Block:Miss Mitford Mentions "base-ball" Again in 1826 Story

From Protoball
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Block English Games
Baseball 1833.gif

English Baseball


Add a Block Game
Data

Use of the term "base-ball" in a short story written by Mary Russell Mitford entitled "The Tenants of Beechgrove" and published in the second volume of her collection of Berkshire village stories Our Village: "Better than playing with her doll, better even than base-ball, or sliding or romping, does she like to creep of an evening to her father's knee."

Sources

Our Village, Vol. II, by Mary Russell Mitford, London, 1826, Geo. B. Whittaker, p. 28.

Comment Edit with form to add a comment
Query Edit with form to add a query