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Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
|Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games |Year of Publication=1947

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Chronology:Games of bat and ball

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ProtoPix:Bat Ball
|Source Image=Bat Ball.jpg |Title=Bat Ball

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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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1852.2
|Headline=Lit Magazine Cites "Roaring" Game of "Bat and Base-ball" |Game=Base Ball, Bat-Ball

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Hit the Bat
|Term=Hit the Bat ...ielders. If one of them can roll the ball back and hit the bat so that the ball hits the ground before the batter can catch the ricochet, the two exchange

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1805.3
|Headline=Book of Games Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball ...an twice, without striking the ball, I am out and one of you take the bat, and come in, as it is called."

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Clipping:The advantage of batting last
|Type of Date=Day |Title=the advantage of batting last

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1864.49
|Headline="Base Ball" and "Bat and Ball" Seen as the Same Game |Game=Base Ball, Bat-and-Ball

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1845.10
|Headline=German Book of Games Lists das Giftball, a Bat-and-Ball Game ...and that an illustration of two boys playing it "shows it to be a bat-and-ball game." For the French game, see the [[1810c.1]] entry above.

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1760.2
|Headline=Bat and Ball . . . in Paris? ...were so popular the mid 1700s - Soule? Some form of street tennis? A form of field hockey? Not croquet, presumably.

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1841.7
|Headline="Games of Ball and Bat" Played in Nova Scotia ...le 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
|Type of Date=Day |Title=games take too long

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BC2000 to 1000ADc.1
|Headline=The Ball in Ancient Play |Age of Players=Unknown

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Bat-and-Ball
|Term=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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Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games
|Title=Ball, Bat, and Bishop: the Origin of Ball Games |Year of Publication=1947

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1853.4
|Headline=School Reader has Description of Bat and Ball |Game=Bat and Ball, Fungo

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1839.4
|Headline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat ...former utilized a bat while Strutt's sketch of stool-ball stated that the ball was struck by the bare hand."

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Ball-Bias
|Term=Ball-Bias ...o 1898, was evidently the name of a batting-running game in the south-east of England.

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Bat-Ball
|Term=Bat-Ball ...hball. It is clear that a club was not always required for hitting, as the ball could instead be slapped into play by the hand.

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1810.3
|Headline=Children's Book Recommends Regular Play with "Trap, Bat, Ball," etc. |Age of Players=Juvenile

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Clipping:Benefits of mixing baseball and cricket
|Type of Date=Day |Title=benefits of mixing baseball and cricket

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1860.24
|Headline=Mighty Nat at the Bat: A Morality Story |Game=Base Ball,

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German Bat Ball
|Term=German Bat Ball ...o stay at the distant base to avoid being put out. A caught fly is an out, and a three-out-side-out rule applies.

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Speilinn
...alaichean (harbors). Points are scored by measuring the lengths of hits in bat-lengths. |Sources=MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." Folklore 16, no. 1 (1905), pages 87-88.

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Clipping:Crowds like high scoring games
|Type of Date=Day |Title=crowds like high scoring games

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Clipping:Experiment with a flat bat, cork-centered ball
|Type of Date=Day |Title=experiment with a flat bat, cork-centered ball

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Clipping:Experimental games: square bat a cork ball
|Type of Date=Day |Title=experimental games: square bat a cork ball

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1802.4
|Headline=Philadelphia Book: "Bat and Ball is an Inferior Kind of Cricket" |Game=Cricket, Bat and Ball

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Clipping:The flat bat 2
|Type of Date=Day |Title=the flat bat 2

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Clipping:The advantage of batting second
|Type of Date=Day |Title=the advantage of batting second

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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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1840.38
|Headline=Boston-Style "Bat and Ball" Seen in Honolulu HI |Game=Bat and Ball

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Clipping:Practice games are useless
|Type of Date=Day |Title=practice games are useless

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1835c.5
|Headline=Base Ball Recalled as Very Popular at Exeter |Game=Base Ball

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Trounce-Ball
|Term=Trounce-Ball ...version of [[Trap Ball]], but with a hole for the trap and a cudgel for a bat.

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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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1800c.1
|Headline=Sports at Exeter Academy include "Old-Fashioned Bat and Ball". . . and Football |Game=Bat-and-Ball,Football

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1760s.1
|Headline=Harvard Man Recalls Cricket, "Various Games of Bat and Ball" on Campus |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

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Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1856
|Type of Date=Day ...nt of which appears to consist in sending a hard wooden ball into the face of every stray passenger they can hit...”

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BC1460.1
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective |Age of Players=Adult

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Clipping:Overhand deliveries in the AA
|Type of Date=Day ...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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One O’ Cat
...ith each out, until they become one of two batters. “An ordinary base-ball bat is used.” |Sources=Culin, "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.." pages 231-232.

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In Cambridge in 1760
|Type of Date=Year |Number of Players=

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1800c.3
|Text=Lee was made an honorary member of the Knickerbocker Club in 1846, when he made this observation. 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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Fungo
...n), Corkball (St. Louis), 500, Half-ball, Indian Ball (MO), Sky Ball (CT), and Tip-Cat. ...ngoes balls to a set of fielders. A fielder who first catches a set number of balls on the fly becomes the batter.

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1845c.13
|Headline=Town-ball in IN Later [and Vaguely?] Recalled |Game=Town Ball,

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1796.1
|Headline=Gutsmuths describes [in German, yet] "Englische Base-Ball" |Game=English Base-Ball

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Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
|Type of Date=Day ...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."

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Clipping:A vicious fair-foul
|Type of Date=Day ...[Philadelphia vs. Baltimore 7/29/1874] Hicks...after waiting for a good ball, hit a vicious “fair foul” for two bases. New York Clipper August 8, 1

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1330.1
|Headline=Vicar of Winkfield Advises Against Bat/Ball Games in Churchyards; First Stoolball Reference? ...ng of all games of ball in churchyards: "Bats and bares and suche play/Out of chyrche-yorde put away."

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Nashville Base Ball Club
|Name=Nashville Base Ball Club |Club Name=Nashville Base Ball Club

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1794.2
|Headline=Historian Cites "Club-ball" ...to "club-ball" than Strutt's. It is James Pettit Andrews, The History of Great Britain (Cadell, London, 1794.), page 438. Email from David, 2/2

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BC2400c.1
...dline=Was Egypt the Well-Spring of Ballplaying? Text Has “Strike the Ball” Reference |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

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Clipping:Two umpires for the World Series
|Type of Date=Day ...t bat McQuade will go to second base and the League umpire will call balls and strikes.

