Block:English Baseball in London on August 10 1888
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
 |
| English Baseball |
| Add a Block Game |
| Data | A reference to “base-ball” appeared in a brief and mildly amusing observation about kissing in the “Society” column of a London magazine. “Men have an idea that their kisses are appreciated. They are most immensely mistaken. The average man gives a kiss just as he throws a base-ball—with too much force. It needs to be as delicate as a rose-leaf. Almost a memory in a second. It need not suggest a postage-stamp or a porous plaster.” |
|---|---|
| Sources | Bow Bells Weekly: a Magazine of General Literature and Art for Family Reading, (London), Aug. 10,1888, p. 86 |
| Block Notes | Mentions of baseball in this type of context and appearing in London publications are normally allusions to the American game, but considering that the writer of this example was obviously a woman, and that her complaint of too much force implies the presence of soaking, I suggest that this, more likely than not, was a reference to the original English game. |
| Comment | Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Edit with form to add a query |