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Earliest Games in Chicago IL?

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Text	(1) Downer's Grove downs Union, 7/7/1858. "A match game was played yesterday afternoon between the Union Base Ball Club, of this city, and the Downer's grove Base Ball Club. . . . A spacious tent was erected on the Club's grounds, corner of West Harrison and Halstead Streets. The Downer's Grove Club came of (sic) victorious, the 'country boys' being excellent players." "Base Ball Match," Chicago Daily Press and Tribune, vol. 12 number 6 (Thursday, July 8, 1858), page 1 column 4. Posted to 19CBB on 9/11/2007 by Craig Waff. (2) Excelsior downs Union, 8/29/1858. The score was Excelsior 17, Union 11. Chicago Daily Times and Tribune, September 1, 1858, page 1 column 4. Posted to 19CBB on 9/11/2007 by Craig Waff. Growth in Chicago was slow. Although its population was nearing 110,000 in 1860, it still had only four base ball clubs. Steven Freedman, "The Baseball Fad in Chicago, 1865-1870," Journal of Sport History, Volume 5 number 2 (Summer 1978), page 42.
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