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1840c.25
|Headline=Wicket Played with "Huge Bat" at Barkhamsted CT |Tags=Equipment, The Ball,

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In Jefferson OH in July 1859
|Type of Date=Month |Number of Players=14

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Stonewall Base Ball Club of Edgefield
|Name=Stonewall Base Ball Club of Edgefield |Type of Date=Day

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Clipping:Martin's pitching 2
|Type of Date=Day ...oses in effectiveness, but when he gets to work on his slow dropping balls and has decent support in the field only the most skillful batsmen can punish h

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1850.22
|Headline=British Trade Unionists Play Base Ball |Game=Base Ball, Cricket

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1750s.2
|Headline=Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands? |Game=Town Ball

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Block:English Baseball in Bedfordshire on August 10 1861
|Type of Date=Day ...to engage in all sorts of games, cricket, trap bat, base ball, French tag, and kiss-in-the-ring, were indulged in pretty freely.”

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Predecessor Games
...even though many writers had suggested that that English pastime was base ball's progenitor.   -- Larry McCray, 5/23/2023      &n == List of Predecessor Games ==

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Clipping:The League's advertising poster
|Type of Date=Day ...d the names of the eight league cities. They are printed in eight colors, and will serve as an attractive advertising medium., quoting an unidentified ex

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Clipping:A composite bat 2
|Type of Date=Day |Title=a composite bat 2

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Block:Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884
|Title=Ball Bias in Kent on August 9 1884 |Block Game=Ball Bias

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BC2000c.3
|Headline=Egyptian Tomb Has Earliest Depiction of Catching (Fielding) a Ball? |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

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Clipping:An electric scoreboard
|Type of Date=Day ...ncourse of spectators, the indicators on which are electrically controlled and operated by an experienced person located close to the diamond.

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Covington Base Ball Club v Holt Base Ball Club of Newport on 17 October 1866
|Name=Covington Base Ball Club v Holt Base Ball Club of Newport on 17 October 1866 |Type of Date=Day

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1344.1
|Headline=Manuscript Shows a Club-and-Ball Game with Stool-like Object ...games played with a curved stick and ball, starting with la soule, and evolving in England through stoolball . . .".

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Base Ball
|Term=Base Ball ...possible that the term was used for diverse variations of local safe-haven games in other areas.

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Clipping:Reporting juvenile games
|Type of Date=Day |Title=reporting juvenile games

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Long Ball (US Batting Game)
|Term=Long Ball (US Batting Game) ...sp;Connecticut Courant, April 23, 1853, was locally the name of something like a fungo game: 

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Clipping:Early indoor baseball
|Type of Date=Day ...iking, the batter is not allowed to block the ball, but must hit it fairly and squarely. Nine innings constitute a game.

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Clipping:Umpire must call a ball or a strike
|Type of Date=Day |Title=umpire must call a ball or a strike

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1850s.13
|Headline=Trap Ball, Stool Ball, Well Established in Louisville KY |Age of Players=Unknown

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Aurora Ball Club of Boston
|Name=Aurora Ball Club of Boston |Type of Date=Month

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

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Codlings
...short piece of wood being struck up by a long stick instead of a ball by a bat.</td> ...="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unspecified. 

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 26 1899
|Type of Date=Day ...er an excellent tea, games were freely indulged in, such as base ball, bat and trap, &c., the older folk apparently enjoying the fun quite as much as the

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1801.1
|Headline=Joseph Strutt Says Stoolball Still Played in North of England; But He Slights Cricket ...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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Rounders: Baseball's True Origin?
Editors Note: Each issue we plan to highlight a bat-ball game that preceded baseball. ...of rounders and also the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond.

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Clipping:Aerial ball
|Type of Date=Day |Title=Aerial ball

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

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 29 1857
|Type of Date=Day ...bat-and-trap, and bass ball, which occupied the attention of the majority of the ladies during the afternoon."

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Clipping:George Wright on the history of the bat
|Type of Date=Day |Title=George Wright on the history of the bat

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Rules of Danish Longball
...dely in schools in Denmark, Sweden and Britain, as well as by Scout groups and in some American summer camps ...ne to score a point. Batters are allowed to ‘bat the ball anywhere forward of the batting zone but must run inside the boundary markers.

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French Cricket
...r he gets hit on the leg, he is out. Fielders are about 10' away & the ball is thrown quickly at the legs." ...t the French name for this game is, and whether it relates to earlier folk games in France.

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Flys-Are-Up, Flies-Up
...d-1950s. A fielder who caught the ball on the fly went “up” to bat. ...ayground. The latter game is not further described, but could be a species of Fungo.

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1847.13
|Age of Players=Juvenile ...ders." In stool ball, "the ball must be struck by the hand, and not with a bat."

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In Halifax on 1 July 1841
|Type of Date=Day |Number of Players=

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1859.16
|Headline=Boy's Own Toy-Maker Covers Tip-cat and Trap-ball |Game=Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball,

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Unnamed Games - Czech
|Term=Unnamed Games - Czech ...es without being hit by the ball.” Guarinoni mentions that the Poles and the Silesians were the best players.

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Clipping:A condemnation of trickery and deception; hidden ball trick
|Type of Date=Day |Title=a condemnation of trickery and deception; hidden ball trick

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Pepper
...lizing players for fielding errors and mis-hits.  There is no running and no team play in this exercise. ...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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Glossary of Games
...unt }} games with a resemblance to baseball, most often using base-running and run-scoring}} ...ook of Games, an early member of the England's pathbreaking Royal Society, and perhaps now better known as "the First Ornithologist"'''.

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In Red River Settlement, Manitoba in 1835
|Type of Date=Year |Number of Players=

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Clipping:Bond's delivery 2
|Type of Date=Day ...comes toward the striker, who invariably yesterday swung the bat under the ball, frequently several inches. Indianapolis News May 5, 1877, quoting the Pit

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1805.2
|Headline=Portland ME Bans "Playing at Bat and Ball in the Streets" in 1805, Retains Ban in 1824 |Game=Bat and Ball

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Rules of the Massachusetts Association of Base Ball Players
|Title=Rules of the Massachusetts Association of Base Ball Players ...an six and a half, nor more than eight and a half inches in circumference, and must be covered with leather.

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Clipping:Confusion over how many balls for a base on balls
|Type of Date=Day ...cussedness. When forced back to the points he delivered another bad ball and Snyder again took his base.

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Don't Forget the Girls
...it of the game in a manner worthy of the most ardent devotee, betting kids and other trifles on the result.” ...and 1859 indicate that the “ladies and gentlemen amuse themselves much by ball playing afternoons.”

