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Item # 705976
August 18, 1866
FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, New York, Aug. 18, 1866 Inside has a nice one column print of baseball player: "G. A. Flagg, Cambridge B.B. Club, Cambridge, Mass." with a related article headed: "Our Base Ball Illustrations".
The front page has a nice print captioned: "The Town of Heart's Content, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, the Terminus of the Atlantic Cable on the Western Continent". More prints on the Atlantic Cable inside as well.
Sixteen pages, nice condition.
AI notes: G. A. Flagg was a member of the Cambridge Base Ball Club in 1866, a period when organized baseball in Massachusetts was rapidly formalizing under the rules of the National Association of Base Ball Players. The Cambridge club—sometimes styled the Cambridge B.B. Club—was composed largely of young professionals and students and competed against other strong New England nines in an era before fully professional leagues. While Flagg does not appear among the nationally prominent stars of the 1860s, his recorded association with the club places him within the early amateur baseball movement, when civic pride, gentlemanly conduct, and athletic skill were emphasized as much as competition. Players like Flagg typically handled multiple positions, traveled for match games by rail, and helped sustain baseball’s transition from a recreational pastime to an organized sport with standardized rules, regular schedules, and growing public interest in the post–Civil War years.
Category: Post-Civil War
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