Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on June 26 1858
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| Data | "Base-ball" was again listed as one of the offered activities at the annual Grand Rural Fete of the Slough (Buckinghamshire) Mechanics', Literary, & Scientific Institution, to be held at Stoke Park. The newspaper announcement specified that: "Amusements, consisting of Archery, Cricket, Quoits, Trap and Base Ball, Dancing, &c., will commence at Twelve and terminate at Half-past Seven o'clock." A subsequent article reporting on the fête two weeks later, on July 10, 1858, confirmed that the game had been played. It read: “On arriving in the grounds, the visitors deployed into various sections, some betaking themselves to cricket, some to archery, quoits, base ball, kiss in the ring, swings, or other amusements.” |
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| Sources | Windsor and Eton Express, June 26, 1858, p. 4 |
| Block Notes | Slough, too, was formerly part of Buckinghamshire, but is now part of Berkshire. |
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