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|Term=Indoor Baseball | |Term=Indoor Baseball | ||
|Game Family=Baseball | |Game Family=Baseball | ||
|Description= | |Game Regions=US | ||
|Game Eras=Derivative, 1800s, Post-1900 | |||
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|Description=<p>Evolving from an 1887 innovation in Chicago involving a broomstick as a bat and a boxing glove as the ball, indoor baseball is described in a 1929 survey as particularly popular in gymnasiums in the US mid-west in the early 20th century. The game of softball traces back to indoor play.</p> | |||
<p>Origins -- On Thanksgiving Day at te Farragut Club in Chicgo in 1887, a participant recalled, "[T]he fellows were throwing an ordinary boxing glove around the room, which was struck at by one of the boys with a broom. George W. Hancock suddenly called out, 'Bpys, let's play baseball!'" Hancock was later known as the Father of Indoor Baseball.</p> | |||
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|Sources=<p><span>See Paul Dickson, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Worth Book of Softball</span> (Facts on File, 1994), Chapter 3 (pages 46-59). Also, <span>John Allen Krout, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Annals of American Sport</span>(Yale University Press, 1929)<span>, page 219. </span></span></p> | |||
<p><span><span>The above quotation is found in Peter Morris, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Game of Inches</span> (Ivan Dee, 2010 single-bvolume edition, page 498. </span></span></p> | |||
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| Game | Indoor Baseball |
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| Game Family | Baseball |
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| Regions | US |
| Eras | Derivative, 1800s, Post-1900 |
| Invented | Yes |
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| Description | Evolving from an 1887 innovation in Chicago involving a broomstick as a bat and a boxing glove as the ball, indoor baseball is described in a 1929 survey as particularly popular in gymnasiums in the US mid-west in the early 20th century. The game of softball traces back to indoor play. Origins -- On Thanksgiving Day at te Farragut Club in Chicgo in 1887, a participant recalled, "[T]he fellows were throwing an ordinary boxing glove around the room, which was struck at by one of the boys with a broom. George W. Hancock suddenly called out, 'Bpys, let's play baseball!'" Hancock was later known as the Father of Indoor Baseball.
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| Sources | See Paul Dickson, The Worth Book of Softball (Facts on File, 1994), Chapter 3 (pages 46-59). Also, John Allen Krout, Annals of American Sport(Yale University Press, 1929), page 219. The above quotation is found in Peter Morris, A Game of Inches (Ivan Dee, 2010 single-bvolume edition, page 498. |
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