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Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
|Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games

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Chronology:Games of bat and ball

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Clipping:Experimental games: square bat a cork ball
|Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball ...interesting experiments are to be made to-day and to-morrow in exhibition games between the Chicago and Buffalo teams. In to-day's game two radical new de

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Brian Turner, April 2013
...thampton) in 1791 and another thing in other towns (such as the names ball games were known by Pittsfield). 

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ProtoPix:Bat Ball
|Description=Bat Ball. From "Little Charley's Games and Sports" (1854) p. 26

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Hit the Bat
...l-the-Bat," Southwest Folklore 4 (1980) pp. 84-86; Cohen, The Games We Played (2001), p. 77

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1852.2
|Game=Base Ball, Bat-Ball ..." reads: "How they poured the soul of gay and joyous boyhood/ Into roaring games of marbles, bat and base-ball!/ Thinking that the world wa

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1852.4
|Headline=Bass-ball "Quite Too Complicated" for Children's Book on Games |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball,

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1864.49
...nstructor at the Round Hill School in Northampton, MA, where baseball-like games were part of the physical education curriculum (see, entry [[1823.6]]; also

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Clipping:The advantage of batting last
...year shows that the very reverse of this is the case. Out of twenty-three games in which the home team went to the bat first at Washington Park last season

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1760.2
...ion as what we now know as the Champs Elysee? Can we learn what bat/ball games were so popular the mid 1700s - Soule? Some form of street tennis? A form o

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1805.3
|Headline=Book of Games Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball |Text=Among the games described in this book are cricket and trap-ball, which has this concise ac

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Bat-and-Ball
...all" is a term that can help you find very early references to predecessor games in the US.

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Clipping:The flat bats; a doctored bat
...en painted the bat to hide it, and he made twenty-six base hits in sixteen games by it. All that is needed is to take off enough wood on one side, within a

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1853.4
...  Is it possible that may other "plaing ball" references denote fungo games?  Do we know of any other fungo games in which more than a single bat is used?

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1845.10
|Headline=German Book of Games Lists das Giftball, a Bat-and-Ball Game |Text=Included among the games is das Giftball (the venomball, roughly). Block observes that this

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1841.7
|Headline="Games of Ball and Bat" Played in Nova Scotia ...and at which, 'Quadrille and Contra dances were got up on the green - and games of ball and bat, and such sports proceeded.'"

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Clipping:Games take too long
|Title=games take too long ...ggards who keep the spectators waiting on their laziness. Patrons of ball games have a right to demand promptness in this matter, and it is the duty of the

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Bat-Ball
|Term=Bat-Ball |Description=We have references to bat-ball from 1791 (when it was banned in both Pittsfield and Northampton MA), but t

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1810.3
...o have an hour of recreation each day with sports, among bat and ball-type games."  -- Tom Altherr

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1860.24
...l game of ball on Saturday afternoon. Ball-playing was one of the favorite games with the boys. . . . [Nat comes to bat.] 'I should like to see a ball go by

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German Bat Ball
Emily Elmore and M. O’Shea, A Practical Handbook of Games (Macmillan, New York, 1922), pages 36-39.</

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Ball-Bias
...Ball]] that was mostly found in the vicinity of Leeds.  These latter games were played without a bat, like English base-ball, whereas . . . ball-

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Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
|Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games

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Clipping:Benefits of mixing baseball and cricket
...ve their play, both at the bat and in fielding, by practicing each other’s games. In batting, at base-ball, the cricketer learns a free use of his shoulder

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Speilinn
|Sources=MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." Folklore 16, no. 1 (1905), pages 87-88.</

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Clipping:Experimental games: square bat a cork ball
|Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball ...interesting experiments are to be made to-day and to-morrow in exhibition games between the Chicago and Buffalo teams. In to-day's game two radical new de

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1802.4
...err, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine

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Clipping:Experiment with a flat bat, cork-centered ball
|Text=The Chicagos twice defeated the Buffalos in exhibition games at Chicago, Ill., on Oct 1 and 2, by the respective scores of 12 to 10 and

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Clipping:The flat bat 2
...trip of the team last season, and made twenty-six base hits in the sixteen games played, gaining a batting average for the trip of .419. He pained the bat

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Clipping:The advantage of batting second
...e benefit of an opportunity for a winning rally. In the large majority of games thus far played in the championship arena this season the teams last at the

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Clipping:Durable bats
...en used by six and sometimes seven of the nines, in over one hundred match games. The bat is appropriately styled “Old Reliable.” It is good for many

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1840.38
...the ardor with which the native youth of both sexes engage in the same old games which used to warm our blood not long since. There's good old bat and ball,

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BC2000 to 1000ADc.1
...Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians—play primitive ball games for recreation, as fertility rites and in religious rituals. ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 8-21.

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1839.4
|Headline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...3. "Games with a Ball" treats stool-ball, trap-ball, tip-cat, among other games, and owes much to Strutt (see 1801 entry, above). The writer advises, "[St

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1800c.1
...was commonplace, according to a historian of that school.  'The only games seem to have been old-fashioned 'bat and ball', which, in the spring, was p

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Clipping:A trophy bat made from the Charter Oak
...bbell intends to present the bat to the Hartford amateurs, and a series of games is to be played for the possession thereof of the several amateur clubs of

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Clipping:Batting first voluntarily
|Text=In the Boston-Syracuse games at Boston, Mass., the home team has almost always won the toss, and, instea

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Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1856
...h, in flying kites, to the terror of all horses on the road, in playing at bat-ball base, the chief enjoyment of which appears to consist in sending a hard woo |Block Notes=It is possible that “bat-ball base” may refer to trap-ball, rather than baseball, because of the mentio

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Trounce-Ball
|Sources=Alice B. Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Davit Nutt, London, 1898)

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1840.5
Henderson, Robert W., Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 161-162. No reference given.

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Scrub (Family of Games)
{{Family of Games |Description=Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, pitching, and a bat (but no teams).

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Baseball (Family of Games)
{{Family of Games |Description=Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, a bat, pitching, and two distinct teams.

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Clipping:Crowds like high scoring games
|Title=crowds like high scoring games ...Ross ball to bat against, and the result was one of those splendid batting games which the crowd so delight in.

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Clipping:Practice games are useless
|Title=practice games are useless ...on. Ordinary in training up a nine, as no earnest effort is made in such games; but when an incentive for extra exertion is offered in the way of prizes f

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Kibel and Nerspel
|Sources=Gomme, Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1., page 298.</span

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1835c.5
|Text="The games of bat-and-ball in former years were various, but most popular were "four o ...e 83. Caveat: The section in which this excerpt resides evidently games played half a century earlier, but other interpretations are possible.

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1760s.1
|Headline=Harvard Man Recalls Cricket, "Various Games of Bat and Ball" on Campus ...;c. . . . [w]e wrestled and ran, played at quoits, at cricket, and various games of bat and ball, whose names perhaps are obsolete."

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Nashville Base Ball Club
...dealer, on Church street. This promises to be one of the most interesting games of the season."

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Clipping:Overhand deliveries in the AA
...ation. There are any number of pitchers who deliver the ball illegally in games every day, and it is seldom indeed that umpires interfere.

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Clipping:Martin's pitching 2
...n professionals, who have used LYMAN’S PATENT BAT in their most successful games the present season, fully endorse them in every respect, and will use none

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900c.1
|Headline=Mayan Games Played at Chichen Itza, Mexico |Text=Mayan Indians play stick and ball games in ceremonial courts in Chichen Itza, Mexico

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One O’ Cat
|Sources=Culin, "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.." pages 231-232.

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BC1460.1
|Text=Wall inscriptions in Egyptian royal tombs depict games using bats and balls. ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 20.

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Clipping:A vicious fair-foul
...bbell intends to present the bat to the Hartford Amateurs, and a series of games is to be played for the possession thereof by the several amateur clubs of

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Clipping:A composite bat 2
...with the common bat. Anson certainly made a remarkable record in the two games in which he used it. June 23d, Buffington pitcher, in three times at bat h

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1840c.25
...l, hurled with almost giant strength, often caused stomach sickness." Some games were played against teams from neighboring towns.

