California Base Ball Variant
| Game | California Base Ball Variant |
|---|---|
| Game Family | Baseball |
| Location | California, Cuba |
| Regions | US |
| Eras | 1800s |
| Invented | No |
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| Description | "The game in California has some curious features, it seems. A game played in Woodbridge, May 26, had ten men on a side, the extra played being a "2d c.," or sort of backstop put behind the regular to nip fouls and prevent passed balls. The game was ten innings, though there was no tie on the ninth, the score was 24 to 20, and the winners, the Eagles of San Francisco, won $50 and a silver cake-basket. The latter implement would seem to be rather useless to a ball club." Richard Hershberger noted, October 2015: "This is immediately recognizable as Chadwick's beloved ten-men ten-inning rule, though Chadwick placed the tenth man at right short rather than second catcher. We know that Cuban baseball adopted the rule, apparently taking at face value Chadwick's assurances that it was inevitable and not noticing for some time that it had not in fact been enacted. Did this happen in California too? Or is this an isolated instance? I don't know much about California ball at this time, but the Eagles of San Francisco were a major club, weren't they? Or is that no longer true by 1877?" |
| Sources | Chicago Tribune, June 17, 1877. Posted to the 19CBB list-serve by Richard Hershberger, 10/2/2015. |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
| Comment | Do we know if this variant persisted in California? What do we know about the Cuban variant, and its fate? Edit with form to add a comment |
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