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1840c.14 + (Chapbook Shows a Ball Game, Recycles the "Butter Fingers" Lines)
1840.12 + (Chapbook of Games: "Now a Knock, and Swift it Flies")
1843c.5 + (Chapbook: Trap Ball and Cricket and Windows Don't Mix)
1863.22 + (Chaplain Reports Many Games of Ball in 16th New York)
1849.11 + (Character in Fictional Autobiography Played Cricket, Base-Ball)
1857.37 + (Charleston Newspaper Urges Cricket to help "Physical Education")
1871.19 + (Chicago Club Expires A Month After Great Chicago Fire)
1864.9 + (Chicago Marine Plays Base Ball in Louisiana)
1870.11 + (Chicago Switches to the Dead Ball, Starts Winning Again)
1865.36 + (Chicago artillerist plays baseball in Baton Rouge, earns $5)
1860.75 + (Chichester Redesigns the Base)
1824.2 + (Children's Book Calls Cricket "Noblest Game of All," and Trap-ball is Pleasing Too)
1810.2 + (Children's Book Describes Trap Ball and its Benefits)
1810.3 + (Children's Book Recommends Regular Play with "Trap, Bat, Ball," etc.)
1806.2 + (Children's Poem Traces Bouncing Ball)
1800.6 + (Children's Story Includes Promise to Provide Bats and Balls)
1826.1 + (Christian Visitor to Indiana Commune Unimpressed with Sunday Ballplaying There)
1861.52 + (Christmas Baseball in Camp)
1851.7 + (Christmas Bash Includes "Good Old Fashioned Game of Baseball")
1862.68 + (Christmas Day on Hilton Head)
1494c.1 + (Christopher Columbus and the Coefficient of Restitution)
1869.7 + (Cincinnati Club Forms as First All-Professional Nine)
1870.5 + (Cincinnati Club Introduces 50-cent Admission Fee)
1852.1 + (Claim: Cartwright Laid First Base Ball Field in Hawaii, Taught Baseball Widely)
1859.59 + (Clear Score)
1857.20 + (Clerks Take on Clerks in Albany, Field 16-Player Teams)
1845.12 + (Cleveland OH Bans "Any Game of Ball")
1872.8 + (Cleveland's NA Club Dissolves; League Financial Incentives to Blame?)
1841.17 + (Clevelanders Play Ball at Sunset on Water Street)
1860.93 + (Clipper Article Favors A Bare Alley Between Pitcher and Catcher)
1860.21 + (Clipper Backs Off Fly Game Support)
1855.19 + (Clipper Editor: NYC Now Has Five Clubs "in Good Condition")
1844.3 + (Clone of 1841 Book Covering Rounders and Feeder Appears)
1866.12 + (Club Claims County Championship in MA)
1859.17 + (Club Forms at College of New Jersey)
1859.39 + (Club Organized in St. Louis MO)
1859.49 + (Clubs Form in New Orleans LA, Interclub Play Begins)
1800c.3 + (Col. Jas. Lee Recalls Playing Baseball as a Youth.)
1820s.21 + (College Prez Was a Klutz at Ball and Cricket)
1859.2 + (Collegiate Game [the First Played by NY Rules?] in NYC)
1861.85 + (Colonel calls off drill so game can be played)
1867.2 + (Colored Clubs Play in Philly: Frederick Douglass Attends a Game)
1860.61 + (Colored Union Club Beats Unknowns, 33-24, in Brooklyn)
1841.1 + (Compendium Describes [Pentagonal] 5-Base Rounders, Feeder)
1860.45 + (Competitive "Old-Fashioned" Game Still Alive in Syracuse NY)
1855.31 + (Competitive Base Ball Suddenly Fills NY Metropolitan Area)
1861.18 + (Confederate Base Ball Players Finds Field "Too Boggy" in VA)
1861.26 + (Confederate Base Ball Players Finds Field “Too Boggy” in VA)
1863.123 + (Confederate Cavalry plays ball in WVA)
1864.67 + (Confederate Major pitches Town Ball)
1862.61 + (Confederate POWs in Indianapolis play base ball)
1864.64 + (Confederate POWs play baseball at Rock Island)
1862.60 + (Confederate POWs play baseball in New York City)
1864c.56 + (Confederate Prisoners Play Ball in Chicago)
