Clipping:The origin of the term 'base ball'
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Date | Sunday, November 15, 1868 |
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Text | 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 |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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