Block:English Baseball in Hampshire on May 15 1879
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| Data | Entitled “Ball Throwing Nuisance,” a complaint about “baseball” play in the Landport district of Portsmouth was the subject of a letter to the editor of a local newspaper: “SIR,--By the medium of your paper, I should like to ask how much longer the inhabitants of Landport are to be subject to the above nuisance which in some places has become unbearable? Take Central-street or Church-path for instance. Every evening for the past two months or more, from about half past six, a party of youths from sixteen to twenty years of age, make it a practice to indulge in a game of baseball until it is too dark for them to see. If you escape being knocked down by them or struck by the ball you cannot close your ears to the disgusting and obscene language which they make use of at the same time, and until the police make their appearance. Unless the ringleaders are made an example of we cannot hope that it will be much better. Hoping it will not be very long before something is done. I remain yours truly, A RESIDENT.” |
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| Sources | Portsmouth Evening News, May 15, 1879, p. 3 |
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