Playing baseball on Sunday was a divisive issue in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On one side of the
argument were the owners, who wanted to take in more money, and
working people, who labored six days a week and wanted to take in a
baseball game on the seventh. On the other side were people who
thought that the commandment to keep Sunday sacred ought to be
obeyed. The story of how Sunday baseball went from being an illegal
activity in most areas of the country in 1876 to a legal form of
entertainment in all major league cities by 1934 is told in this
work. It describes the numerous schemes used to play baseball on
Sunday, like playing games in strange places, under odd
circumstances and at the inconvenience of players and managers,
many of whom were arrested and jailed for attempting to play
baseball on Sunday. It covers the foothold Sunday baseball gained
in cities like St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago in the 1880s and
1890s, its slow spread eastward as the general attitude of the
populace toward Sunday baseball gradually changed, and its
widespread acceptance after New York passed a law in 1919 making it
legal. It was not until 1934, however, that Sunday baseball was
played in all major league cities.
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