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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1857
|Year Number=2
|Headline=National Association of Base Ball Players Forms
|Headline=National Association of Base Ball Players Forms
|Year=1857
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>William H. van Cott is elected NABBP President. </p>
|Country=USA
<p>"Our National Sports," <i>Porter's Spirit of the Times</i>, January 31, 1857. Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, <u>Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908</u> [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 22-24.</p>
|State=NY
<p>Peter Morris notes that the NABBP commissioned five men "to confer with the Central Park Commissioners in relation to a grant of public lands for base ball purposes. Morris, Peter, <u>Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball</u> (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), page 18.</p>
|City=NYC
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>William H. van Cott is elected NABBP President.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p>"Our National Sports,"&nbsp;<em>Porter's Spirit of the Times</em>, January 31, 1857. Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor,&nbsp;<span>Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908</span>&nbsp;[University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 22-24.</p>
|Comment=<p>Peter Morris notes that the NABBP commissioned five men "to confer with the Central Park Commissioners in relation to a grant of public lands for base ball purposes. Morris, Peter,&nbsp;<span>Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball</span>&nbsp;(University of Nebraska Press, 2007), page 18.</p>
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|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=2
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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William H. van Cott is elected NABBP President.

 

 

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"Our National Sports," Porter's Spirit of the Times, January 31, 1857. Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 22-24.

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Peter Morris notes that the NABBP commissioned five men "to confer with the Central Park Commissioners in relation to a grant of public lands for base ball purposes. Morris, Peter, Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), page 18.

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