Block:English Baseball in Berkshire on May 25 1878
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| Data | That they were playing "baseball" was the alibi offered by four boys who were accused of damaging a fence in the village of Greenam, Berkshire. A police constable testified, according to a newspaper report of their court hearing, that he caught the defendants running through the fence "where about 20 boys and girls had been pulling down the boughs of trees and shrubs, and getting flowers. Each denied damaging the fence, alleging that it was done by some girls several days before. They themselves were playing baseball." The magistrate said they were among the group that caused the damage and fined them 5 shillings each. |
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| Sources | Reading Mercury, Oxford Gazette, Newbury Herald, and Berks County Paper, may 25, 1878, p. 4 |
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