Block:English Baseball in Leicestershire on August 12 1882
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| Data | “Brace ball” was named in a newspaper article as one of the pastimes offered at a bank holiday gathering in Leicester: “Shortly after two o'clock in the afternoon a large number of persons assembled in Mr. Spencer's fields on the Burton-road, where games of various kinds were provided, such as cricket, quoits, brace ball (sic), swings, &c.” |
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| Sources | Leicester Chronicle, Aug. 12, 1882, p. 7 |
| Block Notes | Despite the unusual spelling, there is little doubt that the word “brace ball” is a reference to baseball. The same spelling showed up exactly one week later in the same newspaper, suggesting that a member of the staff was unfamiliar with the term and spelled it as he or she heard it. Given the setting, it seems likely that the game being played was English baseball, although it should be noted that Leicestershire was the only known location in England where clubs formed to play American-style baseball in the aftermath of the 1874 tour. |
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