1862.106 + (Confederate Prisoners Play Bull Pen at Fort Warren)
1861.36 + (Confederate Soldier Reports “Several Kinds of Ball”)
1861.20 + (Confederate Soldier's Diary Reports on Town Ball Playing, 1861-1863)
1861.30 + (Confederate Soldier’s Diary Reports on Town Ball Playing, 1861-1863)
1862.71 + (Confederate Surgeon encourages ball-playing)
1863.99 + (Confederate government clerks should play ball)
1862c.54 + (Confederate soldiers in need of base ball and cricket bats)
1863.91 + (Confederate soldiers play ball near Fredericksburg)
1862.75 + (Confederates Play Ball at Fort Sumter)
1637.1 + (Conservative Protestants Decry Sunday Play, See Grave Danger in it)
1875.1 + (Convention of "colored" clubs in New Orleans)
1838.3 + (Cooper Novel Home as Found Mentions Ballplaying in Cooperstown)
1816.1 + (Cooperstown NY Bans Downtown Ballplaying Near Future Site of HOF)
1863.35 + (Correspondent Sees Playing Base Ball and Cricket As Common Pastimes)
1841.9 + (County-wide Wicket Challenge Issued Near Rochester NY)
1871.3 + (Coup d'grace for the Amateur Era)
1841.5 + (Cover of Chapbook Shows Boys Playing Ball)
1845.9 + (Cover of Children's Book Depicts Ball Play)
1840.11 + (Cover of Widespread School Reader Shows Two Boys Playing Ball)
1833.3 + (Creation Wars Begin! English Author Takes on Strutt Theories on the Origins of Cricket and "Bat-and-Ball")
1860.81 + (Creighton Analyzed-- Is He Cheating?)
1856.16 + (Cricket "The Great Match at Hoboken" [US vs. Canada])
1828.6 + (Cricket Allows Species of Round-Arm Bowling)
1848.17 + (Cricket Along the Erie Canal)
1846.10 + (Cricket Ball Whacks School Prexy in the Head)
1766.1 + (Cricket Balls Advertised in US by James Rivington)
1855.7 + (Cricket Becoming "The National Game" in US: "Considerable Progress" Seen)
1801.4 + (Cricket Challenge in GA)
1852.15 + (Cricket Club Formed in San Francisco)
1803.2 + (Cricket Club Forms, Lasts a Year in NYC)
1778.7 + (Cricket Club To Play at New York Tavern)
1859.53 + (Cricket Club formed in Savannah, GA in 1859)
1850s.3 + (Cricket Club in Philadelphia, "Young America CC," Started for US-Born Only)
1839.5 + (Cricket Clubs Form in Upstate NY)
1822.3 + (Cricket Clubs, "Other Ball Clubs" Welcomed at Philadelphia PA Facility)
1726.1 + (Cricket Crowd is Eyed Nervously as Possibly Seditious)
1848.8 + (Cricket Flourishes at Haverford College PA)
1562.1 + (Cricket Forerunner an "Unlawful Game?")
1778.5 + (Cricket Game To Be Played at Cannon's Tavern, New York City)
1777.3 + (Cricket Gets Improved Wicket - A Third Stump Added)
1751.2 + (Cricket Lore: Ball Kills the Prince of Wales, Pretty Slowly)
1782.1 + (Cricket Match Scheduled for the Green, Near Shipyards,)
1847.16 + (Cricket Match in Hawaii)
1750c.1 + (Cricket No Longer Played Only With Rolled Deliveries to Batsmen)
1821.2 + (Cricket Not New in South Carolina)
1850s.27 + (Cricket Outshines Base Ball in Press Coverage)
1680s.2 + (Cricket Pitch Thought to be Established at 22 Yards)
1834.5 + (Cricket Play Begins at Haverford College)
1730c.2 + (Cricket Play at Eton Seen as Common)
1779.1 + (Cricket Played On Grounds near NYC's Brooklyn Ferry.)
1825c.6 + (Cricket Played at Southern Outings)
1737.3 + (Cricket Played in Georgia Town Square)
1858.40 + (Cricket Plays Catch-up; Plans a National Convention)
1825.11 + (Cricket Prohibited On or Near English Highways, We Mean It)
1803.3 + (Cricket Reaches Australia)
1825.10 + (Cricket Reaches Tasmania)
1818.4 + (Cricket Reported in Louisville KY?)
