Word: players
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Richardson, the catcher of the Beacons, has been offered a large salary to play with the New York league nine the coming season. Ayer, another Beacon player, has been offered a position on a professional nine. We believe that both gentlemen have refused the offers...
...That no professional athlete, oarsman, or hall-player shall be employed, either for instruction or practice, in preparation for any intercollegiate contest...
...Resolved, That no professional athletic, oarsman or ball-player shall be employed either for instruction or for practice in preparation for any intercollegiate contest...
...person having a good pair of legs and in a climate where warmed punch is found insufficient to keep up the animal heat. Does the reader know how to play a game at cricket-match? Two posts are placed at a great distance from one another. The player, close to one of the posts, throws a large ball towards the other party, who awaits the ball to send it far with a small stick with which he is armed. The other players then run to look after the ball, and while this search is going on the party who struck...
...pitcher can accomplish the same results as that given by a professional, since the pitching is not so swift nor so sure, two requisites seldom found in an amateur pitcher. The delivery of the ball may be supplemented with a number of dodges only known to the regular ball player but an amateur generally settles down to one method, particularly his own of pitching the ball, which will soon be learned by the rest of the team and consequently no good will come of the practice. I once heard an old ball player say "take an ordinary fielding nine...