Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — BASE-BALL. [ARTICLE]

BASE-BALL.

The Champion Teams of the National League and the American Association. The Two Now Engaged in a Contest for the World’s Championship. The base-hall season of 1887 has been the most successful one, from every point of view, .in the history of the national game. The batting has been heavier, the pitching more scientific, and tho base-running finer than was ever before exhibited, while the attendance has been a third larger than in any previous season. There is not a ciub in the League or in the American Association

that has not made some money, while the majority of them have cleared thousands of dollars. The Detroit Club, by superior play in the belcl andLat-ihe bat, have won the League peupant. \ The St Louis Browns having distanced all Competitors and won the champion play'=<si the American Association, these two giant teams of the green diamond are now engaged in an earnest struggle to settle the question of supremacy and determine which of the two is entitled to the proud distinction of “world champions.” On account of the interest which centers in these two combinations of unrivaled base-ball talent, we present herewith portTaitaj of the player'