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- 1858.35 + (New York Game Seen in Boston: Portland [ME] 47, Tri-Mountains 42.)
- 1863.77 + (New York Regiments play in camp near Falmouth)
- 1856.5 + (New York Sunday Mercury and Porter's Spirit of the Times Term Base Ball the "National Pastime")
- 1861.74 + (New York Times advocates baseball for the army)
- 1867.1 + (New York and Philly Colored Clubs Hold Championship -- Philly Win Is Disputed)
- 1859.28 + (New Yorker Dies Playing Base Ball)
- 1864.3 + (New Yorker Plays January Games of Ball)
- 1751.3 + (New Yorkers Beat London Players in "Great Cricket Match", 167-80)
- 1864.33 + (New Yorkers Lose Their Only Ball, and Their Centerfielder)
- 1855.47 + (Newark Club Hosts Jersey City -- Earliest Knick-rules Tilt in NJ?)
- 1744.2 + (Newbery's <i>Little Pretty Pocket-Book</i> Refers to "Base-Ball," "Stooleball, "Trap-Ball," Cricket)
- 1797.2 + (Newburyport MA Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games)
- 1813.1 + (Newburyport MA Reminder - "Playing Ball in the Streets" is Unlawful)
- 1780s.6 + (Newell Sees Baseball's Roots in MA)
- 1858.7 + (Newly Reformed Game of Town Ball Played in Cincinnati OH)
- 1845.31 + (News Writer (Whitman, Perhaps?) Extols "Base," Cricket)
- 1771.4 + (Newspaper Quotes Odds for 2-Day London Cricket Match)
- 1838.13 + (Nicholson Map shows Possible Ball Grounds on Manhattan Island)
- 1550c.1 + (No English Reference Claimed for the Word "Cricket" Found Before 1550)
- 1859.99 + (No It Isn't! Yes It Is!)
- 1863.74 + (No fear of breaking windows)
- 1788.2 + (Noah Webster, CT Ballplayer?)
- 1540c.2 + (Nobleman Recalls "Palm Play" in Royal Court)
- 1816.10 + (Norfolk VA Cricket Club Reported)
- 1767.2 + (North-South Game of Cricket in Hartford CT)
- 1791.2 + (Northampton MA Prohibits Downtown Ballplaying (and Stone-Throwing))
- 1832.9 + (Norwich CT Sets $2 Fine for Playing Ball)
- 1878.1 + (Nostalgia for old games of Two Old Cat, Three Old Cat, Bull Pen, Run Around)
- 1857.44 + (Not Glued or Sewn to Second Base)
- 1844.6 + (Novel Cites "the Game of Bass in the Fields")
- 1870.13 + (November News: Will the Atlantic Club Stay Strong?)
- 1855c.32 + (Numerous Base Ball Clubs Now Active in NYC)
- 1858.54 + (OFBB Variant Played in Buffalo NY; 11 Players, 12 Innings)
- 1847.7 + (Occupation Army Takes Ballgame to Natives In . . . Santa Barbara?)
- 1850s.19 + (Occupational, Company Teams Appear)
- 1820c.26 + (Octogenarian Recalls Frequency of Play, How Balls Were Made in NY)
- 1864.101 + (Officers Play Baseball on Folly Island)
- 1864.6 + (Officers in 30th MA Play Base Ball In February 1864)
- 1863.128 + (Officers of 44th NY defeat officers of the 12th)
- 1861.94 + (Officers of US Chasseurs Play Base Ball)
- 1863.199 + (Officers of the 24th MA play baseball)
- 1862.31 + (Officer’s Wife Reports on an Evening at Camp with 16th NY Regiment)
- 1862.44 + (Ohio Soldier Sees “Most of Our Company “ Playing Pre-battle Bat Ball)
- 1861.62 + (Ohio Soldiers box and play ball)
- 1863.75 + (Ohio soldiers play at Lexington, KY)
- 1864.24 + (Ohioan in Sherman’s Force Plays Near Atlanta)
- 1835.8 + (Old Woodcut, New Caption Uses the Term "Knock")
- 1840c.23 + (Old-Fashioned Ballgame Noted in Antebellum GA)
- 1860.47 + (Old-Fashioned Base Ball in Buffalo NY)
- 1829c.1 + (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Plays Ball as a Harvard student.)
