Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on June 7 1902
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| Data | “Base-ball” and rounders were among the games played by school children in the village of Oakley in Hampshire when school was cancelled and a celebration begun after news of peace in the South African war had arrived. A newspaper reported that “a band of ringers were summoned and the Church bells rang out their joyful and rejoicing sounds in honour of the glad event. The school children were engaged in games of cricket, rounders, base-ball, &c., with their teachers for the morning, and at 12 o'clock some very hearty and lusty cheers were raised.” |
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| Sources | Hants and Berks Gazette and Middlesex and Surrey Journal, June 7, 1902, p. 8 |
| Block Notes | Another example of baseball and rounders played side by side. Oakley, near Basingstoke, is less than three miles from Jane Austen's home village of Steventon. |
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