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Rare & early report of an African-American baseball game...
Rare & early report of an African-American baseball game...
Item # 693120
October 24, 1884
ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Oct. 24, 1884 Page 8 has a rather detailed report headed: "Why Two Colored Nines Failed to Finish" which is a report on this baseball game between the Newark Base Ball Club, and the Alpine Base Ball Club.
The report begins: "The high fence and sloping banks of Washington Park, Brooklyn, enclosed eighteen very happy colored men yesterday..." with much more on the game.
We very rarely find 19th century reports of African-American baseball teams.
Twelve pages, drinking and irregularity to the bottom of the front leaf only, a bit irregular at the blank spine, good condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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