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Milwaukee Area Not Unanimous About the "Miserable" New York Rules
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | WisconsinWisconsin |
| City/State/Country: | Janesville, WI, United States |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | The Daily Milwaukee News of May 17, 1860 offered this: "Waiting for a ball to bound, instead of catching it on the fly . . . and various other methods of play adopted by this new-fangled game, looks to us altogether too great a display of laziness and inactivity to suit our notions of a genuine, well and skillfully conducted game of Base Ball. . . . We shall soon expect to hear that the game of Base Ball is played with the participants lying at full length upon the grass." Give us the 'old fashioned game' or none at all." The previous day, the Milwaukee Sentinel had responded to a News piece calling the new rules "miserable" by writing that "We don't think much of the judgment of the News. The game of Base Ball, as now played by all the clubs in the Eastern States, is altogether ahead of 'the old fashioned game,' both in point of skill and interest." |
| Sources | Daily Milwaukee News, May 17, 1860 Milwaukee Sentinel, May 16, 1860 |
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| Comment | The Janesville WI ball club wasn't so sure about this new Eastern game, and apparently continued to play by the old rules. (no ref. given). Janesville is about 60 miles SW of Milwaukee. Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | What is the date of the Daily Milwaukee News piece in which the rules are described as "miserable"? Edit with form to add a query |
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| Submitted by | Dennis Pajot |
| Submission Note | 6/23/2008 |
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1860.32 Milwaukee Area Not Unanimous About the "Miserable" New York Rules"
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