Extrait d’un journal de 1876, c’est fou à quel point le jeu a changé
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Par baseballandbotany
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Extrait d’un journal de 1876, c’est fou à quel point le jeu a changé
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Par baseballandbotany
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Does anyone else immediately think of that Conan O’Brien Old School Baseball video when they read things like this? One of my favorite YouTube videos of all time lmao
« WHAT IS THAT DEMONRY! »
George Wright was a “Cincinnati jeweler”?
He was 22. Born in Yonkers to a British-born cricket enthusiast, George had been on top baseball teams since he was 15 and had played on teams in Manhattan, the Bronx (Morisania), Philadelphia and Washington. He had already established himself as the best player in the country when his brother convinced him to move to Cincinnati to join his first “all-professional” team.
I suppose they gave players jobs in the offseason, but he was a baseball player first.
According to the first dodgy inflation calendar I googled $12,000 in 1876 is $366k today.
I initially read “1976” and was so confused
I like the idea of the pitcher being able to decide where to throw from within a box. getting rid of the rubber & letting them throw from anywhere off the mound they’d like would be an interesting experiment.
PERPENDICULAR?!?
The red stockings are now the Braves right?
I SAID « LOW », DAMNIT!
*If I Never Get Back* by Daryl Brock. Great read, and fascinating look at early baseball.
There were salaried players years before George Wright, but it was all under the table. Baseball historians today think the first men paid to play the game was probably Jim Creighton in either 1859 or 1860.
[Here is an article about the game they mentioned at the top.](https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/june-14-1870-the-atlantic-storm-red-stockings-suffer-first-defeat/)
When boomers whine about how « baseball should never change, » I always ask if this is what they mean.