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The SABR UK Number 13 1 The SABR UK Number 13 Examiner Autumn 2003 The Journal of the Bobby Thomson Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research, Incorporating the Newsletter of the Baseball in UK/Europe Committee Baseball’s Earliest Reference? by Martin Hoerchner sons: book, personal letter, etc. Unfortu- 1. I have never seen the word nately this is a general failing of I’ve always thought that SABR ‘divine’ used as a noun. Henderson’s usually impeccable members in the U.K. were 2. I know there is a 1 in 100 research. uniquely placed to investigate chance that an event will take place 5. According to my knowledge of the origins of the game we call in a year ending in 00, but it just British history, the Puritans were a baseball, because we live in seemed to me to be an estimate, a spent force after the Restoration (1661), after twelve years of the the land that most probably theocracy of Cromwell and the nurtured the early games that Roundheads. I can’t imagine gave birth to baseball. For someone claiming to be a Puritan instance, I’ve always been in 1700, at least openly. interested in Robert W. Henderson’s account of the A further clue was discovered earliest known baseball when I was researching stoolball, reference. and was going through the papers of Major Grantham, stoolball’s twentieth-century re-inventor, in Robert W. Henderson is the Lewes in Sussex. I came across a Father of Baseball Genealogy. copy of the Sussex County Maga- In his seminal 1947 book, zine for July 1928, which con- Ball, Bat and Bishop: The tained the article “Stoolball in Origin of Ball Games, he Sussex” by M.S. Russell-Goggs. It writes: contains a series of early refer- ences to stoolball, including this “The earliest mention of a one: game called baseball so far “About 1630 a Puritan records that located was made by the ‘Maidstone was formerly a very Reverend Thomas Wilson, a profane town, where stool-ball and Puritan divine at Maidstone, other games were practised on the England. He wrote Lord’s Day’.” reminiscently in the year 1700, describing events that This really got my interest, be- had taken place before that cause it seemed very similar to the time, perhaps during his Thomas Wilson comment, quoted former years as a minister. ‘I by Henderson. But it gives a much earlier date than Henderson, and have seen’, he records with baseball is not one of the games disapproval, ‘Morris-dancing, mentioned. Still, 1630 is a much cudgel-playing, baseball and more reasonable date for a Puritan cricketts, and many other sports ‘circa’ date. minister; in fact, that was the year on the Lord’s Day.’” 3. I wouldn’t expect such an the Puritans founded the American early reference to use the term city of Boston. This reference has been accepted “baseball”. I would expect either and repeated many times over. But “base ball” or “base-ball”. So I was more puzzled than ever, to me, something never seemed 4. There is no hint regarding the but I didn’t know exactly where to quite right about it, for a few rea- source of the quote, whether a start to track down the exact quote. www.sabr.org.uk 2 Baseball’s Earliest Reference? (con’t) So I let it simmer for years, but entitled “Community and Disunity – search their catalogue, and I hoped then, last week, in a sudden burst Kent and the English Civil Wars, against hope, and bingo! It was of inspiration, I vowed to try to solve 1640-1649”. It was a collection of there. The title of the book was the mystery. After all, Maidstone four different lectures, number given as “The life and death of Mr. isn’t far from me, about 20 minutes three of which was entitled “Thomas Tho. Wilson, Minister of Maidstone, by car. I pictured myself discovering Wilson and the ‘Prophane Town’ of etc.” It was indeed dated 1672, and the quote on a yellowed letter in a Maidstone”. So there was a whole ran 99 pages. The book had no dark cobwebbed corner of the Kent chapter based on the quote! And my author but there was a comment County Historical Society Head- suspicion was reinforced of an that the preface is signed G.S., i.e. quarters. earlier date. I phoned the bookshop George Swinnock. I immediately immediately to see if they had the ordered the book for my perusal in Maidstone, in fact, is the County book in stock so I could drive to two days’ time. Town of Kent (where I live), so it’s Canterbury to pick it up that day (I equivalent to a U.S. state capital. love visiting Canterbury, if you can From the moment I first got the idea It’s a busy town of 140,000 people, overcome – yes – the lack of parking to check the Internet for the quote about 20 miles southwest of Lon- spaces). But it was a Bank Holiday, till I found the British Library don. At least I think it’s a town. In and the shop was closed. So I catalogue listing for the book, took Britain cities and towns are official contacted them the next day and about a half-hour. designations; for instance, a city ordered the book, which was not in has to have a cathedral to be a city. stock, and I eagerly await its arrival. So I had two days to mull things Cityships are of high status and are over. One of the first things that handed out like prizes on the Back to the Internet, the second came to me was that the 1911 Queen’s Jubilee years. Maidstone reference that grabbed me was on a cricket quote didn’t mention base- sits on the River Medway, which website about “the 1911 Encyclo- ball either. It was stool-ball where snakes right through the centre of paedia”, which was a really excel- Henderson had baseball. This town. Despite its proximity, I lent reference site and taken verba- tallied with the stoolball article, haven’t spent much time there, tim from the 1911 Encyclopaedia which mentioned stoolball “and probably due the lack of parking Britannica. The listing was for other sports”. I was at odds as to spaces. It’s got a jumble of bridges ‘Cricket’ and it ran into screenfuls, how to reconcile these discrepan- and roundabouts in the middle of very exhaustive and complete. The cies. Unless… there are SABR UK town, with a hundred signs whiz- section of interest was at the members, sometimes including me, zing around; the kind of traffic maze beginning, where, like the stoolball who believe, in one form or another, where you have to know what lane article, they ran a catalogue of early that there has been a certain level you want to be in about six turns in references to the sport. One of the of suppression of baseball in this advance. My fondest memory of earlier references was this: country, including suppression of Maidstone is driving through it once baseball’s importance in the history during a summer festival, which I In The Life of Thomas Wilson, Minis- of sport, because they wanted to later found out was an annual event ter of Maidstone, published anony- diminish its importance to give called the River Festival. The streets mously in I672, Wilson. having been precedence to British sports. It were full of people, the river was full born in 1601 and dying in or about smacks a bit of paranoia, con- of brightly-decorated party boats, 1653, occurs the following passage spiracy theories, etc, but I honestly makeshift barbecues served food all (p. 40): “Maidstone was formerly a thought that it was the most likely over, and the sound of music was very profane town, in as much as I explanation for the difference in the everywhere. And yes, it was on a have seen morrice-dancing, cudgel- quotes. Seeing the source will reveal Sunday. playing, stool-ball, crickets, and all. many other sports openly and I was at a loss as to where to start publicly indulged in on the Lord’s I had this fantasy of coming across to find the quote, because Day.” the baseball reference on page 40, Henderson didn’t give a clue to the and running my fingers over the source of the quote. So to start, I That was really a Eureka moment! word, and proving all the conspiracy entered “Thomas Wilson” and This reference gave the source I’d theories. I would feel like Howard Maidstone in Google, and to my always wanted. If it was Carter opening Tutanhamen’s tomb surprise got quite a few hits! I felt Henderson’s baseball quote, it – I would be the first person in guilty doing research by Internet, would set the date of the earliest history ever to specifically search but salved my consciousness by baseball reference back at least 28 for an original baseball reference telling myself it was only a pointer years, and maybe even 47 years, and find it in a source that can be to finding the original document, and maybe even more. The quote definitely dated to a year in the and seeing for myself the wording. was taken from a book about 1600’s. Thomas Wilson, published in 1672. The first reference that caught my I was thrilled to discover it was in a When I got to the library, they attention was from the Canterbury book, because I could possibly see handed me the book, which was Christ Church University College it in the British Library.
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