Clipping:Baseball's ubiquity; Sunday ball playing
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| Date | Monday, September 3, 1866 |
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| Text | Base ball is the American national game. That is about settled. Base ball is here what cricket is in England. For some time past frequent complaint has been made at the Nineteenth ward station house of parties engaging in this amusement in that locality on Sunday to the scandal of some and the annoyance of others. The different gardens there, the open lots, and even the streets, it is said, were so occupied every Sunday, and regular matches were frequently played out on that day. The aid of the police was invoked to put a stop to it. That aid was freely given, but with ill success. What particular law or ordinance it infringed is not stated; but despite the efforts to suppress indulgence in this pastime on Sunday it continued. Frequent descents by the police upon parties thus engaged caused a skedaddle at sight of an officer; bats and balls were often left upon the field to be confiscated, but no arrests were made. Yesterday quite an invasion of the ward took place. It was represented by the police that between four and five hundred were participants in base ball matches there during the day. A more successful effort was made to satisfy the numerous complainants, and about fourteen base ball players, mostly under age, and all belonging to the ward, were arrested during the day. There were all locked up, and will be brought before Justice Kelly this morning. |
| Source | New York Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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