- 1824.6 + (Oliver Wendell Holmes Recalls Schoolboy Baseball and Phillips Academy in MA)
- 1837.6 + (Olympic Ball Club Constitution Requires Umpires)
- 1857.30 + (Olympic Club's Version of MA Game Rules Published)
- 1845.18 + (On "Second Anniversary," The NY Club Plays Intramural Game)
- 1857.47 + (On Boston Common, "Several Parties Engaged in Matches of Base Ball" on Fast Day)
- 1865.4 + (On Last Day of Service, PA Soldiers Play Ball)
- 1843.4 + (On Yale's Green, Many a "Brisk Game of Wicket")
- 1838.11 + (On a Day Trip to Camden NJ, Philly Man Documents Olympic Club)
- 1859.57 + (On to Texas)
- 1700.1 + (One of the Earliest Public Notices of a Cricket Match?)
- 1846.19 + (One-Horse Wagon's Driver 1, Wicket Players 0)
- 1840.7 + (One-handed Bat Shown in Book of Children's Verse)
- 1803.1 + (Ontario Diarist Reports Joining Men "Jumping and Playing Ball")
- 1861.7 + (Ontario Lads to Try the New York Game, May Forego "Canadian Game")
- 1835c.12 + (Oops, He Missed It; Will He Be Called "Old Butter Fingers?")
- 1865.37 + (Opdycke's Tigers Play ball in AL)
- 1848.19 + (Organization Men at the KBBC in 1848)
- 1854.3 + (Organized Round Ball in New England Morphs Toward the "MA Game")
- 1860.53 + (Organized Town Ball in St. Louis)
- 1865.26 + (Otis MA Bests Lee MA at Wicket, 236 - 232)
- 1873.11 + (Outfield Duties Evolve -- Red Stockings Credited)
- BC 2,000,000c.1 + (Overhand Throwing Evolves in Primates)
- 1816.12 + (Oxfordshire Churchman Urges Base-Ball Fields for Girls)
- 1862.10 + (PA Base Ball Moves Beyond Philadelphia)
- 1830s.29 + (PA Schoolboys Recalled as Playing Town Ball and Long Ball)
- 1864.10 + (PA Soldier Records Ballplaying in NC)
- 1863.7 + (PA Unit Tries Cricket and Base-ball)
- 1864.98 + (POWs form Wicket, Cricket and Baseball Clubs)
- 1845.19 + (Painter Depicts Some Type of Old-Fashioned Ball?)
- 1845.20 + (Painting Shows Crossed Bats and Some Balls in School)
- 1478.2 + (Parliament Speaks: Jail or Fine for Unlawful Gameplaying)
- 1862.115 + (Parolees play baseball at Camp Douglas)
- 1855.39 + (Pastime of Despots)
- 1869.12 + (Pastimes Adopt First Striped Stockings for Uniforms)
- 1850c.17 + (Patch Baseball Played in Upstate New York)
- 1731.1 + (Patient Thousands Watch First Known Drawn Match in Cricket)
- 1863.21 + (Pennsylvania Soldier Notes Ballplaying in the 12th PA)
- 1802.4 + (Philadelphia Book: "Bat and Ball is an Inferior Kind of Cricket")
- 1871.17 + (Philadelphia Claims Best 1870 US Record -- Over the Red Stockings? Really?)
- 1841.8 + (Philadelphia Cricket Club Issues Challenge for Matches at $50 to $100)
- 1859.10 + (Philadelphia Man Interested in Forming MA Game Club)
- 1829.1 + (Philadelphians Play Ball)
- 1859.19 + (Phillips Exeter Academy Used Plugging in "Base-ball?")
- 1870.10 + (Philly Paper Lists Betting Odds for US Championship Match in Brooklyn)
- 1860.68 + (Philly Teams Try to Organize)
- 1862.49 + (Photo Caption Sings of “Marvelous New Game,” Doesn’t Deliver)
- 1762.1 + (Pirated Version of <u>Little Pretty Book</u> Uses Term "Base-ball.")
