Clipping:Umpire vs. crowd
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| Date | Tuesday, April 29, 1884 |
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| Text | [Philadelphia vs. Athletic 4/29/1884] The game was marked by an incident not down in the bills, and which seldom occurs in a ball field. Exceptions were frequently taken by the crowd to the decisions of William McLean, the umpire. McLean finally becoming enraged by the hoots and jeers of the spectators, picked up a base ball bat and hurled it into the crowded seats on the first base side of the field, striking a man on the head without seriously injuring him. This action called forth vigorous hisses from the assemblage, and three or four hundred men, who were among those near where the bat was thrown, leaped over the inside enclosure and were crowding toward McLean with the intention of mobbing him, when they were stopped by a number of police officers who, with the players, finally succeeded in getting the men back of the line. The game, which had been stopped, then proceeded to the finish, when the excited crowd again made a run for McLean, and violence was only prevented by the arrest of McLean upon a warrant sworn out by the man who was struck. McLean was taken before a magistrate, but the complainant was there induced to withdraw the charge, and McLean was simply placed under $500 bond to keep the peace. Baltimore American April 29, 1884 [see also SLPD 840501] |
| Source | Baltimore American |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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