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<p>"A Game at Baste Ball" is identified as the name of one of the paintings listed in an art magazine's review of the works displayed at the 86th Exhibition of the Royal Academy: "No. 265. 'A Game at Baste Ball,' W. H. KNIGHT. As this seems to be a game of activity as well as address, the point of the picture is action. In execution it is worked up to an enamel surface, and it is rich in colour."</p> +
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<p>"Base ball" again was one of the attractions advertised to take place at the Knowl-hill (sic) (Berkshire) recreations: "The Knowl-hill Yearly Recreations will take place on Whit Tuesday, when the lovers of sport will find ample amusement. To commence with a Cricket Match, at 9 o'clock, for ribbons; Base Ball for ditto; Donkey Racing, Running in Sacks, Gingling (sic), Dipping for Eels, Climbing for a Hat, Bowling for a Cheese; a Female Race for a new Gown-piece, and a variety of other Amusements."</p> +
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<p>"Base ball" seems to have been a criminal activity in Norfolk, according to a newspaper report of court proceedings: "Robert Gay and James Rix, of Thorpe St.Andrews, laborers, were summoned . . . for playing a certain game called 'base ball,' with a stick and ball, on the Norwich and Yarmouth turnpike road, to the annoyance and obstruction of passengers on that highway, on Sunday afternoon, the 14th inst. The case having been proved, police-constable Hardingham, of Thorpe, said he had repeatedly cautioned the defendants and other young men of their playing 'base ball,' and their general bad conduct on Sunday afternoon, but to no effect. The defendants, who denied the offence (sic), were were each fined 7s. 6d., and the costs 13s. 6d.”</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was advertised as one of the attractions of the seaside holiday town of Sutton in Lincolnshire: "The sea-shore at Sutton, as we have stated elsewhere, is a capital place for cricket, tennis, base ball, and other games, and in the season there is plenty of this kind of amusement for visitors."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was again played at the annual ride of the Ipswich (Suffolk) Bicycle Club that included a leisurely outing at Orwell Park: "A cricket match was played, when Mr. Smith's side beat Mr. Pepplewell's side by five runs and five wickets. Bowls, lawn tennis, and base ball were also freely indulged in, and an exceptionally jolly afternoon was spent."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was again to be played at a grand birthday celebration for the Duchess of Kent, this time her 73rd. A newspaper announced that the party would be held on the grounds of the Ankerwycke estate in Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, near the spot where the Magna Carta was signed: "The Amusements will consist of Dancing, Archery, Cricket, Quoits, Trap-Bat and Ball, Foot and Base Ball, Swings, &c., 4-oared and Sculling Matches, and an entertainment under the direction of Mr. Nelson Lee, the caterer for the nobility's and Crystal Palace fetes."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was among the games played at the annual fete for the benefit of the Literary Institute held in West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire. The newspaper reporter writing about the event was not impressed: "Except for a cricket match between the employees in Messrs. North's factory, West Wycombe, and Messrs. Hutchinson's, High Wycombe, in which the former were victorious, with five wickets to fall, and the usual rural games of base ball, swinging, kiss-in-the-ring, &c., there was nothing provided to attract visitors. The day also turned out showery, which kept many away."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was lampooned in Punch Magazine in the form of a mock letter, purportedly written by a Suffolk villager, that derides Londoners for gullibly accepting American baseball as a novelty, and not recognizing it as a traditional Suffolk game. The letter is written in a highly exaggerated country dialect: "I'm night furty year oad, and I ha' plaed base ball, man and boy, for more un thirty-five year, as any o' yar folks up there could hev sen if tha'd ha come to our village--or fur the matter o' that, to furty other villages hereabouts--any evenin' a summer time." It goes on to explain how the game was played in Suffolk, an account that is, in some aspects, plausible.</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was mentioned by a newspaper gossip columnist who was protesting the threatened enclosure of Plumstead Common located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in South London. The writer was describing some of the features of the common and the people who frequent it: "Then come the apple, nut and gingerbread women, who sit out the whole day long, insensible to wind and weather, careless of who wins or who loses at quoits, cricket or base ball, every one of which games are being briskly pursued around, so long as the players need the refreshment their little stalls can offer."