This day in baseball: Opening Day snowball fights
Posted: April 11, 2017 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, Bill Klem, history, Major League Baseball, MLB, New York Giants, Opening Day, Philadelphia Phillies, sports 2 CommentsOn April 11th of the 1907 season, the Giants had their home opener against the Phillies. The game took place following a major snowstorm, and the New York grounds crew had been forced to shovel large amounts of snow to the outer edges of the field. When the Giants fell behind in the game, restless fans started hurling snowballs at one another. In spite of numerous warnings from Bill Klem, the home plate umpire, the snowball fights continued. A frustrated Klem finally called the game in the top of the ninth, and the Giants were forced to forfeit the game to the Phillies.
Bill Klem (frontierfield.org)
I’m going to guess there are no comments from John McGraw about the event. I can’t imagine any of them were printable.
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No comments that I saw, though yes, probably for that exact reason!