William Bray and the True Discovery of Baseball in 1755 (continued)

An interesting fact about Bray’s documentation was that half of the players involved were women, when baseball is purely considered a male sport. There are other variations of baseball in our current society that incorporate women, such as softball, but apparently baseball was not a unisex sport when it was first created. This is probably more of an indication that the game William Bray participated in was only mildly competitive and more for leisure than the fierce competition that the game has evolved into today.

The discovery of this documentation of a first-person experience playing the game of baseball in England has definitely debunked the mystery of where our nation’s pastime was created. Sir William Bray would have never thought that his daily diary entries would be the missing piece to a century-old question. His original diary is now on display at the Surrey History Centre in England. Also, a documentary containing the diary and the accidental discovery of it by Tricia St. John Barry is going in to the Sports Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.