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Posted By: barrysloate

I heard about this find last year from David Block, who uncovered it on one of his trips to England. David is better known as the author of "Baseball Before We Knew It", a superb study of the origins of the game.

He found it almost entirely by accident. He travelled several hours from London to the countryside based on a phone conversation with the owner of the diary. When he arrived at the woman's house, she couldn't find it. He returned back to London later that day without having seen it.

Then the day before he was to return to the states, she contacted him again and said she found it. He made the same long trip again and this time he was rewarded.