Clipping:Baseball on railroad cars
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| Date | Friday, July 27, 1888 |
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| Text | Justice C. J. White fined a number of boys yesterday for indulging in the noble pastime of base-ball. The reason of it was that they got into a fight, and the reason they got into a fight was that a switch engine came along and pulled the second base over into left field. The fact of the matter was that the boys were playing ball on the tops of freight cars in the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy yards at the corner of Western avenue and Kinzie street. The game came off Wednesday afternoon, and proved to be a most exciting contest. Just as the score was about to be tied a switch engine caught on to the car the umpire was on and pulled it away. "Safe on second!” he yelled, as he journeyed up the yards. The gory avengers, however, declined to submit to this on the ground--no car--that the umpire had left the field. The Bloody Pirates, whose man was on second, thought that the decision should stand under the circumstances. While they were disputing the matter another engine hauled the second base away and then there was a row. In the midst of it officers appeared and ran in all the boys the switch engine had not disposed of. Two were discharged yesterday and the others fined from $5 to $2 each. They all promised hereafter to play only on permanent bases, but thought the switch engine should be censured for breaking up the game. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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