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1808.3 + (Students get 10 lashes for playing bandy)
1659.1 + (Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day)
1801.5 + (Sunday Ballplaying Eyed Everywhere: "Is This a Christian Country?")
1858.64 + (Sunday Mercury Acknowledges English Origin of Base Ball)
1857.14 + (Sunrise Base Ball)
1773.1 + (Surrey/Kent Cricket Match Draws 12,000, Spawns Poetic Duel)
1737.1 + (Surreymen Play Londoners in Cricket for 500 Pounds a Side)
1795.2 + (Survey Reports Cricket in New England, Playing at Ball in TN)
1846.11 + (Suspicious Rochester NY Idler Observed Playing Wicket)
1855.41 + (Swift and Wild)
1586c.1 + (Sydney Cites Stoolball)
1820s.18 + (Syracuse NY Ball Field Remembered as Base Ball Site)
-2500.2 + (Tale of Game in Sumer, Possibly Using Ball and Mallet.)
1869.15 + (Teams Hassle Over Choice of Game Ball -- The Redstockings Liked the Less-elastic Variety)
1778.2 + (Teamster Sees Soldiers Play Ball.)
1848.3 + (Teen Diarist in NY/NJ Records Ballplaying)
1781.1 + (Teen Makes White Leather Balls for British Officers' Ball-Playing)
1860.2 + (Ten Thousand Players!)
1874.2 + (Tennessee Visitor Lauds Local "Base-ball, Shinny, Baste Grounds")
1864.34 + (Tenth MA Plays Inter-regimental Games of Base Ball and Wicket in VA)
1865.33 + (Texas Confederate Plays Town Ball Near Petersburg)
1862.50 + (Texas Ranger Plugs Waaay Too Hard)
1855.25 + (Text Perceives Rounders and Cricket, in Everyday French Conversations)
1862.37 + (Thanksgiving and Foot-ball . . . and Base-Ball)
1861.63 + (Thanksgiving game of 25th Massachusetts)
1855.28 + (Thanksgiving is for Football? Not in Gotham, Not Yet)
1634.1 + (That Archbishop Laud, He Certainly Doesn't Laud Stoolball)
1694.2 + (Thaw Arrives; Cricket Added to Old List of "Evening" English Pastimes)
1676.1 + (The "Citty of New Yorke" Sets a Fine for Sunday "Gameing or Playing: Ten Guilders)
1865.19 + (The "Slide Game" Protested)
1857.42 + (The "X" Letters)
1861.54 + (The "best players" of NYC and Brooklyn play in the army)
1862.19 + (The 39th Massachusetts Plays Ball)
1865.9 + (The Abolition of Suppers to Clubs)
1850s.59 + (The Antiquarian Knicks -- Purveyors of "The Greatest Game of Base Ball Ever Played")
1840s.46 + (The Balk -- From the Knicks, Prior US Games, or Abroad?)
1830s.33 + (The Balk Rule Existed Before the 1845 Knick Rules?)
BC2000 to 1000ADc.1 + (The Ball in Ancient Play)
1836c.4 + (The Ballgames "Old Cat" and "Base" Played in Concord MA)
1871.13 + (The Beginning of Base Ball Trivia?)
1851.9 + (The Beginning of Match Play Between Organized Clubs)
1840c.37 + (The Boyhood of Fallen Ohio Union Officer Had Included "Touch the Base")
1863.87 + (The Colonel umpired the game)
1855.1 + (The Confidence Game Frustrated)
1862.2 + (The Death of Jim Creighton at 21)
1873.14 + (The Delayed Double Steal -- New or Familiar?)
1854.16 + (The Eagle Club's Field Diagram - A Real Diamond)
1867.25 + (The End for the Massachusetts Game?)
1853.10 + (The First Base Ball Reporters - Cauldwell, Bray, Chadwick)
1844.20 + (The First Baseball Card, Arguably?)
