scientific Institute, has his property. One of the balls, in the early part of the game, went over into his lot. He had it seized, ...cores were nearly equal. It is stated that this circumstance affected the playing of the Athletics. This ball was knocked over the fence that separates the

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Clipping:Minor league club finances 2
...and hotel bills for the club. It is now clear that base ball cannot live with this burden of expense, and until a ball player can be had at a policeman's

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1845.1
|Headline=Knicks Adopt Playing Rules on September 23 ...s and adopts twenty rules for baseball (six organizational rules, fourteen playing rules). These rules are later seen as the basis for the game we now call ba

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Clipping:Fan interference 2
...at this place on previous occasions—notably when the Eckfords were playing with the soi disant champion nine last summer. The result of and conduct in thi

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Clipping:The old courtesies abandoned
...ished, and we hope it will be rigidlyobserved in the future with this club playing on our grounds.Unidentified Philadelphia newspaper, 1867? Athletic scrapboo ...a few weeks that a game has been thrown up by one side who were displeased with the umpire, and we think that in almost any case like this the players are

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1778.4
|Headline=Ewing Reports Playing "At Base" and Wicket at Valley Forge - with the Father of his Country |Text=[A] George Ewing, a Revolutionary War soldier, tells of playing a game of "Base" at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: "Exercisd in the afternoon

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Bower City Club II of Janesville
...ccurred in 1865 or 1866 is not stated. A number of references to young men playing a game of base ball are found in 1865, but no clue which game–old-fas ..." class="reference"><a title="" href="#cite_note-5">[6]</a> The club playing these games was from the east side of town and in August a new baseball clu

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Baseball game in Beachville, Ontario, 1838
...the regulation ball of today and covered with good honest calf skin, sewed with waxed ends by Edward McNames, a shoemaker. [[File:Ontario playing diagram Ford 1838.png|360px|left]]

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Havana Base Ball Club
...g there only a few years later. Bats, balls, leather gloves, and rules for playing the new North American pastime were first carried to Havana by a pair of br ...reenwood Press, 2005), page 2. A key source for this story is an interview with one of the brothers in Diaro de la Marina, January 6, 1924.

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Stoopball
...alled “Spaldeens”) against the steps of an apartment building, with the number of bases contingent on distance the ricochet traveled."  Gregory Christiano recalls playing Stoopball in The Bronx in the 1950s:

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Clipping:Switching a live and a dead ball; manipulating the score
...ire Sullivan was informed of the trick, and calling the game, demanded the balls. The ‘live’ one was passed to him, while the ‘dead’ one was surrep ...detected and the ball was immediately given up. The game was then called, with the score standing 12 to nothing in favor of the Baltimores. The report th

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Play ball, baseball (retro) in Cambridge in 1830
– at his Cambridge school "there was perpetual playing of ball and fascinating running games [page 20]". ...[Class of 1841] himself, he used "the heavy three-cornered bats and large balls of the game we called cricket [page 60]." Note: sounds a bit like wicket?

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Clipping:Indoor baseball 7
...th better light the catchers would have fewer passed balls and the time of playing a game would be shortened. ...auty of the armory after one or two games. As it is, the ball must be hit with great force to send it to the “outfield.” If it strikes the woodwork i

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North Star Base Ball Club of St. Paul v Minneapolis Base Ball Club on 24 May 1867
The playing was spirited throughout, but our Club showed the want of practice, and the ...their strong fly balls having been well caught by him. But "such is life." With practice we are satisfied that we have the players to make a better exhibit

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1867 NABBP Rules
Text from the 1867 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player'' with notes by Henry Chadwick. Changes from the [[1866 NABBP Rules|1866 rules]] ...n circumference. It must be composed of India-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging clu

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1853.7
...rong>, &c. with the boys; and skipping, and battledore and shuttlecock with the girls." ...ow: Is the author denoting are there two distinct games with different rules, or just two distinct names for the same

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1858.3
...or more than eight and a half inches in circumference, and must be covered with leather. ...all;">The Thrower shall stand thirty-five feet from and on a parallel line with the Striker.

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Oina
...e thicker than a billiard cue, and that if a runner deflects a thrown ball with the palms, he is not put out. Note: Protoball’s initial evidence on o ...dodgeball players in their attempted evasions, but if they deflect a ball with the palms of their hands, they remain immune.

