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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1860
|Year Number=32
|Headline=Milwaukee Area Not Unanimous About the "Miserable" New York Rules
|Headline=Milwaukee Area Not Unanimous About the "Miserable" New York Rules
|Year=1860
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=Wisconsin
|Location=Wisconsin
|Text=<p>The Janesville WI ball club wasn't so sure about this new Eastern game, and apparently continued to play by the old rules.  They weren't alone.  The <u>Daily Milwaukee News</u> of May 17, 1860 offered this: "Waiting for a ball to bound, instead of catching it on the fly . . . and various other methods of play adopted by this new-fangled game, looks to us altogether too great a display of laziness and inactivity to suit our notions of a genuine, well and skillfully conducted game of Base Ball. . . . We shall soon expect to hear that the game of Base Ball is played with the participants lying at full length upon the grass." Give us the 'old fashioned game' or none at all." </p>
|Country=US
<p>The previous day, the <u>Milwaukee Sentinel</u> had responded to a <u>News</u> piece calling the new rules "miserable" by writing that "We don't think much of the judgment of the <u>News.</u> The game of Base Ball, as now played by all the clubs in the Eastern States, is altogether ahead of 'the old fashioned game,' both in point of skill and interest." Facsimiles provided by Dennis Pajot, 6/23/2008. Janesville WI is about 60 miles SW of Milwaukee.</p>
|State=WI
|City=Janesville
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>The <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Daily Milwaukee News</span> of May 17, 1860 offered this: "Waiting for a ball to bound, instead of catching it on the fly . . . and various other methods of play adopted by this new-fangled game, looks to us altogether too great a display of laziness and inactivity to suit our notions of a genuine, well and skillfully conducted game of Base Ball. . . . We shall soon expect to hear that the game of Base Ball is played with the participants lying at full length upon the grass." Give us the 'old fashioned game' or none at all."</p>
<p>The previous day, the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Milwaukee Sentinel</span> had responded to a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">News</span> piece calling the new rules "miserable" by writing that "We don't think much of the judgment of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">News.</span> The game of Base Ball, as now played by all the clubs in the Eastern States, is altogether ahead of 'the old fashioned game,' both in point of skill and interest."&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p><span>Daily Milwaukee News,</span>&nbsp;May 17, 1860</p>
<p><span>Milwaukee Sentinel, May 16, 1860</span>&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>The Janesville WI ball club wasn't so sure about this new Eastern game, and apparently continued to play by the old rules. (no ref. given).&nbsp;Janesville is about 60 miles SW of Milwaukee.</p>
|Query=<p>What is the date of the&nbsp;<em>Daily Milwaukee News </em>piece in which the rules are described as "miserable"?</p>
|Submitted by=Dennis Pajot
|Submission Note=6/23/2008
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=32
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Milwaukee Area Not Unanimous About the "Miserable" New York Rules

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City/State/Country: Janesville, WI, US
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Age of Players Adult
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The Daily Milwaukee News of May 17, 1860 offered this: "Waiting for a ball to bound, instead of catching it on the fly . . . and various other methods of play adopted by this new-fangled game, looks to us altogether too great a display of laziness and inactivity to suit our notions of a genuine, well and skillfully conducted game of Base Ball. . . . We shall soon expect to hear that the game of Base Ball is played with the participants lying at full length upon the grass." Give us the 'old fashioned game' or none at all."

The previous day, the Milwaukee Sentinel had responded to a News piece calling the new rules "miserable" by writing that "We don't think much of the judgment of the News. The game of Base Ball, as now played by all the clubs in the Eastern States, is altogether ahead of 'the old fashioned game,' both in point of skill and interest." 

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Daily Milwaukee News, May 17, 1860

Milwaukee Sentinel, May 16, 1860 

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The Janesville WI ball club wasn't so sure about this new Eastern game, and apparently continued to play by the old rules. (no ref. given). Janesville is about 60 miles SW of Milwaukee.

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What is the date of the Daily Milwaukee News piece in which the rules are described as "miserable"?

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Submitted by Dennis Pajot
Submission Note 6/23/2008


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