Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-07
Miscellany.
MIR. Jack zMttlegame's Opinion OF
Baseball. nos .IpaT

ta WHO should L meet but Sam SklngamS,
made UP like a. regular swell, full suit OF
black, stove pipe hat patent-leather boots
and all. .,,..- .e1s
What's the lay, sams sez /, What's
yer little game?'
"The Nashunal game" sez Sam. "I'm
a nien.ter and stockholder OF the Dirty
Stockings ..
sYes, but what's the gamef Is it
sf'ones Or papersf'" SCI kinder lgnorln
the stockins. - -,
"It's the one ball game" sez Sam. "The
Nsshunal Game of Base Ball. Want to
jine :" .hn+ ia
like to be left out Of wearing the stockins
till cooler weathef' s4ft3 ias5
"Stow that" sez SAM Dirty Stock
ms is the pet name of our professional
nine.n'I 10 A-se
So Sam agreed to let me have some Of
his stock an some brads to pay for MEM
bership, and we went up to the Cheatem
grounds to see the first game for the cham
pionship between the Dirty Stocking and
the Soiled shirts. of Sedalia. 1t was hot
as blases, but you may pick me up for a
fiat if there warn't more than three thou
sand people sitting there in the sun.
Pretty soon the game began. The first
thing they did was to select an umpire.
An umpire's duty is to STAN out one side
an holler, an to make a sure thing of it,
every once in o while he sings out, zone
bawlr' "Two bawl" After they had
stood the umpire out in the sun, one of
the Dirty Stockins picked up big club
and stood over little iron plate like a
pavior with a rammet. Three other chaps
went and stood on three little sail loft
cushions; three other fellows winked at
: each other and got as far out in the field
as they could another man planted him
self about fifteen feet from one, of the
j little cushion. Sam says they call this
man short STOP" because he don't stop
there long before his head is caved in by
the ball. Them a player stood behind the
chap on the little iron plate, an another
went In front of him an began to pitch a
the chap behind would chuck it back.
Bimelby the feller that held the full
hand of clubs got mad, struck the ball an
drove it into the short stop mans
stomach, flung his club back an knocked
out the front teeth Of the man behind /;
then he ran at one Of the chaps on the lit
tie cushions, knocked him down and
stomped on him, and went for the chap on
the next cushion; but the ball got there
somehow before him. an the chap on the
second cushion grabbed it an fetched him
d pelt side of the head as he cofiie up.
Then the umpire yelled "Outl" The
crowd cheered, the wounded was carried
off in an ambulance, new men put in their
places, and they began all over again.
] asked Sam if anybody ever got hurt
playin' the Nashunal game?
Not enough to interfere with the
game" says Sam. "We've located ou1
grounds pretty near the city hospitals
have our own ambulance, coroner and
undertaken, and the doctors bring the
medical students over to all the matches tc
study surgery. We did have life and
accident insurance agent; but the first two
matches failed his COMPANY
Q Sam says that when the Nashunal game
was fust introduced, men used to play fol
the fun an exercise; but sense John Nor
rissey, Jim Fisk and our kind have taken
the game upf they have to pay a member
of the professional nine a thousand dollars
for the season, his doctors bill, an all he
can make through his friends in side bets
You can bet your pile the Nashuna
games big thing.