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Baseball game won by 2 1/2 to 2…

Posted By TimHughes On In Post Civil War,The Collectible Community,The Hobby,Unusual, Fun & Bizarre | 2 Comments

The “Bethlehem Globe-Times [1]“, Pennsylvania, newspaper of August 4, 1937 [1] has a curious some article about a baseball game in 1893, as told by an elderly gentlemen who was involved in the game some 44 years previous. It provides some interesting reading, although I’m not convinced it actually happened. What do you think? [2]

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#1 Comment By Eric Fettmann On 09/20/2013 @ 6:03 pm

Can’t find anything in contemporary papers, but there’s a biography of Wild Bill Setley (he was a really wild character, apparently, and not just in baseball), so maybe the authors, one of whom is a SABR member, looked into the story.

#2 Comment By Tony Kissel On 12/26/2018 @ 5:57 pm

I searched through many newspapers looking for this game. I never found it, but Wild Bill may have been telling the truth.