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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...

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...

This is the twentieth year of the existence of the National League, and in all that time but four members of the League have occupied the presidential chair, viz., Morgan G. Bulkel...

If Joe had counted upon producing a surprise, his success surpassed his wildest expectations. At first there was a second of paralyzed silence. Then there was a wild hubbub of deli...

"I'm going to tie you up in knots, old man," said Jim Barclay, with a smile, as he picked up the ball and stepped into the box in batting practice at the training camp. "I've heard...

St. Louis was in good form on the following day, and a perfect deluge of hits came from their bats. The Giants, too, had a good hitting day, and the fans who like to see free batti...