{"id":3511,"date":"2010-06-11T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T09:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2010-06-11T18:08:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:08:06","slug":"did-baseball-begin-in-18th-century-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/did-baseball-begin-in-18th-century-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Did baseball begin in 18th-century England?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is an excellent article and video on CNN<\/a> on the origins of baseball.<\/p>\n

“An extract from an 18th-century diary containing the oldest known reference to baseball is among the items on display in a new exhibition in London exploring the English origins and cricketing connections of America’s national sport.<\/p>\n

“While baseball was once claimed to have been invented in the U.S. in the mid-19th century, recent findings suggest a sport of the same name may have evolved decades earlier alongside cricket, crossing the Atlantic with English settlers to the American colonies.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is an excellent article and video on CNN on the origins of baseball. “An extract from an 18th-century diary containing the oldest known reference to baseball is among the items on display in a new exhibition in London exploring the English origins and cricketing connections of America’s national sport. “While baseball was once claimed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[264,266,389,265],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket","tag-baseball","tag-cc-morris","tag-cricket","tag-mcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3518,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}