Word: cages
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...batteries have already begun light work in the cage, and immediately after the Junior Promenade all candidates will go into training. There has been some talk of having a second nine, but the idea has been given up. However the men will be put into two divisions, one practising in the morning; the other in the afternoon. The number of candidates will be reduced as rapidly as possible so that the men who are ultimately to compose the team may do better work...
...players are taught the utmost quickness both in stopping the ball and in recovery, then accurately and swiftly to return it underhanded and overhanded. Much attention is given to base-sliding, head foremost as well as feet foremost, and to sliding around and in front of the base. A cage, consisting of cord netting suspended from the ceiling and enclosing a space 70 by 30 feet, will be put in position in a week or two for battery work...
...candidates for the 'Varsity ball team will begin work in the cage today...
...candidates for the freshman nine are hard at work in the cage. Every day at two o'clock the pitchers begin their work under Keefe's coaching, each working for fifteen or twenty minutes. As there are fewer catchers than pitchers some of the catchers have to handle the shoots and curves of two pitchers in succession. The battery-work is decidedly above the average of freshman classes, and Keefe says that he hopes to have some very good pitchers before the nine gets to its out-of-door work...
...candidates for the Yale nine will go into active training about the first of February. The work will be confined to gymnasium exercises until the first of March and then work in the cage will begin. John G. Clarkson who coached the Harvard '91 nine has been engaged to coach the pitchers. There is great satisfaction at Yale over Captain Bliss action in engaging Clarkson...