Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on June 15 1861
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| Data | “Base” was named as an athletic sport of “olden time” in the introduction to a Norwich, Norfolk, newspaper article giving the results of the local grammar schools sports competitions. “In Olden Time,” the writer stated, “the Athletic Sports of Boyhood were Hockey, Base, Cricket, Camp, Racing, and now and then a little Wrestling. Now-a-days, however, athletic exercises are become as regular an affair of study and practice as any other part of education, and the Gymnasium is once again in active force in public schools.” The article went on to provide the results of various races held on the recent “public day.” |
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| Sources | Norwich Mercury, June 15, 1861, p. 5 |
| Block Notes | “Base” as a single word representing baseball was not uncommon in Norfolk, although there is a small possibility this could be a reference to prisoner's base. |
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