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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1850 | |Year=1850 | ||
|Year Suffix=s | |Year Suffix=s | ||
|Year Number=24 | |||
|Headline=In NYC - Did "Plugging" Actually Persist to the mid-1850s? | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Game=Rounders | |Location=New York City, | ||
|Game=Rounders, Base Ball, | |||
|Text=<p>John Thorn feels that "while the Knick rules of September 23, 1845 (and, by William R. Wheaton's report in 1887, the Gothams practice in the 1830s and 1840s) outlawed plugging/soaking a runner in order to retire him, other area clubs were slow to pick up the point."</p> | |Text=<p>John Thorn feels that "while the Knick rules of September 23, 1845 (and, by William R. Wheaton's report in 1887, the Gothams practice in the 1830s and 1840s) outlawed plugging/soaking a runner in order to retire him, other area clubs were slow to pick up the point."</p> | ||
<p><br/> | <p><br /> "Henry Chadwick wrote to the editor of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Sun,</span> May 14, 1905: 'It happens that the only attractive feature of the rounders game is this very point of 'shying' the ball at the runners, which so tickled Dick Pearce [in the early 1850s, when he was asked to go out to Bedford to see a ball club at play]. In fact, it was not until the '50s that the rounders point of play in question was eliminated from the rules of the game, as played at Hoboken from 1845 to1857.'"<br /> </p> | ||
"Henry Chadwick wrote to the editor of the < | <p>"The Gotham and the Eagle adopted the Knick rules by 1854 . . . but other<br /> clubs may not have done so till '57."</p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Henry Chadwick, letter to the editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Sun,</span> May 14, 1905. See also John Thorn, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball in the Garden of Eden</span> (Simon and Schuster, 2011), page 112.</p> | |||
<p>"The Gotham and the Eagle adopted the Knick rules by 1854 . . . but other<br/> | |Query=<p>We invite further discussion on this point. The text of the Wheaton letter is found at entry #[[1837.1]] above.</p> | ||
clubs may not have done so till '57." < | |Submitted by=John Thorn | ||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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| Text | John Thorn feels that "while the Knick rules of September 23, 1845 (and, by William R. Wheaton's report in 1887, the Gothams practice in the 1830s and 1840s) outlawed plugging/soaking a runner in order to retire him, other area clubs were slow to pick up the point."
"The Gotham and the Eagle adopted the Knick rules by 1854 . . . but other |
| Sources | Henry Chadwick, letter to the editor, New York Sun, May 14, 1905. See also John Thorn, Baseball in the Garden of Eden (Simon and Schuster, 2011), page 112. |
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| Query | We invite further discussion on this point. The text of the Wheaton letter is found at entry #1837.1 above. Edit with form to add a query |
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| Submitted by | John Thorn |
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