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|Year=1858 | |||
|Year Number=24 | |||
|Headline=Editorial Rips Base Ball "Mania" as a "Public Nuisance" | |Headline=Editorial Rips Base Ball "Mania" as a "Public Nuisance" | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Text=<p>"Ball Clubs," < | |Tags=Newspaper Coverage, | ||
<p>The author thinks base ball "has become a sort of mania, and on this account we speak of it. | |Country=US | ||
|State=MA | |||
|City=Boston | |||
|Game=Base Ball, | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |||
|Text=<p>"Ball Clubs," <em>The Happy Home and Parlor Magazine</em>, Volume 8, December 1, 1858 [Boston MA], page 405. </p> | |||
<p>The author thinks base ball "has become a sort of mania, and on this account we speak of it. In itself a game at ball is an innocent and excellent recreation but when the sport is carried so far as it is at the present time, it becomes a pubic nuisance." His case: [1] gambling imbues it, [2] the crowd is unruly and intemperate, [3] profanity abounds, [4] its players waste a lot of time, [5] it leads to injury, and it distracts people from their work. "For these reasons we class ball-clubs, as now existing, with circus exhibitions, military musters, pugilistic feats, cock-fighting &c; all of which are nuisances in no small degree."</p> | |||
|Sources=<p>Posted to 19CBB August 14, 2005 by Richard Hershberger.</p> | |||
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| Text | "Ball Clubs," The Happy Home and Parlor Magazine, Volume 8, December 1, 1858 [Boston MA], page 405. The author thinks base ball "has become a sort of mania, and on this account we speak of it. In itself a game at ball is an innocent and excellent recreation but when the sport is carried so far as it is at the present time, it becomes a pubic nuisance." His case: [1] gambling imbues it, [2] the crowd is unruly and intemperate, [3] profanity abounds, [4] its players waste a lot of time, [5] it leads to injury, and it distracts people from their work. "For these reasons we class ball-clubs, as now existing, with circus exhibitions, military musters, pugilistic feats, cock-fighting &c; all of which are nuisances in no small degree." |
| Sources | Posted to 19CBB August 14, 2005 by Richard Hershberger. |
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