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Baseball's very first pennant race won by Philadelphia... Mormons... Ku Klux Klan...
Baseball's very first pennant race won by Philadelphia... Mormons... Ku Klux Klan...
Item # 707061
October 31, 1871
NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 31, 1871 Page 5 has a small yet historically significant report of the very first pennant race in professional baseball, some five years before the formal organization of the first professional league.
Headed: "Base-Ball--The Whip-Pennant Won by the Athletic Club of Philadelphia" with a brief report.
The front page has: "Great Stampede of the Ku-klux Conspirators" "The Rank & File Arrayed Against Their Leaders" "Mayor Wells, of Salt Lake, Admitted to Bail in $50000" "The Mormons".
Eight pages, nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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