Clipping:Spring training by playing handball
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| Date | Monday, April 19, 1875 |
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| Text | Mr. Cammeyer has at last awakened to the importance of thorough training before playing any match games, and accordingly has put his men through a pretty thorough course of exercise during the last three weeks. The weather has been such as to preclude the possibility of much out-door practice, but this difficulty has been overcome by placing the nine at work in a hand ball alley over in Brooklyn. No practice is more valuable to a base ball player than that attained by playing hand ball. Every muscle is brought into play, and the eye becomes trained and accustomed to those short, chopping bounders which are the dread of most players of out national game. Of course, very little can be learned in a hand ball alley in regard to the very essential point of batting; but if the men become thorough fielders their batting will come to them easily after a few encounters with some of our bets amateur pitchers. |
| Source | New York Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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