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|Title=debate over a dead or lively ball ...lly active in the effort to secure some change, either in the ball used or in the rules, that shall favor the batter.</p>

...whenever a ball should be batted over the fence, or out of certain bounds in any direction, the striker could take no more than two bases for the same.<

...ally in New York City on the streets where such fixtures as a fire hydrant or an abandoned car serve as bases."</p>

...pied either by an organized club of players or a party of chosen sides for a temporary game.</p>

|City=Troy ...g any street or alley in the first, second, third, or fourth wards of said city; and every person who shall violate either of the prohibitions . . . shall,

...which declared war to the knife of the Union Association. It was inserted in section 7, of article 3, and reads as follows:</p> ...ved player unreleased; or any club which belongs to any association where a club belonging to either of said associations is located.”</p>

|Title=talk of a player's union ..., Ryan, Devlin, McGeary, and other prominent professionals, are interested in this new move that will give the League more trouble than they anticipate.<

|Headline=Fitchburg Levies $1 fine for Striking balls with a bat-stick |City=Fitchburg

...ing ball. It is the player who by making the bold attempt and drawing out a fielder—it is he who should be encouraged. The Sporting Life August 25, ...tention to stolen bases and others do; therefore the base stealing record in that organization must of necessity be unreliable and unsatisfactory. The

|City=Newburyport ...ball or balls in any of the streets, lanes, or alleys of this town, . . ." a fine of 25 cents to one dollar was to be assessed.</p>

|Headline=The "Citty of New Yorke" Sets a Fine for Sunday "Gameing or Playing: Ten Guilders ...Person or Persons soe found drinkinge Gameing or Playing Either in Priuate or Publicke Shall forfeict Tenn Guildrs for Euery such offence." Note that bal

...f a violation of this by-law, the penalty may be recovered from the parent or guardian." The fine also applied to bowling, kite-flying, and hoops. <u>N

...s hit to the short stop. The short stop could easily retire the runner at first base, but instead tries to catch the man who is running for third, and fail ...ything else? Even if it was by slow fielding it cannot be called an error or base hit. The Sporting Life January 18, 1888</p>

|Name=Club of Glencoe, OR v Club of Cornelius on 4 July 1875 |State=OR

|Title=English Baseball in Norfolk on November 15 1862 ...n the game; so in their studies let them take care that whatever they took in hand they did it fairly and earnestly."</p>

|Headline=Baseball Arrives in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada ...ntil about 1840.' Whether of not this was actually the game of "Rounders" or "Town Ball" is debatable.</p>

|Name=in St. Louis in 1875 |City=St. Louis

|Headline=Baltimore MD Bans Ballplaying on Sundays and within City Limits ...n 7 covers Sabbath play, again including ball, and adding "pitching quoits or money." The penalty was $1.00. The ordinance is dated March 2, 1827.</p>

...the West. Whether any such concession will ever be made by the League is a matter of doubt, as the League has always maintained that the rate is only

...rties spoke in high praise of it, for it was apparent to all that they had a thoroughly fair and competent umpire for their game.</p>

...s which we played in Pittsburg and Cincinnati, while those played here and in Chicago were well patronized.</p>

...who earns a base for himself twice as often, and makes a weak hit or foul or strikes out when the bases are loaded.</p>

|Headline=John Oliver Plays Base Ball in Baltimore |City=

...gates in the National and Olympic games, was demanded. The subject led to a protracted discussion between the Internal Revenue officers and the mangers ...ration from such representations, plays, performances, exhibitions, shows, or musical performances.</p>

|Name=Club of Glencoe, OR |State=OR

|Name=Base in Cambridge in 1858 - 2 |City=Cambridge

|Headline=Rural Boys "Played Bass Ball" in Western Ohio ...en logs." Alice Carey, <u>Clovernook, or Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West</u> (Redfield, Clinton Park, NY,, 1852), page 280. Provided by

|City=Middlebury ...version in or near the College-building." [A first offense brought a fine, a second offense brought suspension.]</p>

|Name=Club of Baker City |Club Name=Baker City

|Name=round or base ball in Barre in 1848 |City=Barre

...d for–and when the next third ball was pitched he would call “two balls.” In the meantime, he called every wide ball as soon as delivered, he not counti ...in over the home base and at the height called for. Philadelphia All-Day City Item April 5, 1874 [See also PSD 4/12/1874 below.]</p>

|Title=a proposal for interleague play ...on could continue its championship series. It is too late now to advocate a scheme of this kind, but it will receive attention before 1888.</p>

|City=Williamstown ...not be permitted to play at ball, or use any other sport or diversion, in or near the College Edifice, by which the same may be exposed to injury."</p>

|Headline=Manufacture of Base Balls Begins in NYC |Location=Greater New York City,

|Title=a hint that not every club will be allowed to enter the IA championship ...an ever they have done, for the utmost economy in this respect, as well as in their salary lists, will be absolutely necessary to carry them through.</p>

|Headline=Playing of Hole-less Two-Old-Cat in Providence RI |City=Providence

|Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME |City=Bangor

|Title=a discussion of underhand throwing ...om throwing to bases from it, it does not begin to pay as well as strategy in pitching. To be consistent, the next time Chapman set as umpire he should

...nd proceed to get there. And get there as quickly as possible, in any way or manner you like, by any means, so they are honest and fair, and by any rout

...e is the point on which it is to be decided whether a club is professional or amateur.</p> ...and the proceeds going to the club, being divided among the players of the first nine.</p>

|Headline=Ban in Richmond Threatens Fine, Whipping |City=Richmond

...erve rule. The rumor has not penetrated beyond the smoky confines of that city and has probably no foundation. The Arbitration Committee has provided to ...hat has reserved them or go to work at something else–cashier in a bank or a brick-yard. Let us organize, by all means.</p>

...ts in the middle of the season. We could not replenish the stock for love or money, and the bat-makers told us the above story and added that they had u

|Headline=In NC, Negroes Face 15 Lashes for Ballplaying |City=Fayetteville

|Title=rumor of a sale of the Metropolitans ...ed of money, notwithstanding its poor success last season, it having still a considerable amount to its credit standing over from 1882.</p>

...organization now located in Indiana. Denny will not be sold to Washington or any other club, but will remain just where he is.</p>

|Title=umpire not calling balls or strikes ...ouraging, we admit, but still, we think Dick [McBride] should have kept on in his usual way. It established the fact very clearly that Hall wanted his b

|City=Philadelphia ...d angering or humiliating the base players. It is almost impossible to put a player out who is determined to enforce this manner of avoiding the ball, u

...f the opposing nine, and, if persisted in, he should not be allowed to aid in captaining his team.</p>

|State=OR |City=Cornelius

|Name=In Boston in 1854 |City=Boston

...pped by the crowd, the ball cannot be used to put a player out until it is first held by the pitcher while he stands within the lines of his position.</p> |Source=Philadelphia City Item

|Title=a fight with a gambler ...ing to the contest gave it a variety and spice never before connected with a game on the Union Grounds, we believe.</p>

|City=Cleveland ...whereby the grass or grounds of any Pubic place or square shall be defaced or injured." (Fine is $5 plus costs of prosecution.)</p>

|Title=the new delivery; a proof of the curve ...fan the air in vain attempts to hit the ball, when it is delivered in such a deceptive manner.</p>

|Name=in Austin in February 1859 |City=Austin

|Title=a prize fight under cover of being baseball games ...portion of Brooklyn; but beyond their immediate circles nobody knew where or when they were going.</p>

...majority play spectators, it is not to be expected that either good order or any fair field will be shown the visiting club.</p>

{{Other First |City=Chicago

|Title=rumor of a players' association; labor versus management ...hat has reserved them or go to work at something else—cashier in a bank or a brick-yard. Let us organize, by all means. The Sporting Life July 15, 188

|Name=In Chicago in 1844 |City=Chicago

|Text=<p>In calling balls, under the code of playing rules for 1873, the Umpire must ob ...all delivered to each striker, as the first ball is dead as far as calling or counting it is concerned.</p>

|Title=a prohibition of collusion between the NL and AA New York Clubs ...eague or American nine to strengthen the other. In other words, the clubs in that metropolis, it having control of both nines, can not now, if it finds

...arned run? In order to define this important point, we will take it first in its simplest form:</p> <p>A clean home run is an earned run.</p>

