Word: longmans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Longman's Magazine gives the following account of some English cricketers who watched a game of base-ball at Philadelphia recently, and then proceeded to form a somewhat poor opinion of the batting qualities of the base-ball players. Cricketers are apt to despise what is called a full-pitched ball - that is, one which does not touch the ground before it reaches the bat. The cricketer can have but a poor eye, in fact, he must be but a poor player, who cannot hit such a ball; and though if he is careless about it, he may readily...
...long list of English magazines two more are to be added - Macmillan's English Critic, with John Morley as editor, and Longman's Magazine...