Clipping:Protective equipment

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Date	Sunday, October 7, 1877
Text	The compact ball, struck by an expert batsman, has come to be nearly as dangerous as a missile from a firearm, and the base-ball player, having the ordinary human objection to becoming an angel, has devised various contrivances for decreasing his danger. He protects his thumbs with padded leather; he covers his manly bosom with wadding; he spikes his shoes with iron to avoid slipping, and now he wears about his head and face a sort of wire cage, from which he peers upon the field with the air of a convict obtaining glimpses of the outer world from the window of a penitentiary. As new perils present themselves, new devices will be invented, and there seems now to be a promise that the base-ball player of the early future will enter the field as heavily armored as a knight of the middle ages, and almost as incapable of motion unless he has the muscles of a giant., quoting the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Source	Chicago Tribune
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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