The Brown Collection of Photographs

Photograph 61 of 94

1887

Baseball game in progress in the old ball park on Wheeling Island. Lima, Ohio 7, Wheeling 1, at the end of the seventh inning, in the days when the umpire wore a derby.

Note: The above is the legend attached to the photo. If the date on the photo is correct, then the game was between Wheeling and Kalamazoo.Here is the report on that game.