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was mentioned in a letter to the editor of the Daily News of London in which the writer complained that new rules imposed by the local governing authority on Wandsworth Common, a large park in south London, would severely limit children's access to this traditional ball playing venue: "Rounders, base ball, bat and trap, games as old as cricket, will be forbidden under irksome regulations and rules by which thousands of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was one of several games mentioned in a newspaper account of an outing by members and friends of the Luton (Bedfordshire) Harmonic Society: "About one hundred of the members and their friends in holiday trim engaged in various pic-nic recreations. Quoits and cricket in one part of the field, and base ball, thread-the-needle and the like in another for a time divided the attention of the company."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was one of the amusements enjoyed by members of the Band of Hope (affiliated with the Baptist Church of Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire) at their annual treat: "After an excellent tea, games were freely indulged in, such as base ball, bat and trap, &c., the older folk apparently enjoying the fun quite as much as the youngsters."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was one of the games enjoyed at the annual ride and gathering by members of the Ipswich (Suffolk) Bicycle Club at Orwell Park, a property of its president, Capt. E.G. Pretyman, located on the banks of the river Orwell in the village of Nacton. "After allaying their thirst, the cyclists dispersed through the grounds; some indulging in cricket, others in base ball, bowls, &c."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was played at a "temperance fete" of the Little London Temperance Society in a meadow outside Pamber, Hampshire: "In other parts of the ground sports were held, including cricket and base ball."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was played at an annual outing to a country hotel by staff members of several newspapers from Burnley and other towns in Lancashire, as well as some from West Yorkshire: "Some wandered along the banks of the Ribble and Calder, other patronised the bowling green, while the remainder disported themselves in a variety of games--including football, cricket, and base ball--in a field kindly placed at their disposal by the host and hostess."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was played at the annual fête, or “gipsy party,” of the Orwell Works, a large agricultural machinery factory in Ipswich, Suffolk, that employed thousands. A newspaper article described some of the entertainments: “The usual preparation had been made for the amusement of young folks. Round-a-bouts had been improvised out of the works of horse thrashing machines and stout beams; swings were suspended from some of the stoutest trees; and cricket, base-ball and other games were freely indulged in; and that game of games in which both sexes can take part, and which, be it said, seemed to be highly relished—kissing in the ring; whilst for those who felt inclined to 'trip the light fantastic toe,' ground had been staked off and roped off, so that the merry dance could go on without interruption.”</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was played at the annual holiday outing of the Church-workers and teachers of St. Mary's Church of Chesham, Bucks: "The two boats on the lake were utilised most of the time, and there were games such as cricket, base ball, and other out-of-door sports."</p> +
<p>"Base ball" was remembered at a reunion of former students of the Norwich Free Grammar School who gathered to dine together and to recall their school days of 30 years earlier: "Here was the true English character exhibited, all the frost, and stiffness, and foolery of etiquette gave way before the good old English feeling of boyish reminiscences. Here met again the rival leaders in cricket, camp, hocky (sic), fives, or base ball."</p> +
<p>"Base" was identified as one of the amusements enjoyed by people vacationing on the Isle of Wight on the Easter Monday bank holiday: "The attractions here, except the natural beauty of the place, are, however, not many. Some preferred the Green, with the beautiful beach at its foot. Others, beat on what they considered merrier scenes, visited the recreation ground, where cricket, base, trap, rounders, swings, and the varied paraphernalia of the now almost forgotten fairs, were in existence to the enjoyment of hundreds, some of whom wended their way up to the ground at a very early hour.” </p> +
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<p>"Base-Ball" is the title of a page in a children's book that also bears an illustration showing three youths (one holding a ball), and two bases. No bat is shown. A short poem follows: "The Ball once struck off, Away flies the Boy, To the next destin'd Post, And then Home with Joy."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" is mentioned in a story entitled "Robert Wilmot" published as part of a book of similar juvenile stories: "After this they were rather at a loss for a game. They had played at base-ball and leap-frog; and rival coaches, with six horses at full speed, and had been driven several times around the garden, to the imminent risk of box-edgings and the corners of flowerbeds: what were they to do next?"</p> +