...to join in the agreement. In the meantime President Hulbert is to perfect a plan of arranging salaries, and it is safe to say that it will take definit

|City=Portsmouth ...e: medium;">&rdquo; played in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he was born in 1804. </span></span></p>

|Headline=<u>Boy&#39;s Book of Sports</u> Describes "Base Ball", "Base or Goal Ball" |City=New Haven

...incerity of the Judge. The talk about giving decisions in favor of runner or of ball, ahs long since gone out of fashion. Every Umpire makes mistakes� |Source=Philadelphia City Item

|Name=Dysodias Club of Eugene v Dysodias Club of Eugene in August 1867 |State=OR

...power of any more Sperings, or Concannons, or Hayhurts to steal either men or money. It took them only two years to do it, and it was thoroughly done.</

|Title=a call for minor league representation on the Board of Arbitration ...d beyond the possibility of destruction through ignorance, malice, caprice or selfishness.</p>

...nd the peculiar tactics of two or three members of the nine. The fact is, a new New York nine is wanted.</p>

...ball-player, but his conduct Saturday indicate that in private life he is a blustering bully., quoting the Cleveland Herald</p>

|Title=an experimental game in Cincinnati ...iness only two squares from the ball field, had heard nothing of the game, or the intention of the clubs to play, until about the middle of the eighth in

...out it. There should be no Al Wright in it, and no Spering, or Concannon, or Porter, at the head of it. The players are plenty, the grounds are good, th

|City=Camden ...tive, but hardly definitive.&nbsp; Some tracking down of old maps would be in order to pin this down.</div>

|Title=every pitch a ball or a strike; criticisms of this rule ...a ball pass after the first one, without it was called either “strike” or a “ball.”</p>

|City= ...the same boy mast take his chance again. Its great amusement was in being a trial of speed. Strutt says that it was known as early as the time of Edwar

...and that Toronto and Toledo will do likewise, keeps the old chain without a missing link.</p>

|Title=Kansas City's prospects of staying in the League ...as the franchise is the property of the League, and the longer it persists in its fruitless opposition to the will of the League just so much less chance

...such cities as Indianapolis, Detroit, Louisville, Kansas City, Minneapolis or even Milwaukee to draw upon.</p> ...l to that level we are sure the League would reduce itself for a season to a six-club basis.</p>

|Headline=Soldiers&#39; Christmas in Virginia - Ballplaying "on Many a Hillside" |City=Fredericksburg

|State=OR |City=Ashland

...will be only too happy, if this is done, and they would at once put clubs in two American Association cities.</p>

|Headline=Banned in Boston&#39;s Public Garden: "Games of Ball, Foot-ball" |City=Boston

|Headline=First Baseball Attendance of a Thousand or More |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball,

|City=Sacramento ...of the gentlemanly apothecary, who had not anticipated such unceremonious a carronade."</p>

...ground, cut off some fifteen feet from the left field in order to lay down a third track. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury April 7, 1872</p> ...ot even the directors of the visiting club or of the Boston Club. Evening City Item April 6, 1872</p>

...atch-game, such as was played last Thursday, between the Endeavors fo this city and the Americus of Newark, on the grounds of the latter, at Irvington. Ne ...rtainly the National Game is a profession, and nothing else! Philadelphia City Item October 3, 1868</p>

...eld hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> ...NC banned the playing of bandy in the streets. In 1858 boys were arrested in DC for playing bandy on the streets (Washington Star, Nov. 27, 1858).</p>

|City=New Bedford ...challenge any of the other clubs in the city to a trial either of New York or Massachusetts game."</p>

|Name=Ballgame in Modlin on 30 May 1919 |City=Modlin

|Name=In Plymouth Circa 1855 |State=IN

|Title=Magazine Writer Bemoans Lack of "bass-ball" Venues in 1828 ...off in this particular. Where can they assemble for cricket, or trap-bat, or bass-ball?"</p>

...is the game in miniature complete, and as much interest can be centered in a contest between expert players on the board as between rival clubs on the g |Source=Philadelphia City Item

...o him to “get them down” or to “pitch lower,” should promptly call balls. In regard to strikes, more latitude is allowed, no strike being permitted to b |Source=Philadelphia City Item

...is over, when enough votes will be secured to reduce the percentage to 25 or less. It has been done before. Remember Detroit, 1887, and Boston's hog p

|City=Watlngton ...to argue that the lord of the manor, or some other landowner, should take a section of otherwise unusable land and create appropriate playing fields fo

|City=Sandusky ...y within a club. Their was a club in Sandusky and another nearby in Toledo in 1860."</p>

|Name=In Blountville Circa 1850 |City=Blountville

...re too few players for stick-ball in The Bronx, New York in the mid-1950s. A fielder who caught the ball on the fly went &ldquo;up&rdquo; to bat.</p> ...in the playground. The latter game is not further described, but could be a species of Fungo.</p>

|Title=the Forest City of Cleveland training rules ...t=<p>With a view to good order and efficiency, the directors of the Forest City Base Ball Association have adopted the following rules and regulations for

|Headline=Ballgame Marks Anniversary in MA |City=Barre

|Name=In Monroe in 1849 |State=IN

|Headline=Bat/Ball Game Depicted in <u>Children&#39;s Amusements</u> |City=

|Headline=Like It or Lump It, Gents |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Newspaper Coverage,

{{Other First |Name=First Baseball Attendance of a Thousand or More

|Title=surprising the fielders with a bunt ...a strategic safety-block, (a mere tip,) between 3d and “home,”... All-Day City Item June 10, 1873</p>

...rmanent and numbered wickets, and using them in rotation, or as their wear in service suggests.</p>

|State=OR |City=Albany

|State=OR |City=Salem

|Title=the switch from town ball to base ball in Cincinnati ...f the season. So we expect exciting time in the way of match-games before a great while.</p>

|Title=early baseball in Philadelphia ...character of the play of the Philadelphia clubs, and also a vast increase in the popularity of the game.</p>

...e to play either an interesting or a fair contest. The lack of enterprise in not attending to these important “points” speaks badly for the Resolute |Source=All-Day City Item

|City= ...held privately, became known to researchers in the 1990s and was published in 2003.</p>

<p>1. Never call on the first ball.</p> <p>2. Never call a ball until the pitcher has been warned.</p>

|City=Philadelphia ..., make any indecent Noise, or behave in any way rudely in the College Yard or Streets adjacent.'" (Source:&nbsp;&nbsp;College Academy and Charitable Scho

...ease for eight years, and have recentlyf laid out several thousand dollars in preparing it for use.</p>

...ry with them the sympathy or good wishes of the lovers of base ball in any city which they may visit.</p>

|Title=a call for a convention of professional clubs ...her to call a convention of delegates from each club, and let them draw up a set of championship rules, which shall govern all contests for the champion

|Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |City=Springfield

|Title=Florida as a spring training site ...lub, and if they could get good local material so much the better. With a first-class club, arrangements could easily be made with Northern teams to come d

{{Other First |Name=First Compensated Player

...ld tell when the pitcher was about to deliver a ball out from the plate or in close to the batsman. The Chicago man changed his position too quickly.</p

|Name=in Corvallis in 1856 |State=OR

|Title=William McLean running a gymnasium ..., No. 929 Girard avenue, their headquarters. Billy has recently fitted up a gymnasium, where most of the prominent ball-tossers are exercising for the

...gh or low ball, and he must strike at the balls called for when delivered, or strikes must be called on him.</p>

...m clubs, thereby keeping a club in a stew from the beginning to the end of a season.</p> |Source=Philadelphia City Item

|Headline=Ladies and Gentlemen of Dansville NY Play Ball in Afternoons |City=Dansville

|Headline=A Drawing of Ballplaying in New York -- in the area where Central Park would later be, possibly?? |City=New York

|Title=Pickett case; a player enjoined ...the Court at length last Saturday, when Mr. Rogers represented the Kansas City Club, and John M. Vanderslice and John G. Johnson appeared for Pickett.</p>

...rch, so that in the mean time they will secure a large down-town office as a starter. New York Sun January 4, 1889</p> ...t. Mr. Becannon will try to secure teams from the largest business houses in town. New York Sun January 11, 1889</p>

