Block:English Baseball in London/Midlands in 1892

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A novel for young readers fleetingly mentioned "baseball' in the context of a domestic scene: "They felt somehow as if the mistress of the house was blaming them for their large appetites, there was a hint of reproach in the tone with which she said, 'More meat, Tom?' so that even that rather reckless youth felt glad to have finished and to scuffle off to the fields for a game of baseball."

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Many a Year Ago, by Mrs. Herbert Martin, London, 1892, Ward and Downey, pp. 18-19

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The novel was set "back some hundred years" in a fictitious Midlands village named "King's Marston."

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