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Lively Ball Suspected in Mutual-Oluympic Game

Salience Noteworthy
Tags The Ball
City/State/Country: New York, NY, United States
Game Baseball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"It was supposed that a lively ball was played with, on account of the heavy batting [Mutual had 31 hits and 29 runs].  Both the Olympic games of yesterday and Monday were played with a ball that contained but half an ounce of rubber; the yarn and covering bringing it up to regulation weight." 

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New York Tribune, September 14, 1870.

Comment

Richard Hershberger annotation, 9/14/2020: "Missing from [the formal rule on ball makeup] is any discussion of relative proportions of rubber and yarn.  In other words, how much rubber?  Rubber is denser than yarn, so the size and weight requirements imply a range of legal proportions between the two.  Some clubs were rumored to get around this, having illegal balls made with extra rubber, balanced by cork. . . . There were learned discussions of the merits of lively and dead balls, and arguments before the game started over what ball to use.  Also, the occasional surreptitious switch mid-game. 

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Were the weights and circumferences of balls subject to impartial tests at or before gmaes?

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