1860.64 + (The First Enclosed Ballpark)
1857.13 + (The First Game Pic?)
1859.30 + (The First Triple Play, Maybe?)
1837.14 + (The First Uniforms in US Baserunning Games?)
1857.12 + (The First Vintage Games?)
1854.11 + (The Game in Ontario Resembled the MA Game, with Variations)
1860.65 + (The Grand Excursion, Part II)
1864.25 + (The Hothead Union Captain and the Foul Ball)
1848.4 + (The Knicks' Defensive Deployment, Thanksgiving Day Game)
1858.28 + (The MA Ball: Smaller, Lighter, "Double 8" Cover Design)
1868c.5 + (The Manufactured "Figure 8" Base Ball Appears?)
1861.83 + (The Mozart Regiment Plays Baseball)
1859.64 + (The Old Hidden Ball Trick)
1869.2 + (The Only Blemish)
1844.4 + (The Popular McGuffey's Reader Adds a New Woodcut of Ball Play)
1855.22 + (The Search for Base Ball Supremacy Begins? (It's the Knicks, For Now))
1870.1 + (The Streak Ends -- Reds Fall to Atlantic, 8-7, in 11 Innings)
1805.5 + (The Term "Bace" Not Related to Ballplaying, in Cornwall)
1860.94 + (The Term "Foul Line" Appears in Sunday Mercury Report on Excelsior-Atlantic Game)
BC 3500000 c.1 + (The Thumb Comes into Play)
1857.5 + (The Tide Starts Turning in New England - Trimountain Club Adopts NY Game)
1863.62 + (The Times Calls a Spade a Spade-- Base Ball is Obliterating Cricket)
1780c.7 + (The Young Josiah Quincy of MA: "My Heart was in Ball")
1863.119 + (The officers mingled with the men)
1862.55 + (They Do It Differently in Philadelphia)
1863.66 + (They didn't know the rules!)
1862.59 + (Thirsty Baserunning)
-1000s.1 + (Thirty Century-Old Leather-Covered Hardballs Found)
1857.49 + (Thirty Four Ball Clubs listed on Long Island)
1785.1 + (Thomas Jefferson: Hunting is Better for Character-building Than Ballplaying)
1830c.2 + (Thoreau Associates "Fast Day" with Base-Ball Played in Russet Fields)
1858.68 + (Thoreau Ponders Manliness in the Church and Base Ball)
1863.79 + (Thousands of soldiers playing ball)
1860.43 + (Three Ball Clubs Form in VT Village)
1860.56 + (Three Hartford CT Base Ball Clubs on the Move)
1865.25 + (Three Mutuals Banned for "Heaving" Game to Eckfords for $100)
1854.1 + (Three NY Clubs Meet: Agreed Rules Now Specify Pitching Distance "Not Less Than 15 Paces"")
1858.48 + (Three Youth Clubs in Rochester NY Disdain the NY Game)
1770.2 + (Three-on-Three Cricket Match Played on 100-Guinea Bet)
1743.2 + (Three-on-Three Cricket Match, A Close One, Draws Reported 10,000 Fans)
1868.8 + (Throwback ('Old-Fashioned') Game Planned in Rochester)
1866.10 + (Throwback Game of Cat-and-Dog Seen in Pittsburgh)
1825c.1 + (Thurlow Weed Recalls Baseball in Rochester NY)
1847.3 + (Tiny Book Has Odd Description of "Bat and Ball.")
1855.26 + (Tolland CT 265, Otis-Sandisfield MA 189 In Wicket Match)
1861.48 + (Too Cold for Baseball in Confederate Camp)
1820s.23 + (Town Ball Came to Central IL in the 1820s.)
1840s.42 + (Town Ball Club Finds Spot in NYC For Playing)
1860.13 + (Town Ball Hangs on in Philadelphia)
1863.110 + (Town Ball Played by 28th Alabama)
1856.39 + (Town Ball Played in Chicago in 1856?)
