Block:English Baseball in Suffolk on August 19 1893

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"Baseball" was again played at Orwell Park in Nacton, Suffolk, this time at the first annual outing of about 100 children belonging to the Ipswich Junior Foresters of the Ancient Order of Foresters, of whom Capt. E.G. Pretyman was an honorable member: "On arrival at Orwell Park a good dinner was served, after which the boys adjourned for the afternoon amusements, which consisted of cricket, football, baseball, swings, etc."

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Ipswich Journal, and Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire Advertiser, Aug. 19, 1893, p. 3

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