1774.1 + (Cricket Rules Adjusted - Visitors Bat First, LBW Added)
1798.2 + (Cricket Rules Revised a Little)
1857.24 + (Cricket Stories in the May 23 Clipper)
1782.4 + (Cricket To Be Played Near NYC Shipyards)
1840c.39 + (Cricket [or Maybe Wicket?] Played by Harvard Class of 1841)
1766.2 + (Cricket [or Wicket?] Challenge in CT)
1810.6 + (Cricket a "Popular Recreation" in Sydney)
1828.20 + (Cricket and Base and Football at Harvard?)
1842.13 + (Cricket and Bass Long Played in Pittsfield MA)
1842c.7 + (Cricket and Town Ball Recalled in Philadelphia PA)
1790s.6 + (Cricket as Played in Hamburg Resembled the U.S. Game of Wicket?)
1720.3 + (Cricket in Kent; Londoners Beat Kent Eleven, But Two Are Konked Out)
1859.72 + (Cricket in Madison, Wisconsin)
1820s.11 + (Cricket is Gradually "Cleaned Up;" Club Play Strengthens)
1866.16 + (Cricket reaches Galena Illinois)
1709.2 + (Cricket's First County Match?)
1683c.1 + (Cricket's First Wicket is Pitched)
1785.2 + (Cricket, Long After Reaching Tazmania, Gets Past Hadrian's Wall)
1788.1 + (Cricketer Experiments with Round-Arm Bowling)
1846.17 + (Cricketers Form All England Eleven)
1656.3 + (Cromwellians Needlessly Ban Cricket from Ireland)
1862.22 + (Crowd of 40,000 Said to Watch Christmas Day Game on SC Coast)
1867.4 + (Cummings' Curve Curtails Crimson's Clouting)
1629.2 + (Curate Can't Beat the Rap as Cricketer)
1847.11 + (Curling is "Bass Ball," or "Goal," or "Hook-em-Snivy," on the Ice?)
1864.91 + (DC Cavalry play in camp)
1857.7 + (Daily Base Ball Games Found in Public Square in Cleveland)
1864.54 + (Daily Eagle Sees Base Ball Now Played Throughout US North (East of the Mississippi))
1797.1 + (Daniel Webster Writes of "Playing Ball" While at Dartmouth)
1780.10 + (Dartmouth College Fine for Ballplay - Two Shillings)
1771.1 + (Dartmouth President Finds Gardening "More Useful" Than Ballplaying)
1857.32 + (Daybreak Club Forms in Providence RI)
1870.6 + (Dead Ball Adopted)
1870s.2 + (Debra Shattuck lists early female base ball)
1859.67 + (Debunking DeBost)
1795.4 + (Deerfield's Fine for Playing Ball: Six Cents)
1728.1 + (Delaware Resident Writes of Playing Trap Ball, with Cider as Reward)
1844.21 + (Delhi NY bans Goal, Ball)
1857.43 + (Deliberate Bad Pitches Noted)
1855c.3 + (Demo Game of Wicket, Seen as a CT Game, Later Played in Brooklyn)
1865.6 + (Detachment Forms BB Club in Trenton)
1859.40 + (Devotion to MA Game Erodes Significantly)
1869c.4 + (Diana Base Ball Club of Northwestern Female Seminary)
1863.3 + (Diarist Records 12 References to Ball-Playing, 1863-1864)
1863.37 + (Diarist at White Oak Church Camp in VA Plays Ball)
1863.13 + (Diarist in 8th Minnesota Mentions Ballplaying 4 Times – Maybe 5 Times)
1852.17 + (Dickens Names Cricket, but not Stoolball or Rounders, Among "Merriest" Games)
1849.13 + (Did Cartwright Play Ball on His Way to California?)
1853.7 + (Didactic Novel Pairs "Bass-Ball" and Rounders at Youths' Outing)
1862c.56 + (Dime Admission Free Adopted at More Sites)
1864.50 + (Dime for Admission, Two Dimes for Carriages)
1780s.5 + (Diminished in its Range, Stoolball Still Played at Brighton)
1393.1 + (Disconfirmed Poetry Lines Said to Denote Stoolball in Sussex)
1860.34 + (Disparate Ball Games Seen in New Hampshire)
1863.107 + (Dispute between MA and NY rules)
1823.7 + (Ditty: "You Take the Bat, and I'll carry the Ball")
1850c.54 + (Doc Adams Creates Modern Shortstop Position)
1839c.6 + (Doc Adams Enters the Field)
1840.1 + (Doc Adams Plays a Ball Game in NYC He [Later] Understands to be Base Ball)
1832.10 + (Doc Adams' Sister Writes of Bat and Ball Play)
1845c.15 + (Doc Adams, Ballmaker: The Hardball Becomes Hard)
1737.2 + (Doctor Writes of North Carolina Game Resembling Ireland's Trap Ball)
1790s.1 + (Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing)
1310.1 + (Documents Said to Describe Baseball-like Romanian Game of Oina)
1741c.1 + (Does Alexander Pope "Sneer" at Cricket in Epic Poem?)
