US Patent No. 42327 Base Ball Score Keeper by F Collyer March 11 1864 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap drawn with the trembling reverence

drawn with the trembling reverence of a man watching the sun exhale

23896 Cross Bow by C Sanftleben H Russel Patented August 1 1859 — Sanftleben and Russel's inventor's diagram catches the crossbow at a curious American moment

here flanked by Frances and the children whose births and christenings the nation followed with unseemly appetite

Baker at the Battle of Ball's Bluff Near Leesburg

when a feud between Edwin Forrest's partisans and the English tragedian Macready spilled into the street and the militia answered with musketry

US Patent No. 42327 Base Ball Score Keeper by F Collyer March 11 1864 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap drawn with the trembling reverenceUs Patent No. 42327 Base Ball Score Keeper by F Collyer March 11 1890 Collyer's handheld tally device, with its tidy rotating dials for innings, outs, balls, and strikes, belongs to the era when scorekeeping was a pocket ritual and baseball was still finding its rulebook, the schematic charting every click and notch with the patience of a man who clearly spent afternoons in the bleachers. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from