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Atlantic Club Becomes Base Ball Champ?
| Salience | Prominent |
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| Location | Greater New York CityGreater New York City |
| City/State/Country: | Brooklyn, NY, United States |
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| Text | "The Atlantic Club defeats the Eckford Club, both of Brooklyn [NY], to take the best-of-3-games match and claim the championship for 1857. The baseball custom now is that the championship can only be won by a team beating the current titleholder 2 out of 3 games." A date of October 22, 1857 is given for this accomplishment.
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| Sources | Charlton, James, ed., The Baseball Chronology (Macmillan, 1991), page 14. No reference is given. |
| Warning | Note: Craig Waff asks whether clubs could formally claimed annual championships this early in base ball's evolution; email of 10/28/2008. He suggests that, under the informal conventions of the period, the Gothams [who had wrested the honor from the Knickerbockers in September 1856], held it throughout 1857. |
| Comment | Note that within one year of the rules convention of 1856-7, on-field superiority may have already passed from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Tholkes- Charlton's remark at best refers to Brooklyn clubs only. The Atlantic had defeated the Gotham in September, but lost a return match on October 31 (a match which Peverelly mistakenly places in 1858). They did not play a third game. Neither Peverelly nor the author of the "X" letter in Porter's Spirit in December 1857, claims a championship, informal or formal, for the 1857 Atlantics, nor is it stated that in 1857 they flew at their grounds the whip pennant which later became emblematic of the informal championship. Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submission Note | Tholkes comment submitted 10/27/2013 |
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1857.22 Atlantic Club Becomes Base Ball Champ?"
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