1823.3 + (Don't Play Ball Inside the House!)
1861.43 + (Donkey Ball)
1863.86 + (Draftees Play Ball on Rikers Island)
1631.1 + (Drama by Philip Massenger Refers to Cat-Stick)
1863.61 + (Drawing Shows 1st NJ Artillery Playing Ball Game on a Diamond)
1863.141 + (Drill, baseball and glee clubs)
1862.70 + (Drummers defeat Fifers on Hilton Head)
1478.1 + (Du Cange Mentions "Criquet" Game in his Glossary)
1725.2 + (Duke of Richmond Issues Challenge to Play Single-Wicket Cricket)
1842.4 + (Duke of Wellington Requires Cricket Ground for Every Military Barrack.)
1853.2 + (Dutch Handbook for Boys Covers "Engelsch Balspel," Trap-ball, Tip-cat)
1656.1 + (Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands.)
1845.29 + (Dutch Publication Covers "Engelsch Balspel," "Kat," Other Batting Games)
1860.11 + (Eager for Base Ball)
1835c.14 + (Eagle Article Describes Early Ball-Making)
1852.3 + (Eagle Ball Club Rulebook Appears)
1865.20 + (Eagle Eyes Height and Weight)
1862.8 + (Earliest Base Ball in Colorado Territory)
1744.3 + (Earliest Full Cricket Scorecard for the "Greatest Match Ever Known")
1858.33 + (Earliest Games in Chicago IL?)
1704.4 + (Earliest Published Rules of Cricket [?])
1866.2 + (Early African American Club in Philly Plays Initial Game Agains Albany Visitors)
1820c.30 + (Early African American baseball)
1840s.21 + (Early Ball Contents: Nuts, Bullets, Rocks, Fish-eyes)
1851.2 + (Early Ballplaying on the SF Plaza (Horses Beware!))
1845c.25 + (Early Cricket Clubs in the South)
1705.1 + (Early Cricket Match "To Be Plaid . . . for 11 Guineas a Man")
1749.1 + (Early Cricket: Addington Club Takes On All-England, Five on Five)
1796.4 + (Early Geographer Sees Variety of Types New England Ballplaying)
1676.2 + (Early Limeys Take "Krickett" to Far Mediterranean Coast)
1855.30 + (Early Season Game Goes to Knicks, 27-14; Wadsworth Chided)
1591.1 + (Early Spanish-English Dictionary Mentions the "Trapsticke")
1845.27 + (Early Town-Ball Mention)
1864.58 + (Early Use of "Battery" As Pitcher-Catcher Pairing)
1653.2 + (Early Use of "Cricket" Seen in Rabelais Translation)
1857.16 + (Early Use of the Term "Town Ball" in NY Clipper)
1861.89 + (Early-Days Monster in Left Field?)
1866.8 + (Earned Runs Concept Advanced)
1538.1 + (Easter Ball Play at Churches Ends in France)
1822.6 + (Eastport bans "bat and ball")
1470c.1 + (Editor Sees Stoolball in Verse on Bachelorhood)
1858.24 + (Editorial Rips Base Ball "Mania" as a "Public Nuisance")
1743.1 + (Editorial: Cricket is OK, But Only for Rural Holiday Play)
1860.22 + (Educatin' the Readers)
1365.1 + (Edward III Prohibits Playing of Club-Ball.)
BC2000c.3 + (Egyptian Tomb Has Earliest Depiction of Catching (Fielding) a Ball?)
BC1460.1 + (Egyptian Tomb Inscriptions Show Bats, Balls)
1868.1 + (Elizabeth Cady Stanton describes Female Baseball Game in Peterboro, NY)
1865.13 + (Elysian? Yes. Sacred? No.)
