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Interesting article on this history of baseball in America...
Interesting article on this history of baseball in America...
Item # 675282
October 24, 1857
PORTER'S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES, New York, Oct. 24, 1857 A rather famous sporting newspaper, with a sporting-themed masthead, calling itself: "A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage".
Page 5 has a full column under the heading: "Base Ball - Base Ball Correspondence" which has an interesting history of the sport in America. One bit mentions: "...Base ball...has, no doubt, been played in this country for at least one century...".
Also has the summaries and box scores of two baseball matches. Details about the "National Base Ball Club" of Brooklyn. Early for baseball.
Sixteen pages, 11 by 16 inches, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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