Block:English Baseball in London on June 25 1878
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| Data | The game of "base-ball" was cited in a London newspaper article discussing the origin of tennis. The author mentioned the theory that the character Nausicaa in Homer's Odyssey was the originator of tennis, but pointed out that Chapman claimed the game she played was stool-ball. The author continued: "The sober critic will admit that Nausicaa played neither tennis, nor stool-ball, but rounders, or base-ball, and that she threw at, and missed, an opponent who was running between bases." |
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| Sources | London Daily News, June 25, 1878, p. 4 |
| Block Notes | It would seem the base-ball referred to here was English baseball, given that the ball was being thrown at a runner between bases (soaking), a feature that would not be associated with American baseball by a British writer of the period. |
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