- 1861.69 + (Pitching Quoits and Playing Ball)
- 1834.10 + (Plattsburgh NY Sets Fifty Cent Fine for Ball Play)
- 1612c.1 + (Play Attributed to Shakespeare Cites Stool-ball)
- 1637.2 + (Play Mentions Trap)
- 1653.1 + (Play Refers to Trapsticks)
- 1629.1 + (Play Refers to Weakling Who Was "Beat . . . With a Trap Stick")
- 1863.134 + (Played ball "in a new way")
- 1871.10 + (Player Salaries Bump Up: Well-funded Mutuals Deplete the Atlantics)
- 1830s.6 + (Players Drink Egg-Nog in Base Ball Intervals in Portsmouth NH)
- 1864.14 + (Players “Lamed Badly” at Ballplaying)
- 1820.36 + (Playing "bandy or at ball" banned in Baltimore on Sunday)
- 1795.5 + (Playing At Ball in the Untamed West (Now Kentucky?))
- 1795.3 + (Playing Ball Cited as Major New England Diversion)
- 1843.3 + (Playing Ball at Recess)
- 1861.49 + (Playing Ball in Racine Camp)
- 1862.67 + (Playing Ball near Yorktown)
- 1858.30 + (Playing Rules Given for New Britain CT Wicket Ball Match)
- 1863.98 + (Playing ball during a bombardment)
- 1864.45 + (Playing for Prizes)
- 1860c.27 + (Playing of Hole-less Two-Old-Cat in Providence RI)
- 1867.11 + (Playing the Old-Fashioned Game: 1867)
- 1869.9 + (Playing the pre-New York Rules Game- 1869)
- 1859.62 + (Plea for Amateurism)
- 1859.60 + (Please Do Not Kill the Umpire)
- 1830c.26 + (Plymouth MA Boys Play Round Ball, Other Ballgames: Ballmaking Described)
- 1706.1 + (Poem Suggests Cricket is Becoming "Respectable")
- 1665.1 + (Poet Depicts Fleet-footed Mercury as Wielding a Kit-Cat Bat)
- 1747.1 + (Poet Thomas Gray: "Urge the Flying Ball.")
- 1614.1 + (Poet Yearns to "Goe to Stoole-Ball-Play")
- 1744.4 + (Poet: "Hail Cricket! Glorious Manly, British Game!)
- 1827.4 + (Poisoned Ball Listed in French Manual of Games)
- 1850c.8 + (Poisoned-Ball Text Recycled in France)
- 1828.12 + (Police Nine 1, Men and Boy Sabbath-Breakers 0)
- 1609.1 + (Polish Origins of Baseball Perceived in Jamestown VA Settlement)
- 1680.1 + (Political Tract Uses Trap-stick Metaphor)
- 1862.48 + (Pork, Hard-Tack, Beans, and Baseball in the 5th Mass Artillery)
- 1857.18 + (Porter's Project: Collect Rules of Play)
- 1805.2 + (Portland ME Bans "Playing at Bat and Ball in the Streets" in 1805, Retains Ban in 1824)
- 1828.2 + (Portland Newspaper Reports Boys Playing at "Bat-and-Ball.")
- 1795.1 + (Portsmouth NH Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games)
- 1828.14 + (Portsmouth NH Reminder: No Ballplaying, Betting in Public Places)
- 1586.2 + (Possible Early Rounders Reference?)
- 1838.14 + (Possible Game of Base Ball at School)
- 1867.12 + (Post-War Spread of Baseball Noted)
- 1860.14 + (Potomacs "Conquer" Nationals in Washington)
- 1854.17 + (Pre-modern Base Ball in Michigan)
- 1583.1 + (Pre-teens Risk Dungeon Time For Selves, or Their Dads, by Playing Ball)
- 1840s.4 + (Preppies Brought Base Ball to College Campuses?)
- 1862.108 + (President Lincoln to Umpire a Game?)
- 1857.38 + (President's Peace Medal Depicts Baseball Game in Background)
- 1830c.35 + (Pretty Darn Early Ballplaying Card)
- 1299.1 + (Prince of Wales Plays "Creag," Seen By Some as a Cricket Precursor)
- 790c.1 + (Princess Nausica and Maids Play Catch)
- 1761.1 + (Princeton Faculty [NJ] Disparages "Playing at Ball")
- 1857.23 + (Princeton Freshmen Establish Nassau Base Ball Club)
- 1844.9 + (Print Medium Credited with New Popularity of Cricket in Britain)
- 1863.29 + (Print of artillerymen playing ball)
- 1864.100 + (Prize baseball from Decatur?)
