Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-03-28
BASEBALL NOTES.
New Ravens Flattering Prospects
General News.

New Ravens Flattering Prospects
General News.
Ex- Manager Burnham is in Providence
completing the organization of the associ-
alton in that city.
The Eastern league at the Syracuse
meeting could not resist George T. Whites
persuasive eloquence nor the $4,000 check
he planted in the face of it's members
when he made his application for the ad-
mission of this city.
The minor base ball leagues throughout
the country should have most prosperous
season of it this year.
The local baseball association should call
a meeting at once and perfect its organiza-
ton by electing officers and get in readi-
neas for the opening of the season.
Dan Shannon. who will have charge of
the local team, is one of the best managers
in the business and any team which he &C.
cures for this city will come pretty near
landing on top.
Rochester and Syracuse are reported as
being ''shsky," but tits expected that both
cities will brace up and be in line when the
bell rings.
The Albany correspondent of Sporting
Life is very sore at the admission of New
Haven and Providence. He says: "The
truth of the matter is, New Haven and
Providence are dead to anything like pro-
gressive ball playing. state league is
about their size. New Ravens disgusting
huke last year with good team is not for
gotten, and it will take something more
than promises for her to enter the associa-
ton again" Perhaps within few weeks
''Rod" will be singing different tune.
The Buffalos will not play Sunday
games for the reason that President Frank
lin will not undertake to equip suburban
park.
Jim Mutrie has been engaged to manage
the Elmira club.
Frank J. Leonard's terms have been ao-
cepted and he will manage the Bingham
ton club of the Eastern league this season.
The energy shown everywhere in the
organization of minor leagues and the
eagerness of formerly apathetic towns to
| enter these little leagues justi6es the hope
of unusual stability of success for the
| 'kindergartens of baseball" The hope is
| made stronger owing to the national lines
| on which the minor leagues are conduct
| ing their business.
It is perhaps worthy of note that the
establishment of the new Athletic club of
the Eastern league in philadelphia
after the League had paid dearly for the
retirement of the old Athletic club-was
hailed most enthusiastically by those who
were and are most bitterly opposed to the
| establishment of the big twelve-clut
league.
| Jack Corcoran, late of Brooklyn, Rich
mond, Jersey City and New Haven clubs,
and last season with the Lynn, New Eng
land league, team, is keeping himself II
the pink of condition for the season of '92
| Corcoran has sent his terms on to Presi-
dents Williams and White of the Western
and Eastern associations. He has also re-
ceived offers from a number of minol
league clubs for his services during thu
| season.
| Spaulding's Baseball Guide for 1892 il
the model book of the twenty year series
The opening chapter of the work is espe
cially noteworthy, as it fully describes tn
evolution of the national game, giving
brief resume of the changes in the players
rules from 1851 to 1891 inclusive, periot
of thirty years of the games history. Fol
lowing this comes the record history of tn
championship campaigns of the Nationa
league and the American association TO
1891 in complete statistical form, eacl
clubs official history being given. This
followed by an instructive chapter on tn
points of play in pitching, batting, base
running and fielding, as shown in the OK
perience of the past season. There ar
several othes specially interesting features
the whole work being edited by Mr.. Henri
Chad wick, the veteran authority on tn
game.
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