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In Jefferson OH in July 1859
...y Sean Lahman describes 1959 play in Jefferson that uses teams of 14, with games decided at 100 runs, noting that base-ball had been played by "early settle

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1800c.3
Henderson, Robert W., Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 150. No ref given. Also referenced in Pe

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Stonewall Base Ball Club of Edgefield
...dealer, on Church street. This promises to be one of the most interesting games of the season."

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1796.1
...German advocate of physical education, devotes a chapter of his survey of games to "Ball mit Freystaten (oder das Englische Base-ball)" that is, Ball with ...an>. This roughly translates as: Games for the Exercise and Recreation of Body and Spirit for the Youth and His Ed

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In Cambridge in 1760
|Game=Games of bat and ball ...;c. . . . [w]e wrestled and ran, played at quoits, at cricket, and various games of bat and ball, whose names perhaps are obsolete." Si

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1850.22
...l Tavern," where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."

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Clipping:Two umpires for the World Series
|Text=There will be two umpires in the great games this fall between the League and Association pennant winners for the champi

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Fungo
...Protoball's Glossary of Games includes many  nonrunning games in which the ball (or cat, or other object) is put in play by a batter who |Sources=Culin, S. (1891). "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn." Journal of

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BC2400c.1
...laying: “It is the purpose of this book to show that all modern games played with bat and ball descend from one common source: an ancient fertili ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], page 4.

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Covington Base Ball Club v Holt Base Ball Club of Newport on 17 October 1866
...the Covington being fifteen ahead and two innings to play [all tournament games were five innings due to time constraints]. The game will probably be finis

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Clipping:The League's advertising poster
|Text=The posters for advertising the league games of 1882 are gorgeous affairs. They are about two and one-half feet in widt

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BC2000c.3
...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], page 19; the image itself is reproduced oppo

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Clipping:George Wright on the history of the bat
...Knickerbocker, Eagle and Gotham clubs. Chadwick was always present at the games, sitting on the benches, invariably carrying an umbrella under his arm. Th

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1845c.13
|Text="Town-ball is one of the old games from which the scientific but not half so amusing "national game" of base-b ...story about boys tarrying at recess, and can be dated 1845-1850. In other games, a "cross-out" denotes the retiring of a runner by throwing the ball across

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Block:Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884
|Block Data=“Ball-bias” was one of the games enjoyed by 200 children at the annual treat for students of the Wesleyan Ch

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1330.1
|Headline=Vicar of Winkfield Advises Against Bat/Ball Games in Churchyards; First Stoolball Reference? ...instructions to parish priests, advising them to forbid the playing of all games of ball in churchyards: "Bats and bares and suche play/Out of chyrche-yorde

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Clipping:Early indoor baseball
...ways. Among the most popular methods employed in the playing of burlesque games of base ball. The bases are marked in the gymnasium as the regular diamond

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Long Ball (US Batting Game)
Do we know know if this and other fungo style batting games were known elsewhere in the US?  

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Clipping:Anyone can field; batting is the key
...that anybody can field reasonably well, but that batting is what wins the games. … Let the members of the nine practice at the bat to the exclusion of f

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Clipping:Catchers playing close to the bat too often
...e, and for the crowd’s applause less; and they would then help to win more games than was done last season.

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1850s.13
|Text="Other forms of bat and ball games, like trap-ball and stool-ball, became well established in Louisville in th

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Base Ball
...possible that the term was used for diverse variations of local safe-haven games in other areas. One might speculate that later still, such games would be thought of as “town ball.”

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1847.13
...ll [p. 28], Northern Spell [p. 33] and Trap, Bat, and Ball [p 33]. The cat games and barn ball and town ball are not listed. In feeder, the ball is served f

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Clipping:Aerial ball
|Text=Horseman, who is a great caterer for the ladies in sports and games, has lately introduced a capital lawn game for parties who have hitherto be

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1794.2
...Andrews, in his history of England, cites a source for his passage on ball games, but I can not make it out from the photocopy in my possession."

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Clipping:Umpire must call a ball or a strike
...ween the nines belonging to Turin and Constableville, who are playing five games for the championship of the county. … The first man was called to the ba

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Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford." ...p>This reference is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball p

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French Cricket
...t the French name for this game is, and whether it relates to earlier folk games in France.

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1801.1
...t Strutt views a game he calls "club ball" as the precursor to this set of games, but notes that modern scholars are skeptical about this proposition.

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Rules of Danish Longball
There is no limit to the number of innings as games will be timed. ...ricket. Each team alternately takes turns in batting and fielding. In some games, a rule from dodgeball is incorporated, where the player can be considered

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Clipping:The denominator in batting average
...e of McGeary, the second striker of the Athletics, being second in hits to games and fourth in averages of times at bal.

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1805.2
...ylaw was written, perhaps the authors of the Bylaw were not thinking about games involving the "trap" device. In classical physics terminology, a baseball b ...bat.  This is akin to how these ordinances often give a list of ball games they are regulating, then add something on the lines of "or any other game

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In Red River Settlement, Manitoba in 1835
...ted in Wilson Green’s, Red River Revelations (Hignell Printing, 1974) says games of "bat" were played in the 1830s by Scottish immigrants in the Red River S

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 26 1899
...sborough, Buckinghamshire) at their annual treat: "After an excellent tea, games were freely indulged in, such as base ball, bat and trap, &c., the older fo

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1344.1
.... . " "We may summarize: The game and name of cricket stem back to ancient games played with a curved stick and ball, starting with la soule, and evo Henderson, Robert W., Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 130-131. Henderson's ref 17 is Bodleian Li

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Codlings
...ce Bertha Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unsp

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1841.10
...ers of the city of Hartford to . . . play at Wicket Ball, the best in nine games for Dinner and Trimmings. The Rules to be as follows: [1] The ball to be ro

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Block:English Baseball in Bedfordshire on August 10 1861
...and mentioning that “there being plenty of room to engage in all sorts of games, cricket, trap bat, base ball, French tag, and kiss-in-the-ring, were indul

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Flys-Are-Up, Flies-Up
...ity resident Michael Frank: “Hardball? Never. Other baseball-related games we played included Stickball in the street and “Flies-Up” in th ...om/christianog/games.html">http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</a>

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Clipping:Confusion over how many balls for a base on balls
...n that the rules of the American Association should govern the Clevelands’ games in Cincinnati. These rules differ only in respect to foul balls from the L

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1750s.2
|Text="Of formalized games, choices for males [in NC] appear to have been 'town-ball, bull-pen,' 'cat, ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32.

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 29 1857
...ose of the day continued with little intermission. There were also several games, such as bat-and-trap, and bass ball, which occupied the attention of the m

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1859.16
|Game=Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball,

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Clipping:The composition of balls; illegal balls; skillful batting
...years past “heavy batting nines” have made it a “point” in making up their games to secure the privilege of selecting the ball, and having had balls special

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Clipping:Sacrifice hits; scientific batting; early spray chart
...reful minute has been made of the direction of Anson's hits in the fifteen games played on the Chicago grounds this season. Out of 65 times at bat he has m

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Predecessor Games
...me help to new Origins diggers who were looking for search terms for local games that may have morphed into base ball.  We thought is those days to loo == List of Predecessor Games ==

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Aurora Ball Club of Boston
...played a game  of "base ball" in Sept. 1853 against the Olympic. See games tabulation. They probably played under the MA rules, or variant. They pract ...all Club" has 60 members, who exercise on the Commons in the morning with "games of bat and ball."

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Rounders: Baseball's True Origin?
Editors Note: Each issue we plan to highlight a bat-ball game that preceded baseball. Several early bat-ball games bore resemblance to our modern baseball. These games (among them, Stool-ball, Pize-ball, Tut ball and Rounders) all featured str

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ProtoPix:Longball etc bats
|Description=Bats for Longball and other early bat-ball games

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1827.1
...err, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine

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Clipping:The umpire's discretionary powers in calling balls and strikes; high and low
...The new rule governing these points will have a tendency to put a stop to games made long by wild pitching.

