ABSTRACT
Eighteen seventy-six – the United States’ centennial and the year Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone – marked the inaugural season of the National League of Baseball Clubs. That year, on 24 June – a Saturday – Cincinnati’s baseball team lost to visiting Boston by a run, eight to seven. The National League prohibited contests on Sundays. So no games were being played on the day following Cincinnati’s loss, when far away in Montana Territory, Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and a few from a handful of other Plains tribes confronted Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and his 7th US Cavalry regiment.
