Editing Labatt Park (section)

==Commons area at the riverforks==

According to [[Seneca College]]'s Professor Bill Humber, a noted Canadian baseball historian and author, the site of today's Labatt Park was likely used for recreational games when it was a grassy commons area at the riverforks, prior to becoming Tecumseh Park in 1877.

Baseball's roots are in the immediate area around London.  The game of baseball, a derivative of the British game of [[rounders]], had probably arrived in the area from nearby [[Beachville, Ontario]], where the world's first recorded baseball game was played in 1838. (See [[Baseball Before We Knew It]] and [[Origins of baseball]] for other possible origins).