cricket (was: Re: Who pulled my bloody chain?)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Oct 13 15:58:12 PDT 1999


Roger Odisio wrote:


> Ahh yes, the claim that baseball was nothing new, but merely a copy--you
> say "sacharine standardization"--of the game of rounders. Let's play a
> game of where do ideas come from, and when does quantitaive change
> become qualitative.
>
> The schoolboy game of rounders did exist first (btw, could you situate
> its creation in history for me?).

A gane called "baseball" is referred to in one of Austen's novels. What game would that be. (Circa 1810 -- rural England.)

Carrol



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