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|Comment=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Note:</span> Protoball is not familiar enough with 1860s humor to determine exactly how authentic this report is. Bare ball-shooting guns sound pretty iffy.&nbsp; But 1867 was the start of Base Ball Fever, and we guess someone might have tried mounted forms of the game.</p>
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Game Cavalry Base Ball
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Location Pennsylvania?
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Eras 1800s
Invented No
Description

"A CAVALRY GAME

The October number of one of the Comic Monthlies, contains an illustration of a Cavalry game of base ball, which it says is patented.  On a large field is placed a picked nine, 'operating' on horse-back; the left field, centre field, and right field occupy appropriate positions.  The pitcher has a cannon that looks like one of the Fort Pitt twenty-inch guns (this exceeds Pratt, the lightening pitcher), and is pitching a ball by means of it at one of the cavalrymen, whose bat  is raised to stop it; home-runs, short-stops, and the other points of the game are well illustrated.  The umpire occupies a block house, from which protrude two telescopes, and the picture generally has a military aspect.  One of the chief advantages of the horse-back game is to be found in the ease with which the home-runs ae accomplished." 

 

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Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, September 5, 1867, page 4.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87725148/

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Note: Protoball is not familiar enough with 1860s humor to determine exactly how authentic this report is. Bare ball-shooting guns sound pretty iffy.  But 1867 was the start of Base Ball Fever, and we guess someone might have tried mounted forms of the game.

 

To see what may be a somewhat similar game, try the droll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcNWfcdEJ6E

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