Block:1823 Glossary Lists "Base-ball" as Local Suffolk Game

From Protoball
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Block English Games
Baseball 1833.gif

English Baseball


Add a Block Game
Data

A glossary of "lingual localisms" used in the English county of Suffolk names "Base-ball" among a long list of local games: "We have…a great variety of games, active and sedentary…Omitting games so universal as Cricket, Leap-frog, Marbles, etc., we have...Bandy, Bandy-wicket, Base-ball, Bandy-ball, Bubble-hole...Foot ball, Hocky (sic)..." and so on.

Sources

Suffolk Words and Phrases, by Edward Moor, Woodbridge (Suffolk), 1823, J. Loder for R. Hunter, p. 238

Comment Edit with form to add a comment
Query Edit with form to add a query