The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-24
,,,now ,t made the ball so it was dead

anyhow. it made the ball so 1t was deaa easy to see.
 .0rhe pitcher would shoot the lustrous l,ali over the illuminated plate ano' crackl-when the batsman connected WILL it you'd see a fiery comet archins over the field only to come to rest III some ou.- fielder's waiting hands.
 .rrhe only trouble was that for the first few innings it was hard to keep track or the runners when they were between bases. But the players hands soon got bright from handling the phosphorescent ball. and after that you could keep track of 'em as well as if it had been broad daylight.
 ''Well, sir, the game dragged along Tor hours and hours without either side SCOT ing Shortly after midnight-the SSth in- ming, I think it was-the Roarers had to take Cy Priest out of the box. Homerun IIankins caught him on the head with line drive.
 q think it must have raised a lump on his bump of generosity, because, before the swelling went down he gave two men their bases Ion balls and would probably have given the whole game away if they hadn't taken him out when they did, However, Spud McKaig, who took his place, struck the next three men out and nothing further happened until the wee small hours of the morning.
 '"rhen came that eveatful 57th. Bull Thompson was at the bat for the Lillies and two were out McKaig knowing that Bull usually let the first one go by, de- cided to take chance with a straight one.
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 Say. you may have.,seen home runs in your time, but never a hit like that one. On. on. up, and on 1t went like a ball Of fire in the starlit sky. You can get some idea of what wallop it must have been when I tell you that the professor of as- tronomy at the Polytechnic Institute three miles away took an excellent pho tograph of it from his observatory and has since written a very scientific paper proving conclusively that it is inhabited.
 Flrefly Caused Defeat
 What? Yes; Thompson scored.
 "Then the Poarers came to bat for their half. and 1t was do or die. Dean Braley, the Lily pitcher, apparently weakening under the strain of 56 consecutive innings, gave the first two men their bases on balls. The third man up sacrificed, put ting men on second and third, with only one out.
 "As Bruiser Browne, the Roarers' hard hitting catcher, toed the plate the excite ment was intense.
 "Dean Braley drew his arm back, and, whiz! came the ball like streak of light ning square across the plate. Strike one. Then two balls and another strike in rap i'd succession. Another ball. Three balls and two strikes.
 "Bruiser Browne, realizing that every thing depended upon him, was all on edge. He kept tapping the plate nerv- ously with his bat, and the beads of cold precipitation on his forehead glistened weirdly in the uncanny light of the phos- phorescence.
 "So great was the hush as Dean Braley raised the ball above his head that you could almost hear the fitful flicker of the lamps upon the bases. He paused mo- ment, and then
 'Zip
 Like a flash he shot the ball over to second, catching the runner off base by a good three yards.
 "At almost the same instant an inno- cent little 1refy started up out of the grass and fitted across the plate.
 'Swish
 ''Nervous and overstrung. Bruiser Browne had struck viciously at it. Three