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Clipping:Rumors the Red Stockings were going to sell the game
|Type of Date=Day ...e result of the game demonstrated considerable misapprehension on the part of these individuals. New York Daily Tribune August 30, 1869, quoting the Cin

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 1 1863 (2)
|Type of Date=Day ...rted that “various games were indulged in, such as cricket, base ball, bat and trap, drop glove, &c.”

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1841.10
|Immediacy of Report= ...ying or at the first bound. [3] The striker may defend his wicket with his bat as he may choose. [4] One shamble shall be out. [5] Each party may choose o

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Block:Tut Ball in Staffordshire on January 4 1924
|Title=Tut Ball in Staffordshire on January 4 1924 |Block Game=Tut Ball

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Clipping:The composition of balls; illegal balls; skillful batting
|Type of Date=Day |Title=the composition of balls; illegal balls; skillful batting

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1864.21
...her main source for this passage. Note: can we locate the article, and discover whether the game was played? 

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Clipping:Sacrifice hits; scientific batting; early spray chart
|Type of Date=Day ...y on his bat and hit it hard, trstuing to luck in the matter of direction, and to the fielding errors which hard hitting produces., quoting American Sport

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Clipping:The umpire's discretionary powers in calling balls and strikes; high and low
|Type of Date=Day |Title=the umpire's discretionary powers in calling balls and strikes; high and low

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1598.1
|Headline=Youth Ball Games Widespread at London Schools. ...nt and wealthy men of the Citie come foorth on horsebacke to see the sport of young men."

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1827.1
|Headline=Brown U Student Reports "Play at Ball" |Age of Players=Adult

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Wolverines Club of Benton Harbor
|Name=Wolverines Club of Benton Harbor |Type of Date=Year

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1810c.1
|Headline="Poisoned Ball" Appears in French Book of Games |Game=Poisoned Ball,

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1858.23
..."The Playground" Gives Insight into Rounders, Trap-ball, and Cricket Rules and Customs |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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

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Drive Ball
|Term=Drive Ball ...ce each other, taking turns fungoing the ball.  When one boy hits the ball, the other has to retrieve it as quickly as he can, then fungo it back from

5 KB (798 words) - 08:13, 28 July 2023
1100s.1
|Headline="Pagan" Ball Rites Observed in France in 1100s and 1200s ...ers, or in the Episcopal Palaces, even so far as to descend to the game of ball" [Durandus, 1286].

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1834.1
...e=Carver's The Book of Sports [Boston] describes "Base, or Goal Ball" ...rs ran clockwise around the bases. Note: Do we have other accounts of clockwise baserunning?

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Cincinnati Townball
...book of games of townball played in Cincinnati during the war, we find one of 146 to 21.

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Clipping:The beauty of pitching; underhand throwing
|Type of Date=Day |Title=the beauty of pitching; underhand throwing

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In Honolulu in 1840
|Type of Date=Year |Number of Players=

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1839.7
|Headline=MA :Paper Sees Desecration in Older "Bat and Ball" Players |Game="bat and ball"

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Clipping:Reasons for reduced scoring levels
|Type of Date=Day ...ffer from this, when taking into consideration that they cannot wait for a ball to come in just a certain position.

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1848.5
|Headline=New York "Boys' Book" of Games Covers Stoolball, Rounders, Wicket |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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In Honolulu on 9 February 1859
|Type of Date=Day ...ground, makai of the Stone Church, where, after a few appetizing games of ball, they sat down to a sumptuous repast..."

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Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Gothams Club of New York on 14 October 1853
|Name=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Gothams Club of New York on 14 October 1853 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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1870.9
|Headline=Lively Ball Suspected in Mutual-Olympic Game |Tags=The Ball,

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Aipuni
|Game Family=Hat ball ...ntroduced in the 1860s. As described, its rules were consistent with those of [[wicket]], but no running or scoring is mentioned.

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Beep Baseball
...ting team, but cannot field. There is a national association for the game, and annual World Series have been held since 1976. ...-beep-ball-player/">http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/10/the-beep-ball-player/</a>

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Clipping:Chadwick calls for a repeal of the base hit for a base on balls
|Type of Date=Day |Title=Chadwick calls for a repeal of the base hit for a base on balls

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 16 1881
|Type of Date=Day ...oys adjourned to a meadow . . . and indulged in cricket, base ball, races, and other rustic sports.”

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Round Ball
|Term=Round Ball .... . . and possibly beyond that . . . in the years before the Dedham rules of 1858 created the [[Massachusetts Game]].

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Block:English Baseball in Herts on July 25 1891
|Type of Date=Day ...sion to a nearby park, “where various games of cricket, bat and trap, base ball, swings, etc. were very heartily engaged in.”

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Clipping:An objection to umpires behind the pitcher
|Type of Date=Day ...nder their decisions from behind the plate and move around in the vicinity of the bases when base plays are being made. The Sporting Life June 5, 1889</

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 30 1865
|Type of Date=Day ...ssemble and swinging,, trap bat, base ball, drop glove, &c. were the order of the day.”

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John Freyer, January 2008
...others to establish a Chicago Baseball Museum, and serves as the project’s ad hoc historian. </

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Clipping:Comparing the New York and Massachusetts games
|Type of Date=Day |Title=comparing the New York and Massachusetts games

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Clipping:The knothole gang
|Type of Date=Day ...d small boy, who seemed to be intimately acquainted with the Eckford nine, and correspondingly enthusiastic in their behalf. New York Sunday Mercury July

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Halfball
...to resemble [[Half-Rubber]], which was reportedly played in the US. South and the Philadelphia area. ...the two halves, and the resulting game was called half ball.  A half ball had interesting aerodynamic behaviors.

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Clipping:Batting out of turn 3
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Charter Oak 2 v Vigilant 2 on 28 June 1859
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Putnam Club of Brooklyn v Union Club of Morrisania on 15 September 1860
|Name=Putnam Club of Brooklyn v Union Club of Morrisania on 15 September 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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1854.15
|Headline=Sacramento "Hombres" Play Ball Before Several Hundred, Break Stuff |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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Clipping:Chadwick still favors small ball
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Block:English Baseball in London in 1875
|Type of Date=Year ...Book of 1828, but also makes clear that the players are girls and that the ball is struck by hand. 

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Bittle-Battle
...In fact, Gomme [1894, ] describes Bittle-Battle as “the Sussex game of ‘Stoolball.,’ but does not link it to the Domesday Book. ..."_blank">https://www.stoolball.org.uk/media/4h2brgma/stoolball-illustrated-and-how-to-play-it.pdf</a>."

