Block:English Baseball in London on August 2 1882
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| Data | Boys playing “base-ball” was one of the complaints raised at a meeting of the Shoreditch Vestry, a neighborhood in the East End of London. According to newspaper coverage, a member representing the Hoxton district of Shoreditch decried the “hideous noises of the 'wretched Ranters and the ill-behaved Blue Ribbon people,' boys in the bye-streets playing at base-ball to the danger of females passing by, &c.” |
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| Sources | Hackney and Kingsland Gazette, Aug. 2, 1882, p. 3 |
| Block Notes | The “Ranters” and “Blue Ribbon people” scorned by the complainant were members of evangelical Christian organizations who proselytized aggressively in the streets. |
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