townball

Baseball, originally known as "townball", appeared in New York City in 1845 with the creation of the Knickerbocker Baseball Club named after the Knickerbocker Fire Engine Company.

Queens Gazette 2010

Many games resembling baseball - called "base" or "townball", all based on the British game rounders (not cricket) - were played before the modern game of baseball.

cons 2005

The good brother who seems to think the textbooks of his boyhood days were better than the modern ones forgets that along with the old-time textbooks went skating, rabbit-hunting, snowballing, coasting, fishing, sock-up, bull-pen, two-old-cat, townball, and shinny-on-the-ice.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

The boys had no baseball, but they had bullpen and cat and townball and roley hole and tag and sweepstakes and pull over the mark and foot races and so forth, and they thought there was nothing better.

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

MINNETONKA, MN (May 9, 2010) - The townball team made up of Minnetonka Miller players and various other All-Stars from around the Metro Area proved to be formidable opponents for the

OurSports Central Baseball News 2010

The restored 19th-century iron-making village in Union Township featured children in period clothing playing townball, similar to baseball.

Berks county news 2010

I remember after townball games I played in (I lived in York at the time) watching the games with teammates.

Blog updates 2009