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Off for a traditional English game of... Baseball

It's official: Surrey is the home of baseball. The earliest known recording of the all American sport is a diary that documents a game being played in Guildford, in 1755. The entry has just been verified by Surrey History Centre and coincided with Surrey Life's visit to the Woking centre...

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Off for a traditional English game of... Baseball

It's official: Surrey is the home of baseball. The earliest known recording of the all American sport is a diary that documents a game being played in Guildford, in 1755. The entry has just been verified by Surrey History Centre and coincided with Surrey Life's visit to the Woking centre...















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