Clipping:Parlor base ball
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| Date | Saturday, December 1, 1866 |
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| Text | PARLOR BASE BALL.–This is the title of a new parlor game designed to theoretically illustrate the game of base ball, and a more successful or attractive thing of the kind has never before been introduced to the public. ... The board represents a regular base ball field and covers a space of about two square feet. A common cent represents the ball, and this is laid on the board close to a spring located at the pitcher’s position, which spring sends the penny towards a bat, which is located at the home base, and is also attached to a spring. The bat lies flat on the board, and, as the penny slides rapidly towards it, the spring sends the bat to meet it, and away the penny slides to the field, where it either enters one of a series of holes, located in similar positions to those of the fielders and basemen, or it goes into spaces, or stops on circular spots, which either entitle the fielders to throw to bases, or the batsman to home runs, and when it does not stop on any marked positions the batsman is entitled to his first base. When the penny is hit so as to stop on certain spots, the fielder is entitled to a throw, and when this occurs the pitcher takes the penny and puts in front of another spring, and, “throwing it”–viz: sending it by means of the spring into one of the base holes–puts out the man running the base. When the penny fails to reach the bat it is “a baulk,” and when it fails to touch the bat it is “one ball,” and when the bat fails to hit it is “one strike.” There is a hole behind the batsman, too, which, if the penny fall into, puts the striker out on “a foul fly,” and there are marked circles on the board which, if the penny touches, is out on a “foul bound.” In fact, it is the game in miniature complete, and as much interest can be centered in a contest between expert players on the board as between rival clubs on the green field. The price of this complete amusement has been fixed at $5. Specimens can be seen at this office, where orders for them may also be left. |
| Source | Philadelphia City Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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