The mid-season All-Star Game break provides baseball fans an opportunity to assess their team’s progress thus far, taking stock of strengths and areas for improvement, successes and failings. But, I’m going to take a much further distant historical look at baseball spectators and fans enjoying the game. Going back some 150 years to October 1865, the engraved illustration below from Harper’s Weekly depicts an absence of seating, no grandstand for the assembled, standing beyond the outfield’s periphery, watching the “match”:
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