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Welcome to Protoball
== Protoball.org == ...input from current and potential site users on initiatives that might make protoball.org more responsive to their research interests.

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Protoball Library
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Protoball Functionary

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Protoball Search Aid
|Title=Protoball Search Aid

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Protoball Interview With Richard Hershberger
|Title=Protoball Interview With Richard Hershberger |Text=Protoball Interview with Richard Hershberger

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Performing Logic Serches on Protoball
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Performing Logic Searches on Protoball
|Title=Performing Logic Serches on Protoball Using search logics on Protoball – A Tip from web-wizard Dave Anderson. – Protoball supports several kinds of specialized searches of the site or of its sub-pa

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Multil-word Searches on Protoball
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Multi-word Searches on Protoball
|Title=Multil-word Searches on Protoball ...multi-word searches in quotation marks in the media-wiki environment that Protoball.com uses. Thus, if you want to find places where the phrases <game of base

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1781 -- Protoball at Harvard: From Pastime to Contest
|Title=1781 -- Protoball at Harvard: From Pastime to Contest

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Version 1.1 of Protoball Search Aid, 13 March 2014
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Most Wanted by Topic
...sk: [[Protoball Sub-area::+]] | mainlabel =- | headers = hide |? Protoball Sub-area | limit = 10000 | link=none | sep=; }} {{#ask: [[Category:Most Wanted]][[Protoball Sub-area::@]]

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Most Wanted: Contribute by adding new data on early ballplaying in your area
|Issue=Protoball is undertaking to document the local origins of modern base ball -- and the |Protoball Sub-area=Pre-Pro Data Base

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New England Roots Project - Research Aids
...re particularly interested in finding earlier data that what is now on the Protoball site.

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Most Wanted: Locate Depictions of Less Well-Known Baserunning Games
...onveys the nature of various baseball-like games, including many listed on Protoball’s [[Glossary of Games]].  URLs cos such can be added to the Glos |Protoball Sub-area=Glossary of Games

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Most Wanted: Track Newly-Released Research Reports
|Issue=Add new research findings to appropriate parts of the Protoball site. |Protoball Sub-area=General Maintenance

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Most Wanted: Adding Links to You-Tube-Style Clips on Baserunning Games
|Protoball Sub-area=Protoball's Glossary of Games |Most Wanted Search=Add links to sources of such clips to Protoball's material on the listed game.

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Bronx Project
...ription=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on 0 early clubs and 0 early gam

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Illinois Project
...ription=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on 490 early clubs and 75 early

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Most Wanted: A Special Chronology for Early Female Play?
|Issue=Protoball's Chronology includes about 1500 key events in the evolution of ba |Protoball Sub-area=

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New Jersey Project
...ription=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on over 300 early clubs and abou

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Maryland Project
...ription=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on 22 early clubs and 20 early g

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Tennessee Association of Vintage Base Ball
...ription=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on 75 early clubs and 24 early g

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Essex Base Ball Club
...ription=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on 35 early clubs and 40 early g

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Missouri Project
...ription=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on 65 early clubs and 11 early g

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Pacific Northwest Chapter of SABR
...ription=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on 53 early clubs and 20 early g

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Most Wanted: Was the 'Double Eight' Style of Base Ball Cover Invented in the United States?
|Protoball Sub-area=Potential Protoball article on the evolution of the base ball ...Gaskell has agreed to moderate this effort, and to post initial results on Protoball.

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A Lingering Death for Old-Style Plugging?
|Issue=Protoball Chronology Item [[1837.1]] reports that William Wheaton said that the plugg |Protoball Sub-area=Chronology

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Most Wanted: The Origins of the Hungarian game of Longa Meta
|Protoball Sub-area=Glossary of Baserunning Games ...o online and/or bibliographic searches in Hungarian and report findings in Protoball?

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Most Wanted Research
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Protoball Library
#REDIRECT [[Protoball's Holdings]]

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Proto Stats
==Special Analyses that Make Use of Protoball's Own Data Bases==

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1874.2
Protoball believes "shinny" to be a game resembling field hockey and ice hockey, and Protoball has only two other reports of the game of "baste" in a Princeton student's

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Most Wanted: How Many of the 14 Knickerbocker Playing Rules Can be Traced Back to English Baserunning Games?
|Protoball Sub-area=Potential Protoball article on the influence of English base ball on the American game

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Boston Chapter of SABR
...ription=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on 6 early clubs and 20 early ga

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Most Wanted by Level of Effort
|?Protoball Sub-area

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Jeffrey Kittel, February 2013
...ates the Protoball Glossary of Games at <a href="Glossary_of_Games">http://protoball.org/Glossary of Games</a>.  

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1855c.32
...859 is clear from a perusal of the Craig Waff's Protoball Games Tab http://protoball.org/images/3/35/GT.NYC.pdf

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1856.4
...3 games, we now have a record of 70 games played by 26 clubs (see the Protoball [[Games Tabulation]] compiled by Craig Waff).

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Performing Logic Searches on Protoball
|Title=Performing Logic Serches on Protoball Using search logics on Protoball – A Tip from web-wizard Dave Anderson. – Protoball supports several kinds of specialized searches of the site or of its sub-pa

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Tom Altherr
|Description=Tom Altherr has made many new finds of very early ballplaying. Protoball's Chronology is dedicated to Tom.

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Home
#REDIRECT [[Welcome to Protoball]]

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Most Wanted: Support Host Chapters of SABR Conventions in Documenting Local Base Ball Origins
|Protoball Sub-area=Pre-Pro Data Base, Chronlogies

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Rundbold
...be found for several depictions of the game.  A (non-Danish-speaking Protoball rep observes the folowing:  The clips  show batters propelling a ...know Danish and can fill in the knowledge gaps via YouTube, please advise Protoball.

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Version 1.1 of Protoball Search Aid, 13 March 2014
#REDIRECT [[Protoball Search Aid]]

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The New England Roots Project of SABR
...oject has collected considerable data points on the origins of base ball. Protoball, launched with substantial support from the SABR central office and from Pr ===[A] An Internet [[ Protoball Search Aid | Search Aid ]] for New Researchers ===

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Performing Logic Serches on Protoball
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Multil-word Searches on Protoball
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Local-Origins Project Old
In 2014 Protoball launched a new activity on the local origins of base ball. About a dozen l ...re particularly interested in finding earlier data that what is now on the Protoball site.

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1851.4
From a 5/24/2013 email to Protoball from Bruce Allardice:  ...and Joliet is incorrect. Below is what I've added to the Lockport entry in protoball:

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Site Tips
|Description=Tips for using the Protoball site

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Halsey Hall SABR Chapter (Minnesota)
...ription=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on 60 early clubs and 76 early g

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19C Clippings
== Welcome to Protoball's Nineteenth Century Clippings Database == ...neteenth Century news sources. Systematic searches can now be performed on Protoball's "Enhanced Search" page.

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Local-Origins Project
In mid-2014 Protoball launched a new activity on the local origins of base ball. About a dozen l ...re particularly interested in finding earlier data that what is now on the Protoball site.

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Town Ball
...all, see Chronology entry [[1831.1]] and [[Philadelphia Town Ball]] in the Protoball Glossary of Games.

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Champion Club of Albany
...game is found. The announcement in the Troy Daily Whig is reported on the Protoball Games Tabulation (NYS Capital Area Table) compiled by Craig Waff.

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Railroad Club of Oberlin v Uptown Club of Oberlin in 1860
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860.39 – In Oberlin OH, It's Railroad Club 49, Uptown Club 44 ...chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">Protoball project</a></li>

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Local-Origins Study Groups
In summer 2013, Protoball moved to support additional research on the local origins of base ball by d

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Vitilla
...article does not detail the game's rules, and it is not yet clear to Protoball whether batters actually run bases.  A photograph suggests that balls |Comment=Protoball welcomes additional details on the games rules, history, and spread.

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Excelsior Club of Baltimore v Potomac Club of Washington in 1859
<li>Protoball record 1858.46 from</li> ...chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">Protoball project</a>

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Priam Club of Troy v Priam Club of Troy on 30 August 1859
|Description=This intramural game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation (NYS Capital Area Table) compiled by Craig Waff. It was re

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David Block, May 2011
...tyle="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball," Guest-edited by Protoball functionary Larry McCray: </div>

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1855.31
Data on reported 1855 games and clubs is taken from the Protoball [[Games Tabulation]], version 1.0, compiled by Craig Waff.  

