Block:English Baseball in London on September 16 1892
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| Data | “Baseball” was named in a newspaper article as one of the games played in Petersham Park, located in the town of Richmond, Greater London.This observation was made because the park was the destination of a day-long excursion by boy and girl students of the Hendon Congregational Sunday School of Hendon, a northwest suburb of London: “Petersham Park is a portion of Richmond Park, and is admirably adapted for a school excursion. It contains some very fine old trees. It is level on the Petersham side, and here boat-swings, cricket, baseball, skipping, etc. can be indulged in.” |
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| Sources | Middlesex Courier, Sept. 16, 1892, p. 2 |
| Block Notes | This was most likely English baseball given the young age of the party. Petersham Park is located only eight miles from the site of the earliest recorded outdoor baseball game played in 1749 at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. |
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