Baseball Game

The simplest of the three out-field positions is the left-field, and one evidence of this is seen by the fact that a left-fielder almost invariably leads in the averages. If fieldi...

Second base is the prettiest position to play of the entire in-field. In the number of chances offered it is next to first base, and in the character of the work to be done and the...

On account of the associations by which a professional game of base-ball was supposed to be surrounded, it was for a long time thought not a proper sport for the patronage of ladie...

(The warden of one of the State penitentiaries has begun a system of Saturday half holidays for the convicts, a baseball game on the prison grounds being the main feature.) You tal...

Coaching is Divided into Three Parts: Offensive, Defensive, and the Use of Crowds to Rattle Players--Why McGraw Developed Scientific Coaching--The Important Role a Coacher Plays in...

It may or it may not be a serious reflection upon the accuracy of history that the circumstances of the invention of the first ball are enveloped in some doubt. Herodotus attribute...

THE RECORDS MADE BY EACH PLAYER IN BATTING AND FIELDING ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL FIGURES--THE AVERAGES OF THE CLUBS. Sheehan of Springfield leads the entire batting list with the fat...

Baseball, they say, has changed a heap; I guess it has, in spots, And yet I liked it better when we played it on the lots. There were no signs for "hit and run," no dazzling "fadea...

The decade of the nineties in League history bids fair to surpass, in exciting events, that of every preceding series of years known in the annals of professional base ball. The de...

"I was with Clarke," the pitcher said To the Pittsburg millionaire. The rich man bowed his silvery head To the pitcher standing there. "Enough, good man! Give me your mitt! Walk ri...

Robson's round face had lost its usual smile. McRae's was like a thundercloud, and the players evaded him as much as they could. Even Larry was "Laughing Larry" no longer. It was a...

"There are three more of the bellboys doing various errands about the hotel," replied the clerk. "If you gentlemen will wait around they'll be back in a few minutes." "All right, w...

The Smoky City was all agog over the games. It had won championships before, but that was in the days of Fred Clarke and Honus Wagner and other fence breakers. It had been a good m...

Wheeler went out on a fly to Milton, Willis fanned, and Larry closed the inning with a pop up to second. But the Giants had scored first blood, and in such a close game as this pro...

In an instant Baseball Joe brought the car to a stop. But in that instant his brain worked like lightning. Neither he nor Jim was armed. He must temporize. Resistance at the moment...

"Well, we wound up the trip in a blaze of glory, anyway," remarked Jim to Baseball Joe, as they sat in the Pullman coach that was carrying them and the rest of the team back to New...

For the ninth and deciding game, McRae had selected Joe to pitch. "I don't need to tell you, Joe, how much depends on this game," McRae said soberly, as the two came out of the clu...

It was Jim's turn to go on the mound in the first game with the Pittsburghs, and in the practice work before the game he showed that he was keyed up for his work. For so comparativ...

All rose to their feet in hearty welcome. It was not the first time Reggie had visited the Matson home, and all were fond of him. Joe and Jim especially gave him a hilarious greeti...

It was a highly elated crowd of Giants that chattered away excitedly in the clubhouse after the finish of the game. Jim and Joe came in for the major share of the honors, the first...