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Game	Baste Ball
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
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Tags	1800s, US, 1700s
Description	Apparently a variant spelling of base ball. The most famous usage is in a Princeton student’s diary entry for 1786 (5 years before the first known use of "base ball" in the US), which reveals only that the game involves catching and hitting.
Sources	See Protoball Chronology entry 1786.1. A second entry, 1848c.9, includes baste ball in a list of boyhood games played by future US President Benjamin Harrison.
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 |Term=Baste Ball
 |Game Family=Baseball
-|Description=<p>Apparently a variant spelling of base ball. The most famous usage is in a Princeton student&rsquo;s diary entry for 1786, which reveals only that the game involves catching and hitting.</p>
+|Game Tags=1800s, US, 1700s
+|Description=<p>Apparently a variant spelling of base ball. The most famous usage is in a Princeton student&rsquo;s diary entry for 1786 (5 years before the first known use of "base ball" in the US), which reveals only that the game involves catching and hitting.</p>
 |Sources=<p><span>See Protoball Chronology entry [[1786.1]].</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span>A second entry, [[1848c.9]], includes baste ball in a list of boyhood games played by future US President Benjamin Harrison.</span></p>
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