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Tom Altherr Dedication
The Protoball Chronology, covering nearly 2000 points in the evolution of baseball and ot ...n open-ended account of accumulated evidence on the origins of base ball. Protoball was conceived in a period when several academic writers had written recent

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New Marlboro Rules Baseball
...orough, MA) date from 1863, and can be found in the "Rule Sets" portion of Protoball. They bear some similarities to the Massachusetts game, but with a few diff ...le on the New Marlboro Rules in ''Base Ball'', Spring 2010. See Rule Sets, Protoball.

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1864.6
from an Email from Joshua Bucchioni to Protoball, June 15, 2018. ...general, though I've been fascinated with what I have seen shared on your protoball site. The most I can add is in dealing with more information on the 30th MA

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Hunkidoris of Joliet v Sleepers of Lockport on 6 August 1880
...and Joliet is incorrect. Below is what I've added to the Lockport entry in Protoball:

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Alligator Club of Hartford
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860.56 – Three Hartford CT Base Ball Clubs on the Move

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Penn Tigers Club of Philadelphia v Penn Tigers Club of Philadelphia on 18 November 1858
...ed on November 18 1858, according to the Clipper of November 27, 1858 (see Protoball Games Tabulation (Phil. table) compiled by Craig Waff.) Apparently a final ...chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">Protoball project</a></li>

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Hoosiers Club of South Bend
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860.33 – Base Ball Beats Football to South Bend IN

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Wendy Knickerbocker, January 2008
...ct, Edward T. Taylor, that she found the June 1840 baseball reference (see Protoball entry [[1840.20]]), which imagines that some young ballplayers feel “

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Debbie Shattuck, October 2013
...wide an audience as possible. I will begin by filling in the blanks on the Protoball site; after that I hope to work with SABR and the Women in BB Committee to

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1845.27
...="text-decoration: underline;">Protoball Note: As of February 2023, Protoball entries show about 100 references to town ball, including about 70 chronolo

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Champion Club of Albany v Champion Club of Albany on 9 June 1859
|Description=This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYS Capital Area table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was re

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About the Pre-Pro Data Base
Protoball's "Pre-Pro" data base serves as a reservoir for information on games, clubs ...Tab." The portal for this initial version, uploaded in 2008, is at http://protoball.org/The_Craig_B._Waff_Games_Tabulation.

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Baste Ball
As of February 2017, Protoball knows of only three US uses of the term Baste: the Princeton diary, in an a ...d is known, but does not appear to be consistent with US finds reported to Protoball.

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Chronology:Civil War
...users. To supply such data, or to comment on errors in the text, contact Protoball via [[Larry McCray]]. Entries are listed by first year of the event[s] rep ...eresting Civil War entries are included in the current version of the full Protoball chronology, which will ultimately trace data on safe-haven ballplaying up t

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Victory Club of Troy v Trojan Club of Port Schuyler on 22 October 1860
|Description=This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYS Capital Area Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was re

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Sons of Ocean Club of New Bedford
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1858.32 – Ballplaying Interest Hits New Bedford MA

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1868.8
|Comment=As of mid 2023, the Protoball Chronology includes about 40 entries alluding to Rochester NY from 1825 to

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Club of Pittsfield
|Description=The Protoball Games Tabulation (Capital Area table) shows Pittsfield losing to the Champi

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Protoball Search Aid
|Title=Protoball Search Aid

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Army Side 1 v Army Side 2 in April 1847
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1847.7 – Occupation Army Takes Ballgame to Natives In . . . Sa ...chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">Protoball chronology</a></li>

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National Club of Lansingburgh v Club of Pittsfield on 8 August 1860
|Description=This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYS Capital Area Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was re

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Halfball
|Comment=We asked Protoball friend Mark Schoenberg about any experience with Stick Ball in 1950s B Protoball friend Neil Seldman adds: 

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1785.3
<div>As of December 2020, Protoball's Chronology  has over 65 references to stoolball prior to 1785, and 2

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Origins Newsletter -- September 2021
|Document=Origins Protoball NewsletterSept21.pdf

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1830c.30
...ferson_OH_in_July_1859">http://protoball.org/In_Jefferson_OH_in_July_1859</a>.  

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Bace
|Sources=See Protoball Chronology entries [[1805.4]] and [[1805.5]].  </spa |Comment=As of June 2019, Protoball has only 3 references to “base,” one in the 1300s and two in 18

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1838.13
...Observatory Place--89th/94th Sts., between 4th/5th Aves. Mount Morris--See Protoball fields.

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Wicket
...onology  at http://protoball.org/Chronology:Wicket.  As of 2022, Protoball lists over 50 milestones for to wicket. ...rticle on wicket in CT, by Alex Dubois, appeared in the March 2022 Origins/Protoball Committee Newsletter.

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1865.30
...from Protoball's lists of early games and clubs. Richard advises (email to Protoball, 12/6/2017): "It's not the 'Eagle Club' and the 'Union Club.'  It is r

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The Next Destin'd Post, 2012 - 2013
...ries behind major origins finds, current research news, and updates on the Protoball site.

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British Baseball (Welsh Baseball)
...e rules of British Baseball are found on the Protoball site at http://protoball.org/British_Baseball.  

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Victory Club of Troy
...ber 9, 1859, as reported by the Troy Daily Whig on September 10, 1859. See Protoball Games Tabulation (NYS Capital Area Table), compiled by Craig Waff.

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Shangai Base Ball Club of Shanghai v Club of Hong Kong in 1866
...iption=A Hong Kong club played a Shanghai Club in Shanghai in 1866. See Protoball Clippings. |Sources=Protoball Clippings

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1781 -- Protoball at Harvard: From Pastime to Contest
|Title=1781 -- Protoball at Harvard: From Pastime to Contest

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Run-Around
|Sources=See Protoball Chronology item #[[1855c.1]].  The lett

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In Davenport in 1858
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1858.15 – Base Ball Arrives in Heaven? "No, This is Iowa" ...chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">Protoball project</a></li>

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Alton Baseball Club v Upper Alton Baseball Club on 19 June 1858
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1858.42 – In Downstate Illinois, New Club Wins by 134 Rounds</ ...chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">Protoball project</a></li>

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Ballgame in Troy in June 1860
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860.7: ...nal text" title="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">Protoball project</a>

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North Adams Club v Pittsfield Club on 2 September 1859
|Comment=With dates we could enter the Springfield and Westfield Clubs in Protoball. |Entered by=Protoball Functionary

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Some Base Ball Firsts
Note: The Firsts listed above have been added by individual Protoball users from 2015 on.

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1802.3
|Submission Note=Uploaded to the Protoball site, April 2013

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Mark Schoenberg, April 2013
...new Digger.  We are looking for this street-wise New Yorker to curate Protoball’s prospective Schoenberg’s Stickball Collection.

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1855.5
...des, Pioneer, St. John, and Washington). See[[<a href="Clubs_in_NJ">http://protoball.org/Clubs_in_NJ</a>]]. 

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1840s.46
...pan>June 5, 1847 (volume II, issue 46), page 2.  [Brad Shaw, email to Protoball 1/26/2017] ...ipper, Saturday, September 8, 1866.  See https://protoball.org/Clipping:Interpreting_the_dead_ball_on_a_ball_or_a_balk;_the_rule_the_s

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Ballgame in San Francisco in March 1851
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1851.2 -- San Francisco CA Weighs Plusses and Minuses of Base Ball Protoball record 1851.2 from

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Bat-and-Ball
...to connote a distinct form of early ballplaying; in an April 2020 email to Protoball, he said "I can confirm that Newburyport and other coastal towns nort A May search of the Protoball Chronology for <bad and ball> yields 44 hits from circa 1745 to 1845.

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In Fredericksburg in 1863
|Sources=See (Protoball) Chronologies (Civil War) 1863.100, 1862.109

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Bob Tholkes, November 2013
|Digger Activity=[[Bob Tholkes]] contributed an essay to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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Marty Payne, May 2011
|Digger Activity=[[Marty Payne]] contributed an essay to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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Interview with Peter Morris
|Digger=Protoball Functionary '''Protoball''': What personal trail led you to your role as one of early base ball’s

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Bill Ryczek, May 2011
|Digger Activity=[[Bill Ryczek]] contributed an article to the Special Protoball Issue Of Base Ball th

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1738.1
|Comment=As of January 2023, this appears to be one of Protoball's ten earliest reports of ballplaying in the  United States, and the t

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Victory Club of Troy v Union Club of Whitehall on 1 June 1860
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:New_York_State,_Capital_Area#date1860-6-1 This game appears in the Protoball Games Directory [NYS Capital Area Table] compiled by Craig Waff. The game w

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Bob Tholkes' RIM (Registry of Interclub Matches) Tabulation
Thanks to [[Bob Tholkes|Bob]] for his hard and careful work. Protoball will integrate this new material into its searchable PrePro database when p

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Eric Miklich, May 2011
|Digger Activity=[[Eric Miklich]] contributed an essay to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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1867.25
In a 5/9/2021 search, Protoball doesn't find one after 1866 either. ...ame (28 innings, score 24-23) played by Mass rules.  See https://protoball.org/Clipping:The_Mohawk_Club_reverts_to_amateur.

