Clipping:Spectators crowding the field

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Date Friday, July 5, 1878
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[Providence vs. Chicago 7/4/1878] ...an attendance of about 8,000... The crowd was no better and no worse than others assembled on previous holidays. Like all other crowds, it would not stay where it was put, and took great delight in being where it had no sort of business to be, in crowding around the catcher and into short left-field. There was a sort of a field rule about balls in the crowd, but it was rather elastic, it seemed, and gave first or second base on substantially the same kind of hits.

Source Chicago Tribune
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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