WILKES' SPIRIT OF THE TIMES, New York, March 17, 1860  A rather famous sporting newspaper calling itself: "A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage".
Page 4 has a brief report headed: "Base Ball - The Base Ball Championship Game at New Orleans, La." between Empire and Southern, including the crude box score.
Sixteen pages, wear at the margins, some foxing.

AI notes: On Sunday, February 19, 1860, at the Delachaise grounds in Jefferson City just outside New Orleans, two of the city’s leading amateur clubs—the Empire Base Ball Club and the Southern Base Ball Club—met in what local papers billed as the championship match of base ball in New Orleans; the Empire nine defeated the Southerns 56‑37 before an enthusiastic crowd, and newspapers like The New Orleans Bee carried detailed accounts of the event on 20 Feb 1860, describing the challenge issued by Empire, the spirited play under the prevailing amateur “base ball” rules of the day, and the significance of the contest in the local sporting season when organized club matches were becoming a new social highlight in the city’s recreational life.