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|Game=Wicket <p>&middot; Huntsville, 3/64: "Games daily in camp, ball, etc." [p. 184]</p>

|Tags=Throwback Games, ...games reported appear to be base ball-like games, but 8 refer to cricket, wicket and trap ball.&nbsp;<span>Ten entries refer to soldierly play during the Ci

|Headline=Disparate Ball Games Seen in New Hampshire ...- it's hard to construe it having a one-out-side-out rule -, but it's not wicket, for the club is named the "Granite Base Ball Club", also of Manchester. Th

...onic feints and ruses which make a distinguishing feature of American card-games. A bowler will watch his opportunity two or three times, and apparently ab

...tend our knowledge of the early roots of base ball and similar baserunning games in the six New England states. The page serves as something of a homepage # Was the game of wicket (called Wicket Ball in some areas) known in your area? What was it like? Are its playing

...se Ball, and Cricket, noble, manly games,/Where Health herself beholds the wicket fall,/ and Joy goes flying for the bounding ball,/And the gay greensward, s

...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 30.</ |Comment=<p>The book has no references to wicket, cricket or roundball.</p>

|Headline=In 10th MA: Ballplaying Has “Become a Mania” in 1863 Camp, Wicket Also Played in 1864 ...256] suddenly lists ballplaying on seven days between April 13 and May 3. Wicket was played on April 13 [10^th vs, 37^th] and April 23<s

<p>The author here is describing Inuit games.</p> |Comment=<p>These rules are similar to those of cricket and single-wicket cricket.&nbsp; When the number of players is limited, is seems likely that

|Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 1867 volume,&nbsp;a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel

...here were more of them in those days than now. We had more holidays, more games in the street, &ndash; of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and ...es NE of Hartford Connecticut. Note: [1] the "game of ball" may have been wicket. [2] More holidays in 1800 than in 1857?

...ce Bertha Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (New York; Dover, 1964 &ndash; rep ...>A game at ball, having short sticks and a hole in the ground instead of a wicket. --Walter Rye's&nbsp;</span><em>A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia</em

...riginally published 1883) page 184. <strong>Note:</strong> The omission of wicket - and arguably cricket - from Newell's account is interesting here. The cla

|Game=Base Ball, Cricket, Wicket, Massachusetts Game ...sp; Base ball was by a large margin the game of choice among soldiers, but wicket, cricket, and the Massachusetts game were occasionally played.&nbsp; Play w

|Headline=Cricket [or Maybe Wicket?] Played by Harvard Class of 1841 |Text=<p>"Games of ball were played almost always separately by the classes, and in my case

<p>There is a time limit for each team (I think these games were played during lunch hours but that may be wrong!) and at the end of th ...<br /><br /><br />THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPORT [public school games] <br /><br />p. 148

...saying that there were no prior safe-haven ball games [cricket, town ball, wicket] out west, or just that the NY game hadn't arrived until 1849?</p>

...d the absence of documented references of the other usual suspects such as wicket in California, it is a reasonable guess that this was [a form of] baseball.

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...s hard to construe it having a one-out-side-out rule &ndash;, but it's not wicket, for the club is named the "Granite Base Ball Club." The run distribution i

...d Hershberger sent his thoughts on the possible rules used for the Buffalo games. ...illa Astifan and John Thorn commented on wicket's place among bat and ball games.

...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, num ...er, about 70 miles NNW of Albany NY. Greeley does not mention the games of wicket or round ball or base ball.&nbsp;</p>

...1963 &ndash; originally published 1883) page 184. Note: The omission of wicket &ndash; and arguably cricket &ndash; from Newell's account is interesting h

|Title=A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball ...60]), pp. 54-56), the father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more like

...ous categories of information such as Chronology, Pre-pro, and Glossary of Games entries. After running an enhanced search, specific entries can be marked a ...le "Baseball and not Wicket" finds entries where Baseball is mentioned and Wicket is not mentioned.

...&nbsp; By 1850, of course, the&nbsp;Knickerbockers were playing intramural games elsewhere in New York.</p> ...oball has seen many references to what amounts to foul territory in single wicket cricket, but all of them seem to simply disallow base-running when a hit ba

...dash; at ten he knew many Harvard students &ndash; "their nicknames, their games, their individual haunts, &ndash; we watched them at football and cricket [ ...bridge school "there was perpetual playing of ball and fascinating running games [page 20]".

