Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 18 1860

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A newspaper reported that "bassball" was one of the games played at the annual festival of the parochial schools of Chesham, Buckinghamshire: "…the meadows were well filled with the townspeople and others from the surrounding neighbourhood, and the usual games such as cricket, football, bassball, and bat-trap, were entered into with great zest and continued till the close of day..."

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Bucks Herald, Aug. 18, 1860, p. 6

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