Block:English Baseball in London, Normandy on March 29 1873
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| Data | “Baste ball” was included among a list of “Ye anciente sports of Albion” by the writer of a newspaper column entitled “Here and There” who was musing on the reactions of people in the London district of Putney to crews of rowers practicing on the Thames. In an aside, the author wrote: “I remember once seeing a rowing match in Harfleur (a seacoast town in Normandy). There are not many English people who stay at Harfleur, but those who do have innoculated (sic) the natives with Ye anciente sports of Albion. They have taught the Frenchmen to play cricket and even football; they have made the lovers of dominoes leave the café and dance the fandango known as 'baste-ball;' they have educated them into tip-cat, and, in fact, every other game except ring-taw...” |
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| Sources | South London Chronicle, March 29, 1873, p.2 |
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