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Baseball and Lindsey Wilson College: A tradition of long-standing By Jim The recent CM articles and photos concerning the newly-opened Egnew Park brings to mind that baseball has long been a tradition at Lindsey Wilson College. The college, then known as "the Lindsey-Wilson Training School" or simply "the L.W.T.S.," opened in January 1904 and fielded a baseball team that spring. These excerpts from From Hope to Hilltop give a glimpse of the early years of the sport at LWC. In 1904, baseball ruled as the most popular sport in America, a fact reflected by the early formation of a baseball team at the L.W.T.S. The March 9, 1904 edition of the News announced that "A match game of baseball was played by the Lindsey-Wilson College boys against the M. & F. College team Saturday afternoon." (The M & F won.) Lindsey also had its own playing field early on. A few weeks later, the May 18 paper reported that "A match game of base ball will be played in this place next Thursday afternoon between Greensburg and Columbia.* The two teams will meet upon the Lindsey-Wilson grounds and [the] game will be spirited from start to finish..."[* The Columbia team was an independent, not associated either with The M. & F. School or with Lindsey Wilson. There was also a fourth team in town, the Columbia "colored" team, in the parlance of the day, as well as several community teams throughout the county.] There were many later references to games being played "on the Lindsey-Wilson grounds" and "at the Lindsey-Wilson Park." Over the years, there were frequent reports of the Lindsey nine "crossing bats" with a number of teams, including the M. & F. High School (or College, as it was called on occasion); Russell Springs Academy (also known as the Hatfield Academy); S.W. Buchanan Collegiate Institute (generally abbreviated B.C.I.), in Campbellsville; St. Mary's, of Lebanon; the Middleburg Normal College, Casey County; Cane Valley High School; the Ozark community team, Adair County; and the Kentucky School for the Deaf, Danville. The following articles from the April 24, 1907 and the April 1, 1908 papers are typical write-ups for the day: "Lindsay-Wilson WinsAnother short excerpt from From Hope to Hilltop relates what surely was the first sports-related injury on the Hill. The May, 25, 1904 edition reported that"Prof. R.R. Moss...was severely hurt last Thursday afternoon while watching the [base]ball game. A foul of much force off the bat of Mr. Ben Jeffries struck him on the right cheek bone and within a few minutes his face was terribly swollen..."And in closing, a mention is quite in order that the LWC baseball teams' winning ways stretch back fivescore and more years. One hundred years ago this very week, the April 20, 1910 Adair County News reported (perhaps a bit gleefully!) that the L.W.T.S. had thumped the Russell Springs Academy in the season-opening double-header the previous Saturday by scores of 5-3 and 3-0. The article stated that "a large crowd attended the game" and that "The main feature of the games for L.W.T.S. was the pitching of Young, the fielding of Gregory and the catching of Rosenfield. Young pitched 14 innings, holding them down to four hits, and giving only three bases on balls. Gregory bagged all but one that was anything close to shortstop. Rosenfield threw every man out but two or three who attempted to steal second.Indeed! (The material excerpted from From Hope to Hilltop is copyright and is used here with permission.) This story was posted on 2010-04-25 04:18:51
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