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[edit] Baseball and Cricket

The Protoball Chronology 2.06, whose focus is base and ball games, has 388 entries before 1850. It has something on each of my ten new baseball listings and it is my proximate source. It is my only source for three new cricket listings.

1. Does "match" in British English or at cricket mean a game scheduled in advance matching teams that represent clubs, counties, nations, etc? Or is every game a match?
2. That might cover, second, what makes a match between counties (1709) or an international match (was 1844)? Do those mean representation of counties or nations? Or mean only contests between teams whose players are residents or natives of different counties or nations: residents of different nations in 1820 New York?
3. What was MCC status in 1788? Did its voice become official only in retrospect? From another perspective, who recognized the rules of 1744?

--P64 08:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Doc Adams Birth Date

I changed Doc Adams' birth date from 1 November, 1814 to 11 November, 1814. I got this information on page 14 of Early Innings by Dean A. Sullivan (1995) University of Nebraska Press ISBN 0-8032-4237-9 (cl). I see that the SABR biography (http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=639&pid=16943) on Adams lists 1 Nov so now I'm not sure which to go with. If someone wants to change it back, I certainly won't mind and apologize if I may have acted too hastily. --User:WrightWing