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Clipping:Support for the new pitching delivery rule
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Clipping:The legality of underhand throwing
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1672c.2
|Headline=Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described |Immediacy of Report=

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Clipping:The Knickerbockers at play
|Type of Date=Day ...in a regular match. This is the right way to practice, even for “the fun of the thing,” as the saying is.

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Clipping:Scientific batting; home runs exhaust the batter
|Type of Date=Day ...his opponents by sending the ball to the field with as little expenditure of force as necessary, bit in such a manner as to render it nearly impossible

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Bower City Club of Janesville
|Name=Bower City Club of Janesville |Type of Date=Month

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1848.6
...ages 211-212. This book's section "Games with Toys" includes two variants of rounders. Block's summary: ...include the practice of 'soaking' or 'plugging' the runner with the thrown ball.

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Clipping:Proposed partial hits to be scored for sacrifices
|Type of Date=Day ...work at the bat, and the slugger who can do nothing bug slug for home runs and his personal record would soon be brought to his proper level. The Sportin

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Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on July 31 1875
|Type of Date=Day ...there were groups engaged at bass ball, drop glove, bat and trap, cricket, and many other similar sports.”

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Single v Married in Cohoes on 12 October 1858
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Ballgame in Da Baca County in 1865
|Type of Date=Year ...the 1860s may have been taught a form of base ball, and continued to play and modify the game for many years thereafter.

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1779.2
|Headline=Lieutenant Reports Playing Ball, and Playing Bandy Wicket |Age of Players=Adult

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1867.21
|Headline=Wisconsin's First State Base Ball Tourney Lists $1500 in Prizes |Tags=Championship Games,

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Phillips Academy Club of Andover
|Name=Phillips Academy Club of Andover |Type of Date=Year

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Clipping:An opposition to the new pitching rules
|Type of Date=Day ...person speak well of the rules after Sunday’s game. The California League and the California State League say that they will not play under the rules.</p

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Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 5 October 1860
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Clipping:How people try to get in free; counterfeit tickets and scalpers; barbed wire
|Type of Date=Day |Title=how people try to get in free; counterfeit tickets and scalpers; barbed wire

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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 Bedfordshire on July 26 1881
|Type of Date=Day ...ngs, base-ball, bat-and-trap, races for prizes, and dancing to the strains of the band that played at intervals throughout the evening.”

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Alert Club of Brooklyn v Niagara Club of Brooklyn on 3 October 1857
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In Honolulu on 6 April 1860
|Type of Date=Day ...leading merchants and their clerks, had a game of good old-fashioned base ball on Sheriff Brown's premises, makai..."

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Towards A Definition Of Baseball
|Title=Towards A Definition Of Baseball ...iety for International Hockey Research (SIHR—sort of the hockey equivalent of SABR), with hockey being:

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1750s.3
|Headline=1857 Writer Reportedly Dates New England Game of "Base" to 1750s |Age of Players=Juvenile, Youth, Unknown

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Exercise v Vigilant in New York on 28 September 1860
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Clipping:Scoring team errors
|Type of Date=Day |Text=[reporting on the AA special meeting 3/5] Under the head of base hits, as an amendment to Section 3, Rule 65, the following was adopted

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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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Long Ball (European baserunning game)
|Term=Long Ball ...a single base to run to, scoring by runs, a three-out-side-out rule, and no foul ground. Plugging is allowed.

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Clipping:Using two balls to avoid delays
|Type of Date=Day ...lubs. They use two balls and when one is knocked over the fence the second ball is brought into use until the first one is returned. Tedious delays are th

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Sun and Planet
|Term=Sun and Planet ...ase of wet weather, an 1891 source adds:  "It is sometimes called Sun and Planet." 

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Rough and Ready Club of South Walpole v Club of Foxboro on 19 June 1858
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Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport v Excelsior Town Ball Club of Cincinnati on 2 October 1858undefined
|Name=Kentucky Town Ball Club of Newport v Excelsior Town Ball Club of Cincinnati on 2 October 1858undefined |Type of Date=Day

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Enterprise Club of Bedford v Star Club of Brooklyn on 17 October 1857
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Newtown BBC v Newtown BBC on 4 December 1858
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Clipping:Fair-foul hits in the air
|Type of Date=Day ...ded onto foul ground, was called a foul by the umpire, and this is but one of several similar decisions I have seen. Was not this a violation o Rule 37?

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1858.3
|Game=Base Ball, Massachusetts Game, |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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1694.2
|Headline=Thaw Arrives; Cricket Added to Old List of "Evening" English Pastimes ...to foot-ball, stool-ball, cricket, prison-base, wrestling, cudgel-playing, and some such vehement exercise, for their recreation.'"

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Club of Janesville
|Name=Club of Janesville |Type of Date=Year

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1854.11
...somewhat from the New York game, the ball being thrown instead of pitched and an inning not concluded until all are out, there are also 11 players on eac ...re the other team came to bat. Both games allowed the pitcher to throw the ball in the modern style, rather than underarm as in the New York rules."

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A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball
|Title=A New Find on Early Wicket and Old Fashioned Base Ball ...ration, so the author penned it in that year or in the 1850s). The detail of this recounting merits full excerpting:

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Clipping:The batter can be put out on a foul strike
|Type of Date=Day ...s referred to in Section 14 of the same rule, the umpire deciding him out, and then not out.

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Clipping:The location of the ninth game in the series
|Type of Date=Day |Title=the location of the ninth game in the series

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

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Clipping:Intentional fouls; working a walk
|Type of Date=Day ...good, Latham fouled five successive balls after the fifth had been called, and took his base on the sixth.

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1820s.9
|Headline=In Middletown CT, "Wicket" Recalled, but Not Base Ball. |Age of Players=Juvenile, Youth

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1609.1
|Headline=Polish Origins of Baseball Perceived in Jamestown VA Settlement |Age of Players=Adult

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1744.4
...e you to learn, turns on the muffed catch by an All England player [shades of Casey!] that, I take it, allows Kent County to win a close match. Protoba Dance:" Hail, cricket! Glorious manly, British Game! / First of all Sports! be first alike in Fame!" [lines 13-14]

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1749.2
|Headline=Aging Prince Spends "Several Hours" Playing Bass-Ball in Surrey |Tags=English Base Ball, Famous, Pre-modern Rules,

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Englische Base-ball
|Title=Englische Base-ball ...seball in any language. (This noteworthy discovery was made by David Block and revealed in his 2005 ''Baseball Before We Knew It'').

