Block:English Baseball in Suffolk on September 2 1898
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| Data | “Baseball” was mentioned in a nostalgic poem published in a Diss, Norfolk, newspaper about an aging workman returning to the location of his childhood home in the north Suffolk village of Redgrave and wallowing in sadness both because the signs of his boyhood had largely disappeared and yet the plight of working people had not improved. It's title is “Doggerel Lines by the Son of a Labourer,” and this is the first stanza: “Now 64 years from my own native home, Had a wish to visit once more The haunts of my childhood, I longed to roam Recalling the days of yore; I know all the places, and names can tell Where we played at the close of each day, Baseball, prison bars, and cricket as well, Quite green in my mind now I'm grey.” |
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| Sources | Diss (Norfolk) Express, Sept. 2, 1898, p. 5 |
| Block Notes | Given that this is a reminiscence of some 50 years earlier, there is no doubt the reference is to English baseball. |
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