Block:English Baseball in London/Berkshire in 1835
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| Data | Yet another reference to "base-ball" in the works of Mary Russell Mitford. This one comes in a story called "The Carpenter's Daughter" in volume I of Belford Regis, a further, three-volume collection of Berkshire county stories and sketches. Following a description of a cricket game, she wrote: "What can be prettier than this, unless it be the fellow-group of girls--sisters, I presume, to the boys--who are laughing and screaming round the great oak; then darting to and fro, in a game compounded of hide-and-seek and base-ball. Now tossing the ball high,...now flinging it low along the common, bowling as it were almost within reach of the cricketers." |
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| Sources | “The Carpenter's Daughter,” appearing in Belford Regis, Vol. I, by Mary Russell Mitford, London, 1835, Richard Bentley, p. 137 |
| Block Notes | Illustrating the irregularity of the era's spelling standards, Miss Mitford's works of the 1820's and 30's spell baseball variously as "baseball" (one word), "base-ball" (hyphenated), and "bass-ball." |
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