English Base Ball

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Game	English Base Ball
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	Great Britain
Regions	Britain
Eras	1700s, 1800s, Post-1900, Predecessor
Invented	No
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Description	Only in the 21st Century did we come to appreciate that a major predecessor of modern baseball was an English pastime known as <wait for it> “base ball”.
Sources	David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It. David Block, Pastime Lost.
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