Block:English Baseball in Kent on May 4 1858

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“Baste ball” was one of the amusements to be offered at the upcoming “grand picnic party” for members of the New Brompton and Gillingham (Kent) Reading and Lecture Room Society, according to a newspaper announcement. The article mentioned that the event was to be held on the spacious grounds of an inn in the nearby town of Sittingbourne, adding that “cricket, baste ball, a concert, and dancing on the green, with other sports of a rustic character will form part of the day's amusements.”

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Kentish Gazette (Canterbury), May 4, 1858, p. 6

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