Word: bases
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ROBERT P. HASTINGS, '77, has been appointed manager of the Base-Ball Nine in place of Mr. S. Shillito, resigned...
...first college game resulted in an easy victory. Trinity's play was chiefly characterized by wretched fielding and weak batting, Wilcox alone playing with credit. Holden led at the bat, and was closely followed by Thayer, Tyng, and Latham. Latham played at second base in his usual exemplary style...
THERE will be a base-ball match to-morrow, at 3 P. M., on Holmes Field between Wesleyan and Harvard...
...hard work; but just as a severe pull on the river is violent exercise, so is a good game of lawn-tennis. To call a game effeminate because it can be played without much exertion is a mode of reasoning which can as well be applied to rowing or base-ball as to lawn-tennis...
...would also like to call attention to the grumblers, a class whose opinion on base-ball is usually of little worth; they are ever complaining of our defeats, taking it as a matter of course that we ought always to win, and never considering that the clubs who beat us are usually composed of men who devote their entire time to base-ball, and, as an extra stimulus for good play, receive salaries in proportion to the value of their services...