Cavalry Base Ball

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Game	Cavalry Base Ball
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	Pennsylvania?
Regions	US
Eras	1800s
Invented	No
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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."
Sources	Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, September 5, 1867, page 4. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87725148/
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Comment	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 trieid mounted forms of the game. Edit with form to add a comment
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