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• 1672c.2  + (Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described)
• 1818c.7  + (Franz Schubert Watches a "Game of Ball" Near Vienna)
• 1779.4  + (French Official Sees George Washington Playing Catch "For Hours")
• 1856.10  + (French Work Describes Poisoned Ball and La Balle au Baton)
• 1611.1  + (French-English Dictionary Cites "Cat and Trap" and Cricket)
• 1440c.1  + (Fresco at Casa Borromeo shows Female Ball Players)
• 1845c.24  + (Future Congressman Plays Ball at Phillips Andover?)
• 1850s.40  + (Future Historian Plays Ball in NYC Streets)
• 1810c.8  + (Future Lord Prefers Studies to Rounders, Cricket)
• 1850s.45  + (Future NL President Plays ball in Mohawk Valley of New York)
• 1861.21  + (Future Nurse Muses on Enlistees Playing Ball)
• 1830s.21  + (Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball)
• 1825c.14  + (Future Ohio Governor is "Best Ball Player at the College")
• 1830s.16  + (Future President Lincoln Plays Town Ball, Joins Hopping Contests)
• 1863.117  + (Future President notes ballplaying in camp)
• 1770c.3  + (Future Professor Sneaks a Smoke When He Can't Play Bat and Ball)
• 1790s.11  + (Future Ship Captain Chooses Reading Over Boyish Sports)
• 1856.35  + (Future Star Dickey Pearce Discovers the Decade-old No-Plugging Rule)
• 1795.6  + (Future Tennessee Governor, at age 50, "Played at Ball")
• 1840c.33  + (Future University Head Plays Two Types of Ball in NC)
• 1661.1  + (Galileo Galilei Discovers . . . Backspin!)
• 1786.2  + (Game Called Wicket Reported in England)
• 1860.59  + (Game Set for CA Mining Town)
• 1862.30  + (Game Suspended When BIG Fight Breaks Out)
• 1836c.12  + (Game With Plugging of Runners Later Recalled in Jersey City)
• 1850s.60  + (Game of "Round-Ball" Recalled Much Later)
• 1828.19  + (Game of Base Mentioned in Account of Life at Harvard)
• 1720c.4  + (Game of Base was "A Peculiar Favorite")
• 1848.14  + (Game of Baseball Attains Official Perch in Lexicon!)
• 1850.52  + (Game of Wicket Near Springfield Goes Bad)
• 1857.27  + (Game of Wicket Reaches IA)
• 1862.57  + (Games Between NY and MA Regiments Punctuated by Artillery)
• 1807.2  + (Games Recalled at Phillips Exeter Academy)
• 1851.8  + (Games of Ball Seen in Sacramento CA in 1851, 1854)
• 1863.145  + (Games of Foot and Base ball between drills)
• 1575.1  + (Gascoigne's Poem "The Fruits of War" Refers to Tut-ball)
• 1863.136  + (Gen. Grant enjoys watching ball game)
• 1856.13  + (General Base Ball Rules Are Published)
• 1864.53  + (General Hooker's Players "Pretty Badly Beat", 70-11)
• 1863.59  + (General Supports Ballplaying by RI Unit)
• 1869.13  + (George Wright Joins the All-Professional Cincinnati Club)
• 1836.6  + (Georgetown U Students "play Ball")
• 1863.57  + (Georgia Corporal Plays Town Ball)
• 1863.150  + (Georgia solders play town ball)
• 1862.117  + (Georgia soldiers play town and base ball in NC)
• 1863.100  + (Georgians change from base to snow-balling)
• 1815.3  + (German Book Apparently Shows a Batting Game)
• 1836.2  + (German Book of Games Copies Gutsmuths' Base-ball Piece)
• 1845.10  + (German Book of Games Lists <i>das Giftball</i>, a Bat-and-Ball Game)
• 1837.13  + (German-English Dictionary Cites "Base-ball")

• 1301.1  + (Ghistelles Calendar Depicts Vigorous-Looking Bat/Ball Game)

• 1859.51  + (Girls Play Base Ball at Eagleswood School)
