Word: bases
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...glorious one, a lively breeze being the only objectionable feature. The Nines were promptly on the field, each presenting its full strength, and all showing by their preliminary practice the results of careful work, and vigorous determination to win or die hard. But great are the uncertainties of base-ball! Yale entered the contest confident of victory; a confidence theoretically well founded, but practically disastrous to reputation and pocket. Harvard, on the other hand, had learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work. This feeling, with...
Tuesday's game with the Live Oaks was one of those occasional occurrences which result from a combination of superior playing on the part of your opponents, and the hard luck arising from inopportune base-hits, and errors made when they would be productive of most disastrous results. Leeds's beautiful, one-hand, jumping catch was the marked feature of the game. The score tells the rest...
...graduating class. The outside world will not be expected to make themselves visible until three in the afternoon. At that hour the favored fair will be seated on the soft boards which surround Holmes Field, and they will witness, in place of the exercises around the tree a base-ball match between the University Nines of Yale and Harvard. Then from five o'clock to ten we shall have the regular traditional exercises of Class Day. The amount of festivity which will prevail during these hours is unfortunately an uncertain quantity. If we win the match, the spectators...
...great hope of their success on the 22d. But they must make fewer errors in the field! In no important game recently have they made less than ten errors, and in some many more; a fact that does not harmonize with victory, or suggest convincing arguments for success. Our base-ball article elsewhere shows a very good record of prosperity, but it also shows a total of errors that is not at all encouraging. The last game, however, reveals a marked improvement, and we trust this will be the fielding model for future games...
...clock, P. M., the champion game of Base-Ball between the Yale and Harvard Nines will be played on Holmes Field...