1855c.2 + (Town Ball Played in South Carolina)
1850s.31 + (Town Ball Played in Southeast MO)
1840s.41 + (Town Ball Recalled in Central IL)
1820s.5 + (Town Ball Recalled in Eastern IL)
1844.19 + (Town Ball Reported Among Cape May Attractions and "Mischief")
1829.5 + (Town Ball Takes Off in Philadelphia?)
1850s.30 + (Town Ball Well Known in Illinois)
1840c.17 + (Town Ball and Ballmaking in OH)
1750s.2 + (Town Ball and Cat Played in NC Lowlands?)
1862.74 + (Town Ball at Shiloh Battlefield)
1862.72 + (Town Ball club formed by Ohio Regiment in West Virginia)
1846.9 + (Town Ball in Rockford IL)
1830s.36 + (Town Ball, Bull Pen, Tip Cat Played in the Antebellum South)
1834.9 + (Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL)
1850s.20 + (Town-ball Played in Ohio with "Lazarus" Rule)
1845c.13 + (Town-ball in IN Later [and Vaguely?] Recalled)
1860.76 + (Trade Games Proliferate)
1862.82 + (Trainees of 13th MA and 51st PA)
1616c.1 + (Translation of Homer Depicts Virgins Playing Stool-Ball, Disturbing Ulysses' Snooze)
1822.4 + (Trap Ball Advertised at Inn)
1828.10 + (Trap Ball Scam Reported!)
1850s.13 + (Trap Ball, Stool Ball, Well Established in Louisville KY)
1719.1 + (Trap and Stool-ball Help Set the Mood . . . Again)
1837.4 + (Trap-ball Found in Book of "Many Exercises and Exercises for Ladies")

1300s.1 + (Trapball Played in the British Isles)

1704.1 + (Traveler Observes Ball-Playing in CT)
1652.1 + (Traveler in Wales Reports "Laudable" Sunday Games of "Trap, Cat, Stool-ball, Racket &c")
1860.77 + (Treat Us Special)
1856.21 + (Trenton Club Forms for "Invigorating Amusement")
1864.31 + (Trophy Ball Kept in 22nd MA Regiment)
1816.8 + (Troy NY Bans Ballplaying)
1860.49 + (Troy NY Writer: "Every Newspaper" Covers Base Ball Games, Some Showing Regrettable "Petty Meanness")
1850c.34 + (Tut-ball Played at Young Ladies School in England)
1863.33 + (Twenty Sixth NJ 20, Second NY 12, in Virginia)
1850c.44 + (Twenty or So Cricket Clubs Dot the US)
1862.112 + (Twenty-First CT plays baseball in camp)
1860.85 + (Twist That Ball)
1860.41 + (Two Base Ball Tourneys in California)
1849.16 + (Two Eight-player Teams Play Bass Ball at Elysian Fields)
1656.2 + (Two English Counties Agree: Stoolball Gets "Too Much Attention.")
1859.20 + (Two More BB Clubs Issue Rules)
1864.29 + (Two NY Regiments Play “Grand Game on the Parade Ground” in VA)
1832c.2 + (Two NYC Clubs Known to Play Pre-modern Base Ball -- Use the Plugging of Runners)
1738.1 + (Two New Yorkers Get Guard House Sentence for Ballplaying At Time of Religious Rites)
1712.1 + (Two Noblemen Blasted for Sunday Cricket Play, and for Betting Too)
1852.16 + (Two Wicket Groups Vie in Litchfield CT)
1850c.35 + (U. of Michigan Alum Recalls Baseball, Wicket, Old-Cat Games)
1784.1 + (UPenn Bans Ball Playing Near Open University Windows)
1835.6 + (US Book Describes "Barn Ball," "Base, or Goal Ball.")