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1820s.31
|Headline="Many Different Kinds of Ball" Remembered |Game=Barn Ball,Old-Cat Games,Wicket,Base Ball

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1867.26
|Headline="Cavalry Base Ball" Illustration Printed in Pittsburgh |Game=Cavalry Base Ball

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Clipping:Another defense of the New York game
|Type of Date=Day |Title=another defense of the New York game

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Block:"Englische Base-ball" Described in 1796 German Book
|Title="Englische Base-ball" Described in 1796 German Book |Type of Date=Year

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"A Good Many Different Kinds of Ball"
|Title="A Good Many Different Kinds of Ball" ...tration, so the author penned it in that year or in the 1850s). The detail of this recounting merits full excerpting:

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Massapoag Club of Sharon v Old Colony Club of North Bridgewater on 17 July 1858
|Name=Massapoag Club of Sharon v Old Colony Club of North Bridgewater on 17 July 1858 |Type of Date=Day

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Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Union Club of Morrisania on 26 June 1860
|Name=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
|Name=Enterprise Club of Bedford v Ashland Club of New York on 19 June 1858 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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Clipping:The new scoring rules
|Type of Date=Day ...hat the total of outs, runs and times left on bases may equal the times at bat? New York Sunday Mercury December 24, 1876

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1086.1
|Headline=Form of Stool Ball Possibly Found in Domesday Book in Norman England? |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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Eagle Base Ball Club of New York
|Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York |Type of Date=Month

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1845.29
|Headline=Dutch Publication Covers "Engelsch Balspel," "Kat," Other Batting Games |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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In HI in 1866
|Type of Date=Year |Number of Players=

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Clipping:An experimental rules game: moving the pitcher back
|Type of Date=Day ...ck, so that the batsman can get a longer range at the ball, and be able to bat more effectively. To test this idea, the pitcher's square will be put back

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Danish Longball
...sembles other northern European safe-haven games like lapta.  Batters bat, then run to a single distant base, trying to return as later batters have ...run with the ball; a three-out-side-out rule obtains, except for the case of a caught fly, which immediately retires the in team; runners are out i

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Clipping:Placement of the pitcher's lines in the AA
|Type of Date=Day |Title=placement of the pitcher's lines in the AA

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1847.11
|Headline=Curling is "Bass Ball," or "Goal," or "Hook-em-Snivy," on the Ice? ...ame of foot-ball, which curling resembles." Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008. "

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Clipping:A dissent on the prevalence of underhand throwing
|Type of Date=Day |Title=a dissent on the prevalence of underhand throwing

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1847.7
...loudmouthed, uncouth hoodlums. . . . the hostilities between Californians and Americanos continued to fester for generations." ...veat: Angus McFarland has not been able to verify this account as of November 2008.

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In Blountville Circa 1850
|Type of Date=Circa |Game=Town Ball

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Lapta
...run to a distant line [one 1952 account calls this the “city”] and back without being plugged. Caught fly balls are worth a point, but a succe ...ns?), but notes use of a round stick to hit with and also confirms the use of plugging.  Neither account says that runners can stay safely at the "c

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Enterprise 2 v Union 1 on 26 June 1858
|Name=Enterprise Club of Brooklyn v Union Club of Brooklyn on 26 June 1858 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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1850s.20
|Headline=Town-ball Played in Ohio with "Lazarus" Rule |Game=Town Ball

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BC1500c.1
|Headline=Mexican Game Believed to Use Bat, Rubber Ball |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

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Osceola Club of Brooklyn v Atlantic Club of Jamaica on 18 July 1859
|Name=Osceola Club of Brooklyn v Atlantic Club of Jamaica on 18 July 1859 |Type of Date=Day

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Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Charter Oak Club of Brooklyn on 31 October 1859
|Name=Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Charter Oak Club of Brooklyn on 31 October 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2

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1848.18
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Adult

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Vernon Club of Brooklyn v Neptune Club of Brooklyn on 18 May 1859
|Name=Vernon Club of Brooklyn v Neptune Club of Brooklyn on 18 May 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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Clipping:Calling balls
|Type of Date=Day ...ery to be alike the most conducive to interesting games to the spectators, and to enjoyable contests to the players. Fair pitching with good fielders to

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Block:English Baseball in Surrey on October 3 1863
|Type of Date=Day ...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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Pellet
...welve-foot square. An 1882 source finds a usage of “cat’s pellet” in 1648, and defines it as “a game, perhaps the same as tip-cat.” Court records from |Sources=MacLagan, R. C. "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'." Folklore, volume 16, no. 1 (1905), page 87.

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Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Putnam Club of Brooklyn on 31 July 1860
|Name=Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Putnam Club of Brooklyn on 31 July 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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Clipping:A proposed rule to carry base runners over from one inning to the next
|Type of Date=Day ...t second. Perhaps this could be avoided by having the pitcher turn around and pitch toward Start standing on second. Then he could fulfill both schemes.

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Niagara Club of Brooklyn v Resolute (Sr.) Club of Greenville on 29 November 1860
|Name=Niagara Club of Brooklyn v Resolute (Sr.) Club of Greenville on 29 November 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2

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1857.30
|Headline=Olympic Club's Version of MA Game Rules Published |Game=Base Ball,

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Trap Ball
|Term=Trap Ball ...involved the catching and tossing back of the ball toward the batter. Trap ball persists today in Kent, England, as a tavern game.

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Wicket
...t, and a batter with a heavy curved club defends the wicket. Some students of cricket note that it resembles cricket before it evolved to its modern form ...below) includes, as a final word on cricket, an account of a simpler form of cricket, this view:

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1844.20
|Tags=Antedated Firsts, Ball in the Culture, |Game=Base Ball

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Clipping:Proposed rules amendments; wide balls, as in cricket
|Type of Date=Day ...a jerk; for, if we mistake not, jerking the ball without touching the side of the body, has lately come into vogue to a very great extent.

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Om El Mahag
|Game Regions=Rest of World ...is described as elementary baseball, and said to be analogous to rounders and old-cat. It was reported that Om El Mahag was only played by the Berber tri

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In Virgin Islands Circa 1890
|Type of Date=Circa |Date Note="Well before the end of the nineteenth century."

