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Jane Austen

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, […]

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Jane Austen wrote about baseball 40 years before it was ‘invented’ A headline in the London Telegraph. Jane Austen wrote about baseball 40 years before its official invention, according to a new book. But evidence of the game’s British origins was erased from history by the American sports magnate Albert Spalding, according to the book’s […]

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Jane Austen and baseball? Who knew? Thanks to Jim Charlton, publications director of the Society for American Baseball Research for the lead. According to the OED, the earliest reference to baseball is the Jane Austin novel, which was published in 1815, not 1818 says the OED. I talked to an OED editor a couple of […]

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