Block:English Baseball in London on July 7 1876
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| Data | "Base ball" was mentioned by a newspaper gossip columnist who was protesting the threatened enclosure of Plumstead Common located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in South London. The writer was describing some of the features of the common and the people who frequent it: "Then come the apple, nut and gingerbread women, who sit out the whole day long, insensible to wind and weather, careless of who wins or who loses at quoits, cricket or base ball, every one of which games are being briskly pursued around, so long as the players need the refreshment their little stalls can offer." |
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| Sources | Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin), July 7, 1876, p. 7 |
| Block Notes | This column was a reprint. It is entitled "London Gossip," and was attributed to "the Lady Correspondent of the Evening Telegraph." At the time, the only newspaper in the British Isles bearing the name “Evening Telegraph” was also published in Dublin. |
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