The National Pastime, January 1st, 2001
On March 15, 1889, the first competitive game was played at the newly completed Gloucester County Cricket Ground at Ashley Down, Bishopston, in the historic English seaport city of Bristol. The contest was not a cricket match but rather an exhibition game between two teams of American professional baseball players. The press coverage given the event--including stories headlined "THE AMERICAN BASE BALL PLAYERS IN BRISTOL," which appeared in two separate journals-indicates that the bemused incomprehension with which many modern Britons react to the American national pastime hasn't altered much...
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