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|Headline=Chadwick Criticizes Playing the National Pastime for Money |Tags=Business of Baseball, Famous, Newspaper Coverage,

...niform scoring; wild pitches and passed balls and bases on balls; Boston reporters ...believed, the only reason for the present manner of recording them is that the score may show distinctly fielding errors.</p>

...sport, despite the fact that baseball boosters were increasingly employing the term “manly” to distinguish it from children’s bat-and-ball games. ...all the time sewing, doing laundry and keeping house. Her argument echoed the commonly held notion that weak, feeble women gave birth to weak, feeble off

|Title=keys to the press box ...l be furnished keys. They will also be requested not to take outsiders to the box with them. St. Louis Republic February 24, 1889</p>

|Title=a description of baseball ...lish origin, as are all our manly out-door sports; but, whilst cricket is the ruling game amongst our English Cousins, Base Ball has become quite an Amer

|Text=<p>From the<em> New York Sunday Mercury</em>, October 6, 1867:</p> ...ning ground, when the Philadelphians refused to play further on account of the darkness. A row then prevailed.</p>

|Title=another deceased baseball reporter ...n. He then joined the force of the New York Times. The following is from the pen of Mr. W. S. Smith, of Wilkes’ Spirit:</p>

|Description=<p>From the<em> New York Sunday Mercury</em>, October 6, 1867:</p> ...ning ground, when the Philadelphians refused to play further on account of the darkness. A row then prevailed.</p>

...Let Us Understand the Frequency and Nature of Military Ballplaying During the War ...ceton U., 2003); Patricia Millen, <u>From Pastime to Passion: Baseball and the Civil War</u> (Heritage Books, 2001).

...nvented Baseball,</i> pp. 72-73</p> <p>(3) Zoss and Bowman, <i>Diamonds in the Rough,</i> p. 57</p> ...ew York, came off on Friday
on the grounds of the Union Star Cricket Club. The New Yorkers
were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run in their