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Base Ball Hits the Sports Pages? Sunday Mercury, Spirit of the Times Among First to Cover Game Regularly

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	Newspaper CoverageNewspaper Coverage
Location	Greater New York CityGreater New York City
City/State/Country:	NYC, NY, United States
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Game	Base BallBase Ball
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Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	[A] "The Sunday Mercury reportedly began coverage on May 1,of 1853]" [B] "On July 9, 1853, The Spirit of the Times mentioned baseball for the first time, printing a letter reporting a game between the Gotham and Knickerbocker Clubs." [C] Spirit of the Times began to cover cricket in 1837 . . . . Not until July 9, 1853, however, did it give notice to a baseball match . . . the same one noted in the fledgling [New York] Clipper one week later."
Sources	[A] Email from Bob Tholkes, 2/12/2010 and 2/18/2012. [B]William Ryczek, Baseball's First Inning (McFarland, 2009), page 163. [C] John Thorn, Baseball in the Garden of Eden (Simon and Shuster, 2011), page 104.
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Submitted by	Bob Tholkes
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