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Clipping:Bond's delivery 2
...e some arrangement to bulletin on the grounds during the season reports of games, by innings, as they are played on the same day at other points. Cincinnat

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In Halifax on 1 July 1841
...a legitimate account of the earliest, recorded at the time, baseball-type games. The influence for the play is likely British.Halifax, Nova Scotia (

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Rules of the Massachusetts Association of Base Ball Players
16. In playing all match games, when one is out, the side shall be considered out. 17. In playing all match games, one hundred tallies shall constitute the game, the making of which by eith

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Clipping:An electric scoreboard
...mes. This device is intended not only to indicate the progress of distant games, but actually to be used at the opposite end of the ball field from the gra

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1839.7
...the practice of so many youth spending the very time of public worship in games – to say the least – only suitable to the gayest festival. It t

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Hiawatha Club of Brooklyn v Osceola Club of Brooklyn on 31 July 1858
|Entry Origin=Games Tab

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1864.21
...re deadly weapons, have not forgotten the use of bat and ball, as the many games played by them during their three years service will prove.’ He proposed

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Clipping:Reporting juvenile games
|Title=reporting juvenile games ...e most pleasurable emotions, and we consider it our duty to encourage them games by every means in our power, even to the publication of the scores of their

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Block:Tut Ball in Staffordshire on January 4 1924
...spaper articles about Staffordshire Customs, this one entitled “Children's Games, Pastimes and Amusements.” After a lengthy discussion of rounders, the wr

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Clipping:A change pitcher needed for practice
...her on the nine might have won the Baltimore one and perhaps both of those games.

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In Honolulu in 1840
...the ardor with which the native youth of both sexes engage in the same old games which used to warm our blood not long since. There's good old bat and ball,

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1598.1
|Headline=Youth Ball Games Widespread at London Schools.

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 1 1863 (2)
...al Schools of Chesham, Buckinghamshire. A newspaper reported that “various games were indulged in, such as cricket, base ball, bat and trap, drop glove, &c.

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Clipping:A condemnation of trickery and deception; hidden ball trick
...mean tricks of the kind characteristic of corner lot loafers in their ball games. All these so-called “points” in base ball are beyond the pale of fair

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Pepper
...whatever, you would use in a professional baseball game. . . . But pepper games are gone. . . . It would still be worth putting every player through a pepp

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Drive Ball
...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 [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

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Unnamed Games - Czech
|Term=Unnamed Games - Czech Endrei, Fun and Games in Old Europe.

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1858.23
...style="text-decoration: underline;">The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books.<

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Aipuni
...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

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Round Ball
...bat-and-ball for this period.  There is no indication if or how these games differed, or whether they are direct antecedents of the Mass Game rules of

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Don't Forget the Girls
...to warm our blood not long since.” “Good old bat and ball” was one of the games. Tom Altherr located a fictional story in The Child’s Friend (Jan 1848) ...ball” and play base ball on the grounds of schoolyards or in local pick-up games with boys. In 1859, feminist and abolitionist Frances Dana Barker Gage com

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1743.3
...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

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Wolverines Club of Benton Harbor
"In Benton Harbor the games were played on the Morton ball ground on Morton Hill." ...ld Congregational Church on East Main Street. . . . When playing practice games on this ground a few of the players would occasionally bat the ball to the

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Clipping:Reasons for reduced scoring levels
...g game, while their batting was equal to any they have done in first-class games this season. People express some surprise at the weakness, as they term it

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1810c.1
|Headline="Poisoned Ball" Appears in French Book of Games ...t=The rules for "Poisoned Ball" are described in a French book of boy's games: "In a court, or in a large square space, four points are marked: one for t

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In Honolulu on 9 February 1859
...e pic-nic ground, makai of the Stone Church, where, after a few appetizing games of ball, they sat down to a sumptuous repast..." ...(Castle) introduced the new baseball game to Hawaii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".

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Clipping:The knothole gang
...blishing the score, however, as we intend to do after the present week, in games which merit a detailed account, the merits of each player, both at the bat

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Clipping:Rumors the Red Stockings were going to sell the game
...onal tendencies. But in the actual case the generative principles of both games between the same, the investigator is confident at once that the explanatio ...nd change produces. And to any one who carefully watches the two national games it becomes evident that they also differ in the same way—cricket being th

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Cincinnati Townball
...bout the same as early baseball, yet in looking over the old score-book of games of townball played in Cincinnati during the war, we find one of 146 to 21.

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Glossary of Games
{{Subtitle|A compilation of {{#ask: [[Category:Games]] | format = count }} games with a resemblance to baseball, most often using base-running and run-scori ...Games is dedicated to Francis Willughby (1635-1672), compiler of a Book of Games, an early member of the England's pathbreaking Royal Society, and perhaps n

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Clipping:Batting out of turn 3
...ot interfere with the players as it did last season during the progress of games. A new reporters’ stand is among the improvements to be introduced, the

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1100s.1
...of ball" [Beleth, 1165]. "In certain places in our country, prelates play games with their own clerics on Easter in the cloisters, or in the Episcopal Pala ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 37-38. Page 37 refers to an 1165 prohibi

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1848.5
|Headline=New York "Boys' Book" of Games Covers Stoolball, Rounders, Wicket ...Book of Sports, attributed to "Uncle John," describes more than 200 games, including, rounders (pp. 20-21), stool-ball (pp. 18-19), and wicket (label

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Clipping:Comparing the New York and Massachusetts games
|Title=comparing the New York and Massachusetts games

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Clipping:An objection to umpires behind the pitcher
...f having the records of the players in the matter of hits which may decide games, as well as the important matter of properly calling balls and strikes, wel

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Clipping:Chadwick calls for a repeal of the base hit for a base on balls
...ds, while the batsman who has the best average of clean hits in over fifty games is placed down in the two-hundreds of percentage, and at the close of the s

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Clipping:Scientific batting; home runs exhaust the batter
...t as to which can make the most homeruns from heavy hitting, while in such games skillful fielding—which is the attractive feature of baseball, is of but

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1854.15
...means. Clearly it is a bat-and-ball game, and given the documented earlier games of baseball (in some form or other) in California and the absence of docume

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Clipping:Proposed partial hits to be scored for sacrifices
.... Let me illustrate: Captain Ollie Bear, let us say, has played in eight games. He has these figures to his credit:

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Clipping:The beauty of pitching; underhand throwing
...vy batting, long games, large scores and the bound catch of our school-boy games of twenty years ago. In fact, no such splendid displays of the beauties of

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1834.1
...hem, which I believe to be the most popular with boys." [Page 37.] Other games describes are Fives, Nine-Holes, or Hat-Ball [a game with running/plugging

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Clipping:Chadwick still favors small ball
...hits sending runners home. Deliver me from the home run slugging batting games of the Players' League lively ball, please. I prefer single figure contest

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Bittle-Battle
[A.] Gomme, Traditional Games of England, 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

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Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Gothams Club of New York on 14 October 1853
|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...ol. 25, no. 32 (22 Sep 1855), p. 373, col. 3 [list of Knickerbocker-Gotham games]

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 16 1881
...ere they enjoyed themselves much with bat-and-trap, croquet, and the usual games, while the boys adjourned to a meadow . . . and indulged in cricket, base b

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Block:English Baseball in Herts on July 25 1891
...the school and then marched in procession to a nearby park, “where various games of cricket, bat and trap, base ball, swings, etc. were very heartily engage

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1750s.3
...the same rules their fathers did before them.  We also find that many games are played, differing but little from the well-known game of Base.

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Charter Oak 2 v Vigilant 2 on 28 June 1859
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1870.9
...the heavy batting [Mutual had 31 hits and 29 runs].  Both the Olympic games of yesterday and Monday were played with a ball that contained but half an ...ressed the issue by requiring clubs to use a standard Spalding ball in its games, thus lessening suspicion the club that provides a game ball thereby gains

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 30 1865
|Block Data=“Base ball” was reported to be among the games played at the annual fete for members of the Mechanics Institute of West Wy

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John Freyer, January 2008
...  John has an ongoing project of bat and ball games over history, from Wicket to Wiffleball, but hasn't determined whether it a

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Putnam Club of Brooklyn v Union Club of Morrisania on 15 September 1860
|Entry Origin=Games Tab ...the good fortune of the Union Club to be a participant in some of the best games on record, and though of late quite unsuccessful, yet they always require a

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Clipping:The legality of underhand throwing
...e knocked all over the field, and an end would be put to the fine fielding games incident to the underhand throw delivery.

