Clipping:A throwing competition; the location of the Union grounds pagoda

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Date Sunday, October 20, 1872
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A contest in throwing a baseball took place on the Union Grounds, Brooklyn, on Oct. 15, which resulted in the finest exhibition of throwing on record. ... Two stakes were driven in the ground down near the Pagoda, and a rope stretched across them. From this stake the ball was thrown up toward the catcher’s position, the distance from the stakes to the home plate being just 110 yards. A base-ball was placed on either side of the home base, and about sixty feet apart, and the rule governing the throwing required the ball to be dropped inside these bounds. Six small stakes, each having attached to it a card being the name of a participant in the match, were provided, and when the ball was thrown the judges would immediately drive the stake, bearing the name of the man who had thrown, over the spot where it fell. Each man was allowed three towns, and his best was measured from the home plate...

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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