US Patent No. 475432 Base Ball Apparatus by W.C. Blades (1892) San_Francisco_city Lough's 1884 schematic shows a

Lough's 1884 schematic shows a head protector from the bare-knuckle era

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US Patent No. 475432 Base Ball Apparatus by W.C. Blades (1892) San_Francisco_city Lough's 1884 schematic shows aUs 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