Baste Ball

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Game	Baste Ball
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location
Regions	US
Eras	1700s, 1800s
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Description	Apparently a variant spelling of base ball. The most famous usage is in a Princeton student’s diary entry for 1786 (5 years before the first known use of "base ball" in the US), which reveals only that the game involves catching and hitting.
Sources	See Protoball Chronology entry 1786.1. A second entry, 1848c.9, includes baste ball in a list of boyhood games played by future US President Benjamin Harrison.
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