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|Headline=San Francisco CA Weighs Plusses and Minuses of Base Ball | |Headline=San Francisco CA Weighs Plusses and Minuses of Base Ball | ||
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|Location=California | |Location=California | ||
|Game=Town Ball | |Game=Town Ball |
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San Francisco CA Weighs Plusses and Minuses of Base Ball
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Text | "San Francisco newspapers reported the appearance of base-ball in early 1851 in the town square - The Plaza - or today's Portsmouth Square. The final report of San Francisco's inaugural base ball season included the following: 'There the boys play at ball, some of them using expressions towards their companions, expressions neither flattering, innocent nor commendable. Men, too, children of a larger growth, do the same things.'" "The Corral," Alta California, March 25, 1851. A few weeks earlier, coverage had been more favorable: "The plaza has at last been turned to some account by our citizens. Yesterday quite a crowd collected upon it, to take part in and witness a game of ball, many taking a hand. We were much better pleased at it, than to witness the crowds in the gambling saloons which surround the square." "Sports on the Plaza," Daily California Courier, February 4, 1851. A third article said of the base ball activity: "[T]his is certainly an innocent recreation, but occasionally the ball strikes a horse passing." "The Plaza," San Francisco Herald, March 1, 1851. Query: Can we assume that this game not played according to the Knickerbocker rules? Submitted by Angus Macfarlane, January 2007. |
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