Ball-Bias

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Game	Ball-Bias
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	England
Regions	Europe
Eras	1800s
Invented	No
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Description	Ball-bias, a term only found in seven scattered British sources from 1856 to 1898, was evidently the name of a batting-running game in the south-east of England. David Block, who came across the game in 2013, tentatively concludes that, unlike early English base-ball, ball-bias used a bat. The 1898 source description: "ball-bias, a running game much like 'rounders,' played with a ball." Most references to ball-bias appear from 1856 to 1880 in newspaper accounts of school picnics or church outings in the vicinity of the Sussex-Kent border south of London. The rules of the game are not well understood. We have no present evidence that this game preceded English base-ball.
Sources	See David Block, "Base-Ball-Bias," December 2013 issue of the Next Destin'd Post (volume 2, number 7), page 1ff. The 1898 source cited above is the English Dialect Dictionary.
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