Editing Early baseball in Belgium/Game 1
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"The first notice of Belgian baseball in the American press dates back to 1897. A small blurb in the Washington Post on 5 April of that year makes mention of a T. Devrovre of Brussels, who was the President of the Baseball Association of France and Belgium." The general sense is that the game had spread northward from France after France presumably promoted play in 1889 after the Spalding tour visited Paris. | "The first notice of Belgian baseball in the American press dates back to 1897. A small blurb in the Washington Post on 5 April of that year makes mention of a T. Devrovre of Brussels, who was the President of the Baseball Association of France and Belgium." The general sense is that the game had spread northward from France after France presumably promoted play in 1889 after the Spalding tour visited Paris. | ||
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Query: Can we learn more about the nature and extent of play in the 1890s, and the nature of the Belgium-Netherlands series? | Query: Can we learn more about the nature and extent of play in the 1890s, and the nature of the Belgium-Netherlands series? | ||
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