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Punchball
.../punchball.html</a>. Johnson (1910) lists Punch Ball under “Baseball games.” [B] A big-city form of this game is recalled by Gregory Christiano as being played in The Bronx in

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1847.14
|Headline=Holiday Encroached by Round Ball, Long Ball, Old Cat |Game=Round Ball,Long Ball,Old-Cat Games

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Predecessor Game in Santa Barbara in April 1847
|Type of Date=Month ...loudmouthed, uncouth hoodlums. . . . the hostilities between Californians and Americanos continued to fester for generations.”

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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. ...heaths, the layout of the pitch, especially the location of the last base; and the bowler's arm motion, which is an underarm pendulum action, as in softba

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Tut-Ball
|Term=Tut-Ball ...s,” according to the OED. OED identifies Tut-Ball with [[Stoolball]] and [[Rounders]].

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Clipping:Debating the ten man rule, exhibition games
|Type of Date=Day |Title=debating the ten man rule, exhibition games

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Indian Ball
|Term=Indian Ball ....  The playing field is represented in a figure showing a fair ground of less than 45 degrees.

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Niagara Club of Buffalo v Young Canadian Club of Hamilton on 30 August 1860
|Name=Niagara Club of Buffalo v Young Canadians Club of Hamilton on 30 August 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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1855.47
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Adult

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Clipping:Practice styles
|Type of Date=Day ...mend these facts to the attention of Hoboken players in particular, and to ball-players in general. New York Sunday Mercury June 5, 1864

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1855c.10
|Headline="New Game" of Wicket Played in HI |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

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Meta, or Longa Meta
...of Fall 2015, we are actively seeking further information about this game and how it was played. ...t was used to put the ball in play after it had been served to the batter, and then hit away; runners could be put out if they were caught off base;

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Clipping:Why an umpire resigned
|Type of Date=Day |Text=“Why did your brother resign?” he [Harry Decker, brother of NL umpire Stewart Decker] was asked.

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1850s.57
|Headline="Antiquated Base Ball Club" Plays Throwback Game in Newark |Game=Old Fashioned Base Ball

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Welsh Baseball
...ss sections of those towns. Sixty neighborhood clubs were playing in 1921, and five Cardiff schools formed a baseball league in 1922. ...://www.welshbaseball.co.uk/ lists eight clubs in a Premier League, several of them evidently providing summer sport for local soccer clubs. 

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Cat (Kat)
|Description=For a recent description of Cat/Old-Cat, see Supplemental Text below.  ...ball lands. A version described by Newell[39] allows the batter to elevate and hit any cat that is pitched outside the circle.

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1836.5
|Headline=Yanks and British Play Baserunning Game with Plugging . . . in Canton, China |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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1850s.59
|Headline=The Antiquarian Knicks -- Purveyors of "The Greatest Game of Base Ball Ever Played" |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

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Erie Club of Buffalo v Live Oak Club of Rochester on 27 September 1859
|Name=Erie Club of Buffalo v Live Oak Club of Rochester on 27 September 1859 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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Off The Wall
|Game Family=Hat ball ...is an out. (Foul territory is determined by player consensus at the start of the game.)

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Two Old Cat
|Description=From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat" ...to the number of bases. The number of bases varied according to the number of players. Only one old cat continues to be commonly played in the 21st centu

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Deutsche Ballspiel
''from'' <big>Games for Exercise and Relaxation of Body and Spirit</big> for Boys, their Supervisors, and all Friends of the Innocent Joys of Youth (1796)

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Shaffers Club of Freeport
|Name=Shaffers Club of Freeport |Type of Date=Year

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1864.47
|Headline="Union" Games Started 1864 Season |Tags=Business of Baseball, Post-Knickerbocker Rule Changes

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Clipping:Straight pitching vs. the curved-line delivery
|Type of Date=Day ...or scientific people to assert that no such curve is possible, in the face of the conclusive practical evidence which can be afforded to the contrary.</p

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1778.4
...ing Reports Playing "At Base" and Wicket at Valley Forge - with the Father of his Country |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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The New England Roots Project of SABR
...f the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, this project was suspended in late spring of 2020. ...running games in the six New England states. The page serves as something of a homepage for that project.

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Clipping:Nolan suspended
|Type of Date=Day ...taint of suspicion go abroad that there is crookedness among the players, and the public at once loses its interest in that club. The hippodrome busines

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Army Side 1 v Army Side 2 in April 1847
|Type of Date=Month ...loudmouthed, uncouth hoodlums. . . . the hostilities between Californians and Americanos continued to fester for generations.”

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Clipping:Amateur clubs hire professional batteries
|Type of Date=Day ...Club have in their Amateur League; hence their engagement of Carr, Gaunt and Joe Reilly to do the catching in their respective teams.

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Welcome to Protoball
{{Subtitle|Supporting Researchers and Writers on Baseball’s Origins.}} ...leadership of the late '''Larry McCray'''. It welcomes input from current and potential site users on initiatives that might make protoball.org more resp

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1868.1
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Clipping:Stalling for darkness
|Type of Date=Day |Text=THE DUTIES OF UMPIRES.–“DRAWN GAMES”

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1853c.1
|Game=Rounders, Massachusetts Game, Round Ball |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

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Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Gothams Club of New York on 8 September 1857
|Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York v Gothams Club of New York on 8 September 1857 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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1856.10
|Headline=French Work Describes Poisoned Ball and La Balle au Baton |Game=Poisoned Ball

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Shinty
.... Other names we know of are listed at [[bandy]], [[hunyou-hinyou]], and Iceland's [[knattleikar]]. ...in 1839 (NY Herald, Sept. 10, 1839) as part of the Highland games" (Email of 8/12/2022).</div>

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Clipping:The secret of the Cincinnatis' success
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Clipping:George Wright's history
|Type of Date=Day ...lub against the Second Eleven of Manhattan, I being about 14 years of age, and not much taller than the wickets.

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Clipping:Making suggestions to the umpire; talking back to the roughs
|Type of Date=Day ...t or explanation. It is the umpire’s duty alone to decide by what he sees and not what he is told. New York Sunday Mercury September 29, 1867

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1870 NABBP Rules
Text from the 1870 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player''. Changes from the [[1869 NABBP Rules|1869 rules]] in ''italics.'' <div align="center"><big>RULES AND REGULATIONS</big> 

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1859.14
|Headline=New York Tribune Compares the NY "Baby" Game and NE Game |Game=Base Ball, Massachusetts Game,

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Clipping:A call for the return of straight arm pitching
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The Union Hall Game of Ball
|Term=The Union Hall Game of Ball ...ey evidently knew as "base ball" was played by the students of the Union Hall Academy in Jamaica (Queens County, NY) well before

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1700.1
|Headline=One of the Earliest Public Notices of a Cricket Match? |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

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Hildegarde
|Location=England and New York ...specially adapted in its arrangements and implements to fit it for the use of ladies." 