...s to this future intentions, although it is rumored that he will pitch for a nine that Fergy Malone intends organizing to represent Philadelphia. New Y ...ntly neither Devlin nor any other player can be given the right to paly in a National club. Only the League can reinstate him, he never having been exp

|Title=talk of putting an AA club in Chicago ...ved that the public will have ample facilities for visiting the grounds in a comfortable manner...”</p>

|Headline=Roundball Recalled in Maine |City=Norway

|Name=In Salem in 1762 |City=Salem

|City=Johnson Island ...y within a club. Their was a club in Sandusky and another nearby in Toledo in 1860."</p>

...//www.spaldeen.com/punchball.html">http://www.spaldeen.com/punchball.html</a>. Johnson (1910) lists Punch Ball under &ldquo;Baseball games.&rdquo;</p> ...f this game is recalled by Gregory Christiano as being played in The Bronx in the 1950s:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

...endency to annoy persons passing in the streets and sidewalks of the city, or to frighten teams of horses."</p>

|Name=In Saint John in 1840 |City=Saint John

|Title=poor support for a minor league team in Chicago ...ous towns in the West and Northwest, the Western Association games in this city draw hundreds only where the League team attracts thousands.</p>

...club delegates in favor of the proposed organization is to be held shortly in Philadelphia. That is the proper place for the convention of all the “ou ...st without the active assistance of nearly every regular professional club in the county. New York Clipper December 30, 1876</p>

...already entered into negotiations with the Boston manager with that object in view.</p>

|Headline=Was Lewis Wadsworth the First Paid Player? |Location=Greater New York City,

|State=OR |City=Jacksonville

...arly having a Brotherhood last season, did you?” inquired Long John Reilly in the Cincinnati Enquirer office, the other day.</p> <p>“Yes, the Brotherhood had the Association in line, but Latham was the cause of its death before it got out of the swaddl

|Headline=African-American Game is Played by "Henson Club" July 4 and/or November 15 |Location=Greater New York City,

|Headline=Organized Round Ball in New England Morphs Toward the "MA Game" |City=Boston

|Name=In Pownal on 5 May 1853 |City=Pownal

...urve pitcher. He has but little command of the ball, or showed but little in this game, and he apparently knows nothing of strategic effect. New York C ...asier it is to judge. Every ball delivered above the line of the wiast is a “foul-baulk,” and the umpire has no option but to declare it such. New

...the case of single postponed games which it may be impossible to play off in any other way.</p>

|Headline=A Ballplayer&#39;s Progress: "Bound and Catch," "Barn Ball," "Town Ball" |City=Elba

|Title=a question on allowing substitutes ...e score. This not being the only case in which a man has been substituted in the latter part of the game, I would like to have your views on the subject

...ting at the averages of the club must therefore be more or less irregular, or incorrect. New York Sunday Mercury November 26, 1871</p> ...of reference? It would seem that one of the chief points of advantage to a professional club would be something they could consult while making their

|Title=a threat of legal action against a revolver ...ati team. A responsible person as bondsman, also, will be secured in each city, whom the Club will indemnify. If the League will take advantage of weak-k

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=NYC

|City=Chicago ...n the hilarious sport of 'base ball.' We had no regulation balls or clubs, or even rules." Goes on the describe how the students made balls and bats.&nbs

|Name=In New Bedford in 1858 |City=New Bedford

|Title=Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on July 11 1862 ...amount of enjoyment in the less dignified pastimes of “tut-ball' or 'kiss-in-the-ring;' thus proving that the spirit of juvenility remains with man thro

|City=Road Town |Description=<p>In the 2010 Little League Caribbean Regional, a club from George Town, Cayman Islands, competed.</p>

|City=Washington ...s think it no harm to play Ball, Draughts, or play the Fiddle and dance of a Sunday . . . "</p>

...king he may need, as he has made many friends during his residence in this city [Baltimore]. Cincinnati Enquirer November 2, 1884</p> ..., and now that he has no one with whom he must share either money, censure or praise, he declares that affairs at Oriole Park will be conducted more libe

|Text=<p>The following communication from a well known citizen is worthy of consideration:</p> ...ve the same evil to complain of. My sons appear to have lost all interest in their studies; and the claims of the Athletic and Atlantic, and what the Me

|City= ...be seen coming out of his little swing-gate, with a big hat aforesaid, and a cane. He enjoyed the game as much as the youngest of us, but came mainly to

...uarters, and the Bank Street grounds, which it has used, have been leased, or at least another party has the refusal for next year.</p> ...rty had taken the initiatory steps toward securing the Cincinnati Park for a term of years.</p>

|Name=Homeolithics of Corvallis v Juniors of Salem in June 1875 |State=OR

...solation of knowing that our conduct on the fied as players, gained for us a reputation that will certainly outlive our defeat.</p> ...to arrange such games for us, or advise us as to the propriety of playing in such places:</p>

...the patrons of the game in Troy would be enabled to witness the contest at a less rate of admission than fifty cents.</p>

|Title=a claim that the AA asked to put a franchise in Chicago or Boston ...ions relative to such new club. My impression, however, is that there was a limit fixed to the privilege and that the limit has expired. Cincinnati Co

|City=NYC ...spectators applaud his tom-foolery, just so long will he enact the part of a clown."</p>

|Title=Al Wright once worked for the City Item .... Wright–no desire to call him a blackguard, a toady, a New York renegade, or any thing of that sort: quite the contrary! Egad, we think he ought to be

|Title=a players' relief association proposednot a brotherhood or union ...ve no hesitancy in signing, as the scheme is a grand one and is sure to be a success. The Sporting Life March 10, 1886</p>

...But it looks as if they would be compelled to charge fifty cents, or even a dollar, for important games. The public have themselves only to blame for ...arge fifty cents. Any smaller price than that would only lead to disaster in the long run; therefore, our citizens will not grumble when they see the ma

|Title=a condemnation of Sunday baseball ...r some other species of crime and horrible transactions. It is, no doubt, a judgment visited on them, however, for their sacrilegious and Sabbath-break

|City=New Bedford ...challenge any of the other clubs in the city to a trial either of New York or Massachusetts game."</p>

...llows in the infield, makes it next to impossible to properly gauge a ball or handle it with any precision.</p>

...shall expect to see the Athletics priding themselves on the possession of a fine ground and clubhouse, and the Keystones another. New York Sunday Merc ...practicing on them twice a week. In view of the fact that the former was a rival organization, their course of action merits praise. New York Clipper

|Title=no series loss a prerequisite for the championship? ...als, won’t do. We don’t want a constructive championship. The real thing or nothing.</p>

...e them, or should they pay Mr. Deery his bill, secure new plans, and erect a less expensive building...</p>

...arters, and the Bank-street grounds which it has used to have been leased, or at least another party has the refusal for next year.</p> ...rty had taken the initiatory steps toward securing the Cincinnati Park for a term of years.</p>

|Name=In Rushville Circa 1830 |State=IN

..., of the Atlantic club. We should like to see a few more of the same sort in the fraternity., citing the New York Sunday Mercury</p> |Source=Philadelphia City Item

...greater number in the summer evenings, by other attractions, the increase in the traffic would be very considerable, without much additional cost for ha ...e or fall of a continental dynasty. Further, this interest indicated that in the business and its attendant traffic were possibilities of profit beyond

|City=Bern <p>"During a general game, in which some of the masters join (rounders I think the English boys called it

...land ME Bans "Playing at Bat and Ball in the Streets" in 1805, Retains Ban in 1824 |City=Portland

...e of balls will fall short of the regular out-field positions, as they did in this game.</p>

|Date Note=Club began in 1864 or 1865 |City=Lexington

|Title=a fake team scam ...cher to be here on time of the game yesterday. Luckily the rain prevented a continuance of the fraud.</p>

...heir fill of the Hoosier Hippodrome, and refuse further to allow a bet for or against them.</p> ...e has been on our table for several weeks the following communication from a responsible party:</p>

|City=Boston ...tianity,"&nbsp;</em>appeared to respond to critics of Fast Day ballplaying in an unsigned article titled "Why Give It Up?"</p>

|Name=in McMinnville in June 1874 |State=OR

...gest to Mr. Brockway to call “one” or “two balls” instead of simply “ball” in the future, as the simple cry of “ball” sounds like “foul”, and may ...a boy’s game having vanished as they saw the manliness requisite to excel in the game. New York Sunday Mercury July 21, 1867</p>

|City= ...attached to a club nine which either pays its players a regular salary or a share of gate receipts.&nbsp; This appears to be the boundary line between

|City=Seattle ...e Seattle Driving Park. The Meadows Race Track (1903--) is situated a mile or two south.</p>

|Title=a reminiscence of the placement of the second baseman in the 1860s ...game made Reach what he is to-day. He made himself popular here and from a poor boy grew up into one of Philadelphia's leading merchants.+</p>

