Clipping:Baseball originated in 1857, based on rounders

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Date Sunday, August 4, 1872
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Some one of the editorial corps of our English contemporary has been trying his hand at an article on “our national game,” and a very bad first he makes of it. ... ...he says that our game is “not national.” Inasmuch as the game as played here originated in America in 1857, and is known nowhere else, we do not see how it can be otherwise than “National.” Cricket is the English national game, and yet it is based on an old French game, just as our game is based on rounders.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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