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Henry Eckford Club of New York v Star Club of Brooklyn on 1 August 1862
|Name=Henry Eckford Club of New York v Star Club of Brooklyn on 1 August 1862 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2

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Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Empire Club of New York on 29 September 1860
|Name=Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Empire Club of New York on 29 September 1860 |Type of Date=Day

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Single-Wicket Cricket
...d each references to cricket in the US usually reported very small numbers of players.  Early cricket rules called for single-wicket play when team ...0s, when it lost favor (see Steel). Frederick Duke of York (1763-1827; son of George III) played SWC with his brothers when he was young.

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1870.1
|Game=Base Ball, |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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1840.24
|Game=Town Ball, |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

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Puddox, or Puddock
|Game Regions=Britain, Rest of World ...nd cricket. Two teams participate, made up of form members from each class and the teams are drawn randomly from a hat. Often first year teams (now year 7

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Round Town (Round Town Ball)
|Term=Round Town (Round Town Ball) ...o found as 'round-town,' or 'Round Town Ball') has been found in a handful of sources listed below.  It appears to have been played at times from th

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21st Century Townball
...ing the Massachusetts Game -- "TMG" below) with aspects of early town ball and cricket. The game's expansion as of 2022 is also included there.

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Clipping:Charge of a thrown game
|Type of Date=Day |Title=charge of a thrown game

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Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Niagara Club of Brooklyn on 20 August 1857
|Name=Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Niagara Club of Brooklyn on 20 August 1857 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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1867 NABBP Rules
Text from the 1867 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player'' with notes by Henry Chadwick. Changes from the [[1866 NABBP Rules <div align="center"><big>RULES AND REGULATIONS</big> 

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Rounders - Britain
...earlier, but it is clearer that rounders employed a bat than that English ball did. ...pitches were compelled to run on the third swing as if they had struck the ball.

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1861 NABBP Rules
Text taken from the 1861 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player,'' with editorial notes by Henry Chadwick. Changes from the [[1860 <div align="center"><big>RULES AND REGULATIONS 

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Clipping:A call to fire the manager
|Type of Date=Day ...g as to invite disgust. All lovers of the game are interested in the club and would like to see it make a respectable showing, but until certain remedies

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1840s.31
|Headline=Lem: Juvenile Fiction's Boy Who Loved Round-ball |Game=Round Ball, Massachusetts Game, Gool Ball ( Goal Ball)

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Clipping:Division of gate receipts; fifty cent admission
|Type of Date=Day |Title=division of gate receipts; fifty cent admission

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Occidental (Juniors) Club of Quincy v Red Stockings Club of Cincinnati on 13 October 1869
|Name=Occidental (Juniors) Club of Quincy v Red Stockings Club of Cincinnati on 13 October 1869 |Type of Date=Day

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-2500.2
|Headline=Tale of Game in Sumer, Possibly Using Ball and Mallet. |Tags=Ball in the Culture,

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Clipping:Proposals for umpire signals
|Type of Date=Day ...rovoking delay, whether a man is “safe” or “out,” or whether a strike or a ball has been called on the batter. …

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Elle
|Game Regions=Rest of World As of August 2020, Wikipedia has this general description of Elle:

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Club of Punahou School
|Name=Club of Punahou School |Type of Date=Month

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1853.5
|Headline=Knicks, Gothams Play Season Opener on July 1 and Again on October 18 |Game=Base Ball

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Lone Star Club of Jersey City v Enterprise Club of Bedford on 1 August 1857
|Name=Lone Star Club of Jersey City v Enterprise Club of Bedford on 1 August 1857 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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1869 NABBP Rules
Text from the 1869 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player''. Changes from the [[1868 NABBP Rules|1868 rules]] in ''italics.'' <div align="center"><big>RULES AND REGULATIONS</big> 

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Mississippi Valley BBC of Vicksburg
|Name=Mississippi Valley BBC of Vicksburg |Type of Date=Month

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1870c.8
|Headline=Base Ball Comes to Massachusetts Youth |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective

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1860 NABBP Rules
Text from the 1860 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player'', with editorial notes by Henry Chadwick. Changes from the [[1859 N <div align="center"><big>RULES AND REGULATIONS 

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1868 NABBP Rules
Text from the 1868 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player''. Changes from the [[1867 NABBP Rules|1867 rules]] in ''italics.'' <div align="center"><big>RULES AND REGULATIONS</big> 

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1871.11
|Tags=Newspaper Coverage, Statistics, Stats and Box Scores, |Game=Base Ball

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1863 NABBP Rules
...ason as well, so the text given here is from the 1864 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player'' with its editorial notes by Henry Chadwick <div align="center"><big>RULES AND REGULATIONS 

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Massapoag Club of Sharon
|Name=Massapoag Club of Sharon |Type of Date=Day

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Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Victory Club of Troy on 3 July 1860
|Name=Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Victory Club of Troy on 3 July 1860 |Type of Date=Day

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Stickball
...ade for traffic of various sorts, and the bases are specified at the start of play. (Verification sought.) ...se it's played by adults and is organized into formal teams with standings and team shirts. You can learn all about it here:  <a href="ht

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Clipping:Charges of thrown games by the Mutuals and Philadelphias
|Type of Date=Day |Title=charges of thrown games by the Mutuals and Philadelphias

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Palmetto Club of Charleston
|Name=Palmetto Club of Charleston |Type of Date=Year

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Clipping:Harry Wright and Charles Mason on cranks
|Type of Date=Day |Title=Harry Wright and Charles Mason on cranks

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Such Tumbles, Such Collisions
...great article from SABR member Steve Sisto about an early “fat mens” game, and how the local newspapers covered it. ...ts that the papers sent their own correspondents to cover the game instead of simply publishing accounts written by the teams themselves, which is what a

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1866 NABBP Rules
...tly identical to 1865), with certain additions especially under the Called Ball Rule. Changes from the [[1865 NABBP Rules|1865 rules]] in ''italics.'' <div align="center"><big>RULES AND REGULATIONS 

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Maryland Club of Baltimore v National Club of Washington on 14 June 1862
|Name=Maryland Club of Baltimore v National Club of Washington on 14 June 1862 |Entry Origin=Games Tab 2

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1839.1
|Headline=Graves Letters of 1905 Say that Doubleday Invented Base Ball |Game=Town Ball

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Rounders: A Game That "Gets No Respect"
...s history, rounders has rarely rippled the British national consciousness, and when thought about at all is typically dismissed as a trifling playground d ...as cricket, has never escaped its stigma as a game for the working classes and, most ignobly, for girls.

