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...ures of the present base ball season, was the organization of a grand base ball tournament by Mr Cammeyer. . . .[He] offered the very handsome sum of $4,00 |Sources=<p>J.W. Brodie, "The Base Ball Tournament",''&nbsp;New York Dispatch,'' October 13, 1872:</p>

...rubber could be pressed into a solid ball. Yarn was then wound around the ball and a cobbler would be paid $ 0.25 to sew on a cover.</p></ref> <ref> ...ring for the Next Season&rsquo;s Trade - Dead Balls Going Out of Favor - Ball Makers&rsquo; Wages.

|Headline=A Ball Club Forms in Philadelphia; It Later Adopts Base Ball, and Lasts to 1887 |Game=Town Ball, Old-Cat Games

|Game=Base Ball, ...h a full-time umpire corps employed by the league. That won't be until the 1880s. Here in 1872, the NA doesn't even have a league structure to run an umpire

...upplying hundreds of summaries of early base ball clubs to the PrePro data base, and submitting his collection of 19C news clips, including over 2000 clip ...s fascinated by the interregnum–the period when there was no major league ball in either New York City or Philadelphia. I was not especially interested o