...of consequence, or had an effect upon the runs. Brown, whose fingers were in anything but playing order, did not make his usual effort to stop balls whe ...every time they have an encounter. Let some of them send the “Champions” a challenge. New York Atlas July 10, 1859</p>

|Headline=OFBB Variant Played in Buffalo NY; 11 Players, 12 Innings |City=Buffalo

...t, but we regard this as extremely unlikely, as Pittsburg is too important a geographical point to the American Association to be lightly lost. The Spo

|Title=a late question about tagging up ...ird base, claiming a double play. By answering whether the runner was out or not, you will oblige Yours, &c., AN AMATEUR</p>

|Title=a resume of the history of thrown games ...en of the highest standing, and players are well paid, and there is little or no room for operations of the kind.</p>

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=NYC

|Title=calls for a paid umpire corps ...ce greater correctness may be expected. The contending clubs can each pay a moiety of the expenses, and it will fall heavily on neither. New York Disp

|Tags=Ball in the Culture, |City=Milwaukee

...interests of our noble game. Let the hired men take notice. Philadelphia City Item June 30, 1866 [citing the New York Tribune]</p> ...until he could obtain work. “Only this, and nothing more!” Philadelphia City Item July 14, 1866</p>

|Title=awaiting a feeding frenzy ...ey proposed to transact business. The majority of them will remain in the city until some final disposition is made of the Maroons. St.</p>

|Name=in Falmouth on 4 July 1857 |City=Falmouth

|State=OR |City=Roseburg

|Title=the first game played on the home ground of the challenged party ...challenge them, in order that they, as the challenged party, may have the first game played upon their grounds.</p>

...$1000 rule is abominable. For instance, a $2500 player an be reserved by a club for $1000, and if he is dissatisfied he has no redress whatever, and i

|Title=trying to explain a legal delivery ...ll can possibly be thrown, and the main object of the amendment was to put a stop to the jerking and throwing style of delivery which prevailed to such

|Headline=Three Ball Clubs Form in VT Village |City=Pawlet

|City=Salem ...f Bat-and-Ball, or Cricket . . .&nbsp; within the Body of this Town, under a Penalty of One Shilling and Six Pence."</p>

|Title=dispelling a rumor of the Lowell Club throwing a game ...a recent meeting, the following report, which they were ordered to publish in the daily papers, over their own signatures –</p>

...safe place! As nearly all our players have yet to the science of batting, a few “point” that have come under our constant observation may be found ...ll is intended to take, and avoid getting too close to the plate; call for a waist high ball, and hit down on it, instead of making the usual round swin

...whose friends they are, or how respectably they may be connected, socially or politically, we ind, if the thing is not stopped, to stop it.</p> ...rom inviting their personal friends. These bummer follow all of our clubs in their peregrinations, and their meanness is only excelled byt heir impudenc

|Title=a block ball for an out; a ground rule ...claimed two bases because the ball had gone to the crowd. But it was not a batted ball.</p>

|City=Newburg |Text=<p>"The Newburg boys excel in running bases with bottles of soda-water, sucking<br />as they run."</p>

|Title=a condemnation of the reserve system; a call for a Players' League ...at a salary he could not earn. And no Ball Club will engage a player for a sum stated unless that Club thinks that player is worth the money asked. �

...y) in the 17th century.&nbsp; The source is a 2009 book's translation from a Dutch ordinance of the 1600s.&nbsp; The translator mentions that while "bal ...in which players propel a ball with their hands.&nbsp; The game described in Item [[1660c.3]] appears to be the game of Kaatsen -- Pamela's summary:</p>

|Title=a revived Cincinnati Club ...last evening, and the rest will be forthcoming immediately. Within a day or two it is to be hoped that the permanent purchase will be accomplished. It

...sal is not carried out now, we'll move it at the next Base Ball Convention in New York.</p> |Source=Fitzgeralds City Item

|Headline=IL Ballclubs Play Town Ball in 1856, 1858 |City=Chicago

|Name=In Rockford in 1858 |City=Rockford

...hom were a couple of young gentlemen and ladies, and one of the ladies sat in the ferry home and cried until morning.</p>

|Name=in Bloomington on 12 June 1857 |City=Bloomington

|City=Poultney ...he practice, though I am not sure that any amount of it would have made me a perfect ball-player."</p>

|Headline=Cooper Novel <u>Home as Found</u> Mentions Ballplaying in Cooperstown ...awn, Mr. Effington? . . . Why, sir, I believe they have always played ball in that precise locality.'</p>

|City=NYC ...e ball be &ldquo;pitched, not thrown&rdquo;, pitchers by 1860 were finding a way to get not just movement, but predictable movement, on their deliveries

|Title=the state of the Quaker City club ...to maintain their supremacy. Some other clubs may well emulate the Quaker City.</p>

|Name=In Oxford Circa 1858 |City=Oxford

...d of him because he positively refused to play again in Brooklyn, contract or no contract, and further gives this version of the entire transaction, ende ...rnie got after him again and persuaded him to sign with the Boston Club at a salary said to be about $4000.”</p>

...rican method. This plan is said to have made the fortune of its inventor, a certain John Small...</p>

...that ll the National clubs would stop en route whenever their engagemen5ts in the championship arena admitted of it, they would soon crowd by hundreds to

...les of the Game. We notice that a New York player, in a card published in a Philadelphia paper...calls attention to the fact as follows:</p> ...ns, the Rules should be read, commented upon, and explained at the regular or special meetings of the club; and then every one would understand them.</p>

|Title=a rumor that the AA Brooklyn Club is failing ...lity. The record made by Detroit as a “quitter” and a “wrecker” should be a warning to the American Association. The very fact that Detroit stands wil

|Title=Pize Ball in West Yorkshire in 1862 ...y' is 'burnt,' i.e,the ball is thrown straight to the ground, and the last in the 'ring' has to go back, pick it up, and become the 'pizer.'</p>

...f the fact, especially those which have been complaining of small receipts in the East.</p>

|Headline=Playing "bandy or at ball" banned in Baltimore on Sunday |City=Baltimore

|Title=English Baseball in Berkshire on July 25 1857 ...ech or two (if not dry), trap and base ball, and dozens of ways of passing a pleasant afternoon will suggest themselves to every one.”</p>

|Name=Old Cat?? in Milwaukee in 1836 |City=Milwaukee

|Title=a proposal for an amateur national championship ...o compete for the amateur base ball championship of the United States... [A. G. Mills one of the signatories]</p>

|Headline=Cricket Club Forms, Lasts a Year in NYC ...the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, No. 11 Nassau Street. The club flourishes for a year and then dies.</p>

...e don’t want you to ‘sell’ the game, or anything of that kind, but just go in and play kinder mad, you know.”</p> ...g has since been tried both at Hoboken, where it was publicly exposed, and in Philadelphia.</p>

...iveness of Malone’s throwing. Not a man of the Eckfords attempted to make a base during the entire game.</p> |Source=Evening City Item

|Title=a committee to divide up the St. Louis NL players; plenipotentiary powers ove ...committee shall have the power to dispose of its franchise and players, as in case of purchase thereof. Any action of such committee to be effectual, mu

|Title=Wiman threatens legal action, and a competing league ...team in every American Association city, even if it cost him $500,000(?) [in original].</p>

|Name=Ballgame in San Francisco in March 1851 |City=San Francisco

...Paul. Neither Lucas or Thorner were present at the meeting. Mr. Lucas is in Milwaukee to-day. St. Louis Post-Dispatch January 16, 1885</p> ...ng adjourned, subject to the call of the President, A. V. McKim, of Kansas City, having been selected as temporary occupant of that position. Cincinnati E

...le of friends present was a most flattering testimonial of the high esteem in which he was held.</p>

|Headline=Base Ball in Melbourne? |City=Melbourne

...nd direct expenses of said club, shall be for the sole purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of our lamented Cato [sic.]. We have six months to |Source=Philadelphia All-Day City Item

