US Patent No. 475432 Base Ball Apparatus by W.C. Blades (1892) spokane_city_map Battle of Shiloh 1888 —

Battle of Shiloh 1888 — a commemorative rendering issued a generation after the Tennessee bloodletting

issued seven years after his death

April 15th 1865 — The Nation's Martyr

convinced our pale companion was a world that had already finished dying

the firmament's most theatrical body caught mid-performance

US Patent No. 475432 Base Ball Apparatus by W.C. Blades (1892) spokane_city_map Battle of Shiloh 1888 —Us Patent No. 475432 Base Ball Apparatus by Wc Blades (1892) filed when the National League still played without gloves on every hand and pitchers worked from a flat box fifty feet away, Blades' engineering filing diagrams a training contraption of tethers and pulleys the schematic of a game still teaching itself how to be coached. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for