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A new baseball club in Brooklyn...
A new baseball club in Brooklyn...
Item # 695736
May 08, 1858
SPIRIT OF THE TIMES, New York, May 8, 1858 It is subtitled in the masthead: "A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage".
Page 6 has: "Base Ball" which includes in part: "The Vigilant Base Ball Club of Brooklyn was organized on the first of April by the election of the following officers...The Club has not yet selected the ground on which to play. At a meeting of the Lone Star Base Ball Club...the following gentlemen were elected officers...Play days, Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Grounds corner north 2nd street and Jersey Avenue, Jersey City."
Twelve pages, 12 3/4 by 18 inches, a sporting-themed engraving in the masthead, great condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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