...g, allowing as many as eight balls to be pitched before either a strike or a ball was called.</p> |Source=All-Day City Item

|Location=Greater New York City |City=NYC

...eight would elect to remain in next year he did not know. If one of them, or two of them, should drop out, there would be so many places to be filled fr ...hip July 23, but it is likely that New York City will be admitted instead, a vacancy being caused by the rumored disbandment of an Eastern organization

|Name=in Virgin Islands Circa 1890 |City=

|City= ...a set of children&rsquo;s educational game cards typical of those popular in the early part of the nineteenth century, . . ."&nbsp;</span></p>

...orthy trio failed to vote together. Whatever differences they may have as a Board of Directors, at the annual meeting they are unanimous. The Philadel <p>minor league exhibitions banned when a championship game is going on; putting the squeeze on the St. Louis NL Clu

|State=IN |City=Indianapolis

...It is difficult to suppose that any man would engage a team without having a ground secured on which to play them. But this is what Mr. Day has done, a

|City=Toledo ...y within a club. There was a club in Sandusky and another nearby in Toledo in 1860."</p>

|Title=a backdoor scoring of sacrifice flies ...; that long line fly was as deserving as a base hit and much more so than a little poop fly which drops safely midway between fielders.” The theory

|Title=a baseball academy ...ol. Mr. Mason's charges for the term, which ends about April 15, are $15, or about $3 per month.</p>

|City= ...ad an 1860 copyright registration, so the author penned it in that year or in the 1850s).&nbsp;The detail of this recounting merits full excerpting:</p>

|City= ...choose. [4] One shamble shall be out. [5] Each party may choose one judge or talisman."</p>

|Headline=Letter to "Spirit" Describes Roundball in New England ...s, a statement of my experience as to the Yankee method of playing 'Base,' or 'Round' ball, as we used to call it, may not prove uninteresting."</p>

|City=Columbus ...d a herculean game in which a cannonball was hurled into one of nine holes in the ground.&rdquo;</p>

...is to-day in even more precarious position than it was last December, and a most uncertain future lies before it.</p> ...a dead weight on an Association already afflicted with too many clubs weak in finances and teams.</p>

|City=Fort Washington ...rently as happy as if they were taking an afternoon game on Lawton's Hill, or back of the basin."</p>

|Headline=Reader Catches "A Slight Error" - Base Ball is English, not American |Location=Greater New York City,

|Headline=America Sees First European "Games?" |City=

...its of his fellow-men, and to be deprived of this even for a short time is a due punishment to him.</p>

...s sufficient leverage to pry away the obstacle to a representation in this city.</p>

|City=Boston? Philadelphia? ...ating the modus operandi&ndash;a game of base ball, or foot ball, is worth a dozen gymnassiums [sic], where the eye of surveillance is to check the flow

|Title=a UA alliance Western League ...rranging its schedule so as not to conflict with the Union dates in Kansas City.</p>

|City=Pawlet |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1860.43 &ndash;- Three Ball Clubs Form in VT Village</p>

|City=Amherst ...a side, July 1, 1859. The contest is staged in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a neutral site, at the invitation of the Pittsfield Base Ball Club. See Cutti

|Title=the terms and finances of a trip to Cincinnati ...day, for visiting clubs, so I feel sure your visit to Cincinnati would be a pecuniary success, even if you played no club but ours.</p>

|City=Hoboken ...and is every way adapted to the tastes of all who love athletic exercises in the country."<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=NYC

|Description=Tips on Linking Ballgames to Clubs in the Pre-Pro Data Base ...mplicated the club exists and the names don't match; that is covered later in the article.

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=NYC

...be made is one to the effect that but one club will be admitted from each city. Another is that application for membership will be subjected to the ballo ...ated, except with such League Alliance Club. This will especially operate in Philadelphia, where the Athletics belong to the American Association, and t

...rs and some dump pitching gave the Reds enough runs to put them ahead, and in the eighth they hammered out eight runs. Scott Hastings did the catching a

...between $1,000 and $2,000, and intend visiting New York this fall, to gain a little practical experience, such as games with our leading clubs alone yie

|Title=new capital in the Washington Club ...into his pockets and help Walter Hewett establish a team here that will be a credit to the national capital.</p>

|Title=a condemnation of beer and Sunday baseball; the brewery influence ...y the Association. Don't the Association people see that the League gains in the estimation of all respectable people by contrast? This is certainly so

|City=New York ...s always the case when the Atlantics play, either in New-York or Brooklyn, a large assemblage of votaries of the pastime were present to witness the tri

|City= ...ntleman" penned a reply, "Kentish Cricketers." This exchange is amply told in H. T. Waghorn, compiler, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cricket

...that his reserve rule jumpers, like Dunlap and Shafer, may be reinstated. In that case, the league will again be called upon to define its policy.</p>

|City=St. Paul ...ch gave them a good appetite for the excellent lunch which their hosts had in readiness at its conclusion. It was good to be there and all those who didn

|Title=prospects of the Giants moving to Jersey City ...people across the river, and by the time the New Yorks are ready to locate in Jersey the patrons will have become familiar with the ferry trips.</p>

|City= ...the spring, raises the ball into the air, and, as it descends, it receives a blow from the bat.</p>

...e two clubs representing the two bodies, the League club is fast receiving a superior recognition. Instance New York and Philadelphia. The Sporting Li ...and that is this:--St Louis is obliged to have Sunday games or do without a crack club. The Sporting Life October 5, 1887</p>

...time have a tendency—other things being equal—to have all the teams having a nip and tuck fight, as is now the case with Chicago, Detroit, New York and

|Title=Bechtel practicing a curve ball; indoor batting cage ...chtel now sends in. So marked was this twist that several balls described a complete circle and returned to the pitcher’s hands. This was not only o

|Title=talk of a single entity league ...sh substantially appointed grounds in each city where it saw fit to locate a club; would meet the expenses of operation out of the company's treasury;

|Title=the status of the AA New York franchise; Kansas City ...spite the published opinions to the effect that the franchise had lapsed. In pursuance of this determination the following resolutions, offered by Mr. P

|Title=the American Association back at eight clubs; a club placed in Brooklyn; expansion draft ...on and add to its permanency the president was instructed to prepare bonds in the sum of $10,000 each to be filled out by each club, guaranteeing to play

|Name=in Asmera |City=Asmera

|Title=a flag signaling game day ...ll be played. This year the medium will be a twenty-foot flag, run out on a cable across Vine street, from over Hawleys to the telegraph building. On

|Headline=Newark Club Hosts Jersey City -- Earliest Knick-rules Tilt in NJ? |City=Newark

|City=Troy ...nsingburghhistoricalsociety.org/parks/laureate-grounds/">Laureate Grounds</a><span>. (Lansingburgh Historical Society)</span></p>

|City=Syra ...ner this year was from the American orphanage for girls at Syre," who beat a boys team 19-17 for the title.&nbsp;</p>

|City=Nashua ...ed to pews exhibiting a beggarly emptiness, upon the sins of the nation -- a frightful subject enough, heaven knows.&nbsp; The b-hoys smoked cigars, kic

...he young man was rescued by the Captain of the Boston team calling his man in, and declaring him fairly forced out. From such umpires the good Lord deli

|Headline=Vassar has First female Base ball club? |City=Poughkeepsie

|Headline=Story Places Baseball in Rochester NY |City=Rochester

|City=sf ...e Plaza has been filled with full grown persons engaged very industriously in the game known as 'town ball.' The amusement is very innocent and healthful

...nd back in his proper position, and judge better of fair and unfair balls, a delivered by the pitcher, and not be compelled to stand opposite to the str ...nds, there must, of necessity, be a good deal of queer work in judging one or the other.</p>

|Headline=First Detailed Set of Rules for Stoolball Appear |City=East Sussex

|Name=In Springfield in 1834 |City=Springfield

|City=Portsmouth ...to $3.30 pus court costs for those who "play cricket or any game in which a ball is used."&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

|Title=charges of a thrown amateur game ...atter, or be debarred from play hereafter on either the Union, Capitoline, or Prospect Park fields. No reputable club will play with the Keystones until

|Headline=Former Catcher Recalls Ballgame with Soaking and "Fugleing" in NYS |City=Ticonderoga

|Name=In Springfield in 1858 |City=Springfield

|Title=no more championship games in Hoboken ...Nationals of Jersey City. This is a bad thing for championship games, but a good thing for clubs generally. The enclosed grounds at Brooklyn will also

