Saturday, October 30, 2010

Too Good Not To Pass Along

The captain and center-fielder of an Aurora base-ball club is a boy, both of whose legs are off at the thighs. He has a boy to run bases for him, and he does his centre-fielding in an invalid's chair, and catches a good many flies.
-St. Louis Globe-Democrat, September 16, 1887


I have no problems with having a guy with no legs on my baseball team. I just don't know if I'd want him in center.


And from the same issue of the Globe:


Excessive cigarette smoking causes Leitner and Shreve's wildness.


As a smoker, I can state with certainty that smoking does not cause a pitcher to lose his control. Although it may explain some of Ted Simmons' throws to second base.

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