"our National Game"

[Mark A Mandel]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, James A. Landau wrote:

#Interesting spelling "base ball"

That's the spelling Jane Austen uses, whatever the rules may have been.

#"You don't have to be a murdered to contribute to the OED"
                            *** r *** , surely?

#                                   - Jesse Sheidlower

-- Mark A. Mandel