Clipping:Indoor baseball 4
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| Date | Wednesday, January 2, 1889 |
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| Text | The experiment of playing base ball indoors was given a trial on Christmas day, and the much-mooted question as to whether a game can be played under roof is settled once for all. The base ball world is indebted to Charley Mason for making the experiment which resulted in demonstrating one things, viz.: that the great game can be made a winter sport and played indoors. The game was played in the main building on the Pennsylvania State Fair grounds and was witnessed by about 2,000 people. The building is about 300 feet long, 125 feet wide and 50 feet high. The structure was never intended for base ball, and owing to the numerous posts scattered all over the floor to support the galleries and roof, it was with great difficulty that a diamond could be laid out and a match played. Despite these drawbacks the game was well played and everybody present enjoyed it very much. All that is necessary to make base ball a winter sport is to erect buildings about 300 x 200 in dimensions and the roof about 75 feet from the ground floor. Of course the structure on the inside wants to be free from supporting posts so as to give the fielders full sway in running after fly balls. In this game a deadened ball was used and the fielders experienced no difficulty in handling it. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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