1836c.12
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Game With Plugging of Runners Later Recalled in Jersey City
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Pre-modern RulesPre-modern Rules |
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| City/State/Country: | Jersey City, NJ, US |
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| Game | Base Ball PredecessorBase Ball Predecessor |
| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | While here let me say to the Champion Base Ball Club, for their information, that in eighteen hundred and thirty-six and seven we had a base ball club that could not be beaten. It was composed of such men as Jerry O'Meara, Peter Bentley, J. C. Morgan, Jos. G. Edge, &c. I acted as a spare pitcher for the first nine. In those days the game was played by throwing the ball at the man running the bases, and whoever got hit was out, if he could not jump to the bases from where he was hit. I would rather get hit by any other member of the club than by Bentley, for he was a south-paw or left-hander, and he used to strike and throw an unmerciful ball. The ball ground was a portion of the time Nevins and Townsend's block, in front of St. Matthew's Church . . . . |
| Sources | Jersey Journal, December 13, 1871, page 1, column 3 -- "Recollections of a Jersey City Boy, No. 3." |
| Warning | John Zinn further researched the players named in the 1871 account, and wrote on 7/28/2015: "It feels to me that the author is conflating a number of different things (his role, for example) into a club that played in the late 1830's. However even if he is off by 10 years, a club of some kind in the late 1840's would be something new and, as John [Thorn] suggests, important." |
| Comment | This seems to be an early use of "south-paw" to denote a left-hander, although it is not claimed that the term was used in 1836. One source (Dickson. Baseball Dictionary, 3rd ed., page 791) indicates that the first use of "south-paw" in a base ball context was in 1858, although a web search reveals that the term itself dates back to 1813. John Zinn reports 7/28/2015 that Bentley was 31 years old in 1836, and that Edge was 22. Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Ben Zimmer |
| Submission Note | via relay from John Thorn, 7/24/2015. |
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1836.12 Game With Plugging of Runners Later Recalled in Jersey City"
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