Block:English Baseball in London on March 28 1887
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| Data | "Base ball" was mentioned in a letter to the editor of the Daily News of London in which the writer complained that new rules imposed by the local governing authority on Wandsworth Common, a large park in south London, would severely limit children's access to this traditional ball playing venue: "Rounders, base ball, bat and trap, games as old as cricket, will be forbidden under irksome regulations and rules by which thousands of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford." |
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| Sources | Daily News (London), Mar. 28, 1887, p. 3 |
| Block Notes | This reference is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball playing. |
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