Origins of baseball the hand. Another early print reference is Jane Austen's novel "Northanger Abbey", originally written 1798-1799. In the first chapter the young English heroine Catherine Morland is described as preferring "cricket, base ball, riding on horseback and running about the country to books". About the same time, Austen's cousin Cassandra Cooke mentioned baseball in her novel "Battleridge". In her 1820s "Village Sketch" "Jack Hatch", author Mary Russell Mitford wrote: In 1828, William Clarke of London published the second edition of "The Boy’s Own Book", which included rules for rounders (the oldest known use of that name), and contains the first printed
Fire on the Mountain (Abbey novel) resistance to being thrown off his land and his death is told through the eyes of his grandson, who is visiting the ranch for the summer. In 1981 the book was made into a made-for-television movie, "Fire on the Mountain". Buddy Ebsen played John Vogelin and Ron Howard played Lee Mackie. Folk singer Laura Veirs wrote a song called "The Ballad of John Vogelin". It appeared on her 2003 record "Troubled By The Fire". Fire on the Mountain (Abbey novel) Fire on the Mountain is a 1962 novel by Edward Abbey. It was Abbey's third published novel and followed "Jonathan