Clipping:Orienting the field due to the sun
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| Date | Sunday, April 22, 1866 |
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| Text | We are glad to perceive [the West Philadelphia club] have taken the hint the Mercury threw out last year, and have changed the bases, the batter now facing southeast instead of northeast, thus placing the sun’s rays to the back, and not in the face of most of the players, as was the case then. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury April 22, 1866 The West Philadelphian's ground...is not laid out in the most advantageous manner. The sun is in the face of the majority of the players, while it ought not to be but in that of one-- the catcher. New York...is better able to judge of such matters, and it is invariably the case there to lay out the ground that the catcher faces the West. By this plan, he is the only player who is interfered with by "Old Sol," and only in the last part of the game. The Keystone and Equity are the only clubs in this city who have arranged their grounds in this manner. The excellence of the plan is plainly perceptible to any one who has played on them. Philadelphia City Item August 11, 1866 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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