Block:English Baseball in London in 1891
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| Data | The "base ball" playing ability of Robert Browning, Senior, the father of the famous poet, was acknowledged in a biography of the son: "Mr. Browning enjoyed splendid physical health. His early love of reading had not precluded a wholesome enjoyment of physical sports; and he was, as a boy. the fastest runner and best base-ball player in his school." |
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| Sources | Life and Letters of Robert Browning, by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, London, 1891, Smith, Elder, p. 15 |
| Block Notes | The author of this biography, Alexandra Leighton Orr, was a friend of the Browning family. It appears that the poet's sister, Sarianna, was Mrs. Orr's source for information about her father, and this lends some credibility to the baseball claim. The senior Browning would have passed his school years in the 1790's. |
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