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• Block:Oxfordshire Churchwarden Encourages "base-ball" for Girls in 1816  + (<p>“Base-ball,” as an outdoor means … <p>“Base-ball,” as an outdoor means of recreation for girls, was praised by an English churchwarden in a manuscript history of the Oxfordshire village of Watlington. The writer, John Badcock, made his point despite having it almost swallowed within an unusually convoluted sentence: “It is contrary to reason and common sense to expect that the most sober-minded, if wholly restrained from a game of cricket, or some other amusement--& the other sex from base-ball, or some recreation peculiar to themselves, & exclusively their own, would fill up every leisure hour of a fine summer's evening better, or perhaps so well, in any other way.” Mr. Badcock went on to argue that the lord of the manor, or some other landowner, should take a section of otherwise unusable land and create appropriate playing fields for boys and girls.</p>g fields for boys and girls.</p>)

• Block:Oxfordshire Churchwarden Encourages "base-ball" for Girls in 1816  +