Ba'Baises

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Game	Ba'Baises
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location
Regions	Britain
Eras	1800s
Invented	No
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Description	the 1818 Dictionary of the Scottish Language defined the word ba'-baises as 'the name of a particular game at ball.'
Sources	Cited in David Block, Pastime Lost (U Nebraska Press, 2019, page 186.
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Comment	This game was apparently related to English Base Ball or one of its similarly-named Scottish variants. Edit with form to add a comment
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