Block:English Baseball in Kent, London in 1879

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Data	“Base-ball” was mentioned in a Victorian novel of the type that conveyed moral lessons to its young adult readers. In one scene a young woman was reading a poem to some of the children in her care: “She had just finished, when one of the servants appeared to relieve her of her charge, and the children, repaying her with eager thanks and kisses, rushed off to the fresh delights of a game of base-ball, leaving Margaret free to follow her own inclinations.”
Sources	Some of Life's Lessons, by Mary Jefferis, London, 1879, Remington & Co., pp. 134-135
Block Notes	The novel appears to be set in a small fictitious village along the southern coast of Kent.
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