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…
Posted: 12th, September 2008 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, Strange But True Comments (10) | TrackBack | Permalink
