AMERICAN BASEBALLERS.
A TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] San Francisco, September 18. An American team of baseball players' is to visit Australasia during what are the winter months hero-November, December and .January. Baseball is the unrivalled national game .in the United States It is to the American what cricket and football combined are to tho Australian and « ealandcr : The S reat difference is that the game is on a pUrely Passional basis. There are amateur clubs and leagues., but the players in them wiiSd. raters and their games command no public interest. Baseball is understood to P ave made considerable advances in public esteem m Australia in recent years and a successful tour is promised the Ameri can players by those who are makinTthe arrangements. , The team will comprise mainly professional players of the Padfic Coast League. Fifteen will make the trip including two extra pitchers and an extra catcher to bo lent to the \ \ ~ players In these" departments of -o = the antipodean are supposed tot
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15124, 15 October 1912, Page 8
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