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<p>"Base-ball" is mentioned in the three-volume novel The Younger Sister by Catherine Anne Hubback: "...Emma, drawing little Charles towards her, began a confidential conversation with him on the subject of his garden and companions at school, and the comparative merits of base-ball and cricket."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" play was reported at an open-air fete of the Conservative Party-associated Primrose League in Bottisham, East Cambridgeshire: "During the afternoon selections of music were played by the Sawston brass band, and numerous sports, such as quoits, base-ball, &c., were indulged in. Tea was also provided. A cricket match between "married and single" elevens of the Bottisham and Swaffham people was played in the afternoon and resulted in favour of the "single" eleven." </p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was again listed as one of the offered activities at the annual Grand Rural Fete of the Slough (Buckinghamshire) Mechanics', Literary, & Scientific Institution, to be held at Stoke Park. The newspaper announcement specified that: "Amusements, consisting of Archery, Cricket, Quoits, Trap and Base Ball, Dancing, &c., will commence at Twelve and terminate at Half-past Seven o'clock." A subsequent article reporting on the fête two weeks later, on July 10, 1858, confirmed that the game had been played. It read: “On arriving in the grounds, the visitors deployed into various sections, some betaking themselves to cricket, some to archery, quoits, base ball, kiss in the ring, swings, or other amusements.”</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was again played at another annual festival of the London-street Sunday School of Basingstoke (see above): "The children, to the number of about 320,…soon commenced the usual games, including swinging, jumping, base-ball, croquet, &c." </p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was among the games played at the Silverhill Presbyterian Sunday School treat at a farm outside Silverhill (near Hastings), East Sussex: "Of course the usual games incidental to such affairs were indulged in by most of the little folks. Some were swinging under the trees, others playing base-ball, kiss-in-the-ring, and tag, whilst a few wandered down to the ponds and watched the fish disporting in the waters, or strolled about the farm buildings...The elder boys and many of the male teachers played matches of cricket, and indulged in other manly games."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was among the games played at the annual treat given to the Middle, Steeple, and East-cum-Botolph Claydon day and Sunday school scholars in Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire: "The scholars, numbering about 250, met at the lodges and marched to the lawn, where various games including football, cricket, base-ball, swings, races, rowing on the lake, &c., were indulged in till about half-past four o'clock, when the children sat down to tea on the lawn. The repast being finished, the games resumed."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was among the pastimes enjoyed by Sunday school students, teachers and friends of the Independent Chapel of Maidenhead, Berkshire, at their anniversary outing. A newspaper reported that tea and cake were served to the children who then "went to their amusements. The teachers and friends then sat down to a similar repast," and "having been done to their refreshments, they repaired to different parts of the field to join the children in their innocent pastimes, consisting of trap bat, cricket, foot-ball, base-ball, &c."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was cited in a newspaper discussion of the history of tennis: "Successive Kings, from Henry V down to the bluff Hal Tudor and the "Merry Monarch" made it [tennis] their favourite pastime, the two latter not being at all particular who occupied the opposite court so long as they were adepts. The game is known in France as 'paume' (being formerly played, like base-ball, with the palm of the hand instead of a racquet), and it was probably from our southeastern neighbors that we got our knowledge of it."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was listed in a serialized newspaper glossary of local words entitled "Provincial Words and Expressions Current in Devonshire": "Base-ball -- A game at ball, usually played against the wall of a building."