Baseball is Not the Native American Sports

Some historians in Surrey, England, the team confirmed that baseball has been played in England even more than 20 years before American independence. Confirmation was obtained from the diary that contains the document matches played in Guildford in 1775, and the diary is confirmable by Surrey History Centre.
William Bray, a diary and history from Shere, wrote about this game when he was a teenager.
Julian Pooley, Surrey History Centre manager and William Bray expert, said that the diary was written by William Bray said the diary showed that the game is already well known and well-organized starting in the 18th century and was played by both men and women.
Julian said: "William wrote in diarinya lot at Surrey History Centre, but the discovery last year, in one warehouse parks, shows that this diary originated in 1754 to 1755. Diari contains stories about William's experiences playing baseball. The attention is he playing this game with a lot of young women. " Existing diary explains that after the game they drink tea and play cricket.
Kevin Sullivan, lovers of the Boston Red Sox team, said: "It's a great American tradition to show that we take one tradition from another place, adopt and develop it. We always believe that baseball developed, not discovered like basketball."

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