1854.20 + (Empire Club Begins Play)
1854.7 + (Empire Club Constitution Appears)
1856.32 + (Empire Club Fields Two Catchers at Elysian Fields)
1838.7 + (English Anthology of Games Puts "Squares" Among Safe-Haven Ballgames)
1385.1 + (English Boys Play Ball "To the Grave Peril of Their Souls")
1853.12 + (English Cleric Promotes Co-ed Rounders)
1846.14 + (English Crew Teaches Rounders to Baltic Islanders)
1820.3 + (English Cricketers Play Two-Day Match Again New Yorkers)
1821.8 + (English Essayist Praises Youth Playing Bass-ball and Cricket)
1844.7 + (English Gent in NYC Goes Off to a Ball Game)
1818c.5 + (English Immigrants from Surrey See Cricket, Trap Ball in IL)
1850.23 + (English Novel Briefly Mentions Base-Ball)
1848.15 + (English Novel Mentions, Thread-the-Needle, "Base-Ball:" "Such Games!)
1658.1 + (English Parish Rewards Informant for Ratting on Sunday Trap-baller)
1555c.1 + (English Poet Condones Students' Yens "To Tosse the Ball, To Rene Base, Like Men of War")
1857.36 + (English Residents of Richmond, VA Try Unsuccessfully to Form A Cricket Club, Then Try Base Ball)
1859.44 + (English Social Event Includes Base Ball as Well as Cricket)
1567.1 + (English Translation of Horace Refers to "the Stoole Ball")
1820c.28 + (English Village Green Had Cricket, Bass-Ball)
1854.13 + (English Visitor Sees Wicket at Harvard)
1824c.3 + (English Writing Cites Base-ball as Girls'; Pastime, Limns Cricket Match)
1856.37 + (English excursion features cricket and "base-ball")
1840.9 + (Englishman Sees Base-ball as Commonly Played by Adult Men and Women)
1850.7 + (Englishman's Book of Games Refers to Rounders, Feeder)
1363.1 + (Englishmen Forbidden to Play Ball; Archery Much Preferred)

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1793.1 + (Engraving Shows Game with Wickets at Dartmouth College)
1805.4 + (Enigmatic Report: NY Gentlemen Play Game of "Bace," and Score is Gymnastics 41, Sons of Diagoras 34.)
1864.63 + (Entire Regiment Plays Sports)
1837c.12 + (Erasmus Hall School Alum Recalls Three-Base Game with Plugging)
1796.3 + (Eton Cricketers Flogged at School for Playing Match. Ouch.)
1867.22 + (Eureka! A Press Credential)
1855.29 + (Even the Australians Are Bothered by Sunday Baseball)
1863.19 + (Eventual National League Prexy Sticks with Cricket in War Camp)
1778.4 + (Ewing Reports Playing "At Base" and Wicket at Valley Forge - with the Father of his Country)
1856.15 + (Excelsior Base Ball Club Forms in Albany NY)
1861.70 + (Excelsior Brigade amuses itself)
1863.154 + (Excelsior Brigade plays base ball in camp)
1863.67 + (Excelsior Club Expels Turncoat Surgeon)
1854.5 + (Excelsior Club Forms in Brooklyn)
1860.7 + (Excelsiors Conduct Undefeated Western NY Road Trip. . ."First Tour Ever? First $500 Player Ever?)
1856.2 + (Excelsiors Publish Constitution)
1859.9 + (Excelsiors and Union Club play for $500 and MA Championship)
1856.20 + (Exciting Round Ball Game Played on Boston Common, Ends With 100-to-98 Tally)
1852.6 + (Exciting [Adult] Rounders in the Arctic)
1862.79 + (Exhilarating Game of Ball)
1815.8 + (Eyewitness On the Massacre of Seven U.S Soldiers at Dartmoor Prison in England)
1860.82 + (Famous Baseballists Turn To Cricket)
1841.16 + (Fast Day Choice in ME: Hear a "Fact Sermon" or Play Ball?)
1844.10 + (Fast Day Game in NH on the Common - Unless Arborism Goes Too Far)
1848.16 + (Fast-Day Notice to NH Subscribers)
1858c.65 + (Fat and Lean Base Ball Club Organized in Buffalo)
1797.3 + (Fayetteville NC Bans Sunday Ballplaying by African-Americans)
1852.10 + (Fictional "Up-Country" Location Cites Bass-Ball and Wicket)
1830c.28 + (Fictional Mom Recalls Liking to Bat Ball as a Girl)
1858.1 + (Fifty Clubs Said Active in New York Area - Plus Sixty Junior Clubs)
1821.6 + (Fifty-cent Fine in New Bedford for Those Who Play at Ball)
1854.14 + (Finally, Cricket Played in America Without Mostly English Immigrants!)
