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...ge chapbook includes a trap-ball scene and a "small baseball image," notes Block.</p>

|Author=Block, D. |Pages=17-28

...r belonging to the in-team, but otherwise resembles baseball and rounders. Block concludes that there is insufficient evidence to say whether Th&egrave;que ...he Roots of the Game (University&nbsp;of&nbsp;Nebraska Press, 2005).</em>, pages 147-148.</p>

|Author=Block, David |Pages=298

|Author=Block, David |Pages=32 - 37

|Author=Block, David |Pages=50 - 54

...ges are given over to base ball, the newly composed rules for the MA game. Block: "Its historical significance lies in the fact that this was the first trea |Sources=<p>David Block,&nbsp;<span>Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, pages 218-219</p>

|Author=Block, David |Pages=5 - 9

...an> [New Haven, S. Babcock, 1839], pp. 11-12, per Henderson, ref 21. David Block, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</s ...ter all its players are put out. The terms "innings" and "diamond" appear [Block thinks for the first time] and base running is switched to counter-clockwis

|Author=Block, David |Pages=5 - 9

...(see entry #1841.1, above), this book is called "original and unusual" by Block. For one thing, it includes two forms of trap-ball, the second being the " ...<b>Note:</b> Does the book identify rounders with old-cat games, or does Block so that?</p>

...Tut-ball is "a sort of stobball." Other games are similarly covered, but Block does not quote them. It seems that Halliwell was not a fan of sport. <b>No

<p>Block advises [11/6/2005 communication] that Gutsmuths provides "the first hard, ...alle Freunde Unschuldiger Jugendfreuden [Schnepfenthal, Germany] per David Block, page 181.</span>. This roughly translates as: <span style="text-decoration

...underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It,</span> pages 105-107 and 183-184. Block says that "pilam bacculoream" translates as "ball play with a stick or staf

...u> [London, W. Emans], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, pages 202-203. This book covers trap-ball, listing the ways that a batter could <p>Reports Block: "a short passage describ[es] a game called squares, which was nearly ident

|Text=<p>A chapbook has eight pages of simple verses and some basic illustrations. <span style="text-decoration ...Pease's Pretty Poetical Spelling Book</span> [Albany, H. Pease], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span

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...l, trap-ball, and tip-cat [per David Block, page 179], as well as cricket. Block finds that this book has the first use of the word "base-ball."</p> ...t p. 132. The earliest extant version of this book is from 1760 [per David Block].&nbsp;<strong><br /></strong></p>

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|Sources=<p>per David Block,&nbsp;<span>Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, pages 217-218.</p>

...(J. E. Tilton, Boston, 1860), per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, pages 221-222.</p>

...cur During Childhood . . .</span> [London, J. March], six pages; per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span

...ports and Recreations of Youth</span> [London, Dean and Munday], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span ...ram of feeder, and a two-paragraph description of rounders, in Appendix 7, pages 284-286, of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Kn

...(State Printers and</span><span>  </span><span>Binders, Bismark ND, 1908), pages 213-214.</span></p> ..."Battingball Games." <em>Genus</em> 5 (1941).  (Reprinted as Appendix 6 of Block, <em>Baseball Before We Knew It.)</em>  See page 263.</p>

...book has information on making toys and sporting equipment. It spends two pages on tip-cat and three on "trap, bat, and ball." An American edition [Boston, |Sources=<p>David Block,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Baseball Before We Knew

<p>Conveyed to David Block, April 18, 2005, by Professor Harry R. Lewis, Harvard University, Cambridge ...</span> Journal (Special Origins Issue), Volume 5, number 1 (Spring 2011), pages 41-45.</p>

...(State Printers and</span><span>  </span><span>Binders, Bismark ND, 1908), pages 213-214.</span></p> ...r Maigaard, "Battingball Games," </span><em>Genus</em><span> 5 (1941); see Block, Appendix 6, page 263.</span></span></p>

...ration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span> (U. Nebraska, 2005), pages 260ff.</span></p> ...Recreation for the Open Country</em><span>&nbsp;</span>(Ginn, 1914)<span>. pages 62-63.</span></span></p>

