Word: base
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brown University base-ball nine is $200 in debt...
...first edition of M. J. Kelly's book on base-ball, entitled "Play Ball," will be on sale after April...
...second Harvard-Yale freshman base-ball game will be played in New Haven on May 26th. The date of the first game is as yet undecided...
...college work and recreation has been checked for the past few days by the heavy snow storm, which has rendered it almost impossible to get about even on the Campus. All outside communication was cut off and a large proportion of the lectures and recitations were omitted. The base-ball cage was filled with snow, so that the candidates for the nine were unable to practice. The universal amusement has been snow-balling, much to the distaste of tutors and "cops." The various crews will begin rowing on the harbor again as soon as the weather permits. Owing...
...Beacons, the well-known amateur base-ball nine of Boston, have organized for the coming season, and will play their usual game with Harvard, probably on Fast Day. This club stands at the head of all the amateur nines in the country, and is in fact purely amateur, as no pay whatever has ever been given to a player, even for a single game. Many of the members are college-graduates and interest is kept up during the winter by monthly dinners. It used to be said that the club never played two games in a season with exactly...