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Hoboken, NJ - Already a Mecca for Ballplayers

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Tags Pre-Knicks NYC
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"Young men that go to Hoboken to play ball must not drink too much brandy punch. It is apt to get into their heads. Now it is a law in physics that brandy in a vacuum gets impudent and big."

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New York Herald (April 26, 1837), page? Posted to 19CBB by John Thorn, 10/27/2008.

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