Clipping:Baseball on railroad trains
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| Date | Sunday, June 13, 1886 |
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| Text | “Yes, breaking is pretty hard work and we don’t get much fun as we go ‘long,” said a freight brakeman, as his caboose stood by the station waiting for orders; “but there’s a new craze on among the boys which gives us a good deal of sport. It is freight train base ball.” “Base ball on a freight train?” “Yes, sir; and it’s great fun, too. We don’t do any batting, but we’re great on fielding. The head brakeman stands on the front car, the rear brakeman in the middle of the train, and the conductor gets up on the caboose. Then we play pitch, with the fireman for referee. There ain’t many errors, now let me tell you. An error means a lost ball, and the man that lets it get away from him has to buy a new one. The feller that makes a wild throw, or the one that fails to stop a fair thrown ball is the victim. The craze has run so high that I’ll bet there ain’t a dozen crews running out of Chicago that don’t carry a stock of base balls along in their caboose., quoting the Chicago Herald |
| Source | The Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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