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Postings to 19CBB, Jan. - Feb. 2013
...article". Richard Hershberger referred him to the Ball Player's Chronicle and the New York Sunday Mercury, noting that Henry Chadwick wrote for both at t ...me; John T. broadly suggested someone write a book about the general topic of NYC sport culture in the 1800s. Donald agreed immediately.

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Chadwick's Summary of Rules Changes
...E RULES, LAWS, etc.</big>''' from''Henry Chadwick's Base Ball Manual for 1871''</div> ...t was then allowed to be any length a player chose; so that he could use a bat five feet long if he liked.

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1845.4
|Headline=NY and Brooklyn Sides Play Two-Game Series of "Time-Honored Game of Base:" Box Score Appears |Tags=Newspaper Coverage, Pre-Knicks NYC, Stats and Box Scores,

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1865 NABBP Rules
The text given here is from the 1865 ''Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player'' with its editorial notes by Henry Chadwick. Changes from the [[186 <div align="center"><big>RULES AND REGULATIONS 

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1867.1
|Headline=New York and Philly Colored Clubs Hold Championship -- Philly Win Is Disputed |Game=Base Ball,

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What Was Rounders, Anyway?
|Description=A Source-Based Description of Rounders Play ...ote: this an initial December 2012 draft. Send us information on omissions and errors for a second draft.'''

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British Baseball
...Britain. Literary references to it can be found in the eighteenth century and even ...lsewhere too. Liverpool appears to have been the most active rounders city and was home to The Rounders Reporter, a publication launched in 1885. 

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Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Gothams Club of New York on 25 October 1858
|Name=Atlantic Club of Brooklyn v Gothams Club of New York on 25 October 1858 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

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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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Clipping:A collective hold-out
|Type of Date=Day ...f $4,500; Gore, the best one of the three named, was not so much of a hob and asked for 42,500 only.

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Ballplaying in Civil War Camps
...=An Overview of an Enriched Data Base: NOTE -- This article was updated and re-cast by Bruce Allardice in 2018 '''Note''': For a later and deeper account of base ball in the Civil War, see The 2018 Update by Bruce Allardice on Protoball.org.

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Randall Brown's Find of the Wheaton Account -- Before the Knickerbockers
|Title=Randall Brown's Find of the Wheaton Account -- Before the Knickerbockers ...including that afternoon’s pursuit—the 1887 post-season visit of John Ward and Mike Kelly’s “Giant Combination” to California.

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Gotham Club Rules (1837)
...ts ear, suggests that the Knickerbocker Rules were not novel, but a repeat of the rules Wheaton had written down for the Gothams eight years before (exce '''A Member of the Gotham Club of Fifty Years Ago Tells About It.'''

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An Interview with David Block
|Title=An Interview with David Block, Author of Baseball Before We Knew It ...omputer analyst. How did you end up writing a book on the origins of base ball?

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1837.1
|Headline=A Founder of the Gothams Remembers "First Ball Organization in the US" |Game=Base Ball,Old-Cat Games

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Clipping:Evolution of the catcher's glove
|Type of Date=Day |Title=evolution of the catcher's glove

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The First Baseball Game In Mexico
...her recurring feature of this newsletter will be articles on the expansion of baseball prior to 1871, when professional baseball leagues began. The artic ...Leagues, Mexican-born MLB stars such as Fernando Valenzuela, and even MLB games played in cities such as Monterrey.

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Interview with John Thorn, Official Historian of Major League Baseball
|Title=Project Protoball’s Interview with John Thorn, Official Historian of Major League Baseball Note: A shorter version of this interview appeared in the January issue of Protoball’s Next Destin’d Post.

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1864.48
|Game=Base Ball, |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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1850s.58
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Adult

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EF Wind-up Memo
<div>This is the final planned mailing on the impromptu "State of Knowledge about Elysian Fields" exercise. ...;-- How did Elysian Fields actually influence the evolution of modern base ball? 

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1845 Knickerbocker Rules
|Description=Evolution or Revolution? A Rule-By-Rule Analysis of the 1845 Knickerbocker Rules Evolution or Revolution? A Rule-By-Rule Analysis of the 1845

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What Was Town Ball, Anyway?
|Title=What Was Town Ball, Anyway? |Description=A Source-Based Description of Town Ball Play

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Ballplaying by Civil War Soldiers 1.0
|Description=Nearly 400 Finds Let Us Understand the Frequency and Nature of Military Ballplaying During the War ...Princeton U., 2003); Patricia Millen, From Pastime to Passion: Baseball and the Civil War (Heritage Books, 2001).

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For Fun and Health -- That's Why She Played
|Title=For Fun and Health -- That's Why She Played For Health and Fun – That’s Why She Played

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EF Aesop
...n: center;">''''''''''''''''''Initial Protoball Thread on EF and the Lack of Manhattan Playing Space (13 Posts, October 2022)'' ...ct this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played their games at Elysian Fields.</div>

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Reconsidering Elysian Fields -- October 2022
...ion on the current knowledge about the Elysian Fields and its role in base ball history.  '''(3)  Discussion Thread A: Did EF Change Base Ball? '''

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Origins Newsletter -- February 2021
...he game of baseball, baseball’s predecessor bat-ball games, and the growth of baseball prior to 1871 (when professional, league baseball was founded). Comments, suggestions and articles should be submitted to Bruce Allardice, editor, at bsa1861@att.net

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Elysian Fields Discussion Topic Two
'''15 Views, September and October 2022''' ...ct this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played their games at Elysian Fields.''</div>

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Games Tab:Philadelphia
|Number of Sources=102 ! Date of Game

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Games Tab:Massachusetts
|Number of Sources=124 ! Date of Game

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Uniforms
|Description=Early uniforms and their significance (1st round completed August 2014) ...1.0, posted 9/19/2014 -- ''Local-Origins Issue #1 – Uniforms in Early Base Ball''

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About Elysian Fields -- 2022
...er;">'''Characterizing Base Ball Games at Elysian Fields''' New to the topic of Elysian Fields?  You can start here:

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Games Tab:New York State, Western
|Number of Sources=159 ! Date of Game

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Games Tab:Greater New York City, 1861 - 1862
|Number of Sources=467 ! Date of Game

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A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball
|Title=A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball ...ay allegedly invented the game in the sleepy east central New York village of Cooperstown.

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Games Tab:Greater New York City
|Number of Sources=3504 ! Date of Game

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