Block:English Baseball in London/Hampshire in 1853
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| Data | Reference to a game of "bass-ball" in a naturalist-themed, fictional work for young readers: "The rest of the party strolled about the field, or joined merrily in a game of bass-ball or rounders, or sat in the bower, listening to the song of birds." |
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| Sources | A Year of Country Life; or, the Chronicle of the Young Naturalists, anon., London, 1853, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, p. 115 |
| Block Notes | The author's juxtaposition of the words "bass-ball" and "rounders" can be read two ways: he could have been indicating two separate games or providing alternate names for the same game. I tend to favor the former; indeed, baseball and rounders were two distinct games. The author's use of the singular "game" rather than "games" is stylistic, as shown by his use of the singular "song" in the sentence's ending phrase. The story appears to be set in Hampshire. |
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