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A passing mention to "bass-ball" appears in a three-volume Victorian novel that depicted itself as the "autobiography" of a young woman. Characterizing herself as a child as having been very attuned to the thoughts and feelings of all around her, the subject of the novel explained: "...I was then, and had long been, more qualified to 'pick up' precise information from an unguarded look, or a broken sentence, than many a girl of seventeen, who had spent her time in jumping over daisy chains and playing at bass-ball with others."
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The Lees of Blendon Hall, an Autobiography, by the author of "Alice Wentworth" (Noelle Radecliffe), London, 1859, Hurst and Blackett, Vol. I, p. 131
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