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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1859
|Year Number=27
|Headline=Reader Catches "A Slight Error" - Base Ball is English, not American
|Headline=Reader Catches "A Slight Error" - Base Ball is English, not American
|Year=1859
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>"Allow me to correct a slight error in a leading article of to-day's issue on the cricket match. It is there stated that the game of "base ball" is an American game. It is played in every school in England, and has been for a century or more, under the name of "Rounders," and is essentially an English game. <u>New York Herald</u><i>,</i> October 16, 1859, page 1 column 5. Posted to 19CBB on 3/1/2007 by George Thompson.</p>
|Country=US
|State=NY
|City=NYC
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Text=<p>"Allow me to correct a slight error in a leading article of to-day's issue on the cricket match. It is there stated that the game of "base ball" is an American game. It is played in every school in England, and has been for a century or more, under the name of "Rounders," and is essentially an English game.&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p><span>New York Herald</span><em>,</em>&nbsp;October 16, 1859, page 1 column 5. Posted to 19CBB on 3/1/2007 by George Thompson.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=27
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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"Allow me to correct a slight error in a leading article of to-day's issue on the cricket match. It is there stated that the game of "base ball" is an American game. It is played in every school in England, and has been for a century or more, under the name of "Rounders," and is essentially an English game. 

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New York Herald, October 16, 1859, page 1 column 5. Posted to 19CBB on 3/1/2007 by George Thompson.

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