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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 Little Pretty Book 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 Ivanhoe 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)

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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 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")

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