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Larry McCray, January 2013
|Digger Activity=When not wrestling with the new Protoball website, Larry McCray has been attending once again to cutting into the bac

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1837.13
...t" (with).  Gutsmuths called English game "ball "mit freystaten." The Protoball entry for Gutsmuths is at [[1796.1]]

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First Female Play of Modern Base Ball?
|Sources=See Protoball Chronology entry at <a href="1859.51]].">http://protoball.org/1859.51.</a>

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Bob Schaefer, May 2011
|Digger Activity=[[Bob Schaefer]] contributed an essay to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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Goal Ball
...bsp; Usage of the name is known in New England.  As of June 2012, the Protoball Chronology lists 10 references to the game of Goal Ball or Goal, or games i ...style="font-size: 10pt;"> (Providence, Cory and Daniels), pp 17-19 -- see Protoball Chronology entries [[1835.6]] and [[1854.23]].

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Patch Baseball
|Sources=See Protoball Chronology item [[1850c.17]]. Thanks to Skip M

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Gothams Club of New York v Gothams Club of New York on 10 November 1845
...chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">Protoball project</a></li> ...ly known as the Gothams.  For complete explanation, go to http://fast.protoball.org/Gothams_Club_of_New_York

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The Buzz McCray Collection
...]|format=count}} available sources collected in the Buzz McCray Library at Protoball. (We don't lend them out, but we can usually inspect them on behalf of res

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Army? in Coloma on 6 March 1848
...chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">Protoball Chronology</a>

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Newport Baseball History: America's Pastime by the Sea.
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1845.30
<div dir="ltr">Especially if the sheep had the rifles -- Protoball Functionary</div> <div dir="ltr">As of December 2020, Protoball has no base ball is known 

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Tom Altherr, May 2011
...v class="source">[[Tom Altherr]] contributed two essays to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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First Interracial game
|Sources=https://protoball.org/Natives_v_Foreigners_in_Honolulu_on_4_July_1866 ...sian (Native/Hawaiian) team, in the then independent nation of Hawaii. See protoball entry.

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Most Wanted: Was it ever really "Ball nine, take your base?"
|Protoball Sub-area=Chronologies

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Welcome to Protoball
== Protoball.org == ...input from current and potential site users on initiatives that might make protoball.org more responsive to their research interests.

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An Interview with David Block
|Digger=Protoball Functionary '''Protoball''': I understand that, before focusing on where modern ballplaying came f

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London Base Ball Club v Club of Delaware Township on 12 September 1856
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1856.18 – First Reported Canadian Base Ball Game Occurs, in ON ...ome sense (keeping in mind that Beachville report of a predecessor game at Protoball #1838.4?)

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A Short History of Baseball in Miami and Miami Beach
...ral-bound booklet was listed on EBay in 2004, but has not been obtained by Protoball. It was said to have a chronology from 1856 on.

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Nestor of Ball Players
...itten by his son in 1939, held in the Chadwick scrapbooks, and supplied to Protoball 12/29/2009 by Bill Ryczek.

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Bruce Allardice Find Stories, October 2013
With more than a thousand entries in Protoball’s PrePro data base, I can verify that without newspaper collections such What I like most is to glance at the Protoball map, pick out a blank area (one that doesn’t have an early team/game alre

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Craig Waff, May 2011
...iv class="source">[[Craig Waff]] contributed two essays to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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David Block, October 2013
Protoball’s favorite nuggets from the Curtis article: Protoball later asked the author about the response to the article. Bryan Curtis&rsqu

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Brian Turner, May 2011
...Activity= [[Brian Turner]] co-wrote a contribution to the "Special Protoball Issue" of Base Ball this S

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Richard Hershberger, May 2011
...ivity=[[Richard Hershberger]] contributed two essays to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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Howard Burman, February 2013
...Association, his report on the game is imminent, and will be posted to the Protoball site.

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Multi-word Searches on Protoball
|Title=Multil-word Searches on Protoball ...multi-word searches in quotation marks in the media-wiki environment that Protoball.com uses. Thus, if you want to find places where the phrases <game of base

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In Indianapolis in 1862
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1744.4
...des of Casey!] that, I take it, allows Kent County to win a close match. Protoball's virtual interview with Mr. Dance: Protoball: Are you a serious cricket fan?

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Union Club of New York
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George Thompson, November 2013
...ass="source">[[George Thompson]] contributed two essays to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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Larry McCray, December 2008
...Activity=Larry has put an initial [[Glossary of Games]] onto the Protoball website.  This primitive listing includ

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Tom Heitz, June 2013
...ggers – he co-wrote the 70- item origins chronology that inspired th Protoball Project--  and we welcome him back.

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Throw Ball
As of 2022, Protoball has no evidence of Throw Ball as an early pastime.  Tom's subsequent r Reported to Protoball in a letter of September 1 2022 from Thomas Altherr. 

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1656.1
..."all labour, tennis-playing, ball-playing," among other activities.  Protoball does not see a ref to cricket in these sections.

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Beth Hise, May 2011
[[Beth Hise]] contributed two essays to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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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 |Digger=Protoball Functionary

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Melbourne Base Ball Club, Collingwood members v Melbourne Base Ball Club, Richmond members in February 1857
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1857.17 – Base Ball in Melbourne? ...chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">Protoball project</a>

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Amherst College Club of Amherst
See protoball entry [[1859.1]]. |Sources=Pittsfield Sun, July 7, 1859. Protoball entry 1859.1., Block, p. 219. Ryczek, p. 127.

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48th NY Infantry in 1862
Text from Protoball entry 1862.45: ...rg/Chronology:Civil_War" href="Chronology:Civil_War" rel="nofollow">http://protoball.org/Chronology:Civil_War</a>. NY Mercury Jan. 11, March 22, 1863.

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Ballgame in HI in 1852
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1852.1 – Cartwright Said to Lay Out First Base Ball Field in Hawai

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John Thorn, May 2011
...ger Activity=[[John Thorn]] contributed three essays to the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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Schlagball
Bill Hicklin, submission to Protoball, 2015. C. -- FYI, Protoball's Brother-in-law's grandfather once taught schlagball at a German school.&n

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Tom Altherr, December 2008
...h American Ball Games," resulted in 33 new entries for the Protoball Chronology.  Included are references to

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Linking Clubs to Ballgames
When you are adding a ballgame and the clubs have already been entered into Protoball, linking the clubs with the ballgame is easy: type in the name of the club. ...club name as free text. Take care: follow the club name conventions of the Protoball site.

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First Use of Two Catchers on One Team?
|Sources=See Protoball Entry at <a href="../1856.32.">http://protoball.org/1856.32.</a>

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Craig Waff
|Description=Craig died suddenly of a stroke in 2012.  The Protoball Games Tabulation, a major portion of the site's "PrePro Data Base<

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1818c.7
...trian games.  Bill Hicklin's summary of Schlagball is at https://protoball.org/Modern_rules_of_Schlagball.  We don't know much about the other ga

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Meta, or Longa Meta
...an borders, with brief notes on some variations see.  Untranslated by Protoball as of September 2015. (Supplied by Hannah Foster, Budapest, email of August ...accessed August 2015), page 192 (in Hungarian or Czech -- untranslated by Protoball as of September 2015)

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Bandy-Wicket
|Comment=Protoball has the sense that bandies were heavier and sturdier than cricket bats.

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Friendship v Independent in Paterson on 26 November 1857
|Description=This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation[NYC table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported in Port

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Running Base
|Sources=Email to Protoball from Brad Shaw, 3/15/2017.

