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|Title="Base-Ball" Mentioned in 1755 Novel
|Type of Date=Year
|Date=1755/01/01
|Block Game=English Baseball
|Block Location=London
|Block Data=<p>Reference to a game of "Base-Ball" in the satirical novel The Card, written by John Kidgell, a clergyman, but published anonymously: "&hellip;the younger Part of the Family&hellip;retired to an interrupted Party at Base-Ball, (an infant Game, which as it advances in its Teens, improves into Fives, and in its State of Manhood, is called Tennis.)"</p>
|Sources=<p>The Card, John Newbery, London, 1755, p. 9 (There was also a Dublin, Ireland, reprint edition published in 1755.)</p>
|Block Notes=<p>The book has a publication date of 1755, but a newspaper account indicates it was already in production by Christmas, 1754. It was reviewed in a literary journal in February, 1755. All this is to say that it predated the baseball entry in the Bray diary by a few months. Given the highly satirical nature of The Card, it is hard to know whether to take Kidgell's characterization of baseball literally.</p>
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