From my new book, Mark Twain and Male Friendship (just out!) As Hartford neighbours, and clearly close friends, the two men did many things together. They attended 'a grand baseball match between the "Hartfords" and the "Bostons"' on 18 May 1875. Clemens lost his umbrella at the game, and made it the excuse for a little self-publicising humour. Thus Twichell pasted in his journal a newspaper clipping, presumably from the Hartford Courant: 'TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLARS REWARD - At the great base ball match on Tuesday, while I was engaged in hurrahing, a small boy walked off with an English-made brown silk UMBRELLA belonging to me, and forgot to bring it back. I will pay $5 for the return of that umbrella in good condition to my house on Farmington avenue. I do not want the boy (in an active state) but will pay two hundred dollars for his remains - SAMUEL L. CLEMENS.'