The Essence of Baseball Explained for Non-Sportsmen

The Forward

1909

Illustration of a baseball diamond in a short primer on the game of baseball published in the summer of 1909 in the Yiddish-daily Forverts (Forward). Some of the words in the picture are transliterations into Yiddish, e.g., “center field” and “pitcher.”

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“Di ikr fun di baseball nayes,” Vorwärts (Forward) 13, no. 4118 (1909): p. 4. From the collection of The National Library of Israel, courtesy of The National Library of Israel.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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