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Beep Baseball
...ap for the SABR site, and anyone else who may have stopped by to watch the games, let me know your impressions. Great games, the Renegades were ahead - wicked ahead in the standings.

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Clipping:How people try to get in free; counterfeit tickets and scalpers; barbed wire
...riences to relate about the devices people employ to gain admission to the games. “The worst class of cranks,” said he, “that we have to deal with ar

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Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 5 October 1860
|Entry Origin=Games Tab

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Clipping:An opposition to the new pitching rules
.... My opinion is that the spectators will not like the rules, and that the games will lack interest and the patronage drop off. I failed to hear one person

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 18 1860
...e townspeople and others from the surrounding neighbourhood, and the usual games such as cricket, football, bassball, and bat-trap, were entered into with g

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Single v Married in Cohoes on 12 October 1858
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Clipping:Cummings delivery
...two games the Boston Club made but seven runs and earned five. In the two games in which the Athletic Club suffered defeat his pitching has never been exce

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Clipping:The Knickerbockers at play
...their example should be followed, and that is, that even in their practice-games they play according to the strict rules of the game, balls being called for

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Equity Club of Philadelphia v Equity Club of Philadelphia on 22 July 1862
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Block:English Baseball in London in 1875
|Block Data=A children's book, Jolly Games for Happy Homes, includes two separate game descriptions, one of "base ball |Sources=Jolly Games for Happy Homes, by Georgiana C. Clark, London, 1875 (est.), Dean & Son., p

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In Honolulu on 6 April 1860
...(Castle) introduced the new baseball game to Hawaii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".

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Bittle-Bat
...=[A.] Gomme, Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1 (Dover Pr

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on July 31 1875
|Block Data=“Bass ball” was among a selection of games played at the annual Parochial Schools Festival held in the town of Chesham

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Clipping:Scoring team errors
...ld have been to have engaged a staff of regular salaried umpires to umpire games behind the bat, and to have appointed a local staff of three umpires from w

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1848.6
...k, Baseball Before We Knew It, pages 211-212. This book's section "Games with Toys" includes two variants of rounders. Block's summary: Note: Were none of the other traditional English safe-haven games - cricket, stool-ball, etc., included in this book?

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Clipping:Using two balls to avoid delays
...nal vs. St. Louis (Union) 10/11/1884] For the past two weeks, to hurry the games through as quickly as possible, two balls have been used at the Union groun

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Clipping:Wins as a pitching stat; run support
...urn, of the Bostons, says:--”The best pitcher is the one who wins the most games for his club, and not the one who suffers for fewest base hits.” Under t

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Alert Club of Brooklyn v Niagara Club of Brooklyn on 3 October 1857
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1779.2
...nt: originally published in 1894), volume I.  [Page not shone; listed games are presented alphabetically]

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Long Ball (European baserunning game)
|Sources=Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games," Genus 5 (1941).  R

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1867.21
|Tags=Championship Games, ...n eight games is a far different thing from doing so after having won four games out of twenty. Add to this the fact that three straight victories were gain

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Halfball
For these games, oncoming traffic was marked by a common shriek -- "Carrr!!!" --  that ...kies" sometimes did.  A floppy half-Pinkie could be employed in fungo games, but not in a continuation of a stickball game.  (Email of 1/1/2020).<

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Bower City Club of Janesville
...d and third games." The scores were 25 to 18, 25 to 7, 25 to 14. The three games occupied three hours, and the players runs scored and outs made totals are

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Block:English Baseball in Bedfordshire on July 26 1881
.... A newspaper reported that, following some further speeches, “the various games and amusements were then again indulged in, including cricket, swings, base

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Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport v Excelsior Town Ball Club of Cincinnati on 2 October 1858undefined
|Submission Note=Waff games

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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

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Sun and Planet
..."text-decoration: underline;">The Boy's Modern Playmate: A Book of Sports, Games. and Pastimes (Frederick Warne and Co, London and New York, 1891), p

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Englische Base-ball
...nded readership was teachers rather than boys themselves. Not all of these games were German, and for modern researchers the most notable section is that de ''from'' <big>Games for Exercise and Relaxation of Body and Spirit</big> 

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Clipping:Fair-foul hits in the air
It was. A case in point occurred in one of the Brooklyn-Columbus games of September. Collins bunted a short ball in the air which fell on fair gr

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Phillips Academy Club of Andover
...t Phillips Academy) has a lot on early baseball here. Evidently "bat-ball" games were popular here in 1811.By 1852-53 they were playing "base ball,' but the The 1853 games were played in an open field in the rear of the Seminary buildings. One gam

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"A Good Many Different Kinds of Ball"
...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

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Exercise v Vigilant in New York on 28 September 1860
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Clipping:The new scoring rules
...’s idea that the rule is cumbrous will fade away after he has scored a few games with it. It really appertains to only a few men anyway, and there is no fe

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1609.1
|Comment=Per Maigaard's 1941 survey of "battingball games" includes a Polish variant of long ball, but does not mention pilka palanto

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Rough and Ready Club of South Walpole v Club of Foxboro on 19 June 1858
|Entry Origin=Games Tab

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Ballgame in Da Baca County in 1865
Under the heading "Games Derived from Europeans," Culin wrote in 1907 that there was a "Navaho game |Sources=Stewart Culin, Games of the North American Indians, 1907. Special thanks to John Thorn and Bruc

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Clipping:Support for the new pitching delivery rule
...me rules, the game should be better balanced. As it is, in the exhibition games, the League clubs have the worst of it, as the pitchers of the opposing tea

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1744.4
...trong brac'd Nerve are thine [cricket's] / Scorn Eunuch Sports; to manlier Games [we] incline" [lines 68-71]

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Enterprise Club of Bedford v Star Club of Brooklyn on 17 October 1857
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Clipping:Non-wood bats
...ing so inclined could experiment with other substances in their exhibition games and thus come to the next meeting better prepared to legislate intelligentl

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1791.1
|Headline="Bafeball" Among Games Banned in Pittsfield MA - also Cricket, Wicket |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball, Wicket,

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Towards A Definition Of Baseball
...ition, a game isn’t hockey if ANY of these six characteristics is missing. Games considered closest to hockey share most of these characteristics. Thus fiel ...antly. Nine inning games were only made the standard in 1857. And pre-1857 games were often played to a set score, usually 21 or 100.

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1749.2
...was there a two-player version of the game then (in the 1800s competitive games of cricket were similarly reported with only two named players)?

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1858.3
...he 36-page Mayhew/Baker manual covers the rules and field layouts for both games. It gamely explains that both game require "equal skill and activity," but ...olor: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">In playing all match games, when one is out, the side shall be considered out.

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Clipping:Intentional fouls; working a walk
...hat it is a large factor in the problem of their club's success in winning games. Latham's mode is very ingenious and displays an acuteness on his part tha

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1820s.9
...y dislodging a wicket, and thus resembling field hockey. Were two separate games conflated in memory? 

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1867.26
|Query=Are other baserunning games known that were to be played on horseback?

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1854.11
...well all 11 men had to be retired before the other team came to bat. Both games allowed the pitcher to throw the ball in the modern style, rather than unde

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1820s.31
|Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball ...g 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

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Clipping:A catcher suffering from sore hands
...ay but simply sore from constant use. He expects to catch in all the four games with the Athletics. (St. Louis)

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Newtown BBC v Newtown BBC on 4 December 1858
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Five Hundred
...-Bat]] option for returned throws is employed. Land’s review of schoolyard games includes two references to 500. It is also evidently called [[Twenty-One]]

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Block:English Baseball in East Sussex on July 3 1891
...hill above the workhouse, where cricket, baseball, bat and trap, and other games were indulged in until teatime.”

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1086.1
...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 75.

