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English Novel Refers to Cricket, Base-ball

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Cooke, Cassandra, Battleridge" an Historical tale, Founded on facts. In Two Volumes. By a Lady of Quality (G. Cawthorn, London, 1799).

A character recalls how, when his clerkship to a lawyer ended, a former playmate took his leave by saying:

"Ah! no more cricket, no more base-ball, they are sending me to Geneva."

David Block [page 183) notes that Cooke was in correspondence with Jane Austen in 1798, when both were evidently writing novels containing references to base-ball. Also submitted 8/19/06 by Ian Maun.

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