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• Block:English Baseball in Devonshire on October 16 1886  + (<p>The term "base-ball" was briefly … <p>The term "base-ball" was briefly mentioned in a young adult novel that was serialized in a weekly newspaper for boys. The story was set in a fictitious village in Devonshire, where at one point a boy was trying to explain an earlier deception: “The other day, sir, as I was playing base-ball with some of the fellows, I struck the ball out of bounds, and Carstone, seeing me do it, said he would tell you of it. I begged him not to, and at last he consented, on a condition that I should fag for him during the following week. I joyfully consented, for I had lost a ball out of bounds before, and I didn't know what Doctor Wright would do with me.”</p>t know what Doctor Wright would do with me.”</p>)

• Block:English Baseball in Devonshire on October 16 1886  +