Lemonade, made in the shade (1890); Base Ball (1835)

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The first 1835 "baseball" is from about 1885.
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5 May 1890, Morning Oregonian, pg. 12, col. 1:
Ice cream, lemonade--"ice cold, made in the shade, and stirred with a
spade"--and every kind of refreshments were on the grounds in  superabundance.
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3 August 1835, New-York Spectator, pg. 3, col. 2:
What can be prettier than this, unless it be the fellow-group of
girls-sisters, I presume, to the boys--who are laughing and screaming round the  great
oak; then darting to and fro, in a game compounded of hide-and-seek and
base-ball. Now tossing the ball high, high amidst the branches; now flinging it  low
along the common, bowling as it were, almost within reach of the cricketers;
not pursuing, now retreating, running, jumping, shouting, bawling--almost
shricking with ecstacy;...

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