Block:English Baseball in London in 1866
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| Data | An strange mention of "base ball" is found in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek magazine article about London's Whitecross Street Prison. The writer describes the place--a debtor's prison--as if it were some sort of hostelry, and characterizes the inmates as "knights." At one point, the warden, or "governor," is explaining the prison's routine to a group of new inmates. Done with this, in a complete non sequitur, he pronounces: "And now gentlemen, I shall wish you good morning, as I am engaged in a match of base-ball." |
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| Sources | "Records of Whitecross Street Prison," appearing in "The Sixpenny Magazine," June, 1866, London, p. 284 |
| Block Notes | Apart from the oddity of the context, it was a bit unusual for an adult male Londoner to identify with baseball in that era. |
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