- 1871.12 + (Pro Clubs to Meet in March, National Association Starts Its Fade)
- 1872.2 + (Pro Players Disparaged in Newspapers As Worthless, Dissipated, Buyable)
- 1871.16 + (Professionals Edge Away from NABBP; Modern Standings Begin to Take Shape)
- 1859.33 + (Prolix Lecturer Explains What Base Ball and Cricket Mean)
- 1755c.7 + (Prominent Patriot Regrets Wasting Time Playing Cat (and Fives))
- 1871.11 + (Pros' Leading Averages Reported In Buffalo Newspaper)
- 1859.66 + (Proto-Sports Bar)
- 1830.25 + (Proud Father Lauds Son's Ballplaying Prowess)
- 1823.5 + (Providence RI Bans "Playing Ball" in the Streets)
- 1771.2 + (Province of New Hampshire Prohibits Christmas "Playing With Balls" in the Streets)
- 1829.9 + (Pupil in Class Seen to "Scamper like a Boy at Bass-ball")
- 1720.1 + (Puritans Thwarted Fun, "Even at Stool-ball")
- 1856.3 + (Putnams Rules Arrive on the Scene)
- 1500s.2 + (Queen Elizabeth's Dudley Plays Stoolball at Wotton Hill?)
- 1840c.15 + (R is for Richard "With His Bat and Ball")
- 1815c.5 + (RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing)
- 1864.18 + (RI Soldier Cites “:A Game in Our Regt, Nine Innings a Side”)
- 1861.31 + (RI Soldier Mentions Game of Ball)
- 1859.50 + (Rain, Peevishness Disrupt 100-Tally Mass Game at Barre)
- 1863.65 + (Ravaged By War)
- 1859.27 + (Reader Catches "A Slight Error" - Base Ball is English, not American)
- 1832.6 + (Reading Book Contains a Story, "Playing at Trap Ball")
- 1863.93 + (Rebel POWs at Fort McHenry)
- 1863.101 + (Rebel POWs play town ball at Camp Butler)
- 1862.29 + (Rebel Prisoners Seen Playing Ball in WI Prison Camp)
- 1863.50 + (Rebel Soldier Plays “Fine Game of Town Ball” in Georgia)
- 1863.95 + (Rebels seen playing ball)
- 1836c.11 + (Recollections of a Jersey City Boy -- And A Different Rule for Plugging)
- 1870.16 + (Red Stocking Leader Explains Background for Club Decision to Exit Pro Base Ball Scene)
- 1860.79 + (Regatta Cancelled Due To Base Ball)
- 1861.34 + (Regiment Plays “Favorite Game” After Dress Parade in Elmira NY)
- 1780.8 + (Regular Monday NYC Cricket Matches Planned Again.)
- 1852.5 + (Religious Chapbook Shows Action in Ball Play at Recess)
- 1830c.39 + (Report: "Groups of Full Grown Players At Base and Cricket" Recalled in New York)
- 1672.1 + (Rev. Wilson Decries Sunday "Stool-Ball" and "Cricketts" Playing)
- 1862.12 + (Reverend Beecher: Base-Ball is Best Form of Exercise)
- 1776c.3 + (Revolutionary War Officer Plays Cricket, Picks Blueberries)
- 1777.1 + (Revolutionary War Prisoner Watches Ball-Playing in NYC Area)
- 1779.3 + (Revolutionary War Soldier H. Records Regimental Ball-Playing PA)
- 1857.10 + (Rib-and-Ball Game in the Arctic: Baseball Fever Among the Chills?)
- 1817.2 + (Riddle Game Cites "Fourteen Boys at Bat and Ball")
- 1862.63 + (Right and Left wings of 13th NY in Suffolk, VA)
- 1871.14 + (Rival Assn of Amateur Players Forms: Includes Clubs from NY, Philly, Baltimore, Boston.)
