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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1824
|Year Number=3
|Headline=English Novel Cites Base-ball as Girls' Pastime, Limns Cricket Match
|Headline=English Novel Cites Base-ball as Girls' Pastime, Limns Cricket Match
|Year=1824
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Females,Fiction,Famous
|Tags=Famous, Females, Fiction,  
|Text=<p>Mitford, Mary Russell, <u>Our Village</u> [London, R. Gilbert], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 191.  "Better than playing with her doll, better even than base-ball, or sliding or romping, does she like to creep of an evening to her father's knee." Block notes that this novel was published in New York in 1828, and Tom Altherr [email of April 2, 2009] adds that there were Philadelphia editions in 1835 and 1841.</p>
|Country=England
<p>Bateman also states that <u>Our Village</u>, which was initially serialised in <i>The Lady's Magazine</i> between 1824 and 1832, contains the first comprehensive prose description of a cricket match." See Bateman, Anthony,"'More Mighty than the Bat, the Pen . . . ;' Culture,, Hegemony, and the Literaturisaton of Cricket," <u>Sport in History</u>, v. 23, 1 (Summer 2003), page 34. <b>Note:</b> It would be good to confirm when the baseball and cricket references were first published, given the conflicting data on serialization and book publication.</p>
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Juvenile
|Text=<p>[A] "Better than playing with her doll, better even than base-ball, or sliding or romping, does she like to creep of an evening to her father's knee."</p>
<p>[B]Bateman states that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Our Village</span>, which was initially serialised in <em>The Lady's Magazine</em> between 1824 and 1832, contains the first comprehensive prose description of a cricket match." See</p>
|Sources=<p>[A] Mitford, Mary Russell, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Our Village</span> [London, R. Gilbert], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 191.&nbsp; Block notes that this novel was published in New York in 1828, and Tom Altherr [email of April 2, 2009] adds that there were Philadelphia editions in 1835 and 1841.</p>
<p>[B] Bateman, Anthony,"'More Mighty than the Bat, the Pen . . . ;' Culture,, Hegemony, and the Literaturisaton of Cricket," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sport in History</span>, v. 23, 1 (Summer 2003), page 34.</p>
|Query=<p><strong>Note:</strong> It would be good to confirm when the baseball and cricket references were first published, given the conflicting data on serialization and book publication.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Coordinates=52.3555177, -1.1743197
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English Novel Cites Base-ball as Girls' Pastime, Limns Cricket Match

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Famous, Females, Fiction
City/State/Country: England
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Juvenile
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[A] "Better than playing with her doll, better even than base-ball, or sliding or romping, does she like to creep of an evening to her father's knee."

[B]Bateman states that Our Village, which was initially serialised in The Lady's Magazine between 1824 and 1832, contains the first comprehensive prose description of a cricket match." See

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[A] Mitford, Mary Russell, Our Village [London, R. Gilbert], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 191.  Block notes that this novel was published in New York in 1828, and Tom Altherr [email of April 2, 2009] adds that there were Philadelphia editions in 1835 and 1841.

[B] Bateman, Anthony,"'More Mighty than the Bat, the Pen . . . ;' Culture,, Hegemony, and the Literaturisaton of Cricket," Sport in History, v. 23, 1 (Summer 2003), page 34.

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