There was no umpire at the Memorial Park in Blue Island on July 19. The 1858 rules baseball game between the Flossmoor Whistlestoppers and Blue Island Brewmasters didn’t need one.
The teams were playing what they call a “gentleman’s game.” Honesty is a given, whether it’s who reached a base first, whether a ball was fair or foul or anything else. The gentlemen playing that day ranged in age from 15 to the 69-year-old Donald Rowe,…