1866.7 + (Finally, Substitutes Make the Box Score)
1861.44 + (Fire Zouaves Play Baseball in DC)
1857.48 + (First Known Appearance of Term "New York Game")
1862.9 + (First Admission Fees for Baseball?)
1856.33 + (First Ball of the Base Ball Clubs Attracts 200 Couples at Niblo's Saloon)
1860.52 + (First Base Ball Match in St. Louis MO)
1857.39 + (First Baseball Attendance of a Thousand or More)
1845.34 + (First Baseball played in Brooklyn?)
1870c.7 + (First Catcher's Glove? About 1870, Perhaps)
1858.58 + (First Chicago Club Forms)
1858.55 + (First Club Forms in St. Paul MN)
1869.11 + (First Club to Wear Checked/Plaid Stockings)
1871.8 + (First Co-Ed college baseball game?)
1808.2 + (First Cricket Club in Boston is Established, Then Fades)
1867.20 + (First Cricket Match in Memphis)
1867.28 + (First Detailed Set of Rules for Stoolball Appear)
1727.1 + (First Documented Cricket Playing Rules Agreed to, for One-time Use)
1859.55 + (First Fly Baseball Game)
1859.41 + (First Game in Canada Played by New York Rules?)
1865.8 + (First Integrated (Adult) Club Takes the Field?)
1862.102 + (First Inter-City AA Game?)
1867.18 + (First Inter-Racial Baseball Game?)
1859.1 + (First Intercollegiate Ballgame: Amherst 73, Williams 32)
1860.46 + (First International Game Played by New York Rules)
1855.40 + (First Jr. Base Ball Club Founded)
1858.19 + (First KY Box Score Appears in Louisville Newspaper)
1869.14 + (First Known Inter-racial Game of Base-Ball)
1739.1 + (First Known Picture of Cricket Appears)
1866.6 + (First Known Table-top Base Ball Game Appears)
-700c.1 + (First Known Written Depiction of Ball Play?)
1744.1 + (First Laws of Cricket are Written in England)
1886.1 + (First League Championship Trophy is Commissioned)
1867.17 + (First Multi-Racial Baseball Team?)
1838.12 + (First Murder in a Baseball Game?)
1863.34 + (First New Jersey Brigade Plays Ball in 1863 and 1864.)
1854.2 + (First New England Team, the Olympics, Forms to Play Round Ball)
1856.7 + (First Official Use of the Term "Rounders" Appears?)
1865.27 + (First Organized Base Ball Game in NC?)
1827.3 + (First Oxford-Cambridge Cricket Match Held)
1867.30 + (First Patented Baseball Object)
1855.38 + (First Printing of Rules)
1871.18 + (First Pro League Game Doesn't Feature Offense)
1838.4 + (First Recorded Base Ball game in Canada [as reported in 1886]?)
1858.29 + (First Recorded College Game at Williams College)
1756.1 + (First Recorded Game by Hambledon Cricket Club)
1751.1 + (First Recorded US Cricket Match Played, "For a Considerable Wager," in NYC; New Yorkers Win, 167-80)
1859.54 + (First Reference to Change-of-Pace Pitching?)
1856.18 + (First Reported Canadian Base Ball Game Occurs, in Ontario)
1856.31 + (First Scholastic Play?)
1859.69 + (First Seasonal Analysis Includes Primordial Batting Statistic)
1861.15 + (First Sunday in the Army: "Ball-playing, Wrestling, and Some Card-Playing")
1866.13 + (First Team Name on Uniform Shirt)
1859.13 + (First Tour of English Eleven to US and Canada)
1838c.8 + (First US Baseball Poem[?]: There is No "Puling Cry" in Baseball)
1844.2 + (First US-Canada Cricket Match Held)
1866.14 + (First Uniform with Graphic Design)
1867.15 + (First Uniform with Serif Letter on Shirt)
1857.8 + (First Western club, the Franklin Club, forms in Detroit)
1859.5 + (First [or Second?] Pacific Coast Club, the Eagles, Forms)
1863.55 + (First and Second Nines of 9th NY Prevail at Yorktown VA)
1862.99 + (First ball playing in Wyoming)
1865.43 + (First baseball in North Carolina?)