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Block:"Englische Base-ball" Described in 1796 German Book
...ll mit Freystäten (oder das englische Base-ball)" in a German book on games and sports. This is the earliest description of a game called baseball and

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1672c.2
|Headline=Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described ...llughby (1635-1672) compiled, in manuscript form, descriptions of over 130 games, including, stoolball, hornebillets, kit-cat, stowball, and tutball [but no

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Beth Hise, December 2008
...nbsp; Part of the exhibition will focus on bat and balls games prior to 1840, and Beth is looking into stoolball history and the 1755 Will

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Club of Janesville
...and third games." The scores were 25 to 18, 25 to 7, 25 to 14. The three games occupied three hours, and the players runs scored and outs made totals are

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Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Union Club of Morrisania on 26 June 1860
|Entry Origin=Games Tab

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Enterprise Club of Bedford v Ashland Club of Hoboken on 19 June 1858
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Massapoag Club of Sharon v Old Colony Club of North Bridgewater on 17 July 1858
|Entry Origin=Games Tab

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Lapta
See the article on lapta and other early European bat-ball games. Lidstrom and Bjarsholm, Batting, Running, and ‘Burning&rsqu

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Clipping:Spring training regimen; signs
...ter, with a view of securing the full strength of the team in championship games.

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In Blountville Circa 1850
...e and for the same length of time. During these intermissions the old time games were played - marbles, quoits, prisoner's base, bull-pen, town-ball, cat-ba

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Clipping:The benefit of catchers' mitts
...ere this. As it is, here we have them catching over a hundred successive games, even beating the old-time records, such as that of Barnie, etc.

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1850s.20
...honor the memory of Senator Marcus Hanna of OH. The likely location of the games was in Lisbon, in easternmost OH - about 45 miles northwest of Pittsburgh P

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1847.11
...response speaks of "bass ball" played on ice. This is a decade before such games were commonly reported, suggesting that the [later] practice by organized c

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Clipping:Another defense of the New York game
...s–or any other disinterested parties, would be for them to witness the two games fairly played, and then to decide which is the genuine game of base ball, a

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Clipping:Proposed rules amendments; wide balls, as in cricket
...rule in force for one season, in order to see how it would work. The few games that have been played have afforded no criterion as to whether the fly-game

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1694.2
...curity with the printed word beginning to define it, along with other folk games, as an element of the national culture. Edward Chamberlyne's Anglia Not ...played. We find no reference to club ball, stick ball, trap ball, or other games suggested as precursors of baseball. The full title of Chamberlayne is A

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Clipping:Placement of the pitcher's lines in the AA
...they play with our associate clubs, and place it on exhibition during the games, in order that all the contesting clubs may seen the prize for which they a

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Danish Longball
|Description=This game resembles other northern European safe-haven games like lapta.  Batters bat, then run to a single distant base, trying to

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Clipping:A dissent on the prevalence of underhand throwing
...such an abuse would be that no catcher in the country could play over two games a week, and even then he would in every contest risk the mangling of his ha

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1845.29
|Headline=Dutch Publication Covers "Engelsch Balspel," "Kat," Other Batting Games |Text=John Thorn passed along text of a Dutch book of games printed in 1845.

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Om El Mahag
...it related, or relates, to base ball, long ball, or other early safe-haven games. |Sources=Ado Gini, "Rural Ritual Games in Libya," Rural Sociology&nbs

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Clipping:The batter can be put out on a foul strike
...athering of paying crowds at professional games this season, heavy batting games with large scores no longer being tolerated by the best judges of the game.

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Clipping:A proposed rule to carry base runners over from one inning to the next
...bases or otherwise exert one's self; it would break up any catcher in two games, because he would have to catch almost every ball under the bat, and, final

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Clipping:RBIs revisited
...work done by the different players of the Chicago Club in the twenty-seven games played in this city. In this showing is included an item not commonly foun

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Clipping:The location of the ninth game in the series
...not to be played on neutral ground, except in case of each having won four games. He also states that where the first game is played, so should the last be ...to so great a perfection, batting is the only thing that really determines games, and that one gap should be left open for the display of this skill.

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In HI in 1866
...back to Hawaii when he returned in 1866. He also claims that the bat-ball games in Hawaii at the time were two-o-cat and three-o-cat. Castle was born n 184

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Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Charter Oak Club of Brooklyn on 31 October 1859
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Vernon Club of Brooklyn v Neptune Club of Brooklyn on 18 May 1859
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Clipping:An experimental rules game: moving the pitcher back
|Text=[reporting on a series of experimental games Boston vs. Chicago] The second game, to be played Tuesday, will be an expo

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Bandy-Wicket
...a Gomme, Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1&

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Enterprise 2 v Union 1 on 26 June 1858
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Clipping:Calling balls
...shown that style of delivery to be alike the most conducive to interesting games to the spectators, and to enjoyable contests to the players. Fair pitching

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In Honolulu in 1855
...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

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1847.14
|Game=Round Ball,Long Ball,Old-Cat Games

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Wicket
...erline;">The Book of Sports (Boston, 1834).  See chapter III, "Games with a Ball.  The simpler game appears on pages 48-49."  Carver d

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Tut-Ball
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1855c.10
...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

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1857.30
...as uniform practice for the Massachusetts game in earlier years. Examples: games are decided at "say 25" tallies, not at 100; minimum distance from 1B to 2B

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1847.7
...nearby adobes, there were some problems. "Largely because of the baseball games, the Spanish-speaking people of Santa Barbara came to look upon the New Yor

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Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Putnam Club of Brooklyn on 31 July 1860
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Clipping:Borrowing a more prestigious name
..., and after their game with the Mutes they were unable to arrange any more games... New York Sunday Mercury September 15, 1872 It is surprising how frequently defeated nines are umpired out of games. It is quite a novelty to hear of a nine who acknowledge themselves square

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BC1500c.1
...BC." He reports that it is believed that one of the earliest Mesoamerican games was played with a stick. A dozen rubber balls dating to 1600 BCE or earlier

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1848.18
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Block:English Baseball in Surrey on October 3 1863
...irst appearance at Shalford, need we add she was warmly received—and other games were carried on with immense vivacity, till dinner was announced. . .”</p

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Gotham Club of New York v Mutual Club of New York on 14 August 1862
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Clipping:Straight pitching vs. the curved-line delivery
...urved-line pitcher who has not thorough command of the ball will lose more games in the long run than he will win. Also that such a pitcher requires a more

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Pellet
|Sources=MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." Folklore, volume 16, no. 1 (1905), page 87.

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Niagara Club of Buffalo v Young Canadian Club of Hamilton on 30 August 1860
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Niagara Club of Brooklyn v Resolute (Sr.) Club of Greenville on 29 November 1860
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Clipping:The new official scorer
...tion it is made the duty of each club to appoint a proper man to score all games on its own grounds. This official scorer must keep an accurate account of

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Irish Rounders
...gs. The game is played without gloves and, perhaps unique among safe-haven games, batted balls caught in the air are not outs.

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Eagle Base Ball Club of New York
...ous explanation is that the Eagle club were playing different bat and ball games until 1854, supported by a member's later memoirs and by mention in the Kni ...the Eagle Hose Cart No.1 in 1840, played other baserunning (plus plugging) games before adopting Knickerbocker rules in 1854. 

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Block:English Baseball in Cambridgeshire on August 7 1875
...hool Festival. A newspaper reported that “they dispersed to indulge in the games that had been provided for them in such variety; croquet and baseball parti

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Deutsche Ballspiel
''from'' <big>Games for Exercise and Relaxation of Body and Spirit</big> ...pendently deserves listing here as part of the family tree of bat-and-ball games. It is still played in evolved form as [[Schlagball]], a member of the ext

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Clipping:Practice styles
...improved thereby, as they mix their players up too much in their practice-games, instead of playing each man in his regular position. The only way to impr

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Clipping:Why an umpire resigned
...easant for Mr. Young to assing us, since they do not wish me to have their games. This was caused primarily by several decisions given against “home nine

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1868.1
...en headed by Miss Nannie Miller, as captain. This nine have played several games outside the town and away from the gaze of the curious who would naturally

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Osceola Club of Brooklyn v Atlantic Club of Jamaica on 18 July 1859
...e pastime.”)(BDE: “The above was probably one of the best contested games yet played. By a reference to the score it will be perceived that the numbe |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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1844.20
...vent. Three games were planned as part of the affair, and two were cricket games.  A base ball game was to follow, but it was rained out.

