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• Block:English Baseball in London on December 7 1839  + (<p>The term "base-ball" was cited in … <p>The term "base-ball" was cited in an entry from an British sports encyclopedia (An Encyclopædia of Rural Sports) entitled “Games of the Ball” that was previewed in an Irish newspaper. After describing hand-ball as as an appropriate game for young people of both sexes, the author of the encyclopedia added: "There are few of us of either sex but have engaged in base-ball since our majority; and the gravity of middle age is pleasingly broken in upon by the feats of pat-ball, as we see it practised among our children."</p> as we see it practised among our children."</p>)

• Block:English Baseball in London on December 7 1839  +