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|Game=Goal ...a recent hiking trip "We spoke of the games we played [as boys]: 'ball;' 'goal' (we pronounced it 'gool' when we mentioned it..."</p>

|Term=Goal Ball ...toball Chronology lists 10 references to the game of Goal Ball or Goal, or games in which bases are term "goals."&nbsp; All refer to play in the six New Eng

|Headline=Vermont Schoolboy Recalls Playing Goal, With Elm Trees as Goals ...<p>"The big boys had great times playing goal, and other noisy and running games, and the elm trees by our yard were the goals . . . "</p>

...erally, but as a reporter mocking the politician and making a reference to games the readers were familiar with. |Comment=<p>The game of "goal" mentioned is probably "goal ball," but the term is inexact.</p>

...” [runs] wins the contest.  The game resembles the family of "battingball" games reported by Maigaard.</p> ..., et al., </span><em>One </em><span>Hundred</span><em> and Fifty Gymnastic Games</em><span> (G. H. Ellis, Boston, 1902), pages 22-23.</span></p>

|Headline=Carver&#39;s <u>The Book of Sports</u> [Boston] describes "Base, or Goal Ball" ...ames. It is sometimes called 'round ball.' But I believe that 'base' or 'goal ball' are the names generally adopted in our country." The bases are "ston

...Prisoner's Base, a running game that seems to resemble tag.&nbsp; So too "goal" by itself.</span></p>

...ossible contributions of German schlagball, and perhaps other mid-European games, to the evolution of base ball.&nbsp; He remains convinced that ball-playin

|Headline=Curling is "Bass Ball," or "Goal," or "Hook-em-Snivy," on the Ice? ...ne;">is</span></em> 'Curling,' eh? Why, did you ever play 'bass ball,' or 'goal,' or 'hook-em-snivy,' on the ice? Well, curling is not like either. In curl

...iety of admirable contributors. Also sponsored summer baseball clinics and games in addition to having weekly practices."</span></p>

...ball Before We Knew It</span>, page 187. This book's small section on ball games carries the Gutsmuths account of <em>das Deutsche Ballspiel</em> the German ...bsp;<em>No.&nbsp; Like most forms of longball, there are a home line and a goal line at opposite ends of the field.</em></p>

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

..." (1852) in which Dickens writes: "They were active ... at cricket and all games of ball; the prisoners base, hare and hounds, follow up leader, and more sp <div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">See also Bancroft, "Games for the Playground" (1922) p. 156:</div>

...two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> |Sources=<p>Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, etc. "&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>&nbsp;(Spring 2011).</p

...were codified&nbsp;-- were to round ball,&nbsp;goal ball, and/or base&nbsp;games played in MA for the previous 50-75 years.</p>

...A rural game in which the person striking the ball must run to his base or goal." Also, as one of the definitions for the word "base": "A rural play, calle ...he citing of the Shakespeare quote demonstrates that confusion between the games of prisoner's base and baseball began at a very early date.</p>

|Game=Round Ball, Massachusetts Game, Gool Ball ( Goal Ball) ...playing began early in the spring; [p92/93] it was the first of the summer games to come out.</p>

...of from 4 to 20 players. It involved a pitcher, batter, and an &ldquo;out-goal&rdquo; or base that the batter-runner tried to reach after hitting (or afte |Sources=<p><span>Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games,"&nbsp;</span><em>Genus</em><span>&nbsp;5&nbsp;</span>(1941)<span>.&nbsp; R

*[[Base, or Goal-ball 1834]] =IV. Related games=

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

...ies to hit it. The batter-runner then chooses whether to run for a distant goal-line or a nearer one, for which there is a smaller chance of being plugged. ...s=<p><span>Dick, ed.,&nbsp;</span><em>The American Boys Book of Sports and Games: A Practical Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements</em><span>&nbsp;</span>

...ies of discrete bases; this is a misapprehension. In modern Schlagball the goal line is replaced with two side-by-side "touch posts," either one of which m ..., W., and Laszlo Zolnay, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fun and Games in Old Europe</span>. Budapest, (Corvina Klado, 1986).</span></p>

|Comment=<p>For some sketchy reports of ice-bound base-running games see Chronology entries.&nbsp; A clippings search for "ice" turns up a few m <p>[[1847.11]], Alabama:&nbsp;<span>"Bass Ball," or "Goal," or "Hook-em-Snivy," on the Ice?</span></p>

...onal ball players, and yet excluding them from all match games–except such games as those in which professionals will play professionals only–we give the ...s of making it. If we can, therefore, guide them by an honest path to the goal of their ambition, let us do it, rather than force them to seek it by the w

...hen one had knocked the ball, had run the bases, and had reached the 'home goal,' that counted one 'tally.' The game was for fifty tallies. The custom was ...days to play matches with the academy. There was some sport in those match games."</p>

...e Legendary Doubleday Game",&nbsp;<em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century</em> (SABR, 2013), pp. 3-5</p> <p>A &ldquo;tosser&rdquo; stood beside the home &ldquo;goal&rdquo; and tossed the ball straight upward about six feet for the batsman t

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

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

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

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

...on of the origins of the game of baseball, baseball’s predecessor bat-ball games, and the growth of baseball prior to 1871 (when professional, league baseba Several early bat-ball games bore resemblance to our modern baseball. These games (among them, Stool-ball, Pize-ball, Tut ball and Rounders) all featured str

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