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Osceola Club of Newark v Washington Club of Newark on 11 August 1860
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Predecessor Game in Santa Barbara in April 1847
...nearby adobes, there were some problems. “Largely because of the baseball games, the Spanish-speaking people of Santa Barbara came to look upon the New Yor

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Off The Wall
One note to make is that passing traffic constantly interrupted street games. The children were forever alert and ready for the next truck, car or wagon ...tion.com/christianog/games.html">http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</a>

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Clipping:Fear that the pitcher can throw the game
...e beginning to fear that the pitcher has much to do with the loss of their games. Can this be true? It cannot be questioned that the pitcher, to a great e

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Trap Ball
|Description=Trap ball is one of the earliest known ball games. Its distinguishing characteristic is the use of a “trap,” a me ...e_4-0" class="reference"> As late as the 1930s exhibition games of knur and spell by veterans drew large crowds to the <a class

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Punchball
.../punchball.html</a>. Johnson (1910) lists Punch Ball under “Baseball games.” ...ame.  (Communication from Neil Selden and Mark Schoenberg on Brooklyn games.)

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1853c.1
...days to play matches with the academy. There was some sport in those match games."

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Clipping:Doctored bats
...very unfair trick was played by the Hartford nine on the occasion of their games with the Atlantics (second match) and the Centennials. In the latter conte

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Indian Ball
...Unlimited swings are permitted. Three-out-side-out innings and five-inning games are prescribed.  The playing field is represented in a figure showing |Sources=Brewster, American Nonsinging Games (U of Oklahoma Press, 1953) page 80. https://www.chrisoleary.com/

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Erie Club of Buffalo v Live Oak Club of Rochester on 27 September 1859
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Clipping:The batting average denominator
...bat, than by dividing the number of times first base made by the number of games. We think that this is the most sensible plan. The first striker in a gam

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Shaffers Club of Freeport
...June 6, 1866, which gives a history of the Empire Club, and mentions their games with the Shaffers.

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Clipping:Stalling for darkness
|Text=THE DUTIES OF UMPIRES.–“DRAWN GAMES” ...and other clubs, which , perhaps, might very properly be classed as “drawn games,” both parties agreeing to suspend play at a time when neither side had a

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Welsh Baseball
...ven-player teams, no foul ground, an all-out-side-out rule, and two-inning games.

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German Baseball
...as introduced in 1986 by Roland Naul in the context of a revival of Turner games for German youth. In the mid-1990s, a one-handed wooden bat was developed e

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Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Gothams Club of New York on 8 September 1857
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Clipping:Hulbert reprimands Paul Hines
The official record of your play this season is as follows–all League games: Games, 30; runs, 19; base-hits, 29. Last year, 64 games, 62 runs, 101 base-hits.

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1836.5
...me of the English found their way down to us and we have since had several games." ...e one trait in which they differ widely from us; they keep up their boyish games through life.  [. . .] Cricket and Ball of all sorts is played in Engl

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Cat (Kat)
|Sources=Stewart Culin, "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.," Journal ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

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Clipping:Nolan suspended
...ined suspicion exists that he was caught in some sort of a scheme to throw games. It is known to many that he was picked up in that sort of rascality last ...in its infancy, as the Journal advised, the club would have had more “won games” to its credit.

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Clipping:George Wright's history
...essional of the St. George Club, getting off now and then to play in match games of base-ball. In 1865 I was professional to the Philadelphia Cricket Club

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1850s.57
...n to rely on newspaper descriptions, years later, of re-creations of early games, not unlike trying to understand the New York game solely by watching vinta ...multiple participants.  How, for example, when outlining these early games, did the reporter reconcile inconsistencies or gaps in what he heard and sa

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1856.10
|Query=Is it significant that this book features games for adolescents, not younger children?

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In Virgin Islands Circa 1890
...tery. As elsewhere, the Cubans certainly played a major role. Bat-and-ball games here actually began with the arrival of cricket, but as Virgin Islanders be Lowry, "Baseballs Longest Games" records a game in 1900 in Charlotte Amalie, soon-to-be US Virgin Islands,

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1850s.59
...nterestingly though as I look at the box scores of the post Civil War games like the one from the 1872 game below names like Isaac Munn and Tichenor lo ...rs at least partially because of the prominent Newarkers who played in the games.  Much space is devoted to chronicling the physical exertions of

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Army Side 1 v Army Side 2 in April 1847
...y adobes, there were some problems. “Largely because of the baseball games, the Spanish-speaking people of Santa Barbara came to look upon the New Yor

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1855.47
https://protoball.org/Club_of_Newark, which includes 21 of the club's games, 1855-1864 ...o applying some criteria to the limited information we have about the 1855 games and see if I can come up with a systematic approach to identifying the firs

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The Union Hall Game of Ball
...  By 1850, of course, the Knickerbockers were playing intramural games elsewhere in New York.

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Clipping:Debating the ten man rule, exhibition games
|Title=debating the ten man rule, exhibition games ...played its championship game to a close, except when clubs play exhibition games under the ten-men rule, so that, after all, the new game has received a sem

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Clipping:The secret of the Cincinnatis' success
...lison, the catcher of the Red Stockings, through whose efforts in the main games are won, is a remarkable player, and beyond question, the best catcher in t

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Clipping:RBIs
...so a record of the runs batted home by the different players in the twenty games played in this city. The percentage of base hits is reckoned on the basis

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Pesapallo
...nvented game is based on American baseball, and on the traditional Finnish games kuningaspallo, pitkapallo, and poltopallo, and was introduced in 1922. Some ...out, and allowed to bat again), no ground-rule home runs, and four-inning games.

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Meta, or Longa Meta
...ames), (Budapest, 1971), pages 149-152.  A compilation of baserunning games (and their names) in about 60 locations within current Hungarian borders, w ...akrzow. Every game was written in english, czech, polish."  The three games included are Hungarian "meto", Kwadrant in Poland, and End Ball in the Czec

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Clipping:Making suggestions to the umpire; talking back to the roughs
...editable. This style of thing has been done away with in our metropolitan games, and is only now indulged in by country villagers who no know better. The

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Hildegarde
..."(pseud)", The New Out-door Games of Hildegarde and Ladies' Cricket (Macdougall and Son, Sheffiel

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1859.14
...=[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

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Clipping:A call for the return of straight arm pitching
...the balls from the bat do not come hard to the fielders and the records of games show less than five errors to a club and less than ten runs in all. But is

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Two Old Cat
|Description=From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat" ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

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Rounders - Britain
...ce Bertha Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (New York; Dover, 1964 – rep

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1870 NABBP Rules
...g club, ''and in the second game by the challenged club. But when “single” games are played only, the ball shall be furnished by the challenging club. In al ...he striker, when occupying his position at the home base. And in all match games, a line connecting the home and first base and the home and third base, ''a

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1778.4
...game of wicket in early May after a dinner with General Knox! . . . Other games included cards and dice . . . gambling in general, although that was frowne ...err, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." <spa

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1864.47
|Headline="Union" Games Started 1864 Season ...heir club grounds, that has led to the arrangement of these Union Practice Games.”

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Henry Eckford Club of New York v Star Club of Brooklyn on 1 August 1862
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1861 NABBP Rules
...osed of india-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging club, and become the property of the ...striker, when occupying his position at the Home Base. ''And in all match games, a line connecting the home and first base and the home and third base, sha

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-2500.2
...marked at the end of the first day of play. Also, are there two different games here? At first, the young men are “playing with the ball,” but

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The New England Roots Project of SABR
...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 ...s Game or the New York Game? See our current list of known games [[Old old games | here ]])

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Clipping:Amateur clubs hire professional batteries
...player takes part in a professional contest regularly in Sunday gate-money games, for which service all are entitled to pay by a salary or a share of the ga

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Clipping:The primacy of fielding
...ciple of saving runs by skillful fielding is of more importance in winning games than that of trying to make runs by hard hitting.

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1700.1
...cricket? Do we know of any earlier public announcements of safe-haven games?

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Clipping:Rumors of the Mutuals throwing games
|Title=rumors of the Mutuals throwing games ...lly defeated both at the bat and in the field than in any of the series of games the two clubs have played together.

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Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Empire Club of New York on 29 September 1860
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1840s.31
...playing began early in the spring; [p92/93] it was the first of the summer games to come out.

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Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Niagara Club of Brooklyn on 20 August 1857
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Puddox, or Puddock
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 ... THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPORT [public school games] p. 148

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1870.1
...Stockings vs. Atlantics", in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), pp. 71-73.

