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<p>[QUOTE="daveydempsey, post: 2091866, member: 22"]I've never heard of a cricket table before.</p><p>I checked all my antique books and found only one in a Millar's price guide from 1996.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]250066[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Baseball was invented in England.</p><p><br /></p><p>From CNN</p><p>One notable discovery found in a shed in a village in Surrey, southern England, in 2008 was a handwritten 18th-century diary belonging to a local lawyer, William Bray.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Went to Stoke church this morn.," wrote Bray on Easter Monday in 1755. "After dinner, went to Miss Jeale's to play at base ball with her the 3 Miss Whiteheads, Miss Billinghurst, Miss Molly Flutter, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Ford and H. Parsons. Drank tea and stayed til 8."</p><p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/06/01/lords.museum.baseball.cricket/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/06/01/lords.museum.baseball.cricket/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/06/01/lords.museum.baseball.cricket/index.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It was a girls /womans game that became known as Rounders.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now it played in the US by a load of fat blokes who chew gum <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="daveydempsey, post: 2091866, member: 22"]I've never heard of a cricket table before. I checked all my antique books and found only one in a Millar's price guide from 1996. [ATTACH=full]250066[/ATTACH] Baseball was invented in England. From CNN One notable discovery found in a shed in a village in Surrey, southern England, in 2008 was a handwritten 18th-century diary belonging to a local lawyer, William Bray. "Went to Stoke church this morn.," wrote Bray on Easter Monday in 1755. "After dinner, went to Miss Jeale's to play at base ball with her the 3 Miss Whiteheads, Miss Billinghurst, Miss Molly Flutter, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Ford and H. Parsons. Drank tea and stayed til 8." [URL]https://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/06/01/lords.museum.baseball.cricket/index.html[/URL] It was a girls /womans game that became known as Rounders. Now it played in the US by a load of fat blokes who chew gum :hilarious::hilarious:[/QUOTE]
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