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Balslaen
|Description=As depicted in Protoball Chronology entry [[1660c.3]], balslaen was prohibited on the

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1859.5
|Warning=John Thorn, on July 11, 2004, advised Protoball that "a challenge to the citation is a photo at the NBL of the Bostons of S

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Bat-Ball
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BC700c.1
|Comment=Protoball user Benjamin Roy has done some further digging in 2014 on the meaning of t |Query=Can other readers throw any more light on this ancient (and, to Protoball, handsomely obscure</spa

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Interview with 2013 SABR-Origins Chair Bill Johnson
|Digger=Protoball Functionary Protoball: How did you get interested in baseball’s origins era?

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Savannah Base Ball Club
...a match in Charleston. See Charleston Courier, July 27, 1869, and Protoball's Chronology entry #[[1869.10]].

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176th New York Infantry v 9th Connecticut Infantry in 1864
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Sam Marchiano and the 1755 Bray Diary Find
|Digger=Protoball Functionary ...ing “base-ball” with six young ladies and four young gentlemen (see http://protoball.org/1755.3). Tricia had been planning to transcribe the whole 1755 diary at

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Anita Broad, June 2013
...h and Education Officer of Stoolball England.  She has already helped Protoball sort out what the English safe-haven games Pentoss (a form of ladies’

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In Fortress Monroe in 1862
|Sources=See (Protoball) Chronologies (Civil War) 1862.65

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Logan Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Adelphi Club of Philadelphia
|Description=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Club of Philadelphia
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1850s.18 – Baseball's Beginnings at U Penn?

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Liberty Club of New Brunswick v Live Oak Club of Orange on 28 October 1859
|Description=This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported in Wil

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Flour City Club of Rochester v Niagara Club of Buffalo on 3 September 1858
|Comment=Caution: Protoball has them playing in Buffalo that day, with a different score.

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Hibernia Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Diligent Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Hercules Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Oswego Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Advance Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Pawnee Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Ajax Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Congress Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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In Somerset in May 1863
|Sources=See (Protoball) Chronologies (Civil War) 1862.34

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Olympic Jr. Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Whitesboro v Utica in Utica on 2 June 1860
|Description=This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported in Por

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In Suffolk in July 1862
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In Arlington in June 1862
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In Bladensburg in October 1861
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In Vicksburg in 1863
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In Murfreesboro in 1863
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In Selma in 1863
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In New Bern in 1862
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In Manassas in 1862
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Club of Pawlet
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860.43 –- Three Ball Clubs Form in VT Village ...ast of Glens Falls NY. Note: This is the first VT item on base ball in the Protoball files, as of November 2008; can that be right? Earlier items [#178.6, #1787

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ProtoPix:Baseball On Ice
Baseball was played on ice as early as 1859. See Protoball glossary.

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Louisville Base Ball Club v Louisville Base Ball Club on 18 June 1858
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1858.19 -- First KY Box Score Appears in Louisville Newspaper ...le="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

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21st Century Townball
Email from Daniel Jones to Protoball, April 30, 2018. [ From Daniel Jones email to Protoball, August 2017]

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In Harrisonburg in 1862
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In Robertville in 1865
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In New Market in 1865
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In Goldsboro in 1865
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In Larkinsville in 1864
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In Petersburg in 1864
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In Orange in 1864
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In Culpeper in 1864
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In Franklin in 1864
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Rough and Ready Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Putnam Club of Brooklyn v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 3 August 1855
|Description=This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC table] compiled by Craig Waff.

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In Falmouth on 3 April 1862
|Sources=See (Protoball) Chronologies (Civil War) 1862.14

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In Corinth on 26 June 1862
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In Oxford on 19 December 1862
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In Yorktown on 15 April 1862
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In Fairfax on 26 October 1861
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1863.69
This Turchin team played a wartime game in Chicago (see protoball entry).

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Richard Hershberger, June 2013
...by New York rules.  Richard has generously shared his collection with Protoball, and all of the clubs are entered into the PBall Pre-Pro data base.  R

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1706.1
...Perry as "The Cricket Match" in 1922 [email of 2/1/2008]. John also sent Protoball the original text, for you Latin speakers out there.

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In Newport News in July 1862
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In Bonne Carre in 1863
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Club of Canandaigua v Club of Canandaigua on 20 July 1859
|Description=This intramural game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was covered by the

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Liberty (New Brunswick) v Independent (Somerville) on 1 August 1859
|Description=This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported in the

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In Matagorda Peninsula in 1864
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In Baton Rouge in 1865
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In Roanoke Island in 1862
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Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Excelsior Club of Brooklyn on 22 August 1859
See Protoball games tab. Muffin match

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In Springfield in May 1861
|Description=See (Protoball) Chronologies (Civil War) 1861.46

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Alleghany Club v Pittsburg Club on 9 October 1857
Note: Protoball's interpretation is that the game used all-out-side-out innings, and at the Some Protoball queries, 2015:  [1] Is there evidence that the game was completed? [2]

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In Seabrook Island on 4 July 1862
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In Alexandria in 1864
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In Denver on 1 November 1861
|Sources=See (Protoball) Chronologies (Civil War) 1861.56

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Watsessing Club of Bloomfield v Empire Club of Newark on 16 September 1857
|Description=This game appears in the Protoball games Tabulation [NYC table] compiled by Craig Waff.

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American Cricket
Protoball does not have a Philadelphia Mercury source for this |Comment=In May 2017 a Protoball functionary looked for more information on 'American Cricket" and other hyb

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Niagara Club of Buffalo v Young Canadians Club of Hamilton on 30 August 1860
|Description=This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported in the

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Hunyou-Shinyou
|Comment=This is the first reference to the game-name in Protoball as of January 2021.

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First Mention of Fastball Pitching
|Sources=From Protoball Chronology entry at <a href="../1855.41.">http://protoball.org/1855.41.</a>

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In Aurora in 1861
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In Annapolis on 15 November 1861
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In White's Ferry in 1863
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In Young's Point in April 1863
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In Williamsport on 15 November 1861
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1825.13
...f="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.Rounders.htm">http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.Rounders.htm</a>] for rounders shows no firm evidence that a game then

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Digger News
...The [[Next Destin'd Post]], a semi-regular newsletter associated with the Protoball Project. Issuance was suspended for some time while Larry McCray served as

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1828.16
|Comment=This book is also described in item [[1827.10]].  Protoball is attempting to determine whether the Voarino book itself touches on other John Thorn sent a PDF image of the full page to Protoball.  Contact lmccray@mit.edu to receive it.

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Howard Burman, April 2013
...the Protoball site at <a href="../Irish_Rounders_(Burman's_Report)">http://protoball.org/Irish_Rounders_(Burman’s_Report)</a>.  Today’s players

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In Columbus in 1863
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Picked Nine club of the 173rd New York
...her teams in Savannah in 1865. The city may have had baseball earlier. See Protoball Chronology, 1862.

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1586.2
...hard Jones, London]. One source attributes this work of Nicholas Breton. Protoball has not located this book.

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Harlem Club of New York
– From Protoball Entry #1859.20 – Two More BB Clubs Issue Rules

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Interview With Author Tom Gilbert
Protoball: You majored in Latin and Greek in college. What can you say about your p Protoball: The baseball world long endured a creation myth -- that the game was inve

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Craig Waff, January 2008
...klyn in the late 19th century, but also to collect systematically, for the PROTOBALL archives, copies of all baseball-related articles that appeared in these ne

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Union Club of East Pembroke v Union Club of East Pembroke in August 1858
|Description=This intramural game (marrieds 49, singles 52) appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by the

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Club of Ravenna
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1861.13 – Modern Game Comes to the Eastern OH Town

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Tom Altherr, April 2013
...he journal Base Ball, the SABR Originals newsletter, and Protoball’s online chronology and its Next Destin’d Post newslet

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Feeder
As of 2023, the Protoball chronology has 10 items of the game of feeder.

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Silver Moon Club of Belleville
Later Belleville teams included the Red Stockings (1875--see protoball entry) and the Browns (St. Louis Globe-Democrat, July 28, 1876)</p

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Ballgame in Manchester in 1860
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860c.11 – Man Played Base Ball in CT Before the War

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Stockton Base Ball Club
...layed games in May and September of 1860. The October game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [Calif. Table] compiled by Craig Waff.

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Hancock Club of Boston
...the Games They Played; Little, Brown & Company; 1908, cited in Kittel Protoball article on the MA game.

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Chapita
|Comment=Protoball welcomes additional details on this game.

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Coed Softball
|Comment=Protoball guesses that there is considerable local variation in such rules.