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Rounders, from the 1860 Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player
...se Ball from its origin, we deem it appropriate to introduce the rules for playing the English Game of Rounders, from which Base Ball is derived. We therefore ...a chance is given of prolonging the innings, by one of them getting three balls from the feeder; and if he can give a hit such as to enable him to run the

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Clipping:Umpire carries extra balls
|Title=umpire carries extra balls ...fence he merely rolls one of the “extras” to the pitcher and goes right on with the game. The Sporting Life July 15, 1885

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Stickball
...stickball because it's played by adults and is organized into formal teams with standings and team shirts. You can learn all about it here:  </sp ...advance. The only problem is that there are thousands of kids who grew up playing stickball, and each of them has his own compendium of games. I need to get

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1868.1
...large and anxious multitude of spectators.  The natures of the female playing nine are as follows, - Nannie Miller, catcher; Clara Mills, pitcher; Mary M ...base very well, and we shall not be surprised to see her one of the Senior playing nine next year.

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Halfball
...rs, sometimes we marked outlines of bases with chalk (rarely available) or with pieces of slate roof tiles. Sometimes we used a board for home or second ba ...1950s Brooklyn.  He recalls that Spaldeens rarely split open, 'though balls known as "Pinkies" sometimes did.  A floppy half-Pinkie could be emplo

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Clipping:Commentary on scoring
...ation is faulty in the extreme, and it is calculated to drive players into playing for their records rather than for their side, especially as regard their ba

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Rounders - Britain
...ers in 1898, Gomme notes a one-out-side-out rule applied for caught (fly?) balls.  Batters who missed three pitches were compelled to run on the third ...utdoor/rounders-pitch.jpg" alt="" /> Of course, if you are just playing in the park or your garden, exact dimensions don't matter and shrubberies a

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Clipping:A question from a country club about fly balls
|Title=a question from a country club about fly balls ...pinion has arisen here, which we wish settled at the fountain head of ball playing.

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1858 NABBP Rules
...n circumference; it must be composed of India-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather. It shall be furnished by the challenging Club, and become the prop ...st, second and third bases shall be canvas bags, painted white, and filled with sand or saw-dust; the home base and pitcher’s point to be each marked by

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Clipping:Baseball in the water
...quatic base ball, as an interesting variation of the usual way, originated with Messrs. Mann & Benolt. The Philadelphia Sunday Item July 15, 1883 ...e shore, after swallowing enough salt water to preserve them for years and with appetites warranted to dispatch the most leathery steak ever cut from an an

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1868 NABBP Rules
...n circumference. It must be composed of India-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging clu ...st, second and third bases shall be canvas-bags, painted white, and filled with some soft material; the home base and pitcher's points to be each marked by

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1859 NABBP Rules
...n circumference; it must be composed of India-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather. It shall be furnished by the challenging Club, and become the prop ...st, second and third bases shall be canvas bags, painted white, and filled with sand or saw-dust; the home base and pitcher’s point to be each marked by

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Clipping:Suspicions of the thrown game
...thletics tried their best to win and are entirely free from any complicity with this apparently most discreditable proceeding. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury ...ily; but instead of turning in the proper way to catch it, he kept running with the ball and put out one hand, but of course the growler couldn’t sell us

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Eckford Club of Brooklyn v Atlantic Club of Brooklyn on 21 July 1862
...e field, on each side, so that there could be no mistake as regarding foul balls - the umpire and spectators alike having a fair view of the ball when it st ...nbsp; ***The foul ball lines were not required to be marked on the playing field until the written rules for the 1861 season.  This does

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Star Club of Brooklyn v Powhattan Club of Brooklyn on 21 May 1862
...and benefited thereby, …..  The weather had a great deal to do with the play on both sides, and the want of previous practice materially affect

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1860.93
<div>Squinting at the new (1860) playing field laid out by the new Hudson River club in Newburgh, NY, the NY Cli ....], and Peter Morris, Level Playing Fields (Nebraska, 2007), pp 115-116.

