Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Spalding's Base Ball Guide has never been distinguished for the dignity usually expected in an Official Guide. This year it deals in petty vituperation more than ever, especially in a paragraph directed at Harvard. We quote in full...
...Harvard College Base Ball Club's receipts for 1892 aggregated $20,539. This fund will materially aid Harvard's athletics for 1893, there being a good balance at command despite an expense account of over $18,000. The question is, what made the expenditures so large? Cyclone pitchers and their hard-worked catchers doubtless came high in the college arena...
...three years on the South Jersey Institute team; Morton caught for the Wakefield High School; Keefe played on the Watertown High School nine; Winslow never played baseball before; Gonterman played in the field for Knox School, Ill; McCarty was a member of the Somerville High nine; Fuller, first base, played that position for Dalzell's Preparatory School, Worcester; Kingsbury pitched on the Cutler School nine of Newton; Haine pitched on last years Hopkinson School nine; O'Mally caught for the Boston Latin School: Henry was catcher on the Sing Sing team; Paul pitched on Hopkinson and Hayes played...
Stephenson who played first base on the Yale nine during the Easter trip and did such good hitting is an Exeter graduate...
...Swayne '93, President of the Base Ball Association was elected Chairman of the committee and L. S. Sanford of the Medical School, Secretary. It was decided to choose four committees, to represent each department of athletics, each to consist of officers of that branch and one graduate. These committees will draw up constitutions for each organization, and the four separate drafts will finally be incorporated...