Reporting on sports before the Civil War...
PORTER'S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES, New York, May 16, 1857 A rather famous sporting newspaper, with a sporting-themed masthead, calling itself: "A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage".
Under: "Out-Door Sports" are various reports including: "Base Ball" with two news items. Other sports reports as well.
Sixteen pages, very nice condition.
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