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First Game Slated for a Gold Mining Town
|Description=From Protoball Entry [[1860.59]] – Game Set for CA Mining Town

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Eagle Club of San Francisco
...agle Club played games in June and September 1860. The games appear on the Protoball Games Tabulation [Calif. Table] compiled by Craig Waff.

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In Indianapolis Circa 1840
|Comment=Shinny in Protoball is considered a game akin to field hockey, not baseball.

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Pastime Club of Brooklyn v Neosho Club of New Utrecht on 14 July 1859
|Description=This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported in the

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In Bourbon in 1856
Unclear what game this is, but the same newspaper in 1868 (see protoball entry for Plymouth) said town ball had been played in the vicinity for 40 y

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Empire Club of New York v Atlantic Club of Brooklyn on 29 November 1855
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Greater_New_York_City#date1855-11-29 This Thanksgiving Day game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC table] compiled by Craig Waff.

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Mercantile Club of Philadelphia
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1859.20 – Two More BB Clubs Issue Rules

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Ballgame in Cleveland in 1857
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1857.7 – Daily Base Ball Games [NY-Style] Found in Public Square i

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1540c.2
...es New Roman';">Email from John Bowman to Protoball, 8/14/2014 -- ...might refer to and only then did I google it and discover that indeed the Protoball site has listed it with its other name, "slap ball."   So I guess

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Hatters Alert Club of Philadelphia
Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Hook-em-Snivy
|Comment=Protoball asked Mister Google about the word "hookum snivy", and he, rather less help

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Canandaigua BBC
...bout July 20, 1859, as reported in the Rochester Union and Advertiser. See Protoball Games Tabulation (WNY table) compiled by Craig Waff.

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1860.59
1861-1865 - Note: Protoball has a Separate Compilation of Ballplaying in Civil War Camps

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Liberty Club of New Brunswick v Newark on 7 November 1859
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Greater_New_York_City#date1859-11-7 |Description=This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by Wil

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Stoolball
...re references to stoolball than to cricket in these early years.  For Protoball's listing of over 60 specific (but mostly fragmentary) sources on early sto ...a href="Stoolball_Today_--_The_Rejuvenation_of_an_Ancient_Pastime">https://protoball.org/Stoolball_Today_--_The_Rejuvenation_of_an_Ancient_Pastime</a>

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The Spread of Base Ball, 1859 - 1870
...idence for their conclusions. Inspired by the new information available at Protoball and elsewhere, I’ve tried to find the hard numbers for the early growth o First off, the figures from Protoball show that the growth in the number of cities with teams, with large increas

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1550c.1
...>Note: the inconsistencies among the preceding cricket entries in Protoball (see [[1478.1]]) need to be resolved . . . . or at least addressed

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Young American Base Ball Club of Dunkirk
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860.51 – Base Ball Is Reaching Remote Spots in New York State

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Club of Manchester
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860c.11 – Man Played Base Ball in CT Before the War

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Shinty
...me, it may have resembled what we now call field hockey.  As of 2022, Protoball.org has not collected much information on the history this game.  It a In August 2022, Protoball's legendary Bruce Allardice reports: 

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Jeffrey Kittel, January 2013
..., the Massachusetts game, and English Rounders (<a href="../Essays">http://protoball.org/Essays</a>.)    He has contributed essays to SABR’

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EF Aesop
...'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Initial Protoball Thread on EF and the Lack of Manhattan Playing Space (13 Posts, October 202 ...of the EF, with base ball one of many aspects to be addressed. My sense of Protoball's involvement is to aggregate facts (journalistic and visual) about base ba

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Magnolia Club of Philadelphia
...“Base Ball on the brain!" Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Club of Chester
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1861.8 – Vermont Club Forms

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Grant Base Ball Club of Philadelphia
...d in 1865. See Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865, Tholkes RIM. See Protoball 19C clippings. Aka U.S. Grant

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Club of Trenton
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1856.21 – Trenton Club Forms for "Invigorating Amusement"

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United States Club of Philadelphia
...“Base Ball on the brain!" Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Baseball Discovered -- A one-hour Emmy-nominated Documentary on Baseball's Beginnings
...and participated in the filming of this one-hour MLB.com film.  For a Protoball interview with the director, see [[<a title="Sam Marchiano and the 1755 Bra

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Club of Cazenovia v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 28 July 1860
|Description=This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by the

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1000c.1
...among the games was a "stick and ball" variety.  As of April 2, 2022, Protoball has not located a source for such a conclusion, or any details of how such |Submitted by=Protoball Functionary

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Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Pastime Club of Brooklyn on 8 October 1858
See Protoball Games Tab

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Good Intent Club of New Utrecht v Neosho Club of New Utrecht on 9 November 1859
|Description=The game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by the

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1862.104
...re We Knew It (U Nebraska, 2005), page 198. See also the brief Protoball Glossary entry on the game of [[Drive Ball]]. ...We Knew It ,(2005),  page 198.  See also the sketchy Protoball Glossary entry on [[Drive Ball]].

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Bruce Allardice
|Contributions=Bruce has made over 11,000 entries to Protoball as of 2023.. These entries include newly discovered first games or clubs in

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David Block's Data (so far) for Early English Base Ball Games
...(2019) has agreed to share his data -- over 500 finds, and counting -- via Protoball.org. Not that long ago, many of us saw American baseball as the brainchild ...ze-ball, tut-ball, etc. You can browse them here, and include them in the Protoball site's Enhanced Search feature. His introduction to the site is shown belo

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Western Club of Philadelphia
...“Base Ball on the brain!" Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Wiffle ball
...pan> appears in he Supplemental Text below.  It was furnished to Protoball by its author, Glenn Stout, on 8/17/2018.  ...nbsp; And fielding, too, for balls that do not leave the yard.   Protoball still has some things still to learn about the variants of this derivative

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Arctic Club of Philadelphia
|Sources=Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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1858.73
|Comment=As of July 2022, Protoball lists over 260 base ball clubs from that era.

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Fungo
|Description=Protoball's Glossary of Games includes many  nonrunning games in w Note:  Protoball welcomes additional information on known local fungo games.

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Curtin Club of Philadelphia
...“Base Ball on the brain!" Philadelphia City Item, Oct. 7, 1865. See Protoball 19C clippings.

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Bowdoin College Club of Brunswick v Sunrise Club of Brunswick on 10 October 1860
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860.23 – NY Game Gets to ME

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1853.19
Protoball suggests that this game was played by early Mass Game rules, based on the u <div dir="ltr">"Protoball 1853.19 reports an upcoming game between the Aurora and Olympic Clubs of Bo

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Union Club of Roseville v Adriatic Jr. Club of Young American on 17 October 1857
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Greater_New_York_City#date1857-10-17 |Comment=The winning club above is listed elsewhere in Protoball as the Roseville (Union) Club of Newark, Roseville being a section of Newar

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Interview with Bill Ryczek
|Digger=Protoball Functionary '''Protoball''': Nearly 30 years ago, you set off on a trail that would produce three bo

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Quinnipiack Club of New Haven
...a game against Fair Haven on about July 28, 1859. This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation (CT table) compiled by Craig Waff.

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K BBC v K Grammar on 20 June 1860
|Description=Protoball Entry 1860.25 – Wicket and Base Ball at Kenyon College, OH

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In Denver on 26 April 1862
<li>Protoball Entry #1862.8 – Base Ball in Colorado Territory</li>

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Club of Hong Kong
A Hong Kong club played a Shanghai Club in Shanghai. See Protoball Clippings.

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1861.37
...Spread of Base Ball after 1854" (draft), October 2012.  Data from the Protoball [[Games Tabulation]] (version 1.0) compiled by Craig Waff.

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1755c.7
|Submitted by=Protoball Functionary

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Athletics of North Adams
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Origins Newsletter
;https ://protoball.org/Origins_Newsletter_--_February_2021 ;https ://protoball.org/Origins_Newsletter_--_September_2021

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1803.2
...3] called another meeting at the same Nassau Street address. Submitted to Protoball 8/2/2005.

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First International Game Played by New York Rules
|Sources=[A] This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported as "th

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1853.2
...Protoball began to explore translations of its text.  See http://protoball.org/1845.29.

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Larry McCray, May 2011
...[[Larry McCray]] participated in several short articles in the Special Protoball Issue of Base Ball th

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Reconsidering Elysian Fields -- October 2022
...New Jersey's Elysian Fields in the 1840s and later.  This section of Protoball.org reflects an experiment.  Could a loosely organized series of email While the main fun may well be in the e-mail exchanges that ensue, Protoball will import material from the discussion on this page for the benefit of fu

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Continental Club of Chicago
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Trunket
This implies to Protoball that the batter runs bases after hitting the ball.  

