Clipping:Indoor baseball in Chicago; rosin

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Date	Wednesday, February 5, 1890
Text	[from Chadwick's column] [paraphrasing the Chicago Herald, describing the game as played in the La Salle Club gymnasium A bat that would be taken for a broomstick by the uninitiated, a ball about the size and consistency of a bowl of dough and stuffed with curled hair, base bags which the base-runner carried along with them when they slid, and a tin pan containing rosin completed the tools of warfare. On account of the necessarily short hits the fielders played either within or just on the edge of the diamond. That a base-runner cannot leave his base till the pitched ball has passed, the plate, and that the pitcher delivers the ball underhand and with a stiff arm are the only rules different from those of regular base ball.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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