...p shall be the best three in five games, meaning that the club winning the first three games win the series, and any other games that may be played after th ...ed to is not the average of runs made, but of match games played. Evening City Item October 10, 1871</p>

|Headline=Form of Stool Ball Possibly Found in Domesday Book in Norman England? |City=

...e, Ind., where he was since been editing a weekly paper. Ed is well known in St. Louis, and his large circles of friends will be glad to see him here ag

|Title=the incorporation of the Champion Club of Jersey City is vetoed ...06, entitled “An act to incorporate the Champion Base Ball Club, of Jersey City, Hudson County,” without my approval.</p>

|Title=a synopsis of the state of AA-NL relations ...meeting of the American Association will be held December 13, in New York City.</p>

...Ohio scheme would interfere without project. It was thought at first that a portion of the base ball ground would be used as the terminus of the new ro <p>a claim that Wiman was a catcher</p>

|Headline=Batters' "Hits" First Appear in a Game Report |City=New York

|Headline=Twenty or So Cricket Clubs Dot the US |Location=US, New York City,

|Title=advertising for a pitcher ...R, for a series of match games, to come off this season. By addressing to A. SNEIDER, P.O., Box 141, Sunbury, Northumberland County, Penn., you can lea

|City= ...South Carolina watched them, got the hang of it and organized for rivalry. In the East and West Series that followed the West won triumphantly by unrecor

|Name=In Brattleboro in 1844 |City=Brattleboro

...lle Club, we believe him a man who would not, even for the club in his own city, give the slightest favor inimical to any other club, and we determined tha ...tained about Toledo so as not to scare off Detroit if Toledo will not come in. The Sporting Life November 20, 1889</p>

|Title=the catcher takes a ball to the mouth; rubber mouth guard ...ly regretted in base-ball circles that he has thus been disabled for a day or two.</p>

...of the directory are dissatisfied at the size of the crowds drawn in this city, and hope by this transplanting plan to increase their revenues.</p>

...o one-sided that while he can never protest, his employers can break it at a moment’s notice. The Philadelphia Times October 3, 1887</p> <p>arbitrary power in some clauses of the standard contract</p>

...begin with the Athletics, then the Keystones, next the Olympics, then the City Item, and keep on until they find their playing level. We are sure they wi ...hey are not afraid to play any club in the country, and they will prove it in any proper way.</p>

...the moment the ball is caught, just the same as he now does in the case of a fair fly-ball caught.</p> ...on the fly on a fair fly ball. The new rule will introduce livelier work in base running, and consequently improve the game. New York Sunday Mercury Ja

|Headline=Wicket Described in February <u>Porter&#39;s</u> |Location=Greater New York City,

|City=Chicago ...owning triumph being the defeat of the strongest nine in the United States in two successive contests."</p>

|City= ...ting days when there were great contests held between different districts, or between the married and unmarried men, and was sometimes called Town Ball b

|Tags=Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball, |Location=Greater New York City,

...to the bill, so that the sale must realize over $1200 or the city will be a loser. The effects of the club include 1600 chairs, the open seats (classe

...t=<p>[Athletics of Philadelphia vs. Mountain City of Pottsville 8/19/1869] A singular feature of this game was the number of balls required to finish it <p>a difficult slow pitcher</p>

|Title=first day to resign players and the Brotherhood ...ue managers will know that the fight is at hand and they will lose no time in signing young players to take the place of the deserters. The Philadelphia

|Title=a game stalled out ...7 to 7. On the 9th inning the Athletics went to the bat determined to “do or die.”</p>

|Headline=Weary Soldier Plays Ball a Little While |City=Falmouth

|City=Manitowoc |Description=<p>The&nbsp;<em>Milwaukee Daily Sentinel</em>, Sept. 7, 1867: a Manitowoc Base Ball Club is quoted as dissing the slow play of the Racine c

...aising such an objection! The umpire, however, very properly decided that a man should run for him.</p> |Source=Evening City Item

|Headline=Stoolball Played in Sherston, England |City=Sherston

|Name=in Prairie du Chien in 1819undefined |City=Prairie du Chien

|City=Chicago ...one, and is one of the pioneer clubs, having been in existence for a year or more."</p>

|City=New Bedford ...and every game boys pursue&rdquo; when he was a student at Friends Academy in the mid-1830s.</span></p>

|Text=<p>Cincinnati Red Stocking’s catcher Doug] Allison caught today in a pair of buckskin mittens to protect his hands. Cincinnati Commercial Tribu ...his split hand put up artistically in a glove that must have cost some one a day’s work to contrive. Cleveland Leader July 16, 1870</p>

|Title=the Brotherhood meets, wants a new contract ...cts was carefully one over, and features were suggested to be incorporated in the new contracts.</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1874/06/11 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Headline="Poisoned Ball" Appears in French Book of Games |City=

|Headline=Franz Schubert Watches a "Game of Ball" Near Vienna |City=Atzenbrugg

|Headline=Playing ball during a bombardment |City=Falmouth

|Headline=Lively Ball Suspected in Mutual-Olympic Game |City=New York

|Title=a wildly implausible argument for the ten-men ten-inning rule ...e ball paper published. It is not my intention to write you to inform you or your readers of this fact, but to express my concurrence with your idea rel

|Name=In Bourbon in 1856 |State=IN

|First Newspaper Mention=1889/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

...nnual meeting at the Parker House to-morrow evening, after which they have a supper. New York Clipper April 8, 1882</p> ...regular short-stop of the Providence Club this season. He may play in one or two games during the Summer, but the demands of his business prevent him fr

|Text=<p>To the B.B. Editor Evening City Item:</p> ...t the gate. Is this sort of thing mutually satisfactory? B.S.G. Evening City Item June 17, 1871</p>

...he Athletics from 1871 to 1877, inclusive, and also with the Philadelphias in 1873, ‘74, ‘75. The history of the ground during the fourteen seasons

|Title=a proto-infield fly rule triple play ...batter is out, no matter if muff is accidental or not, but he does not say a man on base cannot run on the out. [N.B. The game was halted on account of

|Location=New York City ...and bounced is a hit, and each bounce added another base. Four bounces was a home run. If the ball was caught before it bounces, it was an out.</p>

|City=Fredericksburg ...s the inevitable and never forgotten or omitted 'bluff' occupied our time [in camp]."</p>

|Title=contracts in an amateur association; only one club per city ...acts between a player in an association club and a manager in another club in the association before Nov. 1. New York Sunday Mercury April 2, 1876</p>

...unanimous vot4e of the League clubs the Philadelphia Club would be allowed in future to reduce the price of admission to 25 cents. The change went into

|Name=Clackamas Base Ball Club of Oregon City |State=OR

|Name=In Danville in 1857 |State=IN

|Headline=In Rare Extramural Game, Knickerbockers Fade, Lose 26-17 in Base Ball Game with Cricketers |City=Manhattan

|Title=a point of play: catching the ball in one's hat ...inst the decision, took the field, and two men were put out without adding a run. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 15, 1872</p>

|Title=Fitzgerald and the City Item caught in a plagiarism trap? ...s a competent reporter he had better keep his fingers out of the business, or the unfortunate man will follow suit and take leave of his senses. Yours t

...saddled with quite an array of deadheads. In fact, this crowd made quite a goodly base ball audience of itself.</p>

...ds a change if by such a change any breaks in the line could be averted or a weak club helped along. The result of the meeting showed that no break nee ...which, judging from the reports received, is not likely to happen. After a very full discussion of the situation, it was unanimously decided to make n

|Title=renewed talk of a Europe tour ...hey are earnestly discussing it, and, possibly, they may go over in May in a Philadelphia steamer!</p>

|Headline=America's First Interclub Ballgame, in Philadelphia |City=Camden

|Name=Ballgame in Fort Grant on 25 December 1872 |City=Fort Grant

|City=New Marlborough ...chool in New Marlborough, MA, drew up a hybrid game. Their version is rare in that its documentation has survived.</p>

|City=Andover ...t dam. Now and then we hear, quite casually, of a game of 'rounders' or of a strange rough-and-tumble amusement called football; but . . . there were no

|Name=In Hanover in 1793 |City=Hanover

|Name=in Denver on 26 April 1862 |City=Denver

...and persistent attacks! This is the Sunday school teacher! Is Base Ball a game for gentlemen?</p> |Source=Philadelphia City Item

|City=Lampeter ...affords recreation and pastime to the weary son of toll, there is nothing in it to which the most stern advocate of morality can possibly object."</p>

|City=Utica ...ing to bases which their adversaries were approaching, considerately threw in another direction and allowed them to make tallies.</p>

|City= ..."Better than playing with her doll, better even than base-ball, or sliding or romping, does she like to creep of an evening to her father's knee."</p>

