Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on June 22 1907

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For playing “base-ball” in a farmer's field near Basingstoke, Hampshire, six boys pleaded guilty to damaging the grass. According to a newspaper notice, a policeman “found the defendants playing base-ball in the long grass in a field near to the Worting-road allotments.”

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Hampshire Chronicle (Winchester), June 22, 1907, p. 7

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