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Baseball Dying Out?
Posted By: Steve Tuttle
"There is really reason to believe that baseball is gradually dying out in this country. It has been openly announced by an athletic authority that what was once called the national game is being superceded by cricket, and the records of our hospitals confirm that fewer games of baseball have been played during the past year than were played during any other single year since 1868." |
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Baseball Dying Out?
Posted By: Scott M
Reading that article reminds me of the addage that the more things change, the more they stay the same.. Who would of thunk it.. players dogging it even back then |
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Baseball Dying Out?
Posted By: jay behrens
Not sure whent he rules changed, but you used to bea ble to throw the ball at a base runner and if you hit him, he was out. This may have been a source of alor injuries in the early game. |
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Baseball Dying Out?
Posted By: Rhys
They stopped throwing the ball at people in the late 1850's and it was essentially not used by any club by 1860. |
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Baseball Dying Out?
Posted By: T206Collector
...is an old-fashioned way of making charcoal to draw with or paint faces with. As a kid, I used to take old wine bottle corks, flame up the bottoms on the stove, and then use it to draw or make designs on my face. It was quite fun. |
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Baseball Dying Out?
Posted By: jay behrens
The burnt cork was also used as eye black, under the eyes. |
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