Block:English Baseball in London, Yorkshire on September 7 1883

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Data	Londoners in the 17th century played "Base Ball" on Shrove Tuesday according to a newspaper article entitled "Old English Sports and Customs": "The games of 'Football' and 'Base Ball' in this day used to be played in the streets of London in the 17th century. Billet, or tip cat, was also a favourite game for this day, and in some parts of the North of England it is customary for the girls to occupy some part of the festival by the game of battledore and shuttlecock."
Sources	Hull Packet and East Riding Times, Sept. 7, 1883, p. 6
Block Notes	The suggestion of baseball in 17th-century London is an intriguing one, but there is no supporting evidence for the claim. The article was the second of a three-part series that was taken from a speech given by a local alderman to the blind members of the Hull Mutual Improvement Society.
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