Clipping:Backing up the catcher on a pop foul
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| Date | Sunday, August 25, 1872 |
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| Text | [Baltimore vs. Athletic 8/24/1872] Force sent up a foul that McGeary [catcher] dropped on the fly, but Anson [third baseman], who was under him, quickly got it on the bound. Philadelphia Sunday Republic August 25, 1872 word of the big game reaches Baltimore [Baltimore vs. Athletic 8/24/1872] At no time this season has there been such an excitement on our streets over base ball as was witnessed on Saturday afternoon. ... It was generally known on Saturday morning that the result of the game by innings would be bulletined at The American office, and at half-past three o’clock the south side of Baltimore street from Calvert to South street was blocked by an excited multitude of persons. The merchant, banker, mechanic and even ladies halted in their walks, and when the seventh inning had been given to the excited throng wild huzzas rent the air. The crowd now began augmenting. Men begged and obtained permission to occupy second and third story windows in many of the buildings on the south side of the street facing The American office, and when the eighth inning [in which the Athletics scored seven runs] was announced it was laughable to witness the countenances of those persons who had cheered the game to that time. Expressions of regret that the Philadelphians had gone to the lead were uttered by the ladies as well as by the sterner sex, but when the ninth inning disclosed the fact that the Baltimoreans had reversed matters and won the game, with four to spare, the excitement became intense. Men and boys threw up their hats and caps, while a number of young men deeming that the occasion required something more than expressions of voice to evidence their joy began pounding their companions in the back, and which ebullition of feeling on any other occasions would have been construed into an invitation for a fight. The males screamed, shouted, laughed and danced; the ladies waved their handkerchiefs and departed from the scene seemingly as happy as if they had just witnessed a first-class marriage. Baltimore American August 26, 1872 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Republic |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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