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Chicago White Stockings: National League champs...
Chicago White Stockings: National League champs...
Item # 704610
October 14, 1882
LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED, New York, Oct. 14, 1882
* Chicago White Sox baseball
* Cap Anson & King Kelly
Inside has a very nice half page illustration captioned: "The Chicago Baseball Team, Winners Of The National League Championship." This is a team portrait of eleven players in uniform, including M. J. Kelly and A. C. Anson. The bottom half of that leaf has a print of a comet over New York City, Another page is taken up with 6 images of "Italian Laborers as Railroad Builders--Scenes on the Line of the West Shore Road in the Vicinity of Newburgh".
Sixteen pages, very nice condition. Baseball prints from Leslie's are particularly difficult to find.
AI notes: In the 1882 National League baseball season, the Chicago White Stockings (now the Chicago Cubs) won the championship with a 55–29 record under player-manager Cap Anson. The league featured six teams, and the title was awarded to the team with the best regular season record, as there were no playoffs. Key players included Cap Anson, pitcher Larry Corcoran, and the charismatic King Kelly. That same year also marked the debut of the rival American Association, with the Cincinnati Red Stockings winning its inaugural championship.
Category: Post-Civil War
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