Show OLD BAT historical RELIC bowdoin collego treasures memento of baseball game played over half a century ago A note in a current american news J paper has peculiar interest for all those american citizens who are interested te in the national game bow doln college hag come into possession of the baseball bat long n the keep ing of the maine historical society which was used more than fifty years ngo in the first game ever played bei tween that college and an outside team the old bat made of spruce on the very day of the game Is about the size of the bats still in use and if the college had won the game would doubtless have remained ever since in a collegiate atmosphere but the sunrise team made up of boys from the town of Bruns def cited the collegians in that day of long scores to the tune of 40 to 42 and the bat inscribed with the names of all the players went to the winners lat er they gave it to the historical society which now present it to the college but in 1860 no one of the players could lune foreseen a time when what Is said to be the baseball bat in the country would be an object of national interest chriss alan science monitor |