http://www.metafilter.com/tags/1898 Posts tagged with '1898' at MetaFilter. Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:17:13 -0800 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:17:13 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/67096/1898%2Dbaseball%2Dcursing%2Dpolicy%2Damply%2Dillustrated <a href="http://s210975194.onlinehome.us/blog/?p=41">"In terms of language, it is also the most offensive official Major League baseball document that we have ever seen."</a> An auction house obtains a one page letter sent to baseball players in 1898, outlining the league's new anti-cursing policy. Includes lots of examples of the kind of language that is not allowed. Nervous auctioneers not sure how to exhibit it. Purely of historical interest, naturally. It says at the bottom of the document "may not be mailed - must be delivered by express". I wonder if it couldn't be mailed because of its obscene content? tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.67096 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:17:13 -0800 1890s 1898 baseball century cursing cussing fuck language league letter nineteenth obscene offensive policy swearing LobsterMitten