This box score from an 1868 game is, for its time, the crispest and most lovingly detailed I’ve ever seen.
Unfortunately, yesterday’s original post only went out to a few … it got caught in a wordpress hiccup. (Even Editor/Husband was shut out.) But, I didn’t want it to disappear … so here it is again. Check out the box score and stick around for more trivia about Fox Lake, Wisconsin than you could ever imagine. ~ The Baseball Bloggess
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I don’t know much about Fox Lake, Wisconsin. I’d never even heard of it before now.
I bet it’s nice.
1914’ish
Fox Lake, a town of about 1,500 that’s 70-odd miles northwest’ish of Milwaukee, does include an actual lake and Wisconsonites (Wisconsonians?) consider it one of the best in the state for fishing, especially if you like walleye, which is a decidedly Midwestern thing. The lake is also amply populated by northern pike and crappie, along with muskie, bluegill, and bass, but really it’s the walleye that brings the fishermen back to Fox Lake.
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I was delighted to discover that Fox Lake is the hometown of Bunny Berigan, the great jazz trumpeter. I had a friend who was head-over-heels for Bunny Berigan and how she picked him out of all the jazz trumpeters in the world escapes me. What, Miles Davis…
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The Baseball Bloggess 
111 runs in two and a half hours!!??
No dawdling … no commercial breaks … no stepping in and out and back in and back out of the batter’s box … no messing about! :)
Yeah, but 111 runs? Those teams must have had zero defense.
That’s probably right … plus, baseball gloves wouldn’t be invented for another decade. I’m sure we would recognize the game as baseball, but it would probably be crazy-different in a lot of ways.
2-1/2 hours for 111 runs?? I can’t even compute that as humanly possible. Wow. What a feat for us Wisconsinites. Yep, Wisconsinites.
I can’t sell you on Wisconsonians? Wisconsonaires? Wiscons’aroos?
And, Fox Lake? Is it *really* a place?