Day 24
of baseball in Milwaukee. The first game here was played on 30 November 1859. Sure, it was odd that they played in what amounts to winter weather in most of the country. Sure, the score was more football and basketball than baseball at 85-40 (wow – how’d that happen?!). Sure, they kept playing on into December (including a snow-shortened game on the 17th). Sure, there was probably little resemblance to the game we know and love today. Still, those “boys of winter” (as the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel calls them) paved the way for the “boys of summer” here in Wisconsin.
So, hooray for baseball pioneers, and . . . play ball!
Made for Eternity 