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|Text=<p>On the day after Easter in 1755, 18-year-old William Bray recorded the following entry in his diary:</p> | |Text=<p>On the day after Easter in 1755, 18-year-old William Bray recorded the following entry in his diary:</p> | ||
<p>"After Dinner Went to Miss Seale's to play at Base Ball, with her, the 3 Miss Whiteheads, Miss Billinghurst, Miss Molly Flutter, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Ford, H. Parsons & Jolly. Drank tea and stayed till 8."</p> | <p>"After Dinner Went to Miss Seale's to play at Base Ball, with her, the 3 Miss Whiteheads, Miss Billinghurst, Miss Molly Flutter, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Ford, H. Parsons & Jolly. Drank tea and stayed till 8."</p> | ||
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| Text | On the day after Easter in 1755, 18-year-old William Bray recorded the following entry in his diary: "After Dinner Went to Miss Seale's to play at Base Ball, with her, the 3 Miss Whiteheads, Miss Billinghurst, Miss Molly Flutter, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Ford, H. Parsons & Jolly. Drank tea and stayed till 8." The story of this 2007 find is told in Block, David, "The Story of William Bray's Diary," Base Ball, volume , no. 2 (Fall 2007), pp. 5-11. Block points out that this diary entry, is among the first four appearances of the term "base ball," [see #1744.2 and #1748.1 above, and #1755.4 below] shows adult and mixed-gender play, and that "at this time, baseball was more of a social phenomenon than a sporting one. . . . played for social entertainment rather than serious entertainment." [Ibid, page 9.] |
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