Conan Doyle’s Baseball Dream: From the American Ballpark to the Chipping Norton Diamond.

Conan Doyle’s Baseball Dream: From the American Ballpark to the Chipping Norton Diamond.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was a high- profile champion of baseball in Britain in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes published in 1892 Having watched the professional game in America and Canada before WWI, he introduced his children to the sport and became increasingly convinced that the game could flourish in the UK. The first recorded game of ‘Bass-Ball’ in Britain took place in September 1749,…