View source for Clipping:A rope separating the crowd from the outfielders

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=6/18/1873
|Title=a rope separating the crowd from the outfielders
|Text=<p>[Philadelphia vs. Boston 6/17/1873]  Every seat was taken and every inch of standing room, and hundreds of people were obliged to take positions at the lower end of the field across which a rope was stretched to prevent interference with the out-fielders.  The grand stand was crowded with ladies, and in all the number of spectators must have reached nearly 6,000.</p>
|Source=Boston Herald
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
}}