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First Intercollegiate Ballgame: Amherst 73, Williams 32
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| Text | In the first intercollegiate baseball game ever played, Amherst defeats Williams 73-32 in 26 innings, played under the Massachusetts Game rules. The contest is staged in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a neutral site, at the invitation of the Pittsfield Base Ball Club. Pittsfield Sun, July 7, 1859. Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 32-34. Also, Durant, John, The Story of Baseball in Words and Pictures [Hastings House, NY, 1947], p .10. Per Millen, note # 35. The two schools also competed at chess that weekend. AmherstExpress, Extra, July 1 - 2, 1859 [Amherst, MA], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 219. A two-page broadsheet tells of Amherst taking on Williams in both base ball and chess. Headline: "Muscle and mind!" The New York Clipper thought that the game's wimpy ball lessened the fun: "The ball used by Amherst was small, soft, and with so little elasticity that a hard trow upon the floor would cause of rebound of scarcely a foot." Cited in William Ryczek, Ballball's First Inning (McFarland, 2009), page 127 and attributed to the July 16 issue. Ryczek goes on to say that the ball, while more suitable for plugging than the Association ball, detracted frm the excitement of the game because it was could not be hit or thrown far. |
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1859. First Intercollegiate Ballgame: Amherst 73, Williams 32"
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