Block:English Baseball in London on July 13 1901

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Data	“Base ball” was played by boys attending the Sunday School connected to the Working Lads' Institute in the Whitechapel district of east London on an excursion to a retreat in Chingford in northeast London. According to a newspaper story: “Everything was done to help the children to have a happy day. Some were sent for donkey rides, some for brake rides, some put in swings, and such games as football, skipping rope, base ball, and hunt in the Woods were engaged in.”
Sources	East London Observer, Muly 13, 1901, p. 5
Block Notes	American baseball by organized clubs of adult men were already known in London by this date, but these players were young children at my guess is that they were playing the traditional form of the game.
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