Literary birthday greetings: Jane Austen

December 16, 2010

They don’t get much more literary than this, which comes from the Hall of Fame’s Time Wiles via Facebook:

Happy birthday to one of the first baseball writers, Jane Austen. From Northanger Abbey:

…it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books…

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