Show Q 0 inside baseball as I 1 played by orioles inside baseball has had a lot of publicity since the game took ft firm foothold in the affections of the american public the baltimore orioles the wonder team that developed mcgrew mcgraw and robinson and jennings 1 into the leading strategists 6 of the present thoroughly y believed 4 in the inside game but a lot of their stuff looked like ordinary trickery to modern I 1 eyes for instance I 1 the giants were playing a closely contested game in baltimore a in one of the late innings hughey jennings hit bit a sharp bounder to ely the new kew york t shortstop who threw wildly to first base in those days the clubhouse of the old union park grounds in 1 4 baltimore was situated directly behind first tom murphy the baltimore ground keeper was watching the game at the open door he saw the ball come rolling 4 toward him lie allowed it to roll into the locker room and then slammed the door and locked it roger connor the giants first sacker backer swearing like a trooper tried to tear the door down while jennings raced around the bases and scored the deciding run that was inside bell ball said mcgraw la in recounting the story but just try to get away with anything like that in these calm and effete days I 1 |