Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 30 1860
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| Data | “Base ball” was again mentioned as one of the amusements enjoyed at the annual rural fête held at Stoke Park to raise funds for the Slough (Buckinghamshire) Literary and Scientific Institution. The festivities proceeded for many hours, notwithstanding unfavorable weather. A newspaper reported that “in the cricket match that was commenced in the morning between the Slough and Egham clubs, the players enjoyed some hours, if not of sunny weather, at least of immunity from the heavy rain which commenced falling between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, the time at which visitors in the greatest numbers poured into the park. . .Those engaged in trap and base ball seldom deserted their posts, while the swings provided for the juvenile portion of the crowd were unoccupied only during the heaviest showers.” |
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| Sources | Windsor and Eton Express, June 30, 1860, p. 3 |
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