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|Location=East Sussex, England |Regional Focus=England

|Title=English Baseball in East Sussex on September 6 1890 |Block Location=East Sussex

|Country=England ..."Another early game played in Selmeston, as well as other villages in East Sussex, was stoolball (sometimes called “cricket in the air” ). T

|Location=England ...898, was evidently the name of a batting-running game in the south-east of England.</p>

...tion=England (in the past century, predominantly in Sussex and other south east counties) ...nced a renaissance, and now has active youth programs, a season-ending All-England match of prominent players, and the expansion of mixed-gender&nbsp;play. (T

...en of this country were drawn into many bloody battles. Seven years later England was learning to cope with many injured, some permanently, ex-soldiers and o ...W.W. Grantham, a King’s Counsellor in London and a resident of Barcombe in Sussex. One of his sons had been injured during the fighting in World War I but w

...ty as an organized team sport in Sussex and other counties in the south of England. Yet many gaps remain in our understanding of stoolball’s history and dev ...uthern England county of Sussex. The earliest sign of the latter is a 1747 Sussex newspaper report mentioning a stoolball match played by maidens in the vill

|Location=England, |Country=England

...ilitary man, one Abner Doubleday allegedly invented the game in the sleepy east central New York village of Cooperstown.</p> ...out a Trap-Ball that stuck there.”<ref name="ref18" /> Caesar Rodeney, an East Dover, Delaware resident, mentioned playing trap ball, indeed quite well, t