THE GAME 199<br >dgua t~ms only played he said， "how it was that the book Team vs. team in the<br >tma lhlaY<br > tyt Base Bali nlnes 1890s? 1"here are volumes in<br >a/~ll well have played an a e o score ~ man ~ns<br >~1~ filly or sixty games or The tact is that the pitche~ in (salary battles， player/man-<br >~mnre([don tthinkany those days were not the agementbatOes)ofthe1880s?<br >~r ~ws) against teams skilled artists of the pre~nt There could be books ~itten<br >r0m uth~ league~non and depended mainly on an on that sublet Overlooked<br >pt0tes~0nal leagues city all underhand ball. which was stars ol the nineteenth een-<br >sat learns， anything. The easytohit:andthenaguin， the tury? They re almost all ovet :<br >SaLmn slret ched until Novem fielders did not gobble up the Iooked~l your average tan<br >b~" I~ grounders so skillfully or try knows about basebalt in the<br > II is very much an open to stop with their bare hands nineteenth century is Willie<br >uutlon as to when the Na- the wicked liners that ~e Keeler and the Baltimore Orl.<br >~ League teams became speared nowadays" Wrighl pies， How the game w~<br >~ fincUy superior to any aJso said that "Batting was not changing from decade to dec-<br >ker toms Sporlswnlers done as scientificalLy in tho~ ade? New strategies in use?<br >Iten insisted that the so- days as now The sacrifice hi~ New te~s in use? You got a<br > "major league" teams was unthought o[ and the mi，ion words there，<br >~re no better than other catcher w~ not required to ]tistarbeyondthe~opeof<br > unlilthe mid-elghties ]t have as good a throwing arm this b~k to repair the com-<br >~ddbeaworthystudy togo becau~ no one had diseov mort ignor~ce ot baseball in<br >ack ~d fifid a city that had e~d the value of the stolen the nineteenth century If<br >~d spuds coverage in the base. Long drives were more you are really interested in<br > common than at present" the subject， read H~old<br >ta， like Louisville or Syra. ~e<br >~， ~d hnd out how many<br > long<br > drives<br > would<br > showy<br > Seymour s book， mentioned<br >~thecib"steamdldplay reurn earlier， or Da~d Voight s<br >~gaitst nonleague competi But it was baseball: you American Baseball From<br >0n in this period， andwhat wouldn t have ~y trouble Gent/emen~ Spoa to the<br >heirr~ordwm~l msurethat r~ognizing it The games t~ommissionerSystem orjoln<br >heBostonte~lSunderHarry were a little long and the the Society lot American<br >#r~ht regularly demolished scoreswerealittle high， but it Baseball Research ~d start<br >~ opponents but I th nk I was baseball The skills in d~ collecting their stuff. I am nei-<br >Lke Y that some ol the weakerl~lK mand were the same， the peranswer tully one (I~<br > [her competent nor at leisure<br >earns in the NaUonal League sonalitles were the s~e. the to write the volumes that<br >n 1878 or ~ we~ really no arguments were the same<br > would be required to do this<br >~~ager thanahundred other B~ebaJl was baseball belore<br > centuc~ justice<br > ~und the country it was professional baseball<br > Wl~enyau ~vedat agame And with that blithe ~sur-<br >n iS?B， a daye might take<br > r ante. I m going to have to<br >Y0~ ~ek~t this w~ still true warn you thai the picture pre-<br > the ， IS~tew ccssity， rather incomplete.<br > .~ou~lem York Jual to of the<br > IIg~terswhomeac questions that make up the<br >~~l~d tO~e i to 0 ~d 2 data boxes on these first three<br >t~ ] g~ra~= linty welt Wonder，" decades could e~sily u~e up a<br >