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"Cavalry Base Ball" Illustration Printed in Pittsburgh
| Salience | Peripheral | |
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| Location | ||
| City/State/Country: | Pittsburgh, PA, United States | |
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| Game | Cavalry Base BallCavalry Base Ball | |
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| Age of Players | AdultAdult | |
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| Text | "A CAVALRY GAME The October number of one of the Comic Monthlies, contains an illustration of a Cavalry game of base ball, which it says is patented. On a large field is placed a picked nine, 'operating' on horse-back; the left field, centre field, and right field occupy appropriate positions. The pitcher has a cannon that looks like one of the Fort Pitt twenty-inch guns (this exceeds Pratt, the lightening pitcher), and is pitching a ball by means of it at one of the cavalrymen, whose bat is raised to stop it; home-runs, short-stops, and the other points of the game are well illustrated. The umpire occupies a block house, from which protrude two telescopes, and the picture generally has a military aspect. One of the chief advantages of the horse-back game is to be found in the ease with which the home-runs ae accomplished." | |
| Sources | Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, September 5, 1867, page 4. | |
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| Query | Are other baserunning games known that were to be played on horseback? Do we know what "Comic Monthlies" were? Edit with form to add a query | |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] | |
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| Submitted by | Bob Tholkes | |
| Submission Note | Posting to 19CBB, 10/25/2021 | |
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1867.26 "Cavalry Base Ball" Illustration Printed in Pittsburgh"
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