Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on November 15 1862
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| Data | The word "base-ball" appeared in a speech given by the Sheriff of Norwich, Norfolk, in an awards ceremony for students in the city who had scored highly on competitive examinations. A newspaper reported that the Sheriff urged the boys and girls "to be fairly in earnest in any matter they undertook, whatever it may happen to be. Whether it were in competitive examinations or in their ordinary school lessons, let them not go to work in a half-hearted way. If they were playing a game of cricket or base-ball, they would not say 'thank-you' for a fellow who did not play in earnest, but laid down and took no part in the game; so in their studies let them take care that whatever they took in hand they did it fairly and earnestly." |
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| Sources | The Norfolk News, Eastern Counties Journal, and Norwich, Yarmouth and Lynn Commercial Gazette, Nov. 15, 1862, p. 2 |
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