Re: Baseball
One thing to keep in mind for batting is that batters did not hold their bats with their hands together like in modern baseball- most batters had a couple inches seperating their hands on the bat. With the "dead" balls there also wasn't much power hitting.
Some of the early rule sets prior/during the Civil War also made use of a one bounce out rule in addition to the traditional fly-out.
There's a number of rules differences between 1850s and 1870s baseball.
Jim Wolf
One thing to keep in mind for batting is that batters did not hold their bats with their hands together like in modern baseball- most batters had a couple inches seperating their hands on the bat. With the "dead" balls there also wasn't much power hitting.
Some of the early rule sets prior/during the Civil War also made use of a one bounce out rule in addition to the traditional fly-out.
There's a number of rules differences between 1850s and 1870s baseball.
Jim Wolf
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