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Show 'ie. World Serifs -IFGAME- IN 1866 jL I f TT1 ... baseball as It was In the old I ' 'PST I f ' championship game between I hmM?A fWJ I I 4' Brooklyn and the Athletics of . -Pv) 4 is65. The score was 33 to S3 JVl U I v j I I if -e the end of the seventh Inning on I Ikrt) I ' V I I ;'fc .'.ittss. Notice the underhand pitch- Kp. s-ST" j'WftLf (cvC'll' I fit '..ss catcher keeping a respectful ' - iWvMr& Jgr ,the bat, the wide swing of the hg&& ' & Jf I I 1 :3semen playing frozen to the bags. P JH fp W&ufc y I 'I w,s of American Sport- In "The H0 Mtl MiiV " ' ' I 'I :riea, courtesy Yale University I P'"'WV if h :t a quaint old village at the foot j j f 7, it in Otsego county, New Tork. VWA WtW1 iVff jii ' of J;in'es Fenimore Cooper jvytt. t) '' " V I rioNSHlP GAME IN 1866 ,.n baseball as It was In the old ini championship game between " 'j Brooklyn and the Athletics of lett J 1S65. The score was 33 to S3 Joa :t the end of the seventh Inning on ,-ess. Notice the underhand pitch-,!Ss pitch-,!Ss catcher keeping a respectful -i the bat, the wide swing of the -jsirnen playing frozen to the bags, isnals of American Sport" In "The :-trica," courtesy Yale University LH0 SCOTT WATSON. DOUBLEDAT was a native of Alston Spa, N. Y., who was graded grad-ed from the United States Miliary Mili-ary academy at West Point in 1S42. ,;rted in the Seminole, Mexican i., -j Civil wars, was breveted a ::;or-general of volunteers, became colonel of infantry in the United , aes army In 1S67, retired in 1S73 53. ,i -isa quaint old village at the foot it in Otsego county, New Tork. jii borne of Jnnies Fenimore Cooper !:- i bid for immortality with his " ,i Tales." Mined Id the two foregoing para-:!j para-:!j wouldn't add up to a single t to the average dyed-in-the-wool :st the fact remains that through i of the names of Abner Double-tritown, Double-tritown, N. there came about ' rants which makes it possible for 'M . the high point of his feverish in-istional in-istional game along about the first '! ;r. It's world series time. Need s aid? f .Nineteenth century the youth of -: playing a game with a bat and ball, ed and yet differed from the an-,3 an-,3 : ?ame of "rounders." This game known as town ball, although the s called it round ball or Massa-s, Massa-s, 'all. Played on a square field, 7sre 60 feet long, there was no re-ie re-ie number of players who took s of the game varied in differ- ;J8 of players within a limited 'ad confusion as to rules suggested o that it was tLme to formulate : ''epilations and speed up the play :' field diamond-shaped instead of . Abner Doubleday, a student at to Cooperstown, N. Y who begaD j'to in 1839. But it was not un- that he took active steps to Im- 1 :' Jeat crowd gathered In Coopers-; Coopers-; ; and political Keeting during wrlson log-cabin, hard-cider cam- :fs assembled that afternoon Dou-, Dou-, n tQem around and explained as i the points of the new game. l there must be four bases 90 the boys Immediately began to ;as "baseball." The name stuck. ,.eeven men on a side, using four ; Welders, pitcher and catcher. "anmner not on base might be : . Mm with the ball. This -ma throwing to another devel-r; devel-r; ; table plays. v f Se by Doubleday specified that "lmie of rubber and yarn and ' U must weigh about five ci ; w not be more than nine Inches "ie weight of the ball and the " ! tl,Were taken lnt0 consideration ' '.se measurements. The bat ir J!!!!003' ana t0 be used with Hani tbe bat fre(Juenty .hr.the lnventor was to deter-'p deter-'p "ts it the bases- After sev-,( sev-,( " ffas found that a man would VoJU42 diking) paces or -ted Iff of those dimensions W haviD8 been driven to , 8 was that 90 feet was fixed ST" the bases- - 'it J 0,6 new Eame the vol-: vol-: nerlcan Sport," In the Yale : eneSi "Chronicles of Amer :, tpyior the following: 'fcd bj Dobleday Inaug-bail Inaug-bail ii , lntei-ested in town Win? ough tliere were no or ;jrCshgl'lar sctle(Jules to pop slare fou dlatriond began to su ; -p of y in the eastern stes !S18 nr t Yrk eontlemen, who mLnC !ce eames together for 1 first , Kni(erbocker Bas-v :' -atrj nn, 0D of baseball plav '"htrH the 'eadership of Al ,, :fo the n uy drafted a eode 0( ;i " nine ,:o0ubleday system of play !'! ;4Mte,,,( as constituted at the ,.i ci .,,, 0f the Pblication of I titioi, tB the Knickerbockers :.;fca,e " the New York district." ,tf .'"ftopri f 1850 numerous base Nre INew York' Brooklyn anJ other smaller towns and the sport which had once been a "gentleman's "gentle-man's game," -as exemplified by the Knickerbockers, Knicker-bockers, soon became the sport of the common man as well. In March, 1858, a National Association Asso-ciation of Baseball Players was formed and one of its first actions was to appoint a rules committee com-mittee which introduced the nine-inning game. But it remained for the Civil war to nationalize national-ize baseball. In 1SG5 a convention of the National Na-tional Association of Baseball Players was held at which representatives from nearly 100 clubs took part. Most of them were from the East but there were indications that teams were being formed all over the country. Two years later the national meeting brought together representatives represen-tatives from scores of teams west of the Al-leghanies Al-leghanies and south of the Mason and Dixon line. The East however still laid claim to leadership