Clipping:Indoor baseball in Brooklyn
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| Date | Wednesday, December 4, 1889 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] A new phase of base ball is to be introduced this winter as a recreated exercise feature for the members of the Thirteenth Regiment of Brooklyn, at their armory on Flatbush avenue. Last Saturday night a committee of several of the companies of the Regiment who have base ball players in their ranks met at the armory to perfect the scheme for a base ball tournament, to be held indoors, between nines from all the companies that desire to enter. It was agreed after some discussion that the novel game it is proposed to inaugurate should be governed by Spalding's base ball rules wherever these are applicable. Of course, rules like those which pertain to balls knocked over the fence could not obtain in an armory game. If a man can knock the ball into the gallery and get around the bases before it is fielded he will score a home run. A ball of the regulation size, covered with leather, will be used. Its composition, however, will be such that it will be considerably lighter and softer than the base ball used for outdoors. Bats as light as will serve the purpose will be used. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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