Clipping:Baseball on snowshoes

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Date	Friday, February 3, 1888
Text	[dateline Lancaster, N.H., Feb. 2, 1888] The event of this afternoon was a game of base ball on snowshoes. It was an original conception, and caused two hours' mirth to 5000 spectators. The ball used was a foot ball, representing the balloon so often called for in the regular game, and base runners were put out by throwing the ball as in the genuine old game, so dear to our grandfathers. The remarkable slides to seconds in which snowshoes and fancy colored legs and caps become so mixed as to give an idea of a disrupted rainbow, were worth going many miles to witness. The umpire is still alive, being an unusually tough, active young man, and his friends are as surprised as they are thankful.
Source	Boston Herald
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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