...ere are none of the stupid and senseless six-ball 'overs.' 'Out leg before wicket' is dispensed with, a rule which, while in force, gives great annoyance to .../newmodernsports.weebly.com. &nbsp;Several of these games list baserunning games as being subject to deliberate hybridization.</p>

...tizens of Little Rock, and the ladies in particular, to attend and see the games of the Club, on Saturday evening next, the second of May, at 3 o&rsquo;cloc <p>BA note--The game was wicket. See http://www.arkbaseball.com/tiki-index.php?page=Little+Rock+Ball+Club+%

<p><span>[B]"After this game had been decided, a match at single wicket cricket came off between two members of the Union Star Club - Foster and Bo ...s on 21 and 25 October 1845 are generally recognized as being the earliest games in the "modern" era, they were, in fact, preceded by an even earlier game b

...e pic-nic ground, makai of the Stone Church, where, after a few appetizing games of ball, they sat down to a sumptuous repast..."</p> ..., that the game played was base-ball and not some predecessor game such as wicket, which was known in the Islands.</p>

...requested an explanation. John Thorn suggested that it referred to single wicket. ...re Anglicized because, among other things, of the recent craze for English games like base ball.

...all" involves throwing the ball at players.&nbsp; They may have been other games that did this, but this likely was baseball."</p> ..., base-running games like cricket, wicket, and stool ball,&nbsp; and field games like bandy and what we know as lacrosse.&nbsp; None is known to have involv

...nd.&rdquo; Richardson (1848) notes Tip-Cat&rsquo;s resemblance to [[Single-Wicket Cricket]]. &ldquo;Twenty-one [runs] is usually a game,&rdquo; he adds. The <p>Gomme,<em>&nbsp;Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland, Volume 1</em>. pages 294-

...as feeder who stands at <em>a</em>, and another at <em>c</em> who acts as wicket-keeper, and tosses back the ball when tipped or missed. The striker stands ...s=<p><span>Dick, ed.,&nbsp;</span><em>The American Boys Book of Sports and Games: A Practical Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements</em><span>&nbsp;</span>

== The Seasonality of CW Ballplaying is Clear: Many Games Occurred in the Winter Camps == ..., the number of games from May through September is under one-third of the games known in March and April during the war years.

...the United States against Canada, the United States Eleven winning by one wicket. During 1866 I played with the Unions or Morrisania. In 1867 I was in Was

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...s on 21 and 25 October 1845 are generally recognized as being the earliest games in the 'modern' era, they were, in fact, preceded by an even earlier game b

...included this detail: "After this game had been decided, a match at single wicket cricket came off between two members of the Union Star Club - Foster and Bo ...s on 21 and 25 October 1845 are generally recognized as being the earliest games in the "modern" era, they were, in fact, preceded by an even earlier game b

<p><span>[A.] Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Traditional Games of England,&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sc ...e New England game was also descended from a family of English traditional games, of which perhaps the nearest equivalent was called bittle-battle. Its rule

...=<p>[A] "That [NY Tribune] article was a discussion, I believe, of the two games, the New York game and the Massachusetts round ball game, with a view to de ...National' game - is no more like the genuine game of base ball than single wicket is like a full field of cricket. The Clubs who have formed what they choose

...from Babcock also mentions drive ball as the last mentioned of six common games played with a ball, naming "base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-b <p>[2] Drive: A ball game, listed along with the Old Cat games and Baseball, is mentioned in the memoirs of a New Hampshire man born in 18

|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...uiet little village.&nbsp; We have nine different clubs of base-ball, four wicket, two cricket, four proposed row-boat clubs, two yacht clubs, &amp;c. &amp;c

...arming 1867 volume, a father delivered an extended disquisition about ball games in his youth in New England. That was definitely before 1840 and more likel “Then there was “wicket-ball,” as we called it in the part of the country where I lived. In this

...the same rules their fathers did before them.&nbsp; We also find that many games are played, differing but little from the well-known game of Base.</p> ...nd field layout, with three bases. [This variation reminds one of cricket, wicket, and "long town or "long-town-ball, except for the impressive 150-foot dist

...rk rules") form of base ball and the predecessor base-running games (base, wicket, round-ball, cricket, etc.) that were known to have been played in each geo

...rk rules") form of base ball and the predecessor base-running games (base, wicket, round-ball, cricket, etc.) that were known to have been played in each geo

...of Daniel Jones in California. &nbsp;It is a blend of baseball predecessor games (citing the Massachusetts Game -- "TMG" below) with aspects of early town b <p>[] Batters defend a "zone" as cricket batters defend a wicket</p>

== The Seasonality of Civil War Ball-playing is Clear: Many Games Occurred in the Spring Camps == ...May through September (the 5 summer months) is barely over one-half of the games known in March and April during the war years.

...es (like Town Ball and the Massachusetts game), cricket or other sports or games like boxing, boat racing or gymnastics. This idea succeeded in an astonishi ...historical importance of the Elysian Fields, where they played their home games, to be exaggerated as well.</p>