1854.16
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The Eagle Club's Field Diagram - A Real Diamond
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Club Constitutions/BylawsClub Constitutions/Bylaws |
| Location | Greater New York CityGreater New York City |
| City/State/Country: | nyc, ny, United States |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | John Thorn has supplied an image of the printed "Plan of the Eagle Ball Club Bases" from its 1854 rulebook.
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| Sources | "Revised Constitution, by-laws and rules of the Eagle Ball Club," (Oliver and Brother, New York, 1854). |
| Warning | |
| Comment | It seems possible that he who designed this graphic did not intend it to be taken literally, but it sure is different. Folks around MIT here would call it a squashed rhombus. Using the diagram's own scale for 42 paces, and accepting the questionable guess that most people informally considered a pace to measure 3 feet, the four basepaths each measure 132 feet. But the distance from home to 2B is just 79 feet, and from 1B to 3B it's 226 feet (for football fans: that's about 75 yards). Foul ground ("Outside Range" on the diagram) leaves a fair territory that is not marked in a 90 degree angle, but at . . . wait a sec, I'll find a professor and borrow a protractor, ah, here . . . a 143 degree angle. Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Do we have evidence that the Eagle preferred, at least initially, a variant playing field? Or did the Eagle Club just assign this diagramming exercise to some Harvard person? Is this image published in some recent source? Edit with form to add a query |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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| Submitted by | John Thorn |
| Submission Note | Emails of 9/2/2009 and 2/11/2010 |
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1854.16 The Eagle Club's Field Diagram - A Real Diamond"
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