Show OLD BAT historical RELIC bowdoin college treasures memento of baseball game played over half a century ago A note in a current american newspaper has peculiar interest tor for all those american citizens who are interested te in the national game bowdoin college has come into possel possession slon of the baseball bat long in the keeping of the maine historical society which was used more than fifty years ago in the first game ever played between that college and an outside team the old bat made of spruce on the very day of the game to lg about the size of the bats still in use and it if the college had won the game would doubtless have remained ever since in a collegiate atmosphere but the sunrise team made up tip of boys from the town of brunswick Brunsw lck defeated the collegians in that day of long scores to the tune of 46 to 42 and the bat inscribed with the names of all the players went to the winners later they gave it to the b historical society which now present 4 it to the college but in 1860 no one of the pin players could have foreseen a time when what is said to be the oldest baseball bat in the country would he be nn an object of national interest christian chrisan science monitor |