Block:English Baseball in London in 1888
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| Data | An English history book mentioned "baseball" in a section discussing some of the games and pastimes that were popular during the 14th century: "The present games of schoolboys and children had also their prototypes in those days. Thus the game of hoodman-blind is the medieval form of blindman's buff, baseball and stool-ball, etc. are perpetuated in hockey, trap-ball and similar games, and even cricket was not unrepresented." |
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| Sources | The Illustrated History of England from the Earliest Times to 1887, by Henry William Dulcken, London, 1888, Ward, Lock & Co., p. 386 |
| Block Notes | The author's suggestion that baseball was played in 14th-century England is a fanciful one. Nonetheless, he must have had English baseball in mind. |
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