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was mentioned in a long newspaper article discussing the impact of a decision by the directors of the Midland Railway Company to eliminate certain classes of rail travel. The article delved into the social impact of such a change, how rich people and poor people would be compelled to seat together, and lamented how rail travel, though practical, lacked the aesthetics of the open road and made it more difficult for travelers to seek exercise: "It is useless, however, to sigh after the departed past, and the only thing that can be done is to bring manly amusements more within the reach of the people of great cities...No one will walk from London to Newcastle to practise his trade there, and gather knowledge of life and manliness of character on the way, when he can go third class. There seems no reason, however, why such pastimes as are popular in certain parts of England--cricket in Yorkshire and Notts, and base-ball in some of the southern counties--should be beyond the reach of young men in our large towns."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was mentioned in a newspaper column entitled "Christian Endeavor Echoes," which cited one writer's opinion that churches should offer amusements and recreational opportunities for members who might otherwise be tempted to seek them in less wholesome locales: "...he has expressed the hope to see the day when every church will have, as a matter of course, not only its library and social parlour always open to all its members, but also a generous playground, with provision for base-ball, croquet, and lawn-tennis, and games for the younger children."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was mentioned in a newspaper report of the Baptist Sabbath School's anniversary celebration in Newbury, Berkshire: "The children were highly amused by playing at cricket, base-ball, &c.; tea and cake were provided for them in one of the barns, which was very prettily decorated with flowers and evergreens."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was mentioned in a novelized account of the life of Birmingham historian William Hutton. Prior to publication, the novel was serialized in several Midlands newspapers. In chapter XXXII, an apprentice in Hutton's book warehouse was trying, unsuccessfully, to convince a co-worker that, despite his low wages, he was in a good situation: "I am better off than other 'prentices in the High Town. If I do work hard, so doth master. I am neither starved nor beaten, and I have good clothes." His friend replied: "And never a shilling to spare for a cock fight, or a dance? Never an hour for a game of base-ball, or bowls, or nines?</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was mentioned in a story entitled "Along Fleet Street" that appeared in a children's magazine: "Arthur wanted to know where the old Fleet Prison used to stand, and if it was the veritable place where Mr. Pickwick went to, and if it wasn't where he met Mr. Jingle, and whether people did not play racquet and base-ball there, and pay for their own lodgings, etc."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was one of a number of amusements enjoyed at the "scholars' annual treat" of the Robertson Street Congregational Church Sunday School of Hastings, East Sussex, which consisted of a train excursion of hundreds of children to Rye, East Sussex: "The children were soon quite at home, and passed away the time in the manner usual to school treats. Boys indulged in cricket and black-rabbit, shot arrows with bows at distant targets, and kicked a football round the fields. Girls played at lawn tennis, shuttlecock, base-ball, double-tag, and kiss-in-the-ring, and other delightful amusements. Those who did not indulge roamed about the place and watched those who did."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was one of the games played at a festival held at a nearby farm for children of the London-street Congregational Chapel Sunday School of Basingstoke, Hampshire: "Arrived at the meadows, the children lost no time in starting the various out-door games usual on such occasions, such as cricket, base-ball, swinging, jumping, &c., which were kept up with great spirit till about four o'clock, when the children were liberally supplied with plum cake and tea, for which their afternoon's sports had given them excellent appetites."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was one of the pastimes enjoyed by members of the Wellington Square Chapel choir of Hastings, East Sussex, at their annual outing held at Little Park Farm in Battle, East Sussex. Battle is so named because it was the site of the Battle of Hastings. "A capital meat tea was provided, and was partaken in real pic-nic style on the grass. After tea various games were indulged in---cricket, base-ball, French-tag, &c."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was part of the celebration of the Wesleyan Sunday School anniversary in Winteringham, Lincolnshire: "Football, cricket, base-ball, and other sports of various kinds were kept up to a late hour."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was played at a Band of Hope meeting in Marlow, Buckinghamshire: "The committee arranged to give juveniles a treat, and the games of trap-ball, base-ball, cricket, swinging, &c. were indulged in until the tea and cake were spread on the grass, when nearly a hundred congregated, and all heartily enjoyed the repast."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was played at the annual fete of the Newbury Temperance Society, Newbury, Berkshire: "A variety of games was provided, enjoyment being found in swings, cricket, archery, base-ball, &c."