Clipping:Switching a live and a dead ball

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Date Friday, August 15, 1884
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A Norfolk, Va., dispatch discloses a new wrinkle in base-ball tactics: During the game of base-ball between the Baltimore Unions and the Athletic Club of Portsmouth, it was discovered that the Baltimores were playing with two balls, the live one for themselves and the dead ball for their competitors. Intense excitement and confusion ensued. Four or five men and boys rushed to the diamond, and the Baltimores would have been roughly handled but for the police. St.

Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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