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