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Penn Tigers Club of Philadelphia
...is not found following another intramural game on September 30, 1859. See Protoball Games Tabulation (Pha Table) compiled by Craig Waff. The 1859 game is said

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1838.14
|Comment=From Richard Hershberger, 2/11/2023: This appears not to be in Protoball.  This is from "An Unwhipped Schoolboy" by "T. S. F." originally from ...p; game of dodgeball involves throwing a ball at other participants.  Protoball is unclear whether that sort of game was common in the early 19th Century.&

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Rosette Club of Chicago
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O.K. Club of Chicago
|Entered by=Protoball Functionary

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Palant
...t (UNebraska Press, 2005), page 101. Protoball entry [[1609.1]] summarizes the Jamestown account.

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1867.24
As of 5/9/2021, Protoball shows: [] an 1859 mention of ice cream at Rockford IL at https://protoball.org/Ballgame_in_Rockford_in_June_1859 

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Hildegarde
...and in New Haven, (Morning Journal-Courier, 10/15/1883, per Protoball search of 10.13.2020. ...te: A tip on Hildegarde was provided by John Thorn, email to Protoball, 2/3/2014.  John also located the 1883 Boston coverage cited above. Ad

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Predecessor Game in Santa Barbara in April 1847
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1847.7 – Occupation Army Takes Ballgame to Natives In . . . Santa

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1732.1
|Comment=Protoball doesn't know of other early references to pop-fly hitting.

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Fordham College v College of St. Francis Xavier on 3 November 1859
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1859.2 – Elusive Intercollegiate Game [First Played by NY Rule

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1835c.18
|Comment=Protoball replied to Mr. Cohen, but communication was lost, and we are unable to add

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Flour City Club of Rochester
|Sources=From Protoball Entry #1858.27 – Flour Citys First Base Ball Club in Rochester

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1866.10
|Query=Protoball would welcome input on how the rules of this game differed, if at all, from

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Protoball Interview With Richard Hershberger
|Title=Protoball Interview With Richard Hershberger |Text=Protoball Interview with Richard Hershberger

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Rules of Irish Rounders
...t their version of Rounders is of “ancient Celtic origin,” most readers of Protoball will be struck by its remarkable similarity to 1860s NABBP baseball. One ca

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The Craig B. Waff Games Tabulation
...ble man, and a thoroughly exacting researcher, Craig had in 2007 contacted Protoball to discuss his idea of compiling, over time, all the findable press account ...other 800 or more game accounts in what would have been version 2.0 of the Protoball Games Tabulation. He's gone, but his unique vision remains in the high qua

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Dave's Tip No. 1 -- Using "Site Search" and "Enhanced Search"
At the top right of the every protoball page there is a search box with two buttons: one says "Site Search" and the * You want to search this entire site, including, for example, all the Protoball [[Articles]]

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1860.94
[[https://protoball.org/Clipping:A_'foul'_call;_and_a_force_play_remains_intact_even_after_the_ ...m>NYSM account preceded the new NAABP rule, and as of January 2022 is Protoball's earliest known use of "foul line" is shown above.  It thus appe

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Elysian Fields Discussion Topic One
...aw more then two interclub games at EF: there were three.  That year, Protoball shows 7 such games in New York.  Those games nearly doubled in each fo

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Corky Gaskell
|Contributions=In January 2018, Corky agreed to serve as moderator for a Protoball-based email conversation on how and why the base ball evolved the way it di

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Richard Hershberger Interview, October 2013
|Digger=Protoball Functionary Protoball: A few years ago you started posting to the SABR list-serve on early base b

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Stockton Base Ball Club v Live Oak Club of Stockton on 25 May 1860
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860.55 – Ballplaying Near Stockton CA

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1859.73
Protoball had asked: Was it common for southern soldiers to travel to the north in 18 ...te: When base ball got to Richmond it really swept in: as of October 2020, Protoball shows no clubs prior to 1866, but 24 clubs prior to 1867. Some other Chrono

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1861.24
See Protoball Pre-Pro, the Houston Ball Club, for more on this club.

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Live Oak Club of Rochester
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1855c.14 – New York Game Comes to Rochester NY

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New York Base Ball Club
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1845.18 – On "Second Anniversary," The NY Club Plays Intramura ...ually a reconstituted version of the Gothams of New York.  See http://protoball.org/Gothams_Club_of_New_York for more details.

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1820s.34
...rch College in the South (Durham, 1944), page 102 [not inspected by Protoball as of 2020].   Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Appl

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Brighton v Scrub Oak in Brighton on 26 September 1859
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:New_York_State,_Western#date1859-9-26 |Description=This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY Table} compiled by Craig Waff. The game was reported

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Elysian Fields Discussion Topic Two
...of the EF, with base ball one of many aspects to be addressed. My sense of Protoball's involvement is to aggregate facts (journalistic and visual) about base ba ...entered in for Manhattan, with approx. addresses. See Fields in NY - Protoball </div>

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Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York v Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York on 6 October 1845
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Greater_New_York_City#date1845-10-6 |Description=From Protoball Entry #1845.2 – Knicks Play First Recorded [Intramural] Game By The N

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Cavalry Base Ball
|Comment=Note: Protoball is not familiar enough with 1860s humor to determine exactly how authentic

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1830s.33
<div>[] As of February 2023, Protoball has no other data on pre-1845 balk rules.  Richard Hershberger hasn't Protoball welcomes further comment on the possible origin of the <span cl

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Skirt Ball
While this account was proffered to Protoball as the game of Skirt Ball, the account does not actually use that term.

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1781.2
...written a essay on early ballplaying at Harvard College; see Harry Lewis, "Protoball at Harvard: from Pastime to Contest," <span style="text-decoration: underli

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Pennsylvania Club of Philadelphia v Pennsylvania Club of Philadelphia on 12 November 1859
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Philadelphia#date1859-11-12 This intramural game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation (Pha Table) compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported on Nov

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1866c.1
...r, "When Did Umpires Start Calling Balls and Strikes?," available on Protoball at <url>.  Page 5 of 7.

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1836.13
...ed July 16, 1869.  Whether he was an errant wight is not yet known by Protoball.

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Burlington Club of Hamilton Ontario v Queen City Club of Buffalo on 17 August 1860
|Description=This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported as "th

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1806.4
...recorded evidence of ball play in Ohio." Note: Protoball knows of no earlier reference as of 2008.

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1844.1
...rre. Thanks to John Thorn for locating the text of the article -- email to Protoball of 2/10/2008.

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Ballplaying in Civil War Camps
...ivil War, see The 2018 Update by Bruce Allardice on Protoball.org. https://protoball.org/Ballplaying_by_Civil_War_Soldiers_1.0 ...e available from [[Larry McCray]], and will be proofed and uploaded to the Protoball website in the coming months. We welcome suggestions as to how to enrich t

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Rosette Club v Continental Club of Chicago in August 1870
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1786.1
...ll" precedes the first known use of "base ball" in  the US:  see protoball entry [[1791.1]].

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In Independence on 23 April 1849
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1849.13 – Did Cartwright Play Ball on His Way to California?</

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Club of St. Louis
|Description=From Protoball Entry #[[1859.39]] – Club Organized in St. Louis MO

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1860.43
|Query=This is the first VT item on base ball in the Protoball files, as of November 2008; can that be so? Earlier items above [#178.6, #1

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1800c.11
...ry=Any idea what 'cat and ball' might have been?  In February 2021 Protoball does not find that phrase.  It is conceivable that the author misheard

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Portland Base Ball Club
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1858.35 – New York Game Seen in Boston: Portland [ME] 47, Tri-

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In Plymouth in 1621
...ref 23. Full text supplied by John Thorn, 6/25/2005.Also covered in Protoball Chronology entry 1621.1

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1855.27
|Text=On July 31, 1855, according to [[Craig Waff]]'s Protoball [[Games Tabulation]], the first games were played by new clubs in Brooklyn.

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1660c.3
...ion Note=Email to Peter Mancuso, 6/25/2018, and followup additions sent to Protoball

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1828.19
|Query="Pedal members"? A pretty good Harvard friend of Protoball can't explain this term.

