Thursday, April 1, 2010

Baseball on Sunday

In March of 1909, Indiana passed a law "permitting the playing of baseball on Sunday."

I don't know when it had been made illegal. An article I found on-line says a state law passed in 1905 "made it a misdemeanor to play Sunday baseball 'where any [admission] fee is charged.'"

Source:
♦ "A Few New Laws." Hobart Gazette 12 Mar. 1909.
♦ Wilkes, Donald E., Jr. "Habeus Corpus and Baseball." Condensed from Res Ipsa (Spring Finals Edition 2006) 2009. University of Georgia School of Law. http://www.law.uga.edu/academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/50baseball.html (1 Apr. 2010).

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