Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ..: a complete hand book of the national game of base ball .. . Henry Ciiadwick in Years of Age. The sport of sports forAmericans, alike for men asfor bovs, is our Nationalgame of base ball which isnow the permanently estab-lished field game of ball forthe American people, and itoccupies a position in publicestimation which no othersport in vogue equals, thegame has attained its presenthigh position in popular fa-vor not only from its adapt-ability to our pecuUar char-acteristics, but also for itsvalue as a field sport whichpr
Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ..: a complete hand book of the national game of base ball .. . Henry Ciiadwick in Years of Age. The sport of sports forAmericans, alike for men asfor bovs, is our Nationalgame of base ball which isnow the permanently estab-lished field game of ball forthe American people, and itoccupies a position in publicestimation which no othersport in vogue equals, thegame has attained its presenthigh position in popular fa-vor not only from its adapt-ability to our pecuUar char-acteristics, but also for itsvalue as a field sport whichpresents sufficient legitimateexcitement to attract thous- .nd- of soectators to its contests\vithout the intrinsic aid of ; rndency to draw the bands of society ^lo^^^^^f ^^^er byfriendlv intercourse, which substitute the teats oi menfor the freaks of the fop, hardihood for effeminacy, andwhich are free from taint of cruelty, oppression and self- ,Xhness areentitled to especial encouragemen,^^^^^^^^sideration in a matter so important as that of selecting asportive science for the people. ,,,. HARKV of the National League. SPALDINGS OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 5 us to the eighth decade of base I in vT ^^^• a fict, the date of hJ *°^- ^^ ^ ever- regular base bal club of which we\^° °^-^^e firstord being in .1833, istsl^ Tears Je^ Th^^^i^^^^question was the old Olymoic To Jn r^i u ^t^T.^^^ ^Phia, which began its firsTse^sonTf ull 9^ °^ Philadel-The game of tLn baHo that JaHv n ^J^^ ^^^ y^^-can modification of he old En^hi ^ ^^i^ ^^^-known to English use in th. f ^^V^^ ^?nie of rounders,ball, in fact, was placed in P^lIS^ifb ^/^- ^^^^asts as early as 1831. Parties of .h ^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^^^-to gather of an afternoon on rateek^oTa fiddaT ^^^the upper part of Market Street Ph^l J 1 i • ^ adjoiningthe Episcopal church now ands ^o otv^, ?/ ^^^^^and others again would go over to the r^^ °^1 fl^^enjoy the sport. An old resident nfr S ^^^ ^^^^^ to
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