Block:English Baseball in London on August 13 1874
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| Data | Under the heading of "Base-Ball," The Times of London published a letter to the editor from someone identified only as "Grandmother" at the time of the 1874 tour: "Sir,--Some American athletes are trying to introduce to us their game of base-ball, as if it were a novelty; whereas the fact is that it is an ancient English game, long ago discarded in favour of cricket. In a letter of the celebrated Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey, written in 1748, the family of Frederick, Prince of Wales, are described as 'diverting themselves with base-ball, a play all who are or have been schoolboys are well acquainted with'." |
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| Sources | The Times (London), Aug. 13, 1874, p. 10 |
| Block Notes | Almost all of the many British newspaper accounts of the 1874 tour of American baseball players stated that the game was an elaborated form of rounders. This is one of the few that recognized baseball as being originally English. "Grandmother," however, was exaggerating a bit about the game being "ancient," and it seems she was unaware that it was still being played. |
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