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English Novel Cites Base-ball as Girls' Pastime, Limns Cricket Match

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Text	Mitford, Mary Russell, Our Village [London, R. Gilbert], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 191. "Better than playing with her doll, better even than base-ball, or sliding or romping, does she like to creep of an evening to her father's knee." Block notes that this novel was published in New York in 1828, and Tom Altherr [email of April 2, 2009] adds that there were Philadelphia editions in 1835 and 1841. Bateman also states that Our Village, which was initially serialised in The Lady's Magazine between 1824 and 1832, contains the first comprehensive prose description of a cricket match." See Bateman, Anthony,"'More Mighty than the Bat, the Pen . . . ;' Culture,, Hegemony, and the Literaturisaton of Cricket," Sport in History, v. 23, 1 (Summer 2003), page 34. Note: It would be good to confirm when the baseball and cricket references were first published, given the conflicting data on serialization and book publication.
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 |Text=<p>Mitford, Mary Russell, <u>Our Village</u> [London, R. Gilbert], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 191.  "Better than playing with her doll, better even than base-ball, or sliding or romping, does she like to creep of an evening to her father's knee."  Block notes that this novel was published in New York in 1828, and Tom Altherr [email of April 2, 2009] adds that there were Philadelphia editions in 1835 and 1841.</p>
 <p>Bateman also states that <u>Our Village</u>, which was initially serialised in <i>The Lady's Magazine</i> between 1824 and 1832, contains the first comprehensive prose description of a cricket match."  See Bateman, Anthony,"'More Mighty than the Bat, the Pen . . . ;'  Culture,, Hegemony, and the Literaturisaton of Cricket,"  <u>Sport in History</u>, v. 23, 1 (Summer 2003), page 34.  <b>Note:</b>  It would be good to confirm when the baseball and cricket references were first published, given the conflicting data on serialization and book publication.</p>
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