gutogonz
06-01-2006, 06:55 AM
Hello everybody:
Im a Mexican baseball researcher working in a project about the first baseball game in our national territory.
The oldest version talks about the American steamer Montana arriving to the port of Guaymas in 1877. American people from this ship asked permission to land, clean a nearby ground and start a baseball game.
One of the most interesting things in this version is that what caused more suprise and amazement in the Mexican spectators was when the catcher wore the mask and adopted his usual posture. The Mexicans reacted with a big laugh.
I have been reading about the history of the catcher's mask and found that it was invented in 1877 and obtained its patent next year. It was popularized fast.
But it was all that fast to appear in Mexico the same year of its invention?
This Montana steamer used to sail down from San Francisco to the Pacific Ocean and Baja California, arrive to Mazatlan, Guaymas and San Blas and continue up the Cortez Sea (Gulf of California) arrive to the delta of Colorado River where the passengers landed and were transferred to some kind of ferryboat where they continued their trip until arriving to Fort Yuma, Arizona. And then, the Montana made the same trip back to San Francisco.
So, apparently, this baseball players came from San Francisco. The catcher's mask had a long and fast trip to make from its invention in the East Coast in 1877 to arrive to the West Coast and, then, taken into Mexico.
Is this possible? Is there any detail that avails the use of the catcher's mask in California in 1877?
I really hope you could help me with this subject.
Thanks so much,
César González
Monterrey, México
Im a Mexican baseball researcher working in a project about the first baseball game in our national territory.
The oldest version talks about the American steamer Montana arriving to the port of Guaymas in 1877. American people from this ship asked permission to land, clean a nearby ground and start a baseball game.
One of the most interesting things in this version is that what caused more suprise and amazement in the Mexican spectators was when the catcher wore the mask and adopted his usual posture. The Mexicans reacted with a big laugh.
I have been reading about the history of the catcher's mask and found that it was invented in 1877 and obtained its patent next year. It was popularized fast.
But it was all that fast to appear in Mexico the same year of its invention?
This Montana steamer used to sail down from San Francisco to the Pacific Ocean and Baja California, arrive to Mazatlan, Guaymas and San Blas and continue up the Cortez Sea (Gulf of California) arrive to the delta of Colorado River where the passengers landed and were transferred to some kind of ferryboat where they continued their trip until arriving to Fort Yuma, Arizona. And then, the Montana made the same trip back to San Francisco.
So, apparently, this baseball players came from San Francisco. The catcher's mask had a long and fast trip to make from its invention in the East Coast in 1877 to arrive to the West Coast and, then, taken into Mexico.
Is this possible? Is there any detail that avails the use of the catcher's mask in California in 1877?
I really hope you could help me with this subject.
Thanks so much,
César González
Monterrey, México