...y to see games played on the grounds which the Athletic do not participate in?</p> ...“good” on their days, or at any game that might be played on their days. A reserved seat–numbered–properly belongs to every members’ ticket, and

...tainly a very innocent and wholesome, yet it may be abused if either great or little people make it their business. It is grossly abused when it is made ...eighbourhood of a great city, it is not only improper, but mischievous, to a high degree. It draws number of people from their employments to the ruins

|Name=El Salvador team v Nicaragua team in March 1935 |City=San Salvador

|Name=Game at Ball in Cambridge in 1781 |City=Cambridge

|Title=English Baseball in Waterford (Ireland) on March 28 1888 ...hing those innocent amusements and keeping them in our own hands which are in many of our homes, such as tennis-court, gymnasium, etc.”</p>

|State=OR |City=Eugene

|City=Richmond ...(by Chadwick?) of forming a bbc in Richmond, to play at the Fair Grounds, in&nbsp;New York&nbsp;<em>Clipper</em>, March 30, 1861. [ba]</p>

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=NYC

|Name=Girls team from Syre orphanage v Boys team in 1924 |City=Salonika

...me played in the 1850s in which a fielder who caught a hit ball on the fly or on one bounce became the fungo batter.</p> |Sources=<p><span>F. M. Gilbert,&nbsp;</span><em>History of the City of Evansville</em><span>&nbsp;(Pioneer Publishing, 1910), page 106-108.</sp

...sely shown a disposition to play carelessly in non-championship games, and in many cases I know that spectators have shown their disapproval by staing aw

|City=Washington <p>There was a Woodbine Hotel in D.C.</p>

...m parting with any portion of the funds held by him as Treasurer, and that a Receiver be appointed, and the funds of the partnership be distributed amon ...Ball Club is assured, every ambitious young man in the city should sue for a share of the dividends. So far the returns of the claimants are fair. It

|City=Carlisle ...ons . . . to frequent and use the market-house as a place for playing ball or any other game."</p>

...as a rule drawn much larger bodies of spectators and been more successful in every way without the adjunct of beer and without having made it necessary

|Title=the location of the ninth game in the series ...states that where the first game is played, so should the last be, except in the case referred to. The logic of this we cannot appreciate. Philadelphi

|Headline=Bristol CT Bests Waterbury in Wicket |City=Bristol

|Title=first word of the St. Louis UA club ...however, and looking about for good players. They intend getting together a strong nine. (St. Louis) Missouri Republican October 25, 1883</p>

|Headline=Boston, Other Towns Eye "First-Class Professional Nines" Like the Red Stockings |City=Boston, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Troy, St. Louis, New Orleans

...on the side opposite tot hat he bats from. Also all balls which are sent in over the striker’s position. All these, and none other, are wide balls, ...We hope Mr. York will be more careful in the future. Philadelphia All-Day City Item June 7, 1874</p>

|City=Providence .... . and in accordance with their name, the members meet from 5 to 7 oclock in the morning. They have been out seven times since March, notwithstanding th

...n's terms, while the latter would do nothing unless his fellow-capitalists in Philadelphia, Boston and Brooklyn were taken care of, and so nothing was ac ...in New York City. The delegates re-assembled at ten o'clock and remained in continuous session until ten o'clock Saturday morning. The most of the time

|Location=Greater New York City |City=NYC

|Headline=Pork, Hard-Tack, Beans, and Baseball in the 5th Mass Artillery |City=Falmouth

|City=Allegheny ...s (from an 1856 map) this location was the modern Commons Park (est. 1867) a few blocks north of where the current Pirates Stadium is.</p>

|City=Fort Fetterman ...b." Presumably the two teams were made up of the soldiers at the post, and/or the post sutlers, Indian agents, etc.</p>

|Headline=The Delayed Double Steal -- New or Familiar? |City=Brooklyn

|Name=In Spanish Point on 11 July 1883 |City=Spanish Point

...e than the guarantee [$75] from. Reduced to practicability, the scheme is a graceful one on the part of the best clubs to help support their poorer bro

|State=IN |City=Valparaiso

|City=New York ...ect to see the word 'consolidating' with regard to two existing clubs, not a newly formed and an existing club." (rc)</span></p>

...age the Baltimores may have in being acquainted with the grounds. Evening City Item May 18, 1872</p> ...watering that the ball sometimes bounded ten or fifteen feet in the air at a time. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury May 26, 1872</p>

|Headline=Three Youth Clubs in Rochester NY Disdain the NY Game |City=Rochester

|City=Brooklyn ...rst precedent Cammeyer could have adopted as all clubs can now fully claim a share of the sale money."</span></p>

|Headline=His and Her Stool-ball Banter: Play, or Foreplay? |City=

...ackamas Base Ball Club of Oregon City v Clackamas Base Ball Club of Oregon City on 22 September 1866 |State=OR

|Headline=Boys and Girls Play Old Cat at Recess in Wisconsin |City=

<p>Deacon White wears a mask</p> <p>“Mercy!” screamed a lady in the Grand Stand Saturday, as Jim White put on his wire mask, “Mercy on me

|City=New York ...iation of Professional Base Ball Players, and Dobson urged him to consider a &ldquo;new and accurate method of making out batting averages.&rdquo;</span

...=<p>[A] The first known game of base ball played on ice skates occurred on in January 1861 near Rochester NY.&nbsp; Skating was very popular, and the hyb ...rule was in effect.&nbsp; A ten-player team deployed a left shortstop and a right shortstop.</p>

|City=Mariposa |Text=<p>Two base ball clubs were scheduled to play a game in Mariposa, a southern Sierra gold mining town.</p>

|Headline=Amherst Alum Cites Round Ball, Wicket, Cricket on Campus in the Past |City=Amherst

|City= |Text=<p>A large section of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Boy's Book o

|Headline=Forest City Club Lists Player Duties, Role of Team Captain, Etc. |City=Cleveland

|Title=George Herancourt destitute in Los Angeles ...as gone. The recognition had been mutual and the former Treasurer of this city had picked up his bucket and got out of the way.</p>

|Title=Fitzgerald resigned from baseball?; a later story about collecting gate receipts ...tzgerald has, we regret to hear, resigned the Presidency of and membership in the Athletic Club, Philadelphia. Brooklyn Daily Eagle August 16, 1864</p>

...in; but it did not and the “boss” president will go home and try to form a new league with the remnant of the old American Association.</p> ...wed any number of telegrams from men in Pitsburg who offered to take stock in the club. They showed that they were perfectly capable of supporting their

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=NYC

|City=Forsyth ...p>The Maroa <em>Times</em>, Sept. 6, 1867, laments that Maroa doesn't have a base ball club while neighboring towns, even Forsyth, do.</p>

...talk as knowingly of “foul outs,” and “out on the first,” as the “muffins” or the gentlemanly “seniors.</p>

...was decided that each club be called upon to contribute $2,500, or $20,000 in all, toward assisting the unfortunates, the assessment to take effect at on ...once and arrangements will be made immediately by which they will be given a new outfielder, an infielder and two pitchers.</p>

|Name=In Vergennes in 1856 |City=Vergennes

|Headline=Six-Hour "Wicket" Match Played in Canada |City=

...n the International and get a winning team base ball stock will go up with a rush. I think Buffalo will stick to the International another year, and th

|Title=two umpire system in the Chicago City League ...l is kept busy watching the battery and bases and deciding critical points in the infield. The only objection so far against the new scheme is the addit

|Headline=Base Ball in Peterboro in 1829? 1809? |City=Peterboro

|City=Hanover ...indows within three rods of either he shall be fined two shillings . . . " In 1782 the protected area was extended to six rods.</p>

...pense. It would compel, they said, the engagement of the eleventh man, at a salary of at least $1200, to which add traveling and other expenses, and th ...ubt the improvement will come in another year or two, when Base Ball is on a sounder financial basis.</p>

