Word: stagg
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale played the Philadelphia Athletics last Saturday and was badly beaten, by the score of 25 to 4. Stagg's pitching was hit very freely...
...Stagg and Dann will be the Yale battery against the Athletics next Saturday. Mattison and Gunning will be the Athletic battery...
...fair trim for the Easter trip. It was supposed a week ago that the condition of the ground in Philadelphia would render it impossible to keep the engagements in that section; the snow has, however, disappeared and the ground will be dry by the April recess. Capt. Stagg has found it more difficult this year to arrange professional games than ever before; however, the usual number has been obtained...
...customary work in the cage, consisting of batting, sliding to bases and hand-ball, has been kept up with regularity since Christmas. The men are unusually proficient in sliding, the patent apparatus of Captain Stagg being of especial benefit. Yale men place the greatest hope in their battery, for which they have several men in training in addition to Stagg and Dann. Yesterday the nine left New Haven and went to Pottstown, Penn., where the season will be opened to-day with the Hills School nine. Captain Stagg has taken as many new men as possible on the trip...
...Stagg recently decided to take a four years' course in the Yale divinity school, consequently he will continue to pitch for victorious Yale nines for four years to come. Dann has decided to take a postgraduate course, and will therefore be on hand to take his old position behind the bat. This will be anything but pleasant information to the men of Harvard and Princeton.- Herald...