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Baseball
Despite being the ‘National Pastime’ of our American cousins, baseball (or base ball as it was known) has origins in 18th century Britain. Indeed, historian’s believe that baseball may have been a regional variation of the more traditional British game of rounders. There is even a reference to baseball in Jane Austen’s Northhanger Abbey, when the heroine Catherine Morland is described as preferring “cricket, base ball, riding on horseback and running about the country to books.”
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