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Baseball meeting... weight of rubber in ball limited to one ounce...
Baseball meeting... weight of rubber in ball limited to one ounce...
Item # 644879
December 01, 1870
NEW-YORK TIMES, Dec. 1, 1870 On page 5 under "Base-Ball" is a report: "Fourteenth Annual Convention of the National Association." The report lists the names of the delegates in attendance & describes the events of the meeting. After the "evils of professional ball playing" were discussed there was a vote endorsing the "professional system". The report then mentions that a lengthy list of amendments were adopted, "...the most important of which was limiting the weight of rubber in the ball to one ounce." (see)
Eight page, some foxing, nice condition.
Eight page, some foxing, nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War