‘Baseball’, 1300s

‘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’

- Got Medieval

Thank you to Got MedievalTYWKIWDBI and The Walters Art Museum

 

2 comments to ‘Baseball’, 1300s

  • Cheesy

    Cricket HA Yes, so the Normans invented cricket. Not likely it would have come from the far eastern lands. And even before those people cricket was probably a fertility game, Im on a role now, to show off there hunting or stamina prowess. Stamina coincidently is what you need to watch the modern cricket game, ha ha, the universe turns in circles.

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