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball" was played at the midway point of a late afternoon and evening bike ride by the Y.M.C.A. Cycling Club of Portsmouth, Hampshire: "The party left Portsmouth at 3 p.m., and arrived at Bursledon Bridge at 5:15 p.m., where a halt was made for tea. Afterwards the members adjourned to a neighbouring field, where they indulged in a game of base-ball. At 7:30 p.m. the order was given to mount, and a smart run was made for home."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball," according to a newspaper report, was apparently one of the amusements scheduled to be played in Brussels at the Belgian National Fetes, a huge celebration of that nation's 44th anniversary of independence: "The Royal Museum of Painting, Armoury, and Natural History, and Wiertx Gallery, the Agricultural and Horticultural Exhibition, and the Exhibition of the Linnaean Society of Brussels, will be open gratuitously; whilst the communal administration have organised meetings for archery, crossbows, base-ball, nine pins, and quoits, open to all the world."</p> +
<p>"Base-ball," according to a newspaper article, was a traditional Yorkshire game. "Base-ball, which the American's claim to be their national sport, is known to every inhabitant of the North Riding of Yorkshire and to most of the North of England as a game in which both sexes enjoyed on the old holidays---Easter Monday, Shrove Tuesday, and others. Some of the rules are slightly altered, the most important is the striker; the originals strike the ball with the hands, the Americans with a mallet. As regards the Bases which give the American name to the game the Yorkshire people call them the holds, signifying the stoping (sic) places, what the American's (sic) call their bowler, was called by us the potcher (sic), who stood nearer to the striker than the American's (sic) do, doing the American's (sic) wicket keeper part also. The Yorkshire party was all out with the first person, the American's (sic) with the third. All the other rules are the same."</p> +
<p>"Baseball" and rounders were both played at the annual picnic of the Epping church and Town Hall choirs, held on the grounds of a manor house in Epping Forest, Essex. At first, the festivities appeared to be at risk because of a heavy thunderstorm, but it soon cleared. "The storm over, the 'call' sounded, and the enjoyments of the party began in earnest, with various sports, such as cricket, rounders, baseball, egg in hat, paper chases, &c., interspersed with songs, 'March of the men of Harlech,' 'Rule Britannia,' 'God bless the Prince of Wales,' &c., concluding with 'God save the Queen.'"</p> +
<p>"Baseball" was again played at Orwell Park in Nacton, Suffolk, this time at the first annual outing of about 100 children belonging to the Ipswich Junior Foresters of the Ancient Order of Foresters, of whom Capt. E.G. Pretyman was an honorable member: "On arrival at Orwell Park a good dinner was served, after which the boys adjourned for the afternoon amusements, which consisted of cricket, football, baseball, swings, etc."</p> +
<p>"Baseball" was among the games enjoyed at an Easter Monday celebration in Southwold, Suffolk: "The common was the centre of attraction where the youth of all ages assembled, and baseball, cricket, football, and other merry games heartily entered into."</p> +
<p>"Baseball" was cited in a newspaper article about "Summer Sport and Amusements, in and around Portsmouth." It read: "With the disappearance of the frosts and the advent of summer days there are preparations in every direction in and about Portsmouth for resorting to the games which are suitable for summer weather, at the head of which still stands the national pastime of cricket, though baseball may come to the front more than it has in past years. Among ladies last year it found many supporters, and with the stimulus which has been given to it by the recent visit of Americans and Canadian colonists to this country there is little doubt that the pastime will be more than ever indulged in."</p> +
<p>"Baseball" was mentioned in a book-length anonymous poem entitled Darby and Joan: "Joan. Oh, slur not our men, Darby, I would not in joke, A runaway Briton's a bottle of smoke; They'll run at the fire, and dash from the keel, They'll spring up the rigging, and struggle with steel; They'll pant with exertion at cricket or fame, They'll hasten to die for a glorious name; They'll dash on the housetop, or down in the flood, Go through fire or water to serve flesh and blood. But runaway ne'er, unless 'tis in fun, When at baseball we play, and after them run."</p> +
<p>"Baseball" was mentioned in a newspaper article eulogizing a recently deceased vicar of a church in the town of Gillingham, Dorset. The article praised the vicar for putting an end to desecrations of the Sabbath permitted by his predecessor: "Frequently, old people tell us on Sunday afternoons men would come down from other places and play baseball with men of this parish against the church tower. Happily, such scenes as that have passed away."</p> +