- 1843.7 + (Robber Caught Again: "Third Time and Out")
- 1851.5 + (Robert E. Lee Promotes Cricket at West Point?)
- 1858.22 + (Rochester NY Editor: Base Ball to Curb Tobacco, Swearing (If Not Spitting))
- 1825c.12 + (Rochester Senior: "How the Game of Ball Was Played")
- 1850s.49 + (Round Ball Played North of Portland, Maine with "Cat Stick" and "Gools")
- 1829.2 + (Round Ball Played in MA)
- 1822.1 + (Round Ball Played in Worcester)
- 1820.2 + (Round Ball played in Upton, MA)
- 1850s.33 + (Round Ball, Old Cat Played in Northwest MA Town)
- 1850s.55 + (Round Ball, Played Near Boston, As Recalled in 1870s Celebrations)
- 1822.2 + (Round-Arm Bowling Disallowed at Lord's Cricket Ground)
- 1835.2 + (Round-arm Bowling Officially Permitted in Cricket)
- 1850c.56 + (Roundball Recalled in Maine)
- 1857.31 + (Rounders "Now Almost Entirely Displaced by Cricket:" English Scholar)
- 1842.11 + (Rounders Reported at Swiss School)
- 1851.10 + (Rounders on the Ice)
- 1857.40 + (Rules Experiment Suggested-- Six outs)
- 1857.1 + (Rules Modified to Specify Nine Innings, 90-Foot Base Paths, Nine-Player Teams, but not the Fly Rule)
- 1840s.29 + (Rural Boys "Played Bass Ball" in Western Ohio)
- 1839.3 + (Rutherford Hayes Plays Ball as Student at Kenyon College, OH)
- 1870c.17 + (Rutherford Hayes Sees Harm to Hearing in Ballplaying)
- 1804.1 + (SC School Opens, Students Play Town Ball and Bull Pen)
- 1863.115 + (SC soldier writes of chuck a luck and town ball in camp)
- 1846.24 + (Saco bans "bat and ball")
- 1854.15 + (Sacramento "Hombres" Play Ball Before Several Hundred, Break Stuff)
- 1842.8 + (Sad Boy, Grounded, Misses His Recess Sports)
- 370c.1 + (Saint Augustine Recalls Punishment for Youthful Ball Games)
- 1791.3 + (Salem MA Diary Covers "Puerile Sports" Including Bat & Ball, and "Rickets")
- 1762.2 + (Salem MA Ordinance Outlaws Bat-and-Ball, Cricket)
- 1858.39 + (San Francisco Organizes for Base Ball . . . Again)
- 1852.7 + (San Francisco Plaza Again Active, This Time with "Town Ball;")
- 1755.4 + (Satirist Cites Base-Ball as "An Infant Game")
- 1400c.1 + (Savior Son Wants "To Go Play at Ball")
- 1821.3 + (Schenectady NY Bans "Playing of Ball Against the Building")
- 1855.16 + (Scholar Deems 1855 the Peak of Cricket-playing in America)
- 1853c.15 + (Scholar Ponders: Why Were the Knickerbockers So Publicity-Shy?)
- 1830.4 + (School Boys Play Base Ball Regularly at Portsmouth NH Grammar School)
- 1761.2 + (School Rule in PA; No Ballplaying in the College Yard, Especially in Front of Trustees and Profs)
- 1761.3 + (School Trustees Prohibit Playing Ball and Other Diversions, Ignoring Advice of Ben Franklin)
- 1840c.26 + (Schoolboy Game of "Three Base Ball" Recalled in Brooklyn)
- 1827.5 + (Science of Trap Construction Revealed)
- 1860.44 + (Score it 7-5-4: "Three Hands Out in a Jiffy")
- 1818.6 + (Scots Ballplaying Variants -- Including 'Ba'-baises' -- Found to the North)
- 1862.110 + (Scots Soldiers Play Base-Ball and Cricket)
- 1836.7 + (Scots Still Play "Ball Paces," a Type of Trap Ball with Running)
- 1819.2 + (Scott's <u>Ivanhoe</u> Mentions Stool-ball)
- 1841.11 + (Scottish Dictionary Calls "Cat and Dog" a Game for Three)
- 1857.25 + (Season Opens in Boston with May Olympics Victory, Best-of-Three Format)
- 1861.72 + (Secesh and Unionists fraternize on ball field)
- 1860.19 + (Second Annual Chadwick Guide Prints Season Stats for the Year)
- 1861.27 + (Second NJ 27, First NJ 10, in Virginia Camp)
- 1861.19 + (Second NJ Regiment Forms BB Club in Virginia Camp)
- 1863.14 + (Sergeant from 15th MA Plays Round Ball with 34th NY)
- 1858.5 + (Seven More Clubs Publish Their Rules)
- 1864.93 + (Seventh Wisconsin Infantry plays baseball in Petersburg tranches)
- 1856.4 + (Seventy Games Played, All in New York City Area.)