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1825c.12
...Y described the game he had played "forty years since." That game featured balls made from raveled woolen stockings and covered by a shoemaker, a softer bal ...em>some chance to hit it; he did not pitch it with all his strength he could muster, running a few steps to give it a greater

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Elle
...ght by the fielding side or if the fielding side is able to hit the hitter with the ball while he or she is in the course of completing a run. The hitter c The article cites a source with the claim that the game has a 2000-year history, but notes that this has no

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1805.2
|Headline=Portland ME Bans "Playing at Bat and Ball in the Streets" in 1805, Retains Ban in 1824 ...N]o person shall play at the game of bat and ball or shall strike any ball with a bat or other machine in the streets, lanes, or squares of the town on pen

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1857 Convention Rules
...n circumference; it must be composed of India-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather. It shall be furnished by the challenging Club, and become the prop ...st, second and third bases shall be canvas bags, painted white, and filled with sand or saw-dust; the home base and pitcher’s point to be each marked by

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1870 NABBP Rules
...n circumference. It must be composed of india-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather. ...st, second and third bases shall be canvas bags, painted white, and filled with some soft material; the home base and pitcher's points to be each marked by

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1859.14
...of the two games, the New York game and the Massachusetts round ball game, with a view to decide which was the standard game. So far as we know, this newsp ...ive them three to one. The Englishmen may be assured that to whip any nine playing the New-York baby game will never be recognized as a national triumph."

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1870c.8
...an absence of foul territory, an absence of called  strikes or  balls, and teams of seven to ten players on a team.  "It was originally an o ...l, he recalls adjustment to the harder ball ("it seemed to us like playing with a croquet ball"), gloves only worn by the catchers, an umpire who was hit i

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1830s.20
...it making orders in disgust." The Beverly Heritage Center has one of these balls.

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Excelsior Club of South Brooklyn v Atlantic Club of Brooklyn on 19 July 1860
...no other Club is going to do it this season. Those interested in base ball playing in other cities will be here in large numbers.”) ...b. The Atlantics were not up to their usual play in any one point, missing balls on the fly and bound, overthrowing and misbatting. The result of the game w

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1863 NABBP Rules
...so the text given here is from the 1864 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player'' with its editorial notes by Henry Chadwick ...n circumference. It must be composed of india-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging clu

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1869 NABBP Rules
...n circumference. It must be composed of India-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, ''in the first and third games of a series'' shall be furnish ...st, second and third bases shall be canvas-bags, painted white, and filled with some soft material; the home base and pitcher's points to be each marked by

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Eckford Club of Brooklyn v Enterprise Club of Brooklyn on 5 June 1861
...of the game the Enterprise members generously entertained the Eckford Club with a collation at Wild’s Hotel, which was arranged in a manner character

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1866 NABBP Rules
...cribbed Chadwick's commentary in ''Beadle's'' (mostly identical to 1865), with certain additions especially under the Called Ball Rule. Changes from the ...n circumference. It must be composed of India rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging clu

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1860 NABBP Rules
Text from the 1860 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player'', with editorial notes by Henry Chadwick. Changes from the [[1859 NABBP Rules|1859 ...n circumference. It must be composed of india-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, ''in all match games'', shall be furnished by the challenging

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Base Ball, upstate New York (1820s)
...threw the ball gave the batter some chance to hit it; he did not pitch it with all his strength he could muster, running a few steps to give it a greater ...pt by cutting notches in a shingle. We had no uniforms, when too hot, off with our coats and boots. We could not go to “Barton’s and get a nice turne

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1861 NABBP Rules
Text taken from the 1861 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player,'' with editorial notes by Henry Chadwick. Changes from the [[1860 NABBP Rules|186 ...n circumference. It must be composed of india-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging clu

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1864.48
...e striker...Section 7...whenever the pitcher draws back his hand, or moves with the apparent purpose or pretention to deliver the ball, he shall so deliver ..., by the old style of baby-play, but is ‘compelled’ to deliver balls to the Striker, or else a base is given. And then again, instead of taking

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Meta, or Longa Meta
...ea (defining fair ground for hits, apparently) whose dimensions could vary with the number of players; ...(and their names) in about 60 locations within current Hungarian borders, with brief notes on some variations see.  Untranslated by Protoball as of S

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In Mobile in 1860
...g there only a few years later. Bats, balls, leather gloves, and rules for playing the new North American pastime were first carried to Havana by a pair of br .... Many students were too young to enlist, and enrollment increased in 1864 with families hoping to keep their sons out of military service. (See "Spring Hi

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1858.2
...most intensely-covered base ball event to date-- items on the planning and playing of the "Fashion Race Course" games began during the first week in June. Cov ...n by Mercury editor William Cauldwell and are enlivened with colorful language and descriptions, such as describing a batting stance as

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Irish Rounders (Burman's Report)
...ders is one of the four official Gaelic Athletic Association sports. Along with Gaelic Football, Hurling and Handball, Rounders was included in the origina ...e she has typically strangled our own manufacturing sciences, but together with her fashions, her accents, her vicious literature, her music, her dances an

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1856.39
...fifty feet. The Batsman is permitted to strike at three “fair” balls, without danger of being put out by a catch, but hit or miss, must run at t ...the base occupied by the Batsman, and the bases right and left of him. All balls deflecting from these angles are “foul.”