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1867 NABBP Rules
...osed of India-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging club, and become the property of the ...he striker, when occupying his position at the Home Base. And in all match games, a line connecting the home and first base and the home and third base, sha

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1860 NABBP Rules
...ed of india-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, ''in all match games'', shall be furnished by the challenging club, and become the property of t

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Clipping:Charge of a thrown game
...fied with such an organization, and should leave the nine as soon as their games were concluded in Chicago. This is a serious charge to prefer against a ba

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Round Town (Round Town Ball)
...Johnson Skeen at the Buffalo School in 1885 when I was 5 years old... The games we played at the Buffalo were straight town, round town, b ...(b. 1894): "'Round-town' and 'straight-town' were popular games. Round-town had four bases in a circle, as baseball does today. If the batt

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1840.24
...cated [and posted to 19CBB on 8/29/2007] a long recollection of "Old Field Games in 1840" including townball. The account, a reprint of an earlier document, <h3>Old field school games in 1840.</h3>

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Clipping:Division of gate receipts; fifty cent admission
...to by the Athletic club, viz.: for each club to take all receipts at home games, of course the Athletics had nothing to do with the extra charge. The resu

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Clipping:A call to fire the manager
...ratt are suffering by this a much as the public, as the slim attendance at games last week shows. Mr. Reach is deserving of better fortune than this. He i

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Clipping:Jimmy Williams advocates for ERA
...n Association, and was made p from the official scores of the championship games, and will be published in the official book with other statistic of the sea

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Elle
...ubs at play in Italy-- a country perhaps has less intrigued by baserunning games than most of the world's cultures are.</div> ...cricket, some traces of past rounders play are seen in today's elle.  Games are typically played to two 'innings', which are defined by the number of p

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21st Century Townball
...of Daniel Jones in California.  It is a blend of baseball predecessor games (citing the Massachusetts Game -- "TMG" below) with aspects of early town b ...the world and asked the students to, in partners, each research one of the games and teach the rest of us to play. On the second day one pair of

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Single-Wicket Cricket
...Gazette, July 30, 1859; Milwaukee Daily Free Democrat, Oct. 6, 1852. These games involved anywhere from 1 to 8 players a side. ...39); Hoyle's Rules (1838). See also "The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games" (1864), pp. 77-79; A. G. Steel et al., "Cricket" (1888) chapter 14.

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Welcome to Protoball
...all, over 12,500 early clubs, a registry of over 300 different baserunning games, a few hundred key reference works on early ballplaying, etc. Dave Anderson ...er time. It is designed so that individual club pages can link to a club's games, players, and field locations. For an example, see New York City's Knickerb

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1853.5
...x score known for an interclub match, and the first since the October 1845 games (see "[[1845.4]] and #[[1845.16]] above). 18 outs are recorded for eac

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1863 NABBP Rules
...osed of india-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging club, and become the property of the ...he striker, when occupying his position at the Home Base. And in all match games, a line connecting the home and first base and the home and third base, sha

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Shinty
...Elysian Fields in 1839 (NY Herald, Sept. 10, 1839) as part of the Highland games" (Email of 8/12/2022).</div> .... 26, 1857; New York Herald, Sept. 10, 1839 (shinty played in the Scottish games, at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken); Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, Nov. 15,

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1869 NABBP Rules
...a-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, ''in the first and third games of a series'' shall be furnished by the challenging club, and become the pr ...he striker, when occupying his position at the home base. And in all match games a line connecting the home and first base and the home and third base shall

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1868 NABBP Rules
...osed of India-rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging club, and become the property of the ...he striker, when occupying his position at the home base. And in all match games a line connecting the home and first base and the home and third base shall

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Lone Star Club of Jersey City v Enterprise Club of Bedford on 1 August 1857
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Clipping:Proposals for umpire signals
...tain R. F. Downing & Co. B.B. Club.] … Every one who attends professional games, when the crowds are large and noisy, and the umpire is not blessed with a ...claim that in view of the great and fast increasing crowds attending ball games, and the extent of many of the grounds, there is an urgent necessity for a

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Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Victory Club of Troy on 3 July 1860
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Mississippi Valley BBC of Vicksburg
The Vicksburg Herald, Oct. 15, Oct. 21, 1864 notes practice games of this club. Same Dec. 10, 1864 reports on a meeting of this club.

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Club of Punahou School
...Punahou School to play this "new" baseball game. Before then, the bat-ball games played in Hawaii were versions of "two o-cat" or "three o-cat". Other sourc

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1871.11
...plate appearances, but this was not yet universal. The problem with using games played is that not every player gets the same number of chances. There were

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Stickball
...who grew up playing stickball, and each of them has his own compendium of games. I need to get there first.</div> ...d fielder.  But there are 4-person games *(2 fielders) and one-on-one games.  The fielders stand somewhere near the batter in order to catch the b

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1839.1
...e Legendary Doubleday Game", Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), pp. 3-5 ...ave been preserved for 85 [sic] years, as at that time no such interest in games existed as it does now when all items are printed and societies and clubs p

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1870c.8
...es that he was in his teens when he first saw base ball.  His old-cat games would have come in the mid-1860s. ...all but we did have to pitch, catch, bat, and field.   These two games were popular on the school grounds.

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1866 NABBP Rules
...osed of India rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging club, and become the property of the ...he striker, when occupying his position at the Home Base. And in all match games a line connecting the home and first base and the home and third base, shal

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Such Tumbles, Such Collisions
...a turning point for how local newspapers viewed baseball. Previously, most games were given a one-sentence blurb, such as: "The Haymakers of Lansingburg bea ...n the October 27 issue of The Eagle, promising "one of the most tremendous games of base-ball this or any other town ever saw." The article tried to play up

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Palmetto Club of Charleston
...items "cricket and bat balls." There were also numerous reports of cricket games played in the north, and of the local cricket clubs.

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Chadwick's Summary of Rules Changes
...s to prevent clubs being benefited by the assistance of trained players in games against mere amateur players, as was the case in the cricket matches then t ...of fifty-one to forty-two. The convention, however, consented to allow fly games to be played by mutual consent of contesting clubs. At this convention, too

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Massapoag Club of Sharon
"Five games of twenty-five talleys each were agreed upon.  The 'bat' was thrown up ...asion in which they defeated their rivals, the Olympics, in three straight games.  They had borrowed red flannel shirts from the Stoughton Fire Departm

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Clipping:Harry Wright and Charles Mason on cranks
...testimonials of his powers as a slugger, and said that in the thirty-seven games he had played he had attained an average of .871 for fielding, and .422 for ...ght that the coming pitcher had been discovered at last. He played in two games, and was then quietly laid on the shelf. The boys always give the cranks a

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Rounders: A Game That "Gets No Respect"
...ntion of rounders was in the second London edition of a children’s book on games—The Boy’s Own Book—published in 1828. Inside the book was a diagram o ...name for nearly a century beyond the advent of rounders, and that the two games were distinct from each other. This evidence, as presented in my 2019 book

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Maryland Club of Baltimore v National Club of Washington on 14 June 1862
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Occidental (Juniors) Club of Quincy v Red Stockings Club of Cincinnati on 13 October 1869
...rfect season in professional baseball history in 1869 when they won all 65 games they played. One of their games that season was played in Quincy.

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Clipping:A single-admission double header
...o 2 and the visitors the second by a score of 3 to 1. Both were pitchers' games, neither side being able to do any work with the stick. Owing to the rain

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1865 NABBP Rules
...osed of India rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging club, and become the property of the ...he striker, when occupying his position at the Home Base. And in all match games, a line connecting the home and first base and the home and third base, sha

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Postings to 19CBB, Jan. - Feb. 2013
...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.

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British Baseball
...icago White Stockings and an All-America team in 1889. Both tours included games in the rounders hotbed of Liverpool. ...ne ball. Then the ball will be provided by the home side. At international games the referee will be handed two new baseballs, one marked “E” the other

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Clipping:Charges of thrown games by the Mutuals and Philadelphias
|Title=charges of thrown games by the Mutuals and Philadelphias ...s that the four other players received money at different times to ‘throw’ games, and asserts that he can prove this beyond contradiction.” New York Sund

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Clipping:The value of statistical analysis; pitching stats
...n of a man’s play. A, for instance, may make a dashing show in one or two games, and be generally rated as a splendid batsman, while B, as one of the quiet

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Vitilla
|Comment=Protoball welcomes additional details on the games rules, history, and spread.

