In the 1903 edition of Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide, editor Henry Chadwick, who was born in England, wrote " Just as the New York game was improved townball, so was townball an improved form of the two-centuries-old English game of rounders.

Abner Graves, whose testimony was the basis of the Mills Commission claim that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839, named townball as the " old " game that the boys of Cooperstown, New York played before baseball.

Adapted from the British game of rounders — and by extension, cricket — the game of base ball or " townball " became popular in the early 19th century in Southwestern Ontario ( then Canada West or Upper Canada ), New York State and New England.

The term town ball, or townball, describes the bat-and-ball, safe haven games played in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries, which were similar to rounders and were precursors to modern baseball.

One ol ' cat was often played when there weren't enough players to choose up sides and play townball.

) " townball " is a regional colloquialism for the dozens of rural amateur baseball leagues spanning the states.

These " town teams " play " townball " during the summer in leagues of similar teams from neighboring towns and small cities.

She starred in Open Graves, a 2008 horror-thriller about a satanic game co-starring Mike Vogel.

* Nathan Graves, protagonist of the video game series Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Reds pitcher Paul Wilson earned the first win in that game and Danny Graves earned the park's first save.

In a game where the Bulldogs ' quarterback failed to complete a single pass and was intercepted twice, Dooleys ' ' Dogs relied on their running game, a staunch second-half defense, and a little bit of luck to beat Graves ' tenth-ranked Florida Gators.

Graves ' final project was narrating the computer game epic Darkstar: The Interactive Movie, released November 5, 2010.

Linguist and former veterinary biologist Will Graves, who spent 42 years reading and compiling information on wolves in Russia from news reports, scientific articles, and interviews with Russian biologists, game managers and hunters flatly stated in an interview with journalist Peter Metcalf " His book is fiction ".

The game first introduced Lysle Rigger, Jimmy the Hand's long lost twin brother as well as Kat and Abbot Graves, whose granddaughter was Katherine " Kitty " Graves.

Four days later, he hit a game – winning home run off of Cincinnati's closer Danny Graves in a 4 – 2 victory.

The game manual lists twenty-eight volumes in Conquests bibliography, including Robin Hood by J. C. Holt, The Outlaws of Medieval Legend by Maurice Keen, and The White Goddess by Robert Graves.

Fans in Cincinnati took notice and consistently booed Graves, leading up to a May 23 incident when Graves made an obscene hand gesture to the crowd while being taken out of the game by the Reds ' manager.

The actress has lent her voice to several animated programs including King of the Hill, American Dad !, Superman: The Animated Series ( as Mercy Graves, Lex Luthor's bodyguard, a role she later reprised in several episodes of Justice League ) and the video game adaptation of Blade Runner ( 1997 ).

Haunted House is an Atari 2600 video game, first released in 1982, in which the player ( represented by a pair of eyes ) must navigate the haunted mansion of the late Zachary Graves to recover the three pieces of an urn.

The game is set in the multiverse described in Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.

In spite of these first impressions, the game has generally received positive reviews: Lafayette, for example, goes on to say that it is " really hard to fault GURPS Bunnies & Burrows ", as it is educational, realistic, whimsical and clever, while the game has also been described as a " work of genius ".

* The game Eternal Champions game character Trident is described as a master of Capoeira.

Charlton won 7 – 6 on penalties, with the match described as " arguably the most dramatic game of football in Wembley ’ s history ", and were promoted to the Premier League.

" Young once described his approach before a game:

Before the game begins, each player creates his or her player character and records the details ( described below ) on a character sheet.

In the Encyclopedia of a Myriad of Treasures, Zhang Pu ( 1602 – 1641 ) described the game of laying out dominoes as pupai, although the character for pu had changed, yet retained the same pronunciation.

Andy Slaven, author of Video Game Bible: 1985-2002, described Duck Hunt as being a quality game except for the fact that you could not shoot the dog.

" Following the Villanova-Carlisle game, The New York Times described the new passing game this way :" The passing was more of the character of that familiar in basket ball than that which has hitherto characterized football.

The war that destroyed civilization in Gamma World is only vaguely described in most editions of the game, and what details are provided change from version to version.

In many editions of the game technology is at best quasi-medieval ( in the first edition, the crossbow is described as " the ultimate weapon " for most Gamma World societies ).

The game session ( or " adventure ") can be metaphorically described as a play, in which the players are the lead actors, and the GM provides the stage, the scenery, the basic plot on which the improvisational script is built, as well as all the bit parts and supporting characters.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

* Free-style gomoku is the basic game as described above.

