Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire on July 17 1895

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“Baseball” was one of the games played by children attending the “Brethren” Sunday school of Maidenhead, Berkshire, on a half-day outing to the Burnham Beeches woodland in nearby Bucks. A newspaper reported that “About eighty children and friends started arriving in conveyances at about 1 o'clock, and arriving at the Beeches various games, including cricket, baseball, skipping, &c., were indulged in, after which tea was provided.”

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Maidenhead Advertiser, July 17, 1895, p 3.

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The “Brethren” could refer to any one of several religious organizations that adopted that title.

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