Harvard versus Yale in any competition has always been a heated rivalry, and the baseball game on June 21, 1894, between these Ivy League teams was no exception. Presented is a pass to the that baseball contest at Harvard's Holmes Field. At that time, college baseball was hugely popular and often drew large crowds. Yale had won the first college baseball National Championship just the year before. Yale won the June 21st, '94 game, 5-1. Starring for Yale was the team's Captain and shortstop, George B. Case, no relation to George Case, the base-stealing outfielder, mostly for the Washington Senators of the 1920s-30s. Yale's George B. Case homered for the Eli in the June 21st game. Just five days earlier, Case had been a part of baseball history when he drove in two runs on a squeeze bunt, the first recorded squeeze in the history of college or Major League baseball. The spectacular play was actually created when Case rubbed his elbow, a prearranged signal for the baserunners, who were on second and third, to break with the pitch, and Yale, trailing by one run in the bottom of the 9th inning, scored a amazing two runs on the play to win the game. 

The pass to the game, cloth or cloth-like, measures approx. 3.1x4.1". The pass is in Harvard Crimson, with gold-colored letters and numerals. Machine stamped on the pass: "HARVARD VS YALE/PASS BEARER TO ANY PART OF FIELD JUNE 21, 1894." The pass appears to have been a somewhat rough cut from something larger. The pass has a horizontal fold across the middle, and there are a number of small stains, mostly above or below the lettering and numerals. The offering comes with a photocopy of a box score of the aforementioned game. The game pass makes a fine remembrance of the vintage early days of college baseball.