Block:English Baseball in London on November 20 1874
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| Data | The subject of "base-ball" came up in a London newspaper article that discussed how certain words that are assumed be Americanisms were actually derived from other languages, or were imported English provincialisms: "These terms flourish on American soil, till their use is taken for a sign of American nationality, just as the old English game of base-ball met us this summer with a new face as a native Transatlantic institution." |
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| Sources | Daily News (London), Nov. 20, 1874, p. 5 |
| Block Notes | One more of the few examples of a Briton pointing out that baseball--in the wake of the tour of American players--was originally English. |
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