Baseball

I have healed. At least well enough that I can talk about baseball without feeling the pit of my stomach lurch like a car in the Tower of Terror.

So the British are claiming that a bit of writing by Jane Austin indicates that they were playing baseball before the Americans. I don't really care one way or the other, but it does explain this one passage that always bothered me a bit:

It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should - what the-?! SAFE? holy fuck! Are you fucking blind ump?

This revelation about the origins of baseball certainly brings this into a new light, as well as add some "between the lines" information about the author.