A Puritan Sunday Baseball and Blue Laws In Walla Walla, Washington

A new wave of immigrants brought with them the Continental Sunday when they arrived at Ellis Island. According to McCrossen, “Sundays were especially busy in [immigrant communities], for it was then that entire families went to drink beer, visit with friends, listen to music, and dance, just as German and others did in Europe. Walla Walla baseball owes him eternal gratitude for his service on the field and in the courtroom.70 Sunday baseball occasionally collided with blue laws-state or local laws that required businesses to close on Sundays-in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Because of such blue laws, for example, Major League Baseball did not adopt a full schedule of Sunday games until 1934.