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Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Gothams Club of New York on 25 October 1858
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Clipping:The grounds in Baltimore
...d, The Sunday Times will this year present a scoring records of the league games in a form peculiar to itself, and containing features and points of interes

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1845.4
...were printed in New York newspapers. There are some indications that these games may have been played by the brand new Knickerbocker rules. Detailed accounts of these games are shown in supplement text, below.

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What Was Rounders, Anyway?
It was also a safe-haven games and most accounts call for five bases [including home], most of them specif ...uld call a home run in baseball. One account suggests that winning 3 of 5 games, or 2 of three -- determines the victorious side.

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An Interview with David Block
...d Kingdom had begun exploring and writing about early baseball and related games in England. Today the picture is a little different, and I am a bit disappo

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Clipping:Boston Club allegedly in arrears; Charley Jones
The Boston Herald says: For quite a number of games on the South-end grounds it has been noticed that several members of the Bo

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Clipping:A collective hold-out
...esult was that he signed to play for about $2,500, and catch only half the games, as Kelly had been raised under a contract to play half the schedule. Gore ...Stars, second. Captain Anson thinks Crosby will puzzle the boys for a few games at least. The Sporting Life December 12, 1883 [See TSL 12/19/1883 for a l

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Randall Brown's Find of the Wheaton Account -- Before the Knickerbockers
My plan was to take a quick look at the Examiner’s coverage of the exhibition games in San Francisco. I knew that “Phin” Thayer, author of “Casey at the ...ven men on a side,” but that was also true of the early Knickerbocker club games.

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1867.1
...er 3 to play two grand matches with the Eastern and Western Districts, the games being announced to come off on the Satellite Grounds on October 3rd</s ...elsiors, of Philadelphia, and two Brooklyn clubs, all colored, to play two games for the colored championship of the United States at Satellite grounds, on

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Gotham Club Rules (1837)
:We had to have a good outdoor game, and as the games then in vogue didn’t suit us we decided to remodel three-cornered cat and :We played no exhibition or match games, but often our families would come over and look on with much enjoyment. Th

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Clipping:Evolution of the catcher's glove
...oring town. Gunnasso ordered a pair of the same kind, and, in a number of games that followed, wore them over his tight-fitting walking gloves. He removed

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1858.2
|Headline=New York All-Stars Beat Brooklyn All-Stars, 2 games to 1; First Admission Fee [A Dime] Charged |Tags=Antedated Firsts, Business of Baseball, Championship Games, Newspaper Coverage, Post-Knickerbocker Rule Changes,

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Interview with John Thorn, Official Historian of Major League Baseball
...s history, and our own within it, enhances or pleasure in watching today’s games.

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1837.1
|Game=Base Ball,Old-Cat Games ...e changes they introduced. "We had to have a good outdoor game, and as the games then in vogue didn't suit us we decided to remodel three-cornered c

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Ballplaying in Civil War Camps
== 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.

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1850s.58
|Warning=The dates that these games were originally seen are not reported.  We have assigned them to "the

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1864.48
5/1 NYSM—“FIRST-CLASS PRACTICE GAMES.-- ...The first regular match of the series took place on April 23...the in ...elding must necessarily ensue from these new rules, and far more enjoyable games, this increase in the scores is of no importance whatsoever.”

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Clipping:A staged action photograph
...the Athletic were acting in good faith and as gentlemen who wished to win games fairly only and by no trickery. Mr. Spering considered the paper a reflect ...ane believed the paper was a trick, or it would have been dated before the games played in Boston by the Athletic, and then presented. The motion directing

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1845 Knickerbocker Rules
of the club, have antecedents in older bat and ball games. While both the 1845 baseball games?

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Clipping:The pitching rule
...ers—and one of the best in the country—been seriously handicapped, but the games of the past month have demonstrated that the Boston players cannot do effec

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What Was Town Ball, Anyway?
...rouping it with other unregulated, bat and ball, safe-haven, American folk games. While this is an acceptable description of the game, it does little to in ...distinguished town ball from other types of bat and ball, safe-haven folk games.

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Stoolball Today -- The Rejuvenation of an Ancient Pastime
...tice and then as the evenings get progressively lighter they play friendly games of about 10 overs per innings against local opposition. League matches in ...es between themselves and play tournaments (8 players per team and usually games of 4 overs) practically every week-end.

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The First Baseball Game In Mexico
...Leagues, Mexican-born MLB stars such as Fernando Valenzuela, and even MLB games played in cities such as Monterrey. ...t the bat-ball games played were New York-rules baseball. More likely, the games were some predecessor game, such as Town Ball. In any event, the game didn�

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EF Wind-up Memo
...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.

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For Fun and Health -- That's Why She Played
...employing the term “manly” to distinguish it from children’s bat-and-ball games.

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Ballplaying by Civil War Soldiers 1.0
== 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.

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Origins Newsletter -- February 2021
...on of the origins of the game of baseball, baseball’s predecessor bat-ball games, and the growth of baseball prior to 1871 (when professional, league baseba Editors Note: Each issue we plan to highlight a bat-ball game that preceded baseball.

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EF Aesop
...ct this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played their games at Elysian Fields.</div> ...e facts (journalistic and visual) about base ball, cricket, and other ball games being played at the EF, but not to delve into the history of the parkland,

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Games Tab:Philadelphia
...of victory, notwithstanding they have been engaged in an unusual number of games. … the trial gave much satisfaction to the large audience who had assem ...t tendered by this recreative game. … The Hamiltons have played four match games this season, three of which resulted in their favor.”)

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Reconsidering Elysian Fields -- October 2022
...ct this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played their games at Elysian Fields.</div> ...e facts (journalistic and visual) about base ball, cricket, and other ball games being played at the EF, but not to delve into the history of the parkland,

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Elysian Fields Discussion Topic Two
...ct this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played their games at Elysian Fields.''</div> ...e facts (journalistic and visual) about base ball, cricket, and other ball games being played at the EF, but not to delve into the history of the parkland,

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Games Tab:Massachusetts
...t Albert S. Flye, regarding dispute over rules to be followed in these two games]) ...) (New York Clipper: The match was “best two out of three in games of 25 tallies,” with “one out all out” the rule. 12 picked members

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Uniforms
* Have you come across sporting uniforms in other games? The Worcester report is found in the great Craig Waff’s “Games Tabulation,” amid his review of 3 other news accounts of this match, at:

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Games Tab:New York State, Western
...all out,’ best two in three; game twenty-one tallies, flying ball. … Our games are ‘the (so-called) old-fashioned base;’ sometimes ‘one out, all out ...>McWaine’s side 17-24-20 (Rough and Ready Base Ball Club intra-club games) (GCH: Herald was published by A. J. McWain.)

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Games Tab:Greater New York City, 1861 - 1862
...>(New York Clipper: “The third contest of a series of home and home games—the first two of which were played last season … the Eureka succeeded ...racted a great deal of attention, as each club had won one of the previous games, and they are looked upon as the champions of the junior organizations of t

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A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball
...al Baseball Library at the Hall of Fame, has speculated that baseball-type games at this stage were like pulling a hacky-sack out of a backpack and kicking ...“Baseball in the Stone Age,” Mehl located evidence of ancient bat and ball games not only in western Europe, but also in North Africa, Asia Minor, India, Af

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About Elysian Fields -- 2022
...er;">'''Characterizing Base Ball Games at Elysian Fields''' 1839.1* Shinty played in the Scottish games, at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken. See Chronologies 1839.8

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Games Tab:Greater New York City
...ol. 25, no. 32 (22 Sep 1855), p. 373, col. 3 [list of Knickerbocker-Gotham games] (5) Peverelly, pp. 14 & 21 (6) Orem, p. 11 (7) Wr ...ol. 25, no. 32 (22 Sep 1855), p. 373, col. 3 [list of Knickerbocker-Gotham games] (3) Peverelly, pp. 14-15 & 21 (4) Orem, p. 11 (5)

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