Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on August 4 1888
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| Data | Entitled "A Picnic for Lunatics," a newspaper article reported that "base-ball" was played when members of the Southsea Rowing Club, Portsmouth, Hampshire, took male patients from the Borough Asylum at Milton for an unusual outing to Portchester: "Once there, wickets were soon pitched for cricket on the green under the shadow of the ancient Castle, and the contest 'Southsea Rowing Club v. Lunatic Patients' was commenced amid a good deal of interest...The party had then another stroll around the green, and while many of the ladies and gentlemen resumed the game of base-ball, the patients were greatly amused with shying at cocoa nuts."" |
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| Sources | Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle, Aug. 4, 1888, p. 6 |
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