Blood and Base Ball, Part 3 Blood and Base Ball, Part 3 This
important article first appeared in the journal Base Ball,
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2009. It is reprinted with the kind
permission of the publisher, McFarland & Co. Randall Brown
majored in American Studies at Wesleyan and is still addicted to
history. His discovery of an obscure 1887 interview with William
Wheaton, the first umpire, led to an article, “How Baseball
Began,” in the 2004 issue of The National Pastime. Brown’s
articles on local history have appeared in The Staten Island
Historian and the Santa Cruz History Journal, and he recently
completed the documentary How Base Ball Was Born, featuring the
story of Wheaton and the New York Base Ball Club. Part 2 of this
article ran yesterday and may be linked directly at: When the
Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, the
effort was redoubled. Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts,
a longtime Abolitionist, won permission to raise a regiment in
his state. As there were relat