The backstory of Kid Icarus is described in the instruction booklet: Before the events of the game, earth was ruled by the goddess, or Queen of light, Palutena, and the goddess, or Queen of darkness, Medusa.

This game is a chess variant for four players, described as representing a conflict between the four elements and the four humors.

In order to understand the metaphysics of the Mage setting, it is important to remember that many of the terms used to describe magic and Magi e. g., Avatar, Quintessence, the Umbra, and Paradox, Resonance, as well as the game mechanics a player uses to describe the areas of magic in which his character is proficient — the Spheres, look, mean, and are understood very differently depending on the paradigm of the Mage in question, even though they are often, in the texts of the game, described from particular paradigmatic points-of-view.

Often a card game is described as " pure strategy " and such, but a game with any sort of random shuffling or face-down dealing of cards should not be considered to be " no chance ".

* In the 2008 video game LittleBigPlanet, the titular planet is described in terms similar to a noosphere — that is, it is the physical manifestation of idle human thoughts.

Jonathan H. Green's book, An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling ( G. B. Zieber, Philadelphia, 1843 ), described the spread of the game from there to the rest of the country by Mississippi riverboats, on which gambling was a common pastime.

Batsmen and bowlers will often also engage in a game of " cat and mouse ", in which the bowler varies his tactics in order to try and trap and dismiss the batsman, but the batsman also keeps adjusting his tactics in response.

If a team hits a ' six and out ' to win the game, the team wins and the batsman goes out, plus the six counts, whatever the set amount of wickets may be ( even if the wicket was the teams ' last ).

Another variation on this rule is the ability of the bowler to at certain stages throughout the game bowl two balls in one hand at the batsman on strike.

* Hit and Run rule-When the batsman hits or nicks the ball they are forced to run otherwise they are out, this will speed up the game if there are many players.

Sir Donald Bradman, who made his Test debut in the 1928-29 series against England, remains a household name as the greatest batsman the game has ever known and a byword for sporting excellence.

Although Hobbs had rarely opened the batting, when Hayward captained Surrey in their opening game of the season — the regular, amateur Surrey captain was absent — he selected Hobbs and used him as an opening batsman.

However, England lost the game and the performance of the amateur wicketkeeper and makeshift opening batsman Dick Young was singled out as detrimental to the team.

Fred Trueman enjoyed a great rivalry with Sobers and later described him as a " sublime left-hand batsman " who was " one of the greatest cricketers ever to have graced the game, certainly the greatest all-rounder ".

However, as it is possible to reach base without a hit ( most commonly via a walk, error, or hit batsman ), a pitcher can throw a no-hitter and still give up runs, and even lose the game, although this is extremely uncommon.

He demonstrated a solid defensive game, known amongst team-mates as ' The Walking Forward Defence ', and despite not regularly making big scores, he was a difficult batsman to dismiss and occupied the crease substantial periods of time, allowing his batting partner time to get a big score.

No batsman scored a century, despite Ponting reaching 99 not out in a one-day game in Colombo.

Bowls may well be an older game than cricket and it is possible ( although unlikely ) that cricket was derived from bowls by the intervention of a batsman trying to stop the ball reaching its target by hitting it away, though bowling per se continued as in bowls.

In cricket, a team's innings usually lasts until 10 of the 11 batsmen in the team are out, leaving the not out batsman without a partner and thus unable to continue, or until another event intervenes ( such as the captain of the team declaring the innings closed for tactical reasons ; or the time allotted for the entire game expiring ).

There are currently 42 laws, which outline all aspects of how the game is played from how a team wins a game, how a batsman is dismissed, through to specifications on how the pitch is to be prepared and maintained.

The Indian batsman Nariman Contractor had to retire from the game after being hit by a ball on the head in the West Indies.

In contrast to baseball, aiming at the batsman is not illegal provided the ball bounces on the pitch or is below the waist height, and is a tactically effective part of the game ; aiming at the batsman's head without bouncing on the pitch, known as a beamer, is illegal.

The batsman may also score runs in some variations of the game.

It seems likely that as the game is a lesser version on regular cricket that the name is intended to mock both the game and the French — just as a " French cut " in the sport of cricket is a poorly executed cut shot which almost gets a batsman out.

* Vijay Hazare Trophy-named after the prolific Indian batsman, the Vijay Hazare Trophy was started in 2002-03 as an attempt to bring the limited-overs game among a greater audience.

He is often regarded as the most devastating batsman that ever played the game by cricketers, journalists, fans and others alike, and played his entire career without a helmet, across the 17 years from 1974 till 1991.

Many other former players of the game rate him extremely high overall as a batsman.

As a batsman, Hammond started the tour well, scoring 208 in an early game, but lost form once the Tests began.