Block:English Baseball in Norfolk on June 4 1889
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| Data | “Baseball” was mentioned in an angry newspaper article that complained about how hundreds of children had overrun a park in the coastal Norfolk city of Yarmouth. The author of the piece reported that St. George's Park had been carefully maintained, and that users previously had remained on the paths except for permitted play of lawn tennis. But complaints that children were being denied access to a suitable playing ground “resulted in the free use of the park by hundreds of children, who for the past week or two have taken possession of the place, and done more damage than good . . . , and have undone in large measure what has taken years to do at considerable expense. The tennis-courts have been made use of for football, baseball, and other juvenile games, the nets enclosing one of the courts has been torn to pieces, and damage has also been done to the flowers and trees.” Several remedies were discussed by local ratepayers, according to the article's author. |
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| Sources | Eastern Daily Press (Norwich), June, 4, 1889, p. 3 |
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