Clipping:The origin of the term 'base ball'

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Date Sunday, November 15, 1868
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It has been generally supposed that the term “base ball”–designating our national game–was of American origin. But Miss Austen, in her “Northanger Abbey,” published about the beginning of the present century, writes of a young heroine, who preferred “cricket, base ball, etc.,” to dolls.

Source New York Sunday News
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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