...This book's section "Games with Toys" includes two variants of rounders. Block's summary:</p>

...: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span>,</span>&nbsp;ref # 36; see pages 237-238.&nbsp;</p>

...coration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It,</span> cites the game at pages 24,138-9, 153, 205,, 207, 284-5.</p>

...nbsp;An 1835 book published in New Haven describes drive ball. &nbsp;David Block's summary: &nbsp;"In this activity, two boys with bats face each other, tak ...k of Sports</span><span>&nbsp;(New Haven, S. Babcock), 16 pages, per David Block,</span><span>&nbsp;page 212.</span></span></span></p>

...style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, see pages 240.&nbsp;</p> |Submission Note=David Block, Baseball before We Knew It.

|Pages= <p dir="ltr" data-test-bidi="">David Block, prizewinning author of&nbsp;<em>Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for t

...lic.." Nine, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49.&nbsp; Reprinted in David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span

...homas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Kn

...tion: underline;">The Man Who Invented Baseball</span> (Scribner's, 1969), pages 42-46.&nbsp;</p>

{{Block Box}} __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__ {{#ask: [[Category:Block]] | format=count }} entries of David Block Data on English Base Ball

...ll Before We Knew It</span>, pages 167-168.&nbsp; See also pp. 100-102 for Block's summary of, and a translation of the Guarinoni material.</p> ...ish translation from Hungarian] (Budapest, 1986), pp. 110-111, as cited in Block,&nbsp;fn 16, page 304.&nbsp;</p>

...homas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It; ...s that Harold Seymour puts the year of play at Bangor at 1836, citing both pages 198 and 240 of&nbsp;<span>The Discovery of a Grandmother.</span>&nbsp;But P

...style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, see pages 230 and 312.&nbsp; Cited in&nbsp;Thomas L. Altherr, &ldquo;There is Nothing

<p>For its origins, see David Block, <em>Baseball Before we Knew It</em> pp. 260-274.</p> ...ecoration: underline;">Physical and Health Education</span> (Autumn 2007), pages 29-33.&nbsp; Submitted by Brian Sheehy, 12/19/12.</p>

...text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span> &ndash; see pages 245-6, and ref #82.&nbsp;</p>

<p>David Block notes that "The version of rounders the book presents is generally consiste ...pan style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span>, pages 209-210.</p>

<p>This book, comprising about 170 pages, describes about 110 juvenile pastimes, including nine listed as ball games <p>David Block (email of October 20, 2016) explains:</p>

...">Base Ball </span>Journal, Volume 5, number 1 (Special Issue on Origins), pages 106-110.</p> |Submitted by=David Block, Craig Waff

<p><strong>Cricket</strong> receives three references (pages 75, 110, and 211)in this book. The first of these, unlike the bass-ball/rou ...is that this was one game, with both names given to ensure clarity." David Block [email of 2/27/2008] agrees with Richard. Richard also says "It is possible

...nbsp;Journal (Special Issue on Origins), Volume 5, number 1 (Spring 2011), pages 55-57.</p> <p>David Block (see full text in&nbsp;<strong>Supplemental Text, </strong>below) offers hi

...e the spread of baseball over time. It is designed so that individual club pages can link to a club's games, players, and field locations. For an example, s 4.David Block's research on English ballplaying.

...ext-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>,</span>&nbsp;pages 247-249 and ref #92.</li>

...Dover, 1964 &ndash; reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), pages 145-146.&nbsp; Gomme (1898) notes that "An elaborate form of this game has <p>David Block,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It,

...locate the diary right away, and I had to leave for home. Luckily, David Block was still in England and he helped handle the filming of the actual manuscr ...Story of William Bray’s Diary,” Base Ball, volume 1 number 2 (Fall 2007), pages 5 -11. To obtain the the documentary itself on ITunes, go to https://itune

|Related Pages=Rounders, Chronology:Rounders ...ysOwn 1828 text on rounders is put under the heading “Base, or Goal Ball” [pages 37-39].