1834.3 + (US Chapbook in German Reprises 1832 Woodcut)
1862.3 + (US Cricket Enters Steeper Decline)
1857.15 + (US Editor Promotes Cricket as the "National Game")
1848.21 + (US General Swats at Cannonball with Sword During Mexican American War Calling it Baseball)
1850.29 + (US Has Twenty Cricket Clubs)
1815c.1 + (US Prisoners in Ontario at End of War of 1812 Play Ball)
1815c.2 + (US Prisoners of War in England Play Ball - at Great Peril, It Turned Out)
1787.4 + (US Publisher Offers Books "More Pleasurable Than Bat and Ball")
1847.17 + (US Traveler Sees Baseball-Like Game in Northeastern France)
1835c.10 + (Ubiquitous Woodcut Pops Up in Cincinnati)
1846.15 + (Umpires 1, Players 0)
1872.6 + (Umpiring Evolves As A Profession: Certification, Bipartisan Pay)
1866c.1 + (Umps Finally Begin to Call Strikes and Balls)
1860.78 + (Unenforced Rules Get Chadwick's Goat)
1863.42 + (Union Army Captain Sees Base Ball Good for Morale, and Health Too)
1864.57 + (Union Army Parolees Play Baseball in Camp)
1862.94 + (Union Army Parolees Play baseball at Camp Douglas)
1867.27 + (Union Club Offers Season Tickets in Washington Paper)
1870.4 + (Union Club of Morrisania Disbands)
1859.11 + (Union College Forms Base Ball Team)
1810c.4 + (Union College [Upstate NY] Students Play Baseball-Like Game)
1830s.24 + (Union Cricket Club Gains Strength in Philadelphia PA)
1832.1 + (Union Cricket Club of Philadelphia Forms)
1830.3 + (Union General Joseph Hooker Plays Baseball as a Boy)
1861.32 + (Union General Refers to “Long Ball”)
1865.28 + (Union Guards at Elmira Prison Play Baseball with Confederate POWs)
1863.49 + (Union Men Celebrate Thanksgiving with “Grand Game of Townball”)
1864.59 + (Union POWs Play Town Ball)
1864.22 + (Union POWs in SC Given “Plot of Ground Where They Could Play Ball”)
1864.90 + (Union POWs play base ball in Macon POW Camp)
1862.80 + (Union POWs seen playing ball in Macon)
1864.30 + (Union Prisoner Reported Shot While Playing Ball in Texas Pen)
1864.26 + (Union Prisoners in Texas Given a Ball Ground – For a While)
1864.95 + (Union army garrison plays baseball at Fort Bartow)
1864.86 + (Union artillerists play baseball in Texas)
1862.116 + (Union occupiers play in Lexington MO)
1863.96 + (Union soldiers play ball in California)
1865.31 + (Union soldiers play baseball with Confederates)
1863.90 + (Union soldiers watch Confederates play ball)
1820.16 + (Union vs. Mechanics - First Mention of Club Cricket?)
1855.45 + (Unitarians' Christian Register Defends Base Ball on Fast Day)
1872.10 + (Unofficial Scoresheets Evolve, K's Not Reported Yet)
1833.8 + (Untitled Drawing of Ball Game [Wicket?] Appears in US 1830s Songbook)
1840.24 + (Unusual Georgia Townball Described in Unusual Detail)
1860.66 + (Unwanted Walk-Off)
1867.3 + (Upset Gives Western Clubs First win vs. the East)
1828c.3 + (Upstate Author Carried Now-Lost 1828 Clipping on Base Ball in Rochester)
1842.12 + (Use in VA of "Base Ball")
1862.81 + (VA Artillerymen play town ball)
1840s.36 + (VA Lad Plays Chermany at Recess)
1787.2 + (VT Man's Letter to Brother Says "Three Times is Out at Wicket")
1854.9 + (Van Cott Letter Summarizes Year in Base Ball in NYC; Foresees "Higher Position" for 1855 Base Ball)
1835.3 + (Van Cott Source Recalls Diamond-Shaped Field in 1835)
1856.36 + (Variant Schoolboy Ballgames Described North of NYC)
1866.15 + (Vassar has First female Base ball club?)
