Constitution And By Laws Of The National Association Of Base Ball Players With The Rules And Regulations Of The Game Of Base Ball As Adopted At The Annual Convention Held December 12 1866 For The Use Of Base Ball Clubs For The Year 1867

Author : Association of Indoor Base Ball Clubs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330171943
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Constitution, by-Laws and Playing Rules of the Association of Indoor Base Ball Clubs written by Association of Indoor Base Ball Clubs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Constitution, by-Laws and Playing Rules of the Association of Indoor Base Ball Clubs The game of indoor base ball was invented in Chicago in 1887, and came about through a frolic among the members of the Farragut Club, who, in a spirit of fun on Thanksgiving day of that year, threw an ordinary boxing glove around the hall, which was struck at by one of the boys with a broom. Some twenty members had assembled, as usual on holidays, and George W. Hancock, seeing the possibility of a new sport, said in a bantering way: "Say, boys, let's play base ball," and the wrestling mat was hauled around cornerwise and a broom obtained. One of the boxing gloves was used for a ball, and, with the boys in position, they commenced their sport without rule or wisdom, but there was great fun, and when the afternoon had closed Mr. Hancock gathered the members around him and unfolded a plan which had occurred to him as the players were sliding around the hall. "I believe this affair can be worked into a regular game of base ball which can be played indoors, and if you all come down Saturday night I'll make up some rules and have a ball and bat which will suit the purpose of the sport and do no damage to the surroundings." It was thus that Mr. Hancock gained the title of "Father of Indoor Base Ball," for he went home and thought out some rules that would equalize the different points of the game and directed Augustus J. White how to make a ball which could be seen at night and fill all the requirements of the game. And so the sport was evolved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.