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Trap Ball
...it is a fungo-type game. Trap ball commonly used foul territory to define balls that were in play, where the “play” involved the catching and t ...urr is suspended stationary from string. The knurr is struck by the player with the stick. The object of the game is to hit the knurr the greatest possible

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1865 NABBP Rules
The text given here is from the 1865 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player'' with its editorial notes by Henry Chadwick. Changes from the [[1863 NABBP Rules| ...n circumference. It must be composed of India rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging clu

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"A Plague Is Upon Us"
...en if you go back more than 150 years, you can still find people not happy with the game of baseball. ...light and turn the boys to circus runners, making them disturb the nervous with their balling."

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Clipping:The League revokes the new pitching delivery rules
...efore starting for Providence. He was governed in this action by sympathy with the Boston Club, which found itself in a most discouraging condition in bei ...ew York, April 18, five clubs declared in favor of changing rule 27 of the playing rules to conform to the rule of 1884. After a full and free discussion it

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1838.4
...t use of the 3-out-all-out rule would make this game the only non-NYC game with three-out innings. Ford also implies that games were then finished at the e ...en yarn, a little smaller than the regulation of to day [1886] and covered with good, honest calf skin, sewed and waxed ends by Edward McNamer [McNames?],

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1750s.3
...ation, and also some of my friends, during the last four years of the ball-playing mania . . .    ...he direction he should knock the ball, and of course no such thing as foul balls. The whole side had to be put out, and if the last man could strike a

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EF Wind-up Memo
...our group, on EF's influence on how base ball evolved.  It concludes with a range of 4 alternative speculative but plausible assessments.  We se ...ll include our past conversations, Tom's robust EF Time Line (supplemented with 20 or so bits from Protoball's Chronology, Bob Bailey's substantial list of

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Clipping:Indoor baseball 9
...hiladelphia, where the regimental armories give splendid opportunities for playing it. The game is played with a soft ball, somewhat larger than the regulation base ball. The bat, which

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Clipping:The Athletics stall out a game
...e bat. The fielders were unusually careless as to when they returned foul balls to the pitcher. But, in spite of all these discouraging features, the Eure

5 KB (940 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
Evansville Townball
...playing fair. When their turn came to pitch, what we did to those straight balls was good and plenty. I do not remember the score, but I do remember that th

5 KB (906 words) - 08:41, 20 June 2023
Cat (Kat)
Per Culin. A batting game played with a six-inch, pointed wooden “cat.” The cat is pitched to a batte ...s position) and back again. The fielders tried to sting the striker-runner with a thrown ball while he or she was not touching the base. The striker would

13 KB (2,309 words) - 06:23, 18 July 2023
1862.57
...yle="font-size: medium;">in sight of the enemy’s breastworks mounted with heavy 64’s and 32’s."  A discarded boot supplied material .../span> Mass. Battery were on picket with us.

9 KB (1,433 words) - 14:18, 30 June 2018
The Union Hall Game of Ball
...evolving over time.  By 1850, of course, the Knickerbockers were playing intramural games elsewhere in New York. ...which when played by fewer than five to the side rendered foul those balls hit behind the wicket or beyond a sixty-six-foot distance on either s

5 KB (969 words) - 16:34, 8 February 2016
Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Niagara Club of Buffalo on 5 July 1860
...1): “Some of the members of the Excelsior base ball club, including, with a single exception, the first nine, have arranged an excursion to Niagara a ...ranks as one of the best, if not the best club in the country,) is to play with the Niagara of this city. / The Niagaras are well known to many of our citi

8 KB (1,415 words) - 07:02, 9 May 2024
1839.1
...Hugh MacDougall wonders if Graves was confusing (General) Abner Doubleday with his younger cousin, Abner D. Doubleday, who was closer to Graves' age and w ... County and Green’s Select School were then playing the old game of “Town Ball” in the following manner: 

15 KB (2,682 words) - 08:05, 28 April 2020
Notes on the History and Evolution of Stoolball
...short summation of stoolball’s historical eras, as I perceive them, along with a few additional notes and comments. I realize this is nerdy brew even for ...that had similarities to trap-ball (see Protoball.org for trap-ball), but with the batter fungoing the ball rather than using a trap.