1861.8 + (Vermont Club Forms)
1803.5 + (Vermont Paper Associates Adult Tradesmen with Ballplaying)
1864.7 + (Vermont Regiment Plays in Louisiana)
1828c.5 + (Vermont Schoolboy Recalls Playing Goal, With Elm Trees as Goals)
1863.88 + (Vermont soldiers play base and foot ball)
1863.16 + (Vermonters Play Ball in Virginia)
1862.39 + (Vermonters Play Manly Sport of Football, (and Base Ball) in Virginia)
1610.1 + (Very Early Cricket Match)
1550c.2 + (Very Early Cricket Play Recalled at Southern England School.)
1851.4 + (Very Early Game in Illinois Involves Joliet, Lockport?)
1846.20 + (Very Early Knicks Game Washed Out . . . in Brooklyn)
1330.1 + (Vicar of Winkfield Advises Against Bat/Ball Games in Churchyards; First Stoolball Reference?)
1828.8 + (View of NYC Ballplayers "A Worse Menace Than Traffic")
1660c.1 + (Village Life: The Men to Foot-Ball, Maids and Kids to Stoolball)
1859.46 + (Visiting English Cricketers View the Bound Rule as "Childish")
1817.1 + (Visitor to Philly Tells of Cricket Play There)
1861.39 + (WAR!)
1864.19 + (Waiting for Sherman, and Playing, in Georgia)
1808.1 + (Wall Streeters Are Bearish on Ballplaying "and Other Annoyances")
1846.6 + (Walt Whitman Sees Boys Playing "Base" in Brooklyn: "Glorious")
1861.23 + (War Sinks Silver Balls)
1813.2 + (War of 1812 General in OH Said to Play Ball with "Lowest" Soldiers)
BC2400c.1 + (Was Egypt the Well-Spring of Ballplaying? Text Has “Strike the Ball” Reference)
1854.4 + (Was Lewis Wadsworth the First Paid Player?)
1830s.12 + (Watching Wicket Ball in Buffalo NY)
1820c.24 + (Waterbury CT Jaws Drop as Baptist Deacon Takes the Field)
1863.27 + (Weary Soldier Plays Ball a Little While)
1861.42 + (Welcome Back)
1837.8 + (Well, As Goes Canton, So Goes Indianapolis)
1747.2 + (Well-Advertised Women's Cricket Match Held, with 6-Pence Admission)
1849.14 + (Westfield Upsets Granville in Wicket)
1849.9 + (Westfield Whips Granville in Wicket)
1859.63 + (What Must I Do to Be Physically Saved?)
1853.6 + (When Boys Collect, A Spontaneous Game of Ball is Possible)
1743.3 + (When Cricket Still Had Foul Ground?)
1844.15 + (Whigs 81 Runs, Loco Focos 10 Runs, in "Political" Contest Near Canadian Border)
1829.7 + (While Playing Peacefully, "Wisdom Stole His Bat and Ball")
1704.2 + (While the Rurals Had Stool-ball and Cricket, the Londoner Had "Blood-Stirring Excitement")
1861.77 + (White House Secretaries watch Zouaves play ball)
1871.15 + (White Stockings Choose New Orleans for Extended Preseason Play)
1855.9 + (Whitman Puts "Good Game of Base-Ball" Among Favorite Americana)
1859.36 + (Why Cover Sports?)
1844.11 + (Why Fast Day Comes Only Once a Year?)
1850c.36 + (Wicket Ball in Amherst MA)
1825.8 + (Wicket Bat Reportedly Long [and Still?] Held in Deerfield MA Collection)
1836.10 + (Wicket Challenge Issued in Granby CT)

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