Clipping:A catcher's mask in street play

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Date Wednesday, June 12, 1878
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A couple of bank clerks were practicing base ball in an alley this morning, tossing to each other, standing fifteen or twenty feet apart, and one of them, ambitious to be a catcher, wore a wire mask on his face. Next time they ought to be promoted to wearing boxing gloves on their hands.

Source Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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