Clipping:A lament for the lost innocence of baseball
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| Date | Monday, September 10, 1877 |
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| Text | But go to, let us talk of other things; it were impossible to pursue this theme further without distilling the briny tear. The age of amateurs is gone; that of twist-pitcher, league nines and catchers’ masks has succeeded, and the glory of base-ball is departed forever! Never, never more shall we behold that generous muffing of flies and grounders, that proud laying for balls on the bound, that dignified disobedience, that insubordination of the heart which kept alive even in defeat the determination to “wax ‘em next time.” The unbought first nine, the cheap champion of the town, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone. It has gone, that sensibility of fingers, that slipperiness of grip which felt a hot liner like a wound, and inspired courage in the striker, while it fumbled with the ball, which dropped whatever it touched, and under which the game itself lost half its dullness by losing all its certainty., quoting the New York World |
| Source | Indianapolis Journal |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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