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|Headline=British Trade Unionists Play Base Ball
|Headline=British Trade Unionists Play Base Ball
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=England,  
|Location=England,
|Game=Base Ball,  
|Game=Base Ball, Cricket
|Age of Players=Adult
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>Richard Hershberger found an account of blue collar base ball in England. A union journal described a May 21 march in which "hundreds of good and true Democrats" participated. Boating down the Thames from London, the group got to Gravesend [Kent] and later reached "the spacious grounds of the Bat and Ball Tavern," where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."</p>
|Text=<p>Richard Hershberger found an account of blue collar base ball in England. A union journal described a May 21 march in which "hundreds of good and true Democrats" participated. Boating down the Thames from London, the group got to Gravesend [Kent] and later reached "the spacious grounds of the Bat and Ball Tavern," where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."</p>
|Sources=<p>"Grand Whitsuntide Chartist Holiday," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Northern Star and National Trades' Journal,</span> Volume 13, Number 657 (May 25, 1850), page 1. Posted to 19CBB on 2/5/2008.</p>
|Sources=<p>"Grand Whitsuntide Chartist Holiday," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Northern Star and National Trades' Journal,</span> Volume 13, Number 657 (May 25, 1850), page 1. Posted to 19CBB by Richard Hershberger on 2/5/2008.</p>
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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Location England
Game Base Ball, Cricket
Age of Players Adult
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Richard Hershberger found an account of blue collar base ball in England. A union journal described a May 21 march in which "hundreds of good and true Democrats" participated. Boating down the Thames from London, the group got to Gravesend [Kent] and later reached "the spacious grounds of the Bat and Ball Tavern," where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."

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"Grand Whitsuntide Chartist Holiday," Northern Star and National Trades' Journal, Volume 13, Number 657 (May 25, 1850), page 1. Posted to 19CBB by Richard Hershberger on 2/5/2008.

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