1840c.2
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Base Ball Reported in Erie PA Area, with Plugging
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Text | "I am now in my eighty-third year, and I know that seventy years ago (i.e., in 1840) as a boy at school in a country school district in Erie County, PA, I played Base Ball with my schoolmates; and I know it was a common game long before my time. It had just the same form as the Base Ball of today, and the rules of the game were nearly the same as they are now. One bad feature of the old game, I am glad to say, is not now permitted. The catchers, both the one behind the batter and those on the field, could throw the ball and hit the runner between the bases with all the swiftness he could put into it - "burn him," it was said. Letter from Andrew H. Caughey to New YorkTribune, 1910. From Henderson, p. 150-151, no reference given. |
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