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Young Canadian Club of Toronto v Young American Club of Hamilton on 24 May 1859
|Description=From Protoball Entry #[[1859.41]] – First Game in Canada Played by New York Rules?</ ...le="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm" rel="nofollow"> </a>

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1538.1
|Submission Note=Emails to Protoball, 2006 and 2017

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Live Oak Club of Rochester v Lockport on 4 August 1859
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:New_York_State,_Western#date1859-8-4 This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [NY Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by the

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Drive Ball
|Query=These ambiguous bits appear to be Protoball's only references to drive ball; can we find out more about the nature of i

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EF Wind-up Memo
...ersations, Tom's robust EF Time Line (supplemented with 20 or so bits from Protoball's Chronology, Bob Bailey's substantial list of sources about EF, the fine 2

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Niagara Club of Buffalo
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1857.21 – Buffalo NY Sees its First Club

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1860.91
|Query=(A) The Protoball PrePro data base in shows that 44 runs were scored in 8.5 innings in this J (See http://protoball.org/Lone_Star_BBC_Club_of_Rochester_v_Live_Oak_Club_of_Rochester_on_4_July_

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Canadian Game
|Comment=Protoball draft, 5/7/2015; to be reworked as needed.

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Oina
...f a runner deflects a thrown ball with the palms, he is not put out. Note: Protoball’s initial evidence on oina came from the two western news accounts pr ...the following were scouted out by John Thorn, and submitted in an email to Protoball on 1/19/2017:

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Franklin Club of St. Joseph
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1860.31 – Base Ball Crosses State of Missouri

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Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Base Ball Club on 5 October 1858
This intramural game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation (WNY table) as compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported by

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1862.58
|Comment=Protoball wonders if the Mass Game was in fact unfamiliar in WI.

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Links
; [https://protoball.org/Base_Ball_Firsts Firsts in baseball as per Protoball]

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Harvard Class of 1866 Club of Cambridge
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1862.6 – Harvard Turns to the New York Game

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Tri-Mountain Club of Boston
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1857.5 – The Tide Starts Turning in New England – Trimou

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Uniforms
...topic that I have never thought deeply about. We did a quick search of the Protoball data bases, and turned up about 50 hits that reflect local coverage of earl === Incoming Inquiry From Craig Brown to Protoball, 8/7/2014 ===

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1856.39
[] Note: As of 2023, Protoball has 9 entries for  Illinois town ball prior to 1856.  See chron e ...sought_text">Illinois State Journal, May 1866:see https://protoball.org/Clipping:A_comparison_of_base_ball_and_town_ball, from the Hershberger

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Denver Base Ball Club
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1862.8 – Base Ball in Colorado Territory

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Leik Mjul
Isak is preparing a paper on the find for publication, and Protoball plans to update this entry at a later time. His March 2018 summary:

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Louisville Base Ball Club
|Description=From Protoball Entry#1858.19 – First KY Box Score Appears in Louisville Newspaper

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Elysian Fields Update
...site related to the Origins or Nineteenth Century Committees, for example, Protoball.org.

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1813.3
|Comment=As of June 2022, Protoball is not aware of accounts of ballplaying in Hawthorne's works.  For a r

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Lawrence Base Ball Club of Cambridge
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1858.51 – At Harvard, Two Clubs Play Series of Games by New Yo

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1857.46
...  For a bit more about the game, see <a href="../Corner_Ball.">http://protoball.org/Corner_Ball.</a>  

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1621.1
Note: From scrutinizing early reports of stoolball, Protoball does not find convincing evidence that it was a base-running game by the 16

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1821.99
"Some years ago George Thompson created a stir (see Protoball entry [[1823.1]]) with his find of a baseball game played at Jones' Retreat

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Sacramento Base Ball Club v Stockton Base Ball Club on 24 October 1860
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:California#date1860-10-24 From Protoball Entry #1860.41 – Base Ball Tourney in California

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1869.15
|Comment=Richard Hershberger explains (email to Protoball, 12/17/2021):  "The elasticity of balls varied wildly in th On 12/21/21, ballmaker Gaskell replied to a prior Protoball query for #1869.15: "Was the official NABBP ball relatively elastic or rela

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1867.26
Note: Protoball is not familiar enough with 1860s humor to determine exactly how authentic

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Detroit Base Ball Club of Detroit
One early president of the club was Edward Orr.  Protoball user Shannon Gordon put his genealogical skills to work, finding Orr in dif

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1870.4
|Submission Note=Email tp Protoball, 6/12/2014 from Gregory Christiano

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1828.17
|Submission Note=Email to Protoball, September 2006.

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Roundstakes
...-cat games and how youth adjusted to modern base ball when it arrived. See Protoball item [[1870c.8]].

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1846.25
|Submission Note=19CBB posting and email to Protoball, 12/18/2021

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In Wellington on 17 November 1888
See [[https://protoball.org/Marton_Base_Ball_Club]]  (1881 game). See [[https://protoball.org/Hicks-Sawyer_Minstrel_Co._side_1_v_Hicks-Sawyer_Minstrel_Co._side_2_in_

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In Hobart on 22 September 1855
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1855.29 – Even the Australians Are Bothered by Sunday Baseball

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The Union Hall Game of Ball
Protoball has seen many references to what amounts to foul territory in single wicket Email from John Thorn to Protoball, January 4, 2016:

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Early Risers Club of Detroit v Club of Detroit on 8 August 1859
|Description=This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation (Detroit table) compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported on ...ball.org/Games_Tab:Detroit" href="Games_Tab:Detroit" rel="nofollow">http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Detroit</a>, which cites (1) M. H. H., “Out-Door Sports

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Pioneer Club of Springfield v Atwater Club of Westfield, MA on 4 October 1858
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Massachusetts#date1858-10-4 This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [MA table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was played by New Yo

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1858.2
....0: see <a href="Games_Tab:Greater_New_York_City#date1859-9-7.">http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Greater_New_York_City#date1859-9-7.</a> ...could see through or over if they wished. The link to the photo is now in Protoball's entry on Camac.</div>

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First Known Integrated (Adult) Club Takes the Field
Brian Turner (email to Protoball, 2/1/2014), has supplementary data on early integrated play, and 

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1821.9
...eated a stir with his find (Note: see Protoball entry [[1823.1]])  of a baseball game played at Jones' Retreat in NYC

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1847.11
|Query=Could gentle readers please enlighten Protoball on the nature and fate of "hook-em-snivy," in AL or the South or elsewhere?

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1872.2
<div dir="auto">Richard Hershberger, subsequent email to Protoball,  3/12/2022: "Titusville adapted this from the NY Times of March

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Glossary of Games
'''The Protoball Glossary of (Mostly Base-running) Games is dedicated to Francis Willughby ( ...as a pretty good approximation of "modern" baseball, we began assembling a Protoball registry of both [a] earlier baserunning games and [b] later games that see

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BC 2,000,000c.1
|Submission Note=email sent to Protoball on Alexa's birthday

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-2500.2
Mark Pestana, who tipped Protoball off on the Sumerian reference, suggest two texts for further insight:  |Comment=Mark Pestana, who submitted this item to Protoball, observes, "Polo?  Croquet? Golf? Rounders?  I think it's interes

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1868.4
|Comment=Protoball would welcome additional details. 

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1862.8
...first three games were played on April 26, or earlier.  A comment in Protoball entry #1862.8 states these games were “intramural”.  I wou ...62.8 <a href="http://www.protoball.org/">www.protoball.org</a>

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Hittera Ball
 As of early January 2021, Protoball has no prior reference to "Hittera" at all. 

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1862.113
For more on Cartwright's life, see Protoball friend Monica Nucciarone, Al

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1865.8
Brian Turner (email to Protoball, 2/1/2014), has supplementary data on early integrated play, and 

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Stones
|Comment=[1] Protoball is uncertain of the meaning of Gomme's sentence on the lobbing of the ball

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Rough and Ready Ball Club v Aristonican Ball Club on 29 October 1859undefined
...ugh and Ready club also play a form of base ball?  [As of March 2022, Protoball lists 9 refs of Rough and Ready clubs in MA, mostly from South Walpole; non

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1858.10
...s a recollection 50 years after the fact. $1000, 10,000 people." [Email to Protoball, 2/27/07.]

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-700c.1
|Submitted by=Protoball Functionary

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1859.4
[D] Source missing at Protoball.

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Club of Augusta
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1859.4 – Base Ball Club Forms in Augusta GA: Town Ball Played

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Elle
...it is tempting to suppose that elle evolved from a rounders-like game, but Protoball has not seem such speculation. <div>Someone informed Protoball.org about an unusual baserunning game known as being played in Sri Lanka (f

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Shangai Base Ball Club of Shanghai
A Hong Kong club played a Shanghai Club in Shanghai. See Protoball Clippings.