...bstinate individuals were at least prevailed upon in some cases and forced in others to sit down. New York Dispatch July 11, 1869</p> ...aps some of our readers may be able to inform us whether the club is still in existence, and the name of its officers. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury July

|City=Morgan Park <p>Morgan Park is now a neighborhood of Chicago. It was annexed in 1914.</p>

|Headline=Tolland CT 265, Otis-Sandisfield MA 189 In Wicket Match |City=Sandisfield

|Headline=Yanks and British Play Baserunning Game with Plugging . . . in Canton, China |City=Canton

|Headline=Game of Base was "A Peculiar Favorite" |City=Scarborough

...be deceived. At any rate the doubt involved should have led to a decision in favor of the batsman, for unless the player is really and plainly put out a

|City=Barre ...Barre boys will challenge their neighbors in he towns surrounding, to play a [at?] round ball.</p>

...e boat. These four cities figured out that by letting these two outsiders in it would mean the bouncing of them later on. So before they would agree to ...r. The Sporting Life March 5, 1890 [N.B. This agreement does not appear in the League minutes.]</p>

|City=Sycamore ...70 has an article and box score of a game played at Sycamore "last Friday" in which the Prairie Club of Riley beat the Crescent of Sycamore 39-27.</p>

...kings (Intrepids) and Experts played again last Wednesday... Philadelphia City Item July 3, 1869</p> ...ly succeeded in getting a body of players each of whom is almost unrivaled in his particular position. National Chronicle July 3, 1869</p>

|Title=replacing Cleveland in the AA ...rong sentiment is going up all round in favor of letting either Louisville or Baltimore out, strengthening the weaker clubs with the surplus players and

...id to be the most prominent in the movement. He is reporting as saying to a Record reporter:</p> ...us up, even if we were forced to pay everything, and the chances are that a part of the debts are outlawed. We shall do nothing until after the champi

|Title=a complaint about Athletic members' seating ...rs. We hope through your journal to have notice taken of what we consider a great injustice to MANY MEMBERS OF THE ATHLETIC B.B. CLUB. Philadelphia Su

|Name=In Syracuse in 1844 |City=Syracuse

|City= ...rk city won the national championship last year, but the Athletics of this city had the best record. . . ."</p>

...were simply marvelous. He was all over the field and he kept the crowd in a good humor by the broad grin he wore on his handsome face. The Sporting Li <p>a balk move</p>

|Headline=Demo Game of Wicket, Seen as a CT Game, Later Played in Brooklyn |Location=Greater New York City,

|City= ...nge sport is&nbsp; fond in the&nbsp;<em>Epic of Gilgamesh</em>, one of the first works of literature ever written.&nbsp; It was carved into cuneiform tablet

...he replied. “We would joint the League just as quick if we finished third or fourth as if we won the pennant. That has nothing to do with the case what <p>“Then there is some truth in the report that you will go into the older organization?”</p>

|Headline=Intercity Cricket Match Begins in NY |Location=Greater New York City,

|Name=In Hannibal Circa 1847 |City=Hannibal

|Headline=Strolling Past a Ballgame in Elysian Fields |Tags=Ball in the Culture,

|Title=a resume of the Athletics' history and prospects ...red members, the best nine in the country, and about seven hundred dollars in the treasury. It remains to be seen how long this prosperity will continue

|City=Andover ...MA. Omega Base Ball Club and Olympic Cricket Club of that locality played a match of baseball on the 23rd (May) according to the Massachusetts rules, w

|Name=in Bujumbara in 2017 |City=Bujumbara

...the Players' League and had determined to meet any change by a like change in order to keep up the conflict. This interview was immediately offset by Co ...privilege of playing an extra or postponed game, making five games in the first series.</p>

...he other League clubs to the deal, and in a few days we shall know whether or not Baltimore is to bid the Association good-bye and become of member of th ...e, as it might be very difficult to drop Baltimore because it was a strong city. The Sporting Life November 27, 1889</p>

...osition, and to save themselves umpires had to stop fining players, except in very aggravated cases. This being the existing condition of things it is n ...ith players so offered, and to play the club or players in question in any city they may deem best, such games counting as championship games. … [This

...in Cincinnati last week, which was the first time it had been seen in that city. The protector is an excellent invention, and will ultimately be used by al ...ere injuries simply because it “looks so queer,” or because a lot of fools in the crowd laugh at him, is no better than the idiots who quiz him.” Cinc

|Title=a rumor of the Indianapolis players to be transferred to New York ...houldn't they, with the certainty of taking the places of Ward and Whitney in the New York team.</p>

...struck, but if he goes in for innings he is quite likely to be opposed to a man who knows the result of the matter on which he is arranging to rob the

|City=Cambridge ...ng out the window, saw in the opening between Hollis &amp; Stoughton, four or five persons, two of whom were stripped of their coats, running about, some

...$25 on each $100 subscription–$15 payable on or before Feb. 1, and $10 on or before March 1. New York Clipper January 11, 1879</p> ...the balance before March 1. We doubt if there is any league club that has a better backing than Troy. Boston Herald January 13, 1879</p>

|City=Cadiz |Description=<p>This "colored Republican" club played a white junior team, the Young Americans.</p>

|Title=a hint about the Baltimore Club moving to New York ...her it falls by the roadside or not, they will have representation. It is a matter of business with the management. Business men do not purchase goods

|Name=Accommodation Club of Fort Fetterman v Laramie Club of Fort Laramie in 1868 |City=Fort Fetterman

|Headline=Manly Virtues of Base Ball Extolled; 25 Clubs Now Playing in NYC Area |Location=Greater New York City,

|Headline=Score it 7-5-4: "Three Hands Out in a Jiffy" |City=Baltimore

|Headline=First Known Table-top Base Ball Game Appears |City=NY

|Title=English Baseball in Suffolk on September 6 1862 ...ere further heightened by the Rifle Band, which played a variety of pieces in its usual capital style.”</p>

|Date Note=First known coverage |City=Lexington

|City=Brooklyn ...ason, that it is quite a treat to see a game played in the friendly manner in which this was.”)</p>

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

|City=Philadelphia .... that might have been been more profitably employed in getting my lessons or reading instructing books . . . '&nbsp;</p>

...ed to the pitcher, the ball would go through a course of sawdust. Evening City Item August 29, 1871</p> ...Rockford vs. Athletic 8/28/1871] Painter [the groundskeeper] had to place a pile of sawdust by pitcher’s place, which was well patronized, particular

...abney was unable to see for himself whether the ball reached Connors first or the runner his base. AS it was, he decided the striker not out.</p> |Source=Evening City Item

|City=Lexington ...ed by the Aquila Club, to th4 house of Mr. Lawrence, where they partook of a bountiful collation prepared for the occasion."</p>

|Title=stealing a player on a technicality ...ewhere. … [quoting Day:] “He was not a member of the club 31 days after he first agreed to play for it. The Metropolitans' management had to file his contr

|Name=In Kingston in April 1858 |City=Kingston

...e Presidency, Mr. Fitzgerald moved that nominations close, but a gentleman in the lower end of the room nominated Hayhurst, and thus almost fatally jeopa ...ul, and invaluable serves as President of the Athletic Club. Philadelphia City Item June 9, 1866</p>

|Title=hoodlums in the grandstand ...tired of it. It is an impossibility for an umpire to do good work if such a state of affairs is allowed to exist.</p>

|City=South Brooklyn |Field=Excelsior grounds at Penny Bridge or at the foot of Court St.

|Name=In Great Barrington in 1851 |City=Great Barrington

|Title=incidental sources of revenue in Cincinnati <p>First, For lease of bar on grounds at Bank street and McLean avenue for year begi

|Name=In Newtonville in 1823 |City=Newtonville

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=NYC

...mendable and energetic efforts of Hicks Hayhurst, they were played in this city, thus giving our citizens an opportunity–that they would not otherwise ha ...tween the Athletic and Bostons will be played in Brooklyn, instead of this city, as originally contemplated. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 29, 187

...President W. A. Nimick and Director J. Palmer O’Neill, of Pittsburg, held a conference with Presidents John B. Day, of the New York club, and C. H. Byr ...ad been paid with greater difficulty and something should be done to avoid a financial disaster which is threatened. New York Herald May 8</p>