http://worldfootballtalk.darkbb.com/baseball-f4/-t1.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:53:39 GMT 10 http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/ogtripleog25/WFTbannerWFT11-6-2008.jpg http://worldfootballtalk.darkbb.com/baseball-f4/-t1.htm http://worldfootballtalk.darkbb.com/baseball-f4/america-s-pastime-really-english-earliest-reference-discovered-t606.htm WFT_BigTuna LONDON -- Baseball is as American as ... tea and crumpets?That may be case, according to a diary uncovered in southern England last year but only now being made public.Julian Pooley, the manager of the Surrey History Centre, said Thursday he has authenticated a reference to baseball in a diary by English lawyer William Bray dating back to 1755 -- about 50 years before what was previously believed to have been the first known reference to what became the American pastime."I know ... Baseball Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:53:39 GMT http://worldfootballtalk.darkbb.com/baseball-f4/america-s-pastime-really-english-earliest-reference-discovered-t606.htm#2384 http://worldfootballtalk.darkbb.com/baseball-f4/america-s-pastime-really-english-earliest-reference-discovered-t606.htm