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1850c.56
As of November, this entry contains one of three Protoball items that cite "gools" as a nme of bases in an early baserunning game.&nbs

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Don't Forget the Girls
...and its forerunners too. George Thompson posted an item (#1840.38) to the Protoball site from the Polynesian in Hawaii, which reported on December 26, 1840 tha

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Club of Newburgh
From Protoball Entry #1858.5 – Seven More Clubs Publish Their Rules

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Russian Baseball
...s=Rich Moser, posting to SABR discussion group, 3/15/2021, and email to Protoball on 3/28/2021. 

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Washington Base Ball Club of Olympia v Olympics Club of Victoria on 3 July 1872
Results of the game are previously noted in Protoball.

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1860.92
As of November 2020, Protoball shows 1 ballgame and 6 club entries that cite Bower City Clubs.

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1867.16
|Query=Is Protoball correct in thinking that the unnamed American's quote had appeared in an ea

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Alton Baseball Club
|Description=From Protoball entry #1858.42 – In Downstate Illinois, New Club Wins by 134 Rounds</

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Club of Newark v Oriental/Olympic Club of Newark on 13 July 1855
|Description=This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [NYC file] complied by Craig Waff. Reports appeared in the

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Young Canadians Club of Hamilton
Prior to 1860, Protoball has found 6 clubs in Canada (as of 4/21/21), compared to 660 in the United

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1847.14
|Submission Note=Emails to Protoball

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1839.7
...on.  As of 2020, this is the 6th pre-1840 reference to Newburyport in Protoball.

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1843.10
...played?  (It does appear to be the rule for [[barn ball]].)  -- Protoball functionary, 2/2/2021.

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Rochester Baseball Historical Society
...ion=Note: Protoball's PrePro data base includes data on 15 early clubs and 11 early g

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Cat-and-Dog
<a href="1706.2">http://protoball.org/1706.2</a> [Scotland] <a href="1833.3">http://protoball.org/1833.3</a> [Cat-and-dog as the ancestor of cricket]

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1858.61
...lack; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Protoball doesn't have any references to wicket clubs in Illinois during this period,

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Internet Search Tips
...As of November 2013, Bruce has found 1335 new games and new clubs for the Protoball PrePro data base.

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1830s.16
|Comment=A previous Protoball entry, listed as #1840s.16: "He [Abraham Lincoln in the 1840s] joined with

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Excelsior Club of Brooklyn v Excelsior Club of Baltimore on 22 September 1860
|Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Baltimore-Washington#date1860-9-22 This game appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [Balt./Wash. Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reporte

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1694.2
Upon further examination, Protoball notes that Anglia Notitia actually has two ongoing areas of special

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Early Championships
...In the newly collected data on the SABR "Spread of Base Ball" site, and in Protoball, a surprising number and variety of claims of area championships turned up, | [http://protoball.org/1859.42]

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Banana Ball
|Description=In May 2022, Protoball first heard of Banana Ball from Brett Hammond, who advised us of the follow

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Excelsior Club of Baltimore
|Description=From Protoball Entry #1858.46 – New York Game Arrives in Baltimore MD

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1860.32
As of November 2020, Protoball shows one ballgame and six club entries that cite Bower City Clubs.

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1860.46
|Sources=[A] This game appears on the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY Table] compiled by Craig Waff. It was reported as "th

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1799.1
...ently writing novels containing references to base-ball. Also submitted to Protoball 8/19/06 by Ian Maun.

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1845.32
...oball.org/1845.32</a> <a href="1845.32" target="_blank">Protoball Chronology #1845.32</a> NY Atlas Advises: THE O

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1846.21
...span>I believe this is new.  At least it is new to me, and not in the Protoball Chronology."

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1805.8
...ew Roman';">Protoball notes, circa 2010

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1871.11
<div dir="auto">Protoball, 2/9/2021: "How were errors treated?"</div>

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1863.1
[C]  Bruce Allardice, email to Protoball of August, 2013.

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Honey Run Town Ball Club of Germantown v Marion Town Ball Club of Germantown on 24 November 1859undefined
...United States Gazette (Philadelphia), November 21, 1859]Taken from protoball article, "What was town ball?"For more on town ball in Philadelphia

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1859.54
...oman';">Email from Richard Hershberger to Protoball, 2/4/2014: 

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Irish Rounders (Burman's Report)
...12, Howard Burman gamely accepted the job of doping out Irish Rounders for Protoball. This is his report.)

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1828.1
[] In 2021 Protoball asked David Block why the Bo

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1845.16
Bob Tholkes, to Protoball, 1/30/2023: "It’s a judgement. Wheaton, the writer of the Knick

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1856.38
Note:  As of 2023, Protoball has 9 entries for  town ball in Illinois prior to 1856, including clai see https://protoball.org/Clipping:A_comparison_of_base_ball_and_town_ball, from the Hershberger

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Bittle-Battle
|Sources=On the Domesday Book s-See Protoball Chronology #[[1086.1]]

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Chronologies
'''The Protoball Chronology is [[Tom Altherr Dedication|Dedicated to Tom Altherr]] in appre

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Rounders - Britain
Protoball has found scant evidence that rounders included retiring baserunners by hit Source: see Protoball entry [[1870c.8]] or [[roundstakes]].

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First Intercollegiate Game by Association Rules
...not document the cited sources in making its claim, and the comprehensive Protoball Games Tabulation, which carries accounts of about 200 NYC games in 1859, re

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1836c.11
...ey City (where I live!), written in 1871 but recalling a protoball club of the 1830s:' <br clear="

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Round Town (Round Town Ball)
 What Protoball Knows, May 2023 [E] Bruce Allardice, contributions to Protoball, (date lost).

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Rounders: Baseball's True Origin?
3 The Protoball website lists over 250 related ball and bat-ball games

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Ballplaying by Civil War Soldiers 1.0
The current Protoball collection of references to Civil War ball-playing (listed in the Chronolog ...centage of the population.<ref>For the curious: of the 1216 clubs that the Protoball database lists that were formed prior to 1861, 982 (81%) were located in th

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What Was Town Ball, Anyway?
Protoball Chronology [[1858.7]]; Note: Clippings from Cincinnati in 1858 report on th Protoball Chronology [[1860.35]]

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About Elysian Fields -- 2022
...''Finding Elysian Fields Data on Protoball.org (In preparation)''' ...rence to bat-and-ball play in Paris at a woods called Elysian Fields  Protoball fle 1760.2

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Union Club of Chicago
From Protoball Entry #[[1858.58]] – First Chicago Club Forms

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1805.2
<div dir="ltr">[] Larry McCray, 11/7/2020: As of November 2020, Protoball has 5 entries for trap ball in the US from 1713 to 1811.  However, the

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1831.1
For a little more on the game of town ball, see http://protoball.org/Town_Ball.   |Comment=Protoball would welcome an analysis of the US history of town ball and its variants.<

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1845 Knickerbocker Rules
Protoball over time.) Protoball Chronology 1845.1 (http://protoball.org/1845.1)

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1849.16
...ound a new game from 1849. At least > it is new to me, and not in Protoball. Games from this period are > extraordinarily rare. After a surge

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1805.4
|Submission Note=19CBB Posting, Email to Protoball

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Jacob 'Jack' Levy
...Victoria and Seattle. Below is a modified version of a chapter written by Protoball Digger Mark Brunke that appeared in Distant Replay! Washington's Jewis

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The Story of George Thompson’s 1823 Find --- Base Ball in New York City
'''And Here's That 1823 Paragraph''' (See also Protoball Entry [[1823.1]])

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Towards A Definition Of Baseball
The Protoball database lists 300 different predecessor and derivative bat-ball games. For

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What Was Rounders, Anyway?
...s, stories, diaries, etc., prior to “Clarke 1828.” See, for example, the Protoball subchronology of {{#ask: [[Category:Chronology]][[Game::Rounders]]|format=c

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Origins Newsletter -- February 2021
|Document=SABR-Origins Cmte-Protoball-newsletter-2021-02.pdf ...s of SABR’s Origins Committee, and the website for baseball’s origins, www.protoball.org, It is intended to foster research and discussion of the origins of th

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Contributions
| [[Protoball Functionary]] || class="number" | 2

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1870c.8
|Comment=Protoball does not know of other use of "roundstakes" as a predecessor game in the US

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1839.1
...ints out that parts of a third Graves letter are known.  His email to Protoball of 12/13/2012 reads:

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