1860.75

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Chicester's Improved Base

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Equipment
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, USA
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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"BALL PLAY. KNICKERBOCKER CLUB.-- ...The Knickerbockers, we noticed, introduced on their grounds the new bases...An iron circle is fastened to one side of the base, and a screw with a nut head is inserted in the base-post, and the base is placed on it, and the head of the screw enters the iron circle on the base, similarly to a key into a lock. The base revolves on this centre, but never moves away from it, and is easily taken up at the close of the game by turning it round once...They are to be had at Mr. Chicester's, we believe, in Wall street." 

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New York Clipper, April 21, 1860

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