Clipping:Tom Pratt lost his fortune
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| Date | Monday, May 10, 1886 |
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| Text | Tom Pratt, who umpired the first two games of the Detroit-St. Louis series, was once a wealthy paint and oil dealer of Philadelphia. Those who knew Tom in his prosperous days hated to see him guyed by the crowd as he was on Friday and Saturday. He is a royal good fellow and should be in better business than umpiring. The Sporting News May 10, 1886 the new catcher’s glove The new base-ball catcher’s glove is out for the season and is widely different from that of 1885. The palm is not so heavily padded, and the ends of the fingers are protected the sole leather helmets. When a hot ball comes against the end of the catcher’s hand, when encased in one of those new style assassination protectors, simply unhinges the arm at the shoulder, where it can be readily replaced by any one, without delaying the game for a moment. The old style glove did not take this kind of care of the wearer’s fingers. Generally they were driven in through his ribs, when they were with difficulty coughed up or removed with a pip wrench, in a damaged condition, or else they were completely worn out by the attrition and impact of the ball, so that they had to be filed completely off. The advantage of the new glove will be obvious to all men who have looked upon the catcher when he moveth himself aright, after stopping a solid shot with the first joint of his longest finger. Fort Wayne Sentinel May 10, 1886, quoting the Boston Herald sliding head-first vs. feet-first A brilliant suggestion: “Harry Wright should make his men slide feet first instead of head first, as then the basemen would give them the line. When a base runner slides head first an evil disposed baseman can easily hurt him.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 11, 1886 |
| Source | Sporting News |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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