Shakespeare References in A History Of Early Baseball

Warren Goldstein's A History Of Early Baseball: Playing For Keeps: 1857-1876 contains a couple of Shakespeare references. The first is a reference to Julius Caesar, with Goldstein writing, "Efforts of two Philadelphia clubs to erase the 'ill-feeling...too strongly expressed in the eighth innings' by cheering each other at the end of the game were 'sincere,' remarked the reporter, 'if the remarks of Mark Antony upon the assassination of Julius Caesar were an eulogy upon the conspirators'" (p. 41). The second reference is the Henry The Fifth. Goldstein writes: "One evening during spring training in 1872, for example, he finished a letter with a reference to his newest player, Andrew Leonard: 'Andy is now in the parlor singing to an accompaniment on the piano. He is quite an addition to our band (of brothers)'" (p. 141). That is a reference to Henry V's line, "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."

A History Of Early Baseball: Playing For Keeps: 1857-1876 was originally published as Playing For Keeps: A History Of Early Baseball in 1989. The copy I read was the hardcover edition published by Barnes & Noble Books in 2000.