- 1784.2 + (Seymour Notation Adverts to Evidence that Town Ball Was Exported to England)
- 1855.5 + (Seymour Research Note: "7 Clubs Organized" [But We Now Know of 30])
- 1857.6 + (Seymour: Cricket Groups Meet to Try to Form US [National] Cricket Club)
- 1863.23 + (Sgt. in the 6th Maine Reports “Huge Game of Ball” in VA)
- 1669.1 + (Shadwell Play Said to List Rural Games, including Stool-ball.)
- 1600c.2 + (Shakespeare Mentions Rounders? Pretty Doubtful)
- 1857.45 + (Sharon MA Victory in Boston Seen As State Championship)
- 1865.34 + (Sherman's army plays base-ball in SC)
- 1839.8 + (Shinty Played in Hoboken)
- 1836.14 + (Shinty Played in Hoboken in 1836)
- 1648.1 + (Short Herrick Poem Proposes a Wager on Stool-ball Game)
- 1850c.11 + (Short Moral Tale Centers on Boy's Bat and Ball)
- 1861.40 + (Shortstops to Soldiers)
- 1831.3 + (Should Boys Prefer Bats over Books?)
- 1861.45 + (Shrunken NABBP Meeting Does Little)
- 1860.42 + (Shut Out Reported as the First Ever; Excelsiors 25, St. George Nine 0)
- 1864.40 + (Signals for Throwing to Base)
- 1867.8 + (Signs Go Back To At Least 1867)
- 1815.4 + (Six-Hour "Wicket" Match Played in Canada)
- 1857.29 + (Six-Player Town-ball Teams Play for Gold in Philly)
- 1859.8 + (Sixty Play for Their Suppers)
- 1854.19 + (Sixty-foot Liner Breaks Schoolhouse Window in "Game of Bass")
- 1533.1 + (Skelton Poem Traces Cricket to Flemish Immigrants?)
- 1869.6 + (Slugging Stat Arrives in Early Form)
- 1829.3 + (Small Cambridge MA Schoolground Crimps Base and Cricket Play)
- 1863.139 + (Soildiers play "Baste ball" in Virginia)
- 1863.156 + (Soldier Play in KY)
- 1847.8 + (Soldier Recalls Town-ball)
- 1847.2 + (Soldier Sees January Ball Games at Camp at Saltillo)
- 1863.15 + (Soldier Under General Rosecrans Sees Ballplaying in Tennessee)
- 1812.2 + (Soldier Van Smoot's Diary Notes Playing Catch at New Orleans LA)
- 1775.1 + (Soldier in CT "Played Ball All Day")
- 1775.2 + (Soldier in MA Played Ball)
- 1864.71 + (Soldier in TN asks sister to send him a baseball)
- 1863.20 + (Soldier: “Our Camp is Alive with Ball-Players”)
- 1847.15 + (Soldiers Play Ball During Western Trip)
- 1865.40 + (Soldiers Play Baseball while waiting to be mustered out)
- 1862.84 + (Soldiers Play Philadelphia Champs)
- 1863.121 + (Soldiers Play Wicket in Little Rock)
- 1863.143 + (Soldiers Play cricket in Virginia)
- 1863.72 + (Soldiers confront idleness with ball playing)
- 1864.55 + (Soldiers on leave play ball in Chicago)
- 1862.111 + (Soldiers play Round Town Ball in camp)
- 1861.56 + (Soldiers play ball in Denver)
- 1863.149 + (Soldiers play the "New York game")
- 1862.23 + (Soldiers' Christmas in Virginia - Ballplaying "on Many a Hillside")
- 1867c.17 + (Some First Female teams and games in US cities)
- 1621.1 + (Some Pilgrims "Openly" Play "Stoole Ball" on Christmas Morning: Governor Clamps Down)
- 1862.114 + (Some interesting games of ball)
- 1850s.43 + (South Carolina College Students Make Do with Town Ball, "Cat")
- 1802c.1 + (South Carolina Man Lists Ball-Playing Among Local Amusements)
