The UK chapter of SABR also known as the Bobby Thomson chapter is a group of people who are interested not only in baseball, but the history of baseball and especially as it relates to Britain. Were doing a great deal of research to crack open the idea that baseball is just a descendant of rounders: indeed, weve discovered that baseball is most likely the older and more venerable of the pair. The very first reference to baseball was in 1700 in England, and, almost a century later, Jane Austen mentioned it in one of her novels. Rounders, on the other hand, first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1856. We have more supporting evidence: read on...

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