leader-ship in the sport with the Atlantics of Brooklyn Brook-lyn asserting their right to the title of national champions after they had defeated the New York Mutuals In ISGo. For the next few years they had strong rivals for the title in the Athletics of Philadelphia (No, not Connie Mack's outfit-he outfit-he doesn't date back quite that far!) and the Onions of Morrisania. In 1S69 the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional team and two years later was organized the National Association of Professional Pro-fessional Baseball Players. In 1876 the present National league was organized, composed of teams representing four eastern and four western west-ern cities: New York, Philadelphia, Hartford, Boston, Chicago, St Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. In 1882 a new organization arose to challenge the National league and to attack its financial policy. This was the American association and its promoters, claiming that the admission charge of 50 cents made baseball a rich man's game, announced that it would give the public good baseball at a cost of only 25 cents. The National league stood Its ground but Instead of ignoring its rival recognized it by later entering Into a national agreement with it In order to establish uniformity in players' contracts, disciplinary methods and the buying and selling of players services. That year also saw the real beginning of the world series idea, post-season games for the tit e ot "world champions." Two years before the Cincinnati club of the National league had been expe led from the National league, whereupon it oinei the American association and won h championship of that circuit In 15 )S2. In October f tw rpnr Captain Anson of the Chicago ia Lai eagu ctamplon. arranged games with the Cincinnati for a national championshiP. nhortive "world series" ended. abortive v. from Lha The growth of th e wong fQr point on is traced by Chariest i many years sporting editoi of the Evening Post as follows: tes of that "In the. winter of 1SW I t " e or Uay decided there Zy n5 formed a trl-ganlzatlons trl-ganlzatlons to live In haimony a partite national agreement , tak.n t western Minor league and a ng hands off" the PjTnssS and 1SS4 agreement having woiUed c , gnates and peace being fully e s tnbhs bed by decided that the P an tried out q r(?ady cago and Cincinnati looked omc,a, money, so It Yfttee the two win-world win-world series in New Yoik doc opo,itans. rung clubs-Providence a" tue Provl. On October 23 24 and J dence nine, winner of th of Kew York plonshlp. took the Metropom Into camp at the old to o ln the string ,lred Tenth street and Fiun of three games, by respective scores of 6 to 0, 3 to 1 in seven innings and 11 to 2 In six Innings, the last two games being called on account of darkness. . "These championship contests between the winners of the National league and the American association continued until 1890, the high-water mark in receipts being ln 1S87 when $42,000 was received In 15 games on a barnstorming tour to St. Louis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and Chicago, the Detroit Nationals beating the St Louis Americans by ten games to five. In the season of 1S88 the Giants broke Into the championship cham-pionship roll by beating St Louis six games to four, four games being played In New York, four ln St. Louis and one each In Philadelphia and Brooklyn, to gross receipts of $24,302.10, the highest gate being the fifth game, In New York, of $5,624.50, and the lowest, the last, ln St. Louis, of $212. They didn't care to watch losers even at home in those days. Again the Giants won In 1SS9, beating Brooklyn by six games to three, the total gate being $23,628, of which over $S,000 was at the second game, In Brooklyn. There was mighty little interest In the next year's series, Brooklyn tying with the Louisville Nationals with three games each and one tie, and In 1S91 there was no series and ln 1S92 the American association was absorbed by the National Na-tional league, 12 clubs playing In a divided season sea-son the winner of the first half playing the win-ner'of win-ner'of the second half at the end, the Bostons boating Cleveland by five games to none with one tie There was no series In 1S93 and then came the Temple Cup series, but It was entirely a National league affair. Baltimore, National lea-ue champions In 1S94, 1S95 and 1S90, lost to New York In four straight games in 1S94. lost to Cleveland four games to one In lS9o and beat Cleveland four straight In 1SD6. Boston won the championship In 1S97 but lost the Temple Cup to Baltimore by four games to one. These series herrnn with $1S,000 receipts in four games and then dwindled so rapidly that the games were nbandoned in 1S9S." In 1900 the National league dropped four of its twelve clubs, thus giving "Ban" Johnson a former baseball player and a baseball wr.ter. h,s nhnnce to form a new league with these four lbs as a nucleus to which were added four oth-ers oth-ers forming the present American league. With u H roe years the American league was recog led as a major circuit and in 1P the new established Its superiority over the old Len the Boston Bed Pox defeated the Pitts-? Pitts-? X P rates five games to three. The present b" S of world series games began In in-W and that time the American league has contin-Ued contin-Ued to "demonstrate Its superiority by winning ?6 out of 27 world series. |