Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on July 5 1862
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| Data | A planned game of “base-ball,” along with other amusements, was washed out by a rainstorm at the annual rural fête held in Stoke Park to benefit the Slough (Buckinghamshire) Literary and Scientific Institution. A newspaper reported that: “A game of cricket was commenced in the morning between the Mechanics' Institution and the Chalvey clubs, but the rain soon compelled the contestants to retire, and play was not resumed until evening. The games of base-ball, foot-ball, trap-ball and quoits, which were to have been played during the day, on the north front of the mansion, as well as archery, Aunt Sally, and other amusements, in the ground on the south front . . . had likewise to be abandoned to a great extent.” |
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| Sources | Windsor and Eton Express, April 26, 1862, p. 3 |
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