Block:English Baseball in London/Sussex in 1833
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| Data | The word "base-ball" appears in a memoir written by Rev. J. Young. describing a visit to the Sussex countryside of his youth, he recalled: "…my mind turned mechanically to the period when upon the beautiful lawn…I had viewed, with a moment's pleasurable sensation, my friends bounding over the enameled earth, like the fawns by which they were surrounded, while playing at base-ball, and then, retiring..., refreshed themselves with wine and fruit..." |
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| Sources | Literary Recreations; or, Scenes from Real Life, by the Rev. J. Young, London, 1833, Whittaker & Co., p. 291 |
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