Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Those who engage coaches for the Thanksgiving game should remember that no coach will be allowed to drive through the Park without a permit. [News...
Keefe of the Metropolitans is to coach the Williams nine...
Corcoran of Chicago has been engaged as a coach by the Dartmouth base-ball nine...
...coach costs from thirty to forty-five dollars, and the money is generally required half at the time the coach is engaged and the balance before the coach starts, on the day of the game. The best way to find out about a coach is to go to the carriage starter at the Metropolitan Hotel (he can be found about the entrance) or to the New York Transfer Co's stables, or to the carriage starter at the Park Ave. Hotel. A coach will hold from eighteen to twenty comfortably. One should start about an hour and a half before...
...measures are to be taken in regard to a professional coach for the nine, it is high time that they should be brought forward. The nine has passed through one season unaided by any outside skill, and the result speaks for itself. There is no use in continually harping on the fact that the great nine of '77 won the championship, and yet had no professional coach. Base-ball was one thing then, but today matters must be viewed in a different light. Skilled players were then comparatively few, and moreover the scientific game of today was just being introduced...