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|Title=English Baseball in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire on August 13 1859
|Block Game=English Baseball
|Date=1859/8/13
|Type of Date=Day
|Block Location=Buckinghamshire, Berkshire
|Coordinates=51.522414, -0.7219
|Block Data=<p>"Base ball" was again to be played at a grand birthday celebration for the Duchess of Kent, this time her 73rd. A newspaper announced that the party would be held on the grounds of the Ankerwycke estate in Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, near the spot where the Magna Carta was signed: "The Amusements will consist of Dancing, Archery, Cricket, Quoits, Trap-Bat and Ball, Foot and Base Ball, Swings, &c., 4-oared and Sculling Matches, and an entertainment under the direction of Mr. Nelson Lee, the caterer for the nobility's and Crystal Palace fetes."</p>
|Block Notes=<p>Wraysbury was transferred to Berkshire in 1974.</p>
|Sources=<p>Reading Mercury, Aug. 13, 1859, p. 5</p>
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