How Brown Saw the Baseball Game

How Brown Saw the Baseball Game is an American short silent comedy film produced in 1907 and distributed by the Lubin Manufacturing Company.

Before heading out to a baseball game at a nearby ballpark, sports fan Mr. Brown drinks several highball cocktails.

When they arrive at Brown's house, they encounter his wife who becomes furious with the friend and proceeds to physically assault him, believing he is responsible for her husband's severe intoxication.

[7] How Brown Saw the Baseball Game was released to theaters by Lubin Manufacturing Company on November 16, 1907,[5] and was still being shown as late as January 1910.

Lubin had previously created films resembling Edison Studios' releases Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Great Train Robbery.

[3] Author Jack Spears wrote in his book Hollywood: The Golden Era that How Brown Saw the Baseball Game and How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game "used practically the same plot";[15] Rob Elderman's article "The Baseball Film: to 1920" in the journal Base Ball likewise notes the similarities of their plotlines.

Side portrait of Seigmund Lubin in a suit with his arms crossed
Siegmund Lubin in 1913. His company produced and distributed How Brown Saw the Baseball Game .