August Pick Ups

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Joe_G.

An interesting early scorecard, New York Giants hosting the Detroit Wolverines. The date was May 30th, 1883.




Here is a nice summary that can be found on the SABR website.

Some additional items of interest include that 1883 was the first year for the NY Giants with the May 30th double header accounting for their 16th & 17th games of the year.

The score card is for the 2nd game of the doubleheader in which NY beat Detroit 8 to 4. What I find most interesting are the light pencil notations on the back which record the inning-by-inning accounts for the NY Mets victory over Columbus (12-5) and Yale's victory over Princeton (5-4). A lot of baseball for one day, I wonder if the scorer made the two earlier games as well.

Nice scorecard Joe! No kidding, what a day of baseball!
It's almost like getting fed ice cream with a snow shovel.

One good thing is that baseball games typically were pretty short back then, as they were frequently played in 2 hours or less. Not like today's 4 hour marathons, FWIW...

[smokelessjoe]

Thought this one was neat... Old sea captains playing Cricket. Still, research to be done.