Even so, there are a number of references in the literature identifying a similar sport that had existed in Europe beginning in the early to mid-1700s. These sources describe some common terms and other similarities which different types of baseball games had shared with such sports as English cricket and rounders which each originated decades before 1800. in cricket matches, for example, words like batsman pitch, and put out were used and in rounders, terms like hitting square and inning had appeared in newspaper articles of communities. In fact, seem of the foreign athletes that had participated in English cricket and roudners occasionally reported about another sport called base. Americans, in turn, played a type of rounders game that was mentioned in various readings as townball.