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Brown Sets Home Run Record

Rupert Brown, a twenty three year old right fielder for the Gainsborough Trinity Holy Blues of the Second Division, did something no other League player had ever done, which was to clout three home runs in a single game against the Blades of Sheffield United on the 29th of July. The home runs were his only three hits of his day, but he sure did make them count!

The left handed batter went to work straight away by clubbing a three run job in the top of the first innings, to give Trinity the early three-nil lead. Coming up again in the top of the third with two more runners on, Mr. Brown socked another home run to put his club up seven-one. Then his next time up at the bat, in the fifth, he walloped yet another home run, although this time with no one on base. That made the score eight-one, with young Mr. Brown accountable for seven of Trinity’s tallies.

Afterwards, even with the game safely salted away for the Holy Blues and starting United pitcher Frederick O'Neill freshly removed, replacement hurler Frederick Reading thought the better of challenging Mr. Brown any further. In the seventh, although the Home Run Hitter took a mighty hack at a bid for his fourth homer, he instead took a base on balls and made Mr. Reading pay by scoring his fourth run of the day later in the frame. In the ninth, Mr. Brown finished his amazing day with another base on balls but, alas, not a fifth run. Trinity waltzed to an eleven-two romp of the Blades, but none of the scant fifteen hundred or so United supporters in attendance will remember their side’s losing score before the mighty feats of rival Rupert Brown come to mind.