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• 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)
• 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 <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)