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...ue, and umpired for the Lafayette, Stevens, Rutgers and University nines. In all his wide experience with all sorts and conditions of players, William P

...was adopted to adhere closely to the principle of observing all contracts in a spirit of fairness.</p>

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|State=PA ...m>Pittsburgh Commercial</em>, Sept. 10, 1866 reports that the Alert of Mt. Washington played the Fearless of Temperanceville.</p>

|Name=Pythian Club of Philadelphia v Mutual Club of Washington on 2 September 1871 |State=PA

...b is debating whether to accept a challenge that has been sent from a club in Hamburg, Germany." The Oct. 18 report specified that the recipient club was ...lis (MN)&nbsp;<em>Daily Tribune</em>, Nov. 15, 1867, and the&nbsp;Sunbury (PA)&nbsp;<em>Gazette</em>, Nov. 16, 1867</p>

...Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburg, Chicago and Indianapolis. In addition, it is expected that the St. Louis and Cincinnati clubs will be re

|Headline=Boom in Base Ball Travel |State=PA

|State=PA ...a game of "Base" at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: "Exercisd in the afternoon in the intervals playd at base."</p>

|Headline=Colored Clubs Play in Philly: Frederick Douglass Attends a Game |State=PA

|Headline=In Virginia, Two PA Regiments Play “Great Base Ball Game” ...l games when the regiment was in Washington [September 1862?; page 27] and in June 1863 [page 68].</p>

...re the batter stands, and adds that if the third player catches a hit ball in the air, that player can try to hit the stone, which sends the batter out.< ...st., between the Athletics, of South Pittsburgh, and the Enterprise of Mt. Washington.&nbsp; The game was witnessed by a large crowd of ladies and gentlemen.</p>

...ness at Falls River, Mass., which nets him each year more than he can make in the base ball profession.</p> ...incinnati in the fall he has been employed as a clerk in a railroad office in Denver which has proved quite remunerative.</p>