133 Years Old - "Bass Ball" Records!

 

We were lucky to have some great weather here in Indiana yesterday -- so was able to spend a relaxing afternoon walking around our small downtown. After our annual visit to Santa on Main Street, a tradition we've been doing now for over a decade, we visited the antique store in town. For $7 we picked up this cool book that is 133 years old! 

Sure we could have just looked this book up on-line and read the facts but there is something about physically holding and looking through a book that is that old that's just amazing. How many places it's likely to have been and how many different people have read through the pages.

Of course, there is a sporting section with some cool facts that I'll update on later. The first sports page is dedicated to "Bass-Ball" so thought I'd scan that in. Some neat facts:

• Poor Pittsburgh, doormats of the N'L over a century ago as well. 
• Chicago is the western-most team in the National League, while St. Louis looks to have that distinction in the American Assoc.
• Looks like Baseball Reference has a slightly different standings, but really awesome to see the team names there -- Cleveland should have selected Spiders instead of Guardians during the name change debacle.
• The Louisville Colonels and Brooklyn Bridegrooms tied in the "World Series", 3-3-1! Imagine no winner, so we'll just end the series in a Tie!
• I was intrigued with the "Player's League" and found a good article on what exactly that was (April 19, 1890: Debut of the Players League – Society for American Baseball Research (sabr.org))
• According to records, Cannonball Titcomb threw a no-hitter on 09/15/1890 in a 7-0 win by Rochester over Syracuse. What a name!