A term applied by Strutt and subsequent writers to games in which a ball is struck by a club or bat, esp. to the earlier types of these. (No such name appears in actual use.)
1801. Strutt, Sports & Past., II. iii. § 18 (title), Club-ball. Ibid. The following engravings represent two specimens of club-ball.
1850. ‘Bat,’ Cricketer’s Manual, 25. Club-ball was, doubtlessly, practised by the Saxons.