1875.2 + (First female baseball team outside the US?)
1874.1 + (Firsts recorded African-American club in Louisville)
1848.22 + (Fitchburg Levies $1 fine for Striking balls with a bat-stick)
1865.21 + (Fitz Credited With Originating Tournaments)
1852.9 + (Five Fined in Brooklyn NY for Sunday Ballplaying Near a Church)
1570c.1 + (Five Indicted for Stoolball Play on Sunday)
1866.3 + (Five-Home Run game)
1856.19 + (Five-Player Base Ball Reported in NY, WI)
1864.17 + (Florida Regiments Mix it Up in Town Ball)
1863.44 + (Florida Sergeant Notes Baseball Fever – Well, Town-Ball Fever, Actually)
1863.43 + (Floridian: “Game of Ball . . . Has Become a Great Amusement Here”)
1858.27 + (Flour Citys First Base Ball Club in Rochester)
1860.72 + (Fly Game Again Swatted Down)
1860.9 + (Fly Game Wings Its Way to Boston)
1841.12 + (Fond OH Editor on Youthful Ball-playing: "We Like It")
1824.4 + (Fondly Remembering the First Ballplaying Richie Allen)
1872.1 + (Forest City Club Lists Player Duties, Role of Team Captain, Etc.)
1086.1 + (Form of Stool Ball Possibly Found in Domesday Book in Norman England?)
1564.1 + (Formal Complaint in Surrey: Stoolball is Played on Sunday)
1845c.7 + (Former Catcher Recalls Ballgame with Soaking and "Fugleing" in NYS)
1864c.52 + (Former Mass-Game Champs Form Winning Wartime Team)
1861.90 + (Fort Wayne soldiers play town ball)
1858.16 + (Four Jailed for "Criminal" Sunday Play in NJ)
1800c.4 + (Four Old Cat and Three Old Cat Well Known in MA)
1860c.4 + (Four Teams of African-Americans, All in the NYC Area, Are Reported)
1858.10 + (Four-day Attendance of 40,000 Souls Watch Famous Roundball Game in Worcester)
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 das Giftball, 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)
1862.25 + (Hitting Creighton: Patience Pays)
1837.9 + (Hoboken, NJ - Already a Mecca for Ballplayers)
1860.89 + (Holder Whiffs Smoking)
1847.14 + (Holiday Encroached by Round Ball, Long Ball, Old Cat)
1847.18 + (Holiday Round Ball in NH)
1720.2 + (Holiday in Kent: Cricket, Stool-Ball, Tippling, Kissing)
1820s.20 + (Horace Greeley Lacks the Knack, Fears Getting Whacked)
1820c.35 + (Horace Greeley No Ballplayer)
1861.24 + (Houston, We Have A Problem)
1727.2 + (How To Score at Cricket, Olde Style)
1804.5 + (Hudson (NY) Bee Prints "The Laws of Cricket")
1800.10 + (Hudson NY Council Prohibits Boys' Ballplaying, Preserves Turf. Etc.)
-2000000c.2 + (Humans Evolve as Runners)
1857.46 + (Hundreds Gather to Watch Exciting Game of Corner Ball)
1858.61 + (IL "Base Ball and Wicket Club" Takes the Field for 3.6 Hour Game)
1856.38 + (IL Ballclubs Play Town Ball in 1856, 1858)
1868.3 + (IL Club Supplies Public Bulletin Board for Trip Updates)
1847.10 + (Ice Bowl)
1853.8 + (If Balls and Bats Were Coinage, They Were Millionaires)
1850s.25 + (If It's May Day, Boston Needs All its Sam Malones at the Commons!)
1865.2 + (Illinois Soldier Plays Wicket Near War’s End)
1862.18 + (Impact of War Lessens in NYC)
1820s.34 + (Impromptu Ballplaying Recalled at Transylvania University)
1816.5 + (In "The Year Without a Summer," CT Lads Play Ball on Christmas Day)
1863.38 + (In 10th MA: Ballplaying Has “Become a Mania” in 1863 Camp, Wicket Also Played in 1864)
1863.17 + (In 19th MA Camp, “Base Ball Fever Broke Out” in 1863)
1844.16 + (In Bass Ball, Club is "Skinned from Top to Stem")
1790s.7 + (In Boston, "Boys Played Ball in the Streets?")
1855.43 + (In Boston, Olympic Beats Elm Tree, 75-46)

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