British Invested Baseball And Decided Not To Play It
THE Times reports that the British invested baseball and then decided not to play it:
Historians in Surrey have documentary proof that the game was being played in the UK before America. A diary entry which talks about a game played in Guildford, Surrey in 1755 has been verified as authentic by the Surrey History Centre.
The Surrey History Centre, where highlights include The Philip Bradley Fairground Collection and Dennis Specialist Vehicles.
The handwritten entry was discovered in the diary of lawyer William Bray and documents a game with friends on Easter Monday of that year when he was still a teenager. It reads: “Went to Stoke church this morn.- After dinner, went to Miss Jeale’s to play at base ball with her the 3 Miss Whiteheads, Miss Billinghurst, Miss Molly Flutter, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Ford and H. Parsons. Drank tea and stayed til 8.”
Basbeall is a British game, then
Surrey County Council have written to Major League Baseball, the governing body of the sport in the US, to inform them of the find.
And the discovery is made just as Americans are getting into the more adult sport of cricket…
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September 13th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Aussie rules football is derived from Gaelic football.
September 12th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
It’s “Rounders” and it was taken to America by Cornish tin miners - and they’re welcome to it!
September 12th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Maybe it was the “colonies” that threw you off. Should I have said, “…from colony to colony”?
September 12th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I believe that you once, um, help me with a word here. What exactly does one call what you did in India?
Anyway, Sahib or Mem-sahib, I referred your servants on the subcontinent. I actually didn’t realize that there were any Indian servants in England.
September 12th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
honour/ honor
boot/ trunk
lift/ elevator
petrol/ gas
mutilating/ dominating
Score!
About the baseball, could you take it back then, because it is dead boring, although not as bad as:
The whole cricket thing? Perhaps you haven’t noticed the flight of your former servants to the colonies, but there are many, MANY Indians arriving here. I live in a cluster of small towns with a cumulative population of maybe 70,000. Practically every hotel or gas station is Indian owned, and about one-fourth of the local physicians are Indian as well. Of a Sunday, it’s relatively easy to find a match–usually businessmen and doctors playing against students. It’s pretty funny–sort of like that last scene in “Bend It Like Beckham”.
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M&A
Artemis
It appears that the Large Hadron Collider effect may already be at work, spinning off parallel universes.
The number of Indian servants in England was, and remains, extremely close to zero.
At least in this Universe; your mileage may vary.
September 12th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
…….those base asses, mutilating our language…
September 12th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Exactly, they just ripped off a load of Girls games, I remember Netball too, whoever I fancied always seemed to play that as well, and they’d have WA and GA and stuff on their backs…
Yup, Dialogue, or any French origin words, like colour, armour, honour and so on… there goes the spell-check with the red wavy lines again…
Schedule, Skedule, Italianized language (Zeds everywhere), purposefully for deliberately, invented words like Dove for Dived, or pled, or drug for dragged, burglarized for burgled, it goes on and on…
It’s a losing battle, Welsh and English dreams, literally shattered…
September 12th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
And then their non-u usage.
I well remember when I was a good scorer at netball then saw the US version of Basketball, and found scoring meant something else too- oh the shattered dreams of a Welsh childhood….
September 12th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I thought it was Rounders, that game that’s for girls and Juniors with the tiny bat to teach kids hand/eye coordination? Run around 4 cones to get a “Round”?
Rounders/”Baseball”.
Football/”Soccer”.
Tomarto/Tomayto
Yoghurt/Yo-gurt
Ad nauseam
September 12th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Given the difference between UK and US footballers gear, just how big is the cricketers box going to be, and how are the Texans who do everything in XL++++ going to move?