• 1852.13  + (Gotham Club Forms; Knicks Have First Rival Team)
• 1856.12  + (Gothams 21, Knicks 7; Fans Show Greatest Interest Ever; "Revolver" Controversy)
• 1864.35  + (Government Promotes Base Ball)
• 1862.13  + (Government Survey: Athletic Games Forestall Woes of Soldiers Gambling)
• 1835c.16  + (Graduate Grimly Recalls Rounders at Greenwich School in England)
• 1858.52  + (Grand Wicket Match in Waterbury CT)
• 1863.104  + (Grant's Men Play Town-Ball in the Swamps)
• 1839.1  + (Graves Letters of 1905 Say that Doubleday Invented Base Ball)
• 1815.6  + (Group at Dartmouth Ponders Worth of Ballplaying, Nocturnal Cowhunting)
• 1835c.15  + (Grown Man Mourns as Trenton's Playing Fields Vanish)
• 1850s.15  + (Gunnery School in CT Imports Base Ball from NY)
• 1796.1  + (Gutsmuths describes [in German, yet] "Englische Base-Ball")
• 1823.10  + (Hagerstown bans ball playing at the Court House)
• 1847.5  + (Halliwell's 960-Page Dictionary Cites Base-ball, Rounders, Tut-ball)
• 1861.64  + (Happy Pennsylvanians near DC)
• 1872.4  + (Harry Wright Offers Game, Players, to Harvard)
• 1856.1  + (Harry and George Wright Both at St. George CC in New York)
• 1853.20  + (Hartford Courant describes Long Ball)
• 1852c.11  + (Hartford Lads Play Early Morning Wicket on Main Street)
• 1840.44  + (Hartford Players Best Granville MA Players at Wicket)
• 1810s.5  + (Harvard Library Worker Recalls Occasional Bi-racial Ball Play in Harvard Yard)
• 1842.3  + (Harvard Man George Hoar Writes of Playing "Simple Game We Called Base")
• 1760s.1  + (Harvard Man Recalls Cricket, "Various Games of Bat and Ball" on Campus)
• 1820s.33  + (Harvard Man: "We had Baseball")
• 1862.6  + (Harvard Seeks Base Ball Rivals, Settles on Brown)
• 1858.8  + (Harvard Student Magazine Notes "Multitude" Playing Base or Cricket There)
• 1863.56  + (Have Fast Ball Will Travel)
• 1842c.9  + (Haverford Students Form Cricket Team of Americans)
• 1863.76  + (Hawkeyes beat Suckers in Corinth, MS)
• 1863.126  + (Hawkins' Zouaves Play 51st NY)
• 1862.47  + (Hawthorne Sees Ballplaying at Washington-area Camp)
• 1861.87  + (Heavy battle losses don't stop baseball playing)
• 1865.41  + (Helath Benefits of Baseball to Soldiers)
• 1864.39  + (Helping the Sanitary Commission)
• 1861.4  + (Henry Chadwick Links Base Ball to Rounders - But It's More "Scientific")
• 1847c.1  + (Henry Chadwick Plays a "Scrub" Game of Baseball?)
• 1868.4  + (Henry Chadwick's Cholera Scare May Have Doomed American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes)
• 1865.30  + (Henry Chadwick, Shortstop)
• 1863.30  + (Herald Reports [Presumably] NY/NJ Match in Army of the Potomac)
• 1819.3  + (Herefordshire: "Large Parties" Play Wicket ("Old-Fashioned Cricket"))
• 1859.71  + (Hidden Ball Trick is Effective as a "Dodge" for the Atlantic Club)
• 1863.41  + (High-Stakes Matches Dot VA as Winter Camps Thaw Out)
• 1844.17  + (Hilarious "Base Ball" and "Two Old Cat" Recalled by Chicagoan)
• 1613.1  + (His and Her Stool-ball Banter: Play, or Foreplay?)
• 1794.2  + (Historian Cites "Club-ball")
• BC100.1  + (Historian Dates Early Cricket to 100 BC - Others Disagree)
• 1854.8  + (Historian Describes Facet of 1850s "School Boys' Game of Rounders")
• 1799.1  + (Historical Novel, Set in About 1650, Refers to Cricket, Base-ball)
• 1869.5  + (Hits Elevated to Prominent Status in Box Scores)