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Trade Games Proliferate
| Salience | Peripheral |
|---|---|
| Tags | Ball in the Culture, Business of BaseballBall in the Culture, Business of Baseball |
| Location | Greater New York CityGreater New York City |
| City/State/Country: | NYC, NY, United States |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
| Holiday | |
| Notables | |
| Text | Games between teams of employees from "commercial establishments" proliferated in 1860, to not everyone's enjoyment: "A SUGGESTION.-- We observe that matches at base ball are being put up by business establishments. The World and Times newspapers had a match...We presume we shall next have a contest between Spaulding's Prepared Glue and the Retired Physician, or a Standish's Pills nine vs. Townsend's Sarsparilla. Why not? A little gratuitous advertsiing may, perhaps, be got in this way. But, for goodness' sake, gentlemen, don't run the thing into the ground." |
| Sources | New York Sunday Mercury, Oct. 7, 1860 |
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| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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| Submitted by | Bob Tholkes |
| Submission Note | 3/19/2014 |
| Has Supplemental Text |
1860.76 Trade Games Proliferate"
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