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"Old Fashioned Game" Reported, and Disparaged, in Milwaukee
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Newspaper Coverage, Pre-modern Rules, Stats and Box ScoresNewspaper Coverage, Pre-modern Rules, Stats and Box Scores |
| Location | |
| City/State/Country: | Janesville, WI, United States |
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| Game | Old Fashioned GameOld Fashioned Game |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
| Holiday | |
| Notables | |
| Text | In May 1860, The [Milwaukee] Sentinel quoted The News as recently reporting that the Janesville Base Ball Club expected to challenge a Milwaukee club to "a friendly contest" that year. The News added: "Unfortunately however, the Janesville club plays the good old fashioned game of Base Ball, while our clubs play under the new code, (which we must here beg leave to say is, in our estimation, a miserable one, and in no way calculated to develope[sic] skill or excite interest . . .)" The Sentinel argued back: "We don't think much of the judgement 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. Indeed, until the 'new code' was adopted here, it was impossible to excite interest enough to get up a club. Now we have two large clubs in full blast, and more coming. The game is a very lively, attractive and manly, one, and is daily growing in popular favor." |
| Sources | Milwaukee Sentinel, May 16, 1860 Janesville Daily Gazette, September 1, 1860
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| Comment | On September 1, 1860, the Janesville Daily Gazette carried a box score for a game between the Janesville Base Ball Club and the Bower City Base Ball Club of Janesville reporting a 'match game' on August 31. Bower City won, 50 tallies to 38 tallies. The game, played to "first 50 tallies" listed 10 players per team and likely took 11 3-out innings. The account does not describe the rules in force for this contest. As of November 2020, Protoball shows 1 ballgame and 6 club entries that cite Bower City Clubs. Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | John Thorn |
| Submission Note | Email of 11/8/2020. |
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1860.92 "Old Fashioned Game" Reported, and Disparaged, in Milwaukee"
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