Clipping:Indoor baseball in Brooklyn 3

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Date Wednesday, December 25, 1889
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[from J. F. Donnolly's column] Indoor base ball was successfully inaugurated here last night. The scene of the game was the Thirteenth Regiment Armory, where the soldier boys went at the sport in a manner that proved how much in earnest they were. There was a large audience, and the teams were uniformed. There was a conventional diamond marked out on the floor, and League playing rules governed the contest, with the one exception that the baes were twenty-five instead of thirty yards apart. Companies E and F were the contestants, and considering the defective light, which fault will be remedied, the playing was of a passable order. Owing to a time limit, only four innings were played. The Sporting Life December 25, 1889

[from Chadwick's column] John Ward and his talented wife visited the Thirteen Regiment armory last Saturday night to see the soldier nines play ball under trying circumstances of a very bad light. They were the cynosure of all eyes. I was too sick to be there that night, much to my regret. The veteran Ferguson received quite an ovation on the occasion. The armory is not fitted for ball playing as that of the Twenty-third Regiment is. The Sporting Life January 22, 1890

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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