Clipping:The catcher's mask
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| Date | Sunday, March 11, 1877 |
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| Text | The catcher of the Harvard Base-Ball Club has invented a brass wire mask for the face. If it were not for our American colleges the latent genius in some men would slumber forever. The best protection is base-ball, however, is to hire another fellow to take your place, while you sit on the fence and watch the players get crippled. Chicago Tribune March 11, 1877, quoting an unidentified exchange The New York World learns in some mysterious way that the League catcher will wear the newly-invented mask. McVey’s wire fence hasn’t got along yet, and he won’t worry much about it if it doesn’t come at all. There is a good deal of beastly humbug in contrivances to protect men from things which don’t happen. There is about as much sense in putting a lightning-rod on a catcher as a mask. Chicago Tribune March 25, 1877 A new accompaniment of the game is to be introduced this year by this [Harvard] nine in the shape of a “mask” which is used for the protection of the catcher's face. This “mask” is composed of brass wires, and is fastened around the head by a strap. It works fairly well, but needs a powerful thrower to use it, as it is apt to jar the head, thereby upsetting the aim of the thrower. New York Clipper April 14, 1877 Speaking of Tyng’s wire mask, the Providence Dispatch says the near future may bring about many other improvements in the equipment of a base-ball player, and we shall probably soon behold the spectacle of a player sculling around the bases with stove funnels on his legs, and boiler-iron riveted across his stomach. Chicago Tribune May 20, 1877 |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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