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|Description=<p>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.</p> | |Description=<p>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.</p> | ||
<p>David Block, who came across the game in 2013, tentatively concludes that, unlike early English | <p>David Block, who came across the game in 2013, tentatively concludes that, unlike early English baseball, ball-bias probably used a bat. The 1898 source's description: "ball-bias, a running game much like 'rounders,' played with a ball."</p> | ||
<p>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 | <p>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 baseball.</p> | ||
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|Sources=<p>See David Block, "Base-Ball-Bias," December 2013 issue of the <em>Next Destin'd Post </em>(volume 2, number 7), page 1ff.<em> </em></p> | |Sources=<p>See David Block, "Base-Ball-Bias," December 2013 issue of the <em>Next Destin'd Post </em>(volume 2, number 7), page 1ff.<em> </em></p> | ||
Revision as of 09:48, 10 December 2013
| Game | Ball-Bias |
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| Game Family | 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 baseball, ball-bias probably used a bat. The 1898 source's 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 baseball.
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| 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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