Block:English Baseball in Kent on July 10 1869
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| Data | A game called "base" was among the recreations offered at the annual treat held for children of the various schools in the Holy Trinity parish of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. After marching from their schools to the grounds of a local churchman's estate, the children enjoyed a tea, and then, afterwards, “all kinds of games were indulged in by the youngsters—cricket, base, racing, scrambling, kiss-in-the-ring, &c., &c.” |
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| Sources | Maidstone Telegraph, July 10, 1869, p. 7 |
| Block Notes | “Base,” in this instance, is almost certainly baseball, given that prisoner's base was rarely played by this late date and was invariably identified as “prisoner's base” or “prison bars.” |
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