11 KB (1,873 words) - 19:14, 14 February 2022
Games Tab:Baltimore-Washington
! City/Town Playing Field ...ge F. Beam, the Captain of their First Nine, were pledged in bumpers, and with all the honors.”)

18 KB (2,927 words) - 17:40, 28 April 2016
Two Old Cat
...s position) and back again. The fielders tried to sting the striker-runner with a thrown ball while he or she was not touching the base. The striker would ...o ascertain the origins of baseball, recorded many reminiscences of people playing three and four old cat in their youth. Baseball historian <a class="ne

7 KB (1,149 words) - 07:35, 15 June 2023
Clipping:Umpire behind the pitcher and the two umpire system
...committee at the Tremont House in Chicago not long afterward I had a talk with Charley Comiskey. He was urging the adoption of a rule providing for the d ...out. Big Jim Davis was at first and Barkley was at second. Comiskey was playing well off the bases, and Davis, feeling secure, took a strong lead toward se

7 KB (1,303 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
Clipping:Stalling for darkness
...s commenced, and the other club scores three runs, putting them one ahead, with two men out. It then became too dark to continue the game, and the umpire ...some moments, the pitcher and catcher of the Niagara allowing a good many balls to pass them-whether intentionally or not, we cannot say; for we did not wi

8 KB (1,504 words) - 18:21, 29 February 2020
What Was Town Ball, Anyway?
...it’s important to incorporate this new material into our general thinking with regards to how the game was played on the field. Based upon these new sour ...e unique but, as will be seen, the variations with regards to the types of balls and bats used as well as the number of bases that had to be negotiated dist

45 KB (7,901 words) - 17:40, 8 October 2014
Games Tab:New Orleans
! City/Town Playing Field ...tion of this noble and manly game among us; and we hope it will be kept up with the same spirit in which it has been commenced and so far maintained.”)</

28 KB (4,617 words) - 04:42, 29 April 2016
Rules of Irish Rounders
'''Playing Rules for Rounders''' ...t), shall be placed at home base, with the centre of the back line in line with the centres of home base, the pitcher’s stand and second base, and six me

13 KB (2,440 words) - 17:55, 16 May 2020
1845 Knickerbocker Rules
...last century, rests largely upon two things. First, they left us a set of playing which modern baseball flowed forth and that they should be credited with

43 KB (7,256 words) - 18:32, 10 March 2021
Games Tab:New York State, Western
! City/Town Playing Field ! City/Town Playing Field

66 KB (11,073 words) - 08:09, 29 April 2016
A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball
...ed about carrying out daily duties. In this case, however, the prospect of playing ball was so important that they hoofed it four miles, during a time when a ...Soon Denver historian Phil Goodstein will place another nail in the coffin with more evidence about the unreliability of the Mills Commission’s “star w

92 KB (15,359 words) - 17:54, 9 February 2013
About Elysian Fields -- 2022
with Irwin Chosid and Jonathan Popovich, June 2022, ...'s EF Timeline Entries''' [Later additions noted with asterisks]

27 KB (4,280 words) - 06:45, 27 December 2022
Games Tab:Greater New York City, 1861 - 1862
! City/Town Playing Field ...of the game the Enterprise members generously entertained the Eckford Club with a collation at Wild’s Hotel, which was arranged in a manner characteristi

121 KB (19,746 words) - 10:10, 29 April 2016
Origins Newsletter -- February 2021
...Stool-ball, Pize-ball, Tut ball and Rounders) all featured striking a ball with a bat or one’s hand, then running in a circle around four markers. In 182 ...bases he was said to have scored a “rounder.” There were no fair or foul balls. The game was played between teams or sides of equal numbers, usually from

37 KB (6,000 words) - 08:36, 24 February 2022
Games Tab:New York State, Capital Area
! City/Town Playing Field ! City/Town Playing Field

85 KB (14,045 words) - 08:18, 29 April 2016
Games Tab:Greater New York City
! City/Town Playing Field ! City/Town Playing Field

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