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Base Ball.Ball playing is not wluit it used to be, or as good and comforting as it used to be. Twenty years ago ball playing was for the enjoyment of everybody participating. The “ chasers,” now called “fielders” did not have as good a time as the others in the game, but they made no pietensions to, and besides, they were chosen for that particular work, and were adapted by circumstances and education to the employment. There was a fineness about it which made thegame symmetrical. Ball playing isdone by the book now. The pitcher is the leading man. He is the success or defeat of the game. It is surprising the numerous ways with which a ball can be got over forty feet of space.In the good old time there was scarcely more than one way of throwing a ball, but now it is difficult to tell whether the pitcher is going to throw the ball between the batter’s legs or merrily going to turn a handspringhimself. We don’t hear anything of “one,” or “two” or “three old cat,” or “barn base,” or ‘ ‘knock ’em out,” or games of that sort. “Barn base ” was always played on the Methodist church.
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Jeffersonville National Democrat
Jeffersonville, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 16, 1877
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