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|Year=1850 | |Year=1850 | ||
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|Year Number=19 | |||
|Headline=Occupational, Company Teams Appear | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Text=<p>"Starting in the 1850s and increasing slowly through the 1880s, sporting papers carried stories and scores of teams composed of men from the same occupation or men who worked in the same firm. | |Age of Players=Adult | ||
<p>Gelber, Steven M., "'Their Hands Are All Out Playing:' Business and Amateur Baseball, 1845-1917," < | |Text=<p>"Starting in the 1850s and increasing slowly through the 1880s, sporting papers carried stories and scores of teams composed of men from the same occupation or men who worked in the same firm. Beginning with the Albany State House clerks playing the City Bank clerks in 1857, the <em>Clipper</em> listed dozens of similar teams over the next twenty-five years."</p> | ||
<p>Gelber | <p> </p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Gelber, Steven M., "'Their Hands Are All Out Playing:' Business and Amateur Baseball, 1845-1917," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal of Sport History</span>, Vol. 11, number 1 (Spring 1984), page 22. Gelber cites <em>The Clipper</em>, June 6, 1857, page 54, presumably for the Albany story. </p> | |||
<p>On page 14 Gelber notes the rise of blue collar teams, the most famous being the Eckfords in Brooklyn, which comprised shipwrights and mechanics.</p> | |||
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| Text | "Starting in the 1850s and increasing slowly through the 1880s, sporting papers carried stories and scores of teams composed of men from the same occupation or men who worked in the same firm. Beginning with the Albany State House clerks playing the City Bank clerks in 1857, the Clipper listed dozens of similar teams over the next twenty-five years."
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| Sources | Gelber, Steven M., "'Their Hands Are All Out Playing:' Business and Amateur Baseball, 1845-1917," Journal of Sport History, Vol. 11, number 1 (Spring 1984), page 22. Gelber cites The Clipper, June 6, 1857, page 54, presumably for the Albany story. On page 14 Gelber notes the rise of blue collar teams, the most famous being the Eckfords in Brooklyn, which comprised shipwrights and mechanics. |
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