Old Time Family Baseball

• 14th November 2012
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odditiesoflife:

Curious History:  Baseball in the 1300s?

This illustration was found in the margins of a calendar in a 14th-century Flemish Book of Hours. Various historians of sport have identified this as a version of “stool ball” or “stump ball”, which was baseball played with only one base.

You know I’ve got a thing for stool ball. 

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