| All that we do know for a fact is that the terms baseball and stoolball were used interchangeably on many occasions. |
| In stoolball, a milking stool was used as a target, and a hard leather ball stuffed with feathers or hair was thrown at it. |
| The earliest known reference to stoolball is in a 1330 poem by William Pagula, who recommended to priests that the game be forbidden within churchyards. |
| Originally, stoolball was a game played by milkmaids, as early as the 14th century. |
| Playing stoolball is comparatively cheap, and it doesn't need an immaculate pitch so it can be played almost anywhere. |
| I've found some pictures of stoolball teams from 1949 and 1950 and we'll publish them, come what may, next week. |
