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|Game=Wicket ...re the Buffalo Dock Wicket Club was to play a set of games with a BBC, one wicket, one baseball.</p>

|Name=Wicket in Granville in 1840 |Game=Wicket

|Headline=Wicket Reported as Fashionable in Western MA |Text=<p>"We are glad to see the games of foot-ball and wicket so fashionable this spring, . ."</p>

|Title=Single Wicket Cricket Diagram |Description=Single-wicket cricket diagram. From Donald Walker, 1837, Games and Sports, London, Pub. Thomas Hurst p. 218

|Headline=CT and MA Teams Match Up for Five Games of Wicket ...succession, the game was considered fairly decided, and the remaining four games were not played." Then th e two sides shared dinner.</p>

|Term=Bandy-Wicket |Description=<p>According to Gomme [1894], Bandy-Wicket is Cricket played with a bandy (a curved club) instead of a cricket bat. Th

|Headline=Game of Wicket Reaches IA |Game=Wicket

|Headline=Wicket, as Well as Cricket and Base Ball, Reported in Baltimore MD |Game=Cricket, Wicket, Base Ball,

|Term=Wicket ...les cricket before it evolved to its modern form, with its higher narrower wicket.</p>

|Headline=In Harlem, Men Play 330- Minute Game of Single Wicket for $100 Stake |Game=Single-Wicket Cricket,

|Game=Wicket ...cky and Fifth Streets."</p><p>This is the same grounds that early baseball games were played on.</p>

|Headline=Wicket Seen on Boston Common . . . But Never on Sunday (No Strolling, Either) |Game=Wicket,

|Headline=Hartford Players Best Granville MA Players at Wicket |Game=Wicket

|Headline=U. of Michigan Alum Recalls Baseball, Wicket, Old-Cat Games |Game=Wicket, Base Ball, American Cricket, Old-Cat Games

...he bat. All play was forward of the wicket, as it is now in single wicket games of less that five players a side. With these exceptions, the game was very

|Headline=Wicket Played with "Huge Bat" at Barkhamsted CT ...d lived in the area [about 20 miles NW of Hartford] until 1845 recalls the wicket of his youth.</p>

|Headline=In Middletown CT, "Wicket" Recalled, but Not Base Ball. |Game=Wicket

|Headline=Hartford Lads Play Early Morning Wicket on Main Street |Game=Wicket,

|Headline=Grand Wicket Match in Waterbury CT |Game=Wicket

|Headline=Bloomfield CT Wicket Challenge: "One Shamble Shall Be Out" |Game=Wicket

...uced in the 1860s. As described, its rules were consistent with those of [[wicket]], but no running or scoring is mentioned.</p> ...as the leading athletic game on the campus. . . . [The] fiercely contested games drew many spectators from among the young ladies and aroused no common inte

|Headline=Lieutenant Reports Playing Ball, and Playing Bandy Wicket |Game=Wicket

|Headline=Wicket Played in The Western Reserve [OH] |Game=Wicket

...so as to show its origin.&nbsp; The same game is played indoors, when the wicket is merely a copy-book cover, a sheet of paper fixed to the wall in target f ..."text-decoration: underline;">The Boy's Modern Playmate: A Book of Sports, Games. and Pastimes</span> (Frederick Warne and Co, London and New York, 1891), p

|Headline=Litchfield CT Bests Wolcottville in Wicket |Game=Wicket,

|Headline=Watching Wicket Ball in Buffalo NY |Game=Wicket

|Headline=Westfield Whips Granville in Wicket ...Granville MA on Thursday, at which the Westfield boys won the first three games by 10, 20, and 40 runs."</p>

..., Baserunning, English Rounders 1820-1870, Massachusetts Game, Predecessor Games

|Headline=Tenth MA Plays Inter-regimental Games of Base Ball and Wicket in VA ...ve a grand match of Base Ball to day. a few days ago they played a game of Wicket with the 37^th and our boys beat them handsomely . . . .[Source l

|Headline=New York "Boys' Book" of Games Covers Stoolball, Rounders, Wicket |Game=Rounders,Stoolball,Wicket

|Headline=Game of Wicket Near Springfield Goes Bad |Game=Wicket,

|Headline=Westfield Upsets Granville in Wicket |Game=Wicket,

|Headline=MA Gents Recall Boyhood Games in 1830s: Cat, Wicket, OFBB ...opened. They doubtless knew how to play one, two, and three old cat, and wicket, and the old fashioned kind of base ball when a foul was known as a tick; w

|Term=Single-Wicket Cricket ...ms&nbsp;smaller than the usual 11-player teams. All bowling is to a single wicket.</p>

|Headline=Ewing Reports Playing "At Base" and Wicket at Valley Forge - with the Father of his Country |Game=Wicket, Base

|Headline="Bafeball" Among Games Banned in Pittsfield MA - also Cricket, Wicket |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball, Wicket,

|Game=Wicket ...nd."</p><p>[3] Through further digging, John Thorn traces the migration of wicket to Hawaii through the Hawaii-born missionary Henry Obookiah. At age 17, Obo

...k, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, pages 211-212. This book's section "Games with Toys" includes two variants of rounders. Block's summary:</p> <p>"The first of these is of a somewhat cricket-like game. A wicket of two 'stumps,' or sticks, with no crosspiece [bail], was set up behind th

|Headline=Massachusetts Private Notes Eight April Games of Ball [One was Wicket] ...all from being played. Our boys were opposed by the 37th Mass at a game of wicket making 337 tallies, while the 37^th only made 200.&rdquo; In 1864

...ed (and played) are Knickerbocker rules base ball, the Massachusetts game, wicket, cricket, stoolball, and rounders.&nbsp; He is thinking about trying the an

...ket. The <em>Pacific Commercial Advertiser</em>, March 29, 1860: "Sport--A wicket club has been organized among the young men of this city and the students o ...(Castle) introduced the new baseball game to Hawaii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".</p>

|Headline=At Winter Camp, Pleasant Days Saw Base-Ball or Wicket ...med a center of attention for the unemployed members of the brigade; these games were becoming largely inter-regimental, a variety of &lsquo;teams&rsquo; we

|Headline=Base Ball [and Wicket] Played by the 10th Massachusetts ...3 to May 1864, seven mentions of ballplaying &ndash; one of them a game of wicket &ndash; appear in the account of the 10^th Massachusetts. In earl

...so universal as Cricket, Leap-frog, Marbles, etc., we have...Bandy, Bandy-wicket, Base-ball, Bandy-ball, Bubble-hole...Foot ball, Hocky (sic)..." and so on.

|Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...listed games played in Suffolk include cricket, base-ball, kit-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes. <strong>Note:</strong>: But not trap-ball? Not rounders? M

|Game=Cricket, Wicket <p>- at ten he knew many Harvard students - "their nicknames, their games, their individual haunts, we watched them at football and cricket [page 40]

|Headline="New Game" of Wicket Played in HI |Game=Wicket

...<span>John has an ongoing project of bat and ball games over history, from Wicket to Wiffleball, but hasn't determined whether it amounts to a new book. Curr

|Headline=Ah, Spring! Base-ball! Wicket! Gould! (Gould?) |Game=Base-ball,Wicket,"gould"

...tt. Strutt speculates that Club-ball was the ancient ancestor of many ball games. Its rules of play are not known. Hone book has 2 illustrations.</p> ...(1935) says (without citing a source) that club ball was similar to Single wicket cricket.</p>