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The playing of “base-ball” was part of complaint lodged in a letter to the editor of a newspaper written by a citizen who objected to the “indecorous and unseemly behaviour of big boys” in a local park in Maidenhead, Berkshire, on Sunday afternoons and evenings. “The shouting and behaviour generally are most reprehensible,” he wrote, “and should not be tolerated on a Sunday in any well-conducted town. Base-ball, cricket, and football are played as if Sunday were a Bank Holiday, and to those of us who reside within sight of the park it is positively painful and decidedly annoying.”
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