Clipping:Club sets of foul-ball flags

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Date Thursday, April 30, 1868
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We noticed that the Jefferson Club had a lively time on their grounds, and also that some very pretty fielding and good batting was shown in their game. Their handsome foul-ball flags were conspicuous, too. This, by the way, is a peculiarity out West, and one we like to see. Whenever the weather is fine, and a stranger visits the outskirts of St. Louis, he can always tell whether a party of ball players are engaged in a match or practice game simply by the foul flags. If it be a match, the flags of the two contesting clubs stand together in their positions; if it merely be a practice game, then only one set of flags are seen; and if the party playing are not a club, then no flags are up. But it is a poor club out West which does not own a set of foul-ball flags. In fact, every club ought not only to have such colors as handsome as they can, but also to have a regular club banner. All this club insignia materially assists in establishing an esprit de corps in the organization. The more legitimate forms there are in a club, the more binding the organization.

Source American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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