- 1864.85 + (South Carolina soldiers Play Ball near Petersburg)
- 1862.53 + (Southern Brigade’s Play Base . . . Somewhere)
- 1859.7 + (Southern Game Takes Place in Aristocratic Setting)
- 1863.114 + (Southern Girls Play Town Ball and Cat in Clarksville)
- 1859.73 + (Southern Militia Members Visit Elysian Fields on NY Tour)
- 1862.27 + (Southern Newspaper Urges: “More Manly Sports Like Cricket and Base Ball, Less Cardplay”)
- 1864.23 + (Southern Officers Play Ball in Ohio Prison)
- 1790s.4 + (Southern Pols Calhoun and Crawford: Ballplaying Schoolmates?)
- 1864.1 + (Southern Soldier Notes Repeated Ballplaying, Including Game of Cat)
- 1860.70 + (Space Wanted)
- 1255.1 + (Spanish Drawing Seen as Early Depiction of Ballplaying)
- 1842.5 + (Spelling Book Seems to Show a Fungo Game)
- 1830s.32 + (Spiked Egg-Nog Between Innings?)
- 1860.3 + (Split Doubleheader:Mass Game, NY Game)
- 1851.1 + (Sport of Cricket Gets its First Comprehensive History Book)
- 1855.34 + (Sporting Press Notices Base Ball, Regularizes Reporting)
- 1800c.1 + (Sports at Exeter Academy include "Old-Fashioned Bat and Ball". . . and Football)
- 1846.13 + (Spring Sports at Harvard: "Bat & Ball" and Cricket)
- 1844.18 + (Springtime Ballplaying on the Common -- by Girls)
- 1853.22 + (St. Augustine bans Shinny and any "game of ball")
- 1838.2 + (St. George Cricket Club Forms in NYC)
- 1845.21 + (St. George's Cricket Club Plays Series with All-Canada Eleven)
- 1840.10 + (St. George, NY Cricket Club, [Accidentally] Plays Toronto for a $250 Side Bet)
- 1862.4 + (State Championship Base Ball Game in PA)
- 1871.9 + (State-wide Base Ball Association for California?)
- 1855.18 + (Stodgy Novel Makes Brief Mention of Former Ballplaying)
- 1831.7 + (Stool ball, Cricket, Bread, and Beer for Crowd of 500)
- 1640.1 + (Stoolball Attracts Gentry, Rascals, Boys)
- 1450.2 + (Stoolball Dated by NSA to 1450 in "Don Quixote")
- 1630c.2 + (Stoolball Play Makes Maidstone a "Very Profane Town")
- 1789.3 + (Stoolball Played at Brighthelmstone in Sussex)
- 1630.4 + (Stoolball Played in Sherston, England)
- 1861.2 + (Stoolball Played, in Co-ed Form)
- 1300s.3 + (Stoolball Said to Originate Among Sussex Milkmaids)
- 1866.18 + (Stoolball in Selmeston)
- 1615.1 + (Stoole Ball Goes North with Early Explorer)
- 1585c.1 + (Stoole-ball, Nine Holes Included Among Country Sports)
- 1600.3 + (Stooleball popular in 1600)
- 1827.2 + (Story Places Baseball in Rochester NY)
- 1853.9 + (Strolling Past a Ballgame in Elysian Fields)
- 1855.12 + (Students Bring Cricket to Saint John and Fredericton NB)
- 1823.6 + (Students Play Ball Game at Progressive School in Northampton MA)
- 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 39<sup>th</sup> 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 <u>Real</u> 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 <u>McGuffey's Reader</u> 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 . . . <i>Again</i>)
- 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")