1857.38
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More National Pastime Recognition
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Ball in the CultureBall in the Culture |
| Location | USUS |
| City/State/Country: | United States |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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| Notables | United States Government |
| Text | A base ball game is depicted on the 1857 Indian Peace Medal issued by the Buchanan Administration in 1857. The Indian Peace Medal was "presented by a government agent to the chief of a tribe that the government considered to be friendly, or that it desired to become so...the frontier game of baseball, in all its variety, was already perceived as the national game..." |
| Sources | Thorn, John, Baseball in the Garden of Eden (2011), p. 114. See also https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/our-baseball-presidents-ec1617be6413 (accessed Feb 2018).
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1857.38 More National Pastime Recognition"
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