1857.38

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President's Peace Medal Depicts Baseball Game in Background

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	Ball in the Culture, Famous, ImagesBall in the Culture, Famous, Images
Location	USUS
City/State/Country:	United States
Modern Address
Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	YouthYouth
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Notables	United States Government
Text	"A base ball game is depicted on the 1857 Indian Peace Medal issued by the Buchanan Administration in 1857. The Indian Peace Medal was "presented by a government agent to the chief of a tribe that the government considered to be friendly, or that it desired to become so...the frontier game of baseball, in all its variety, was already perceived as the national game..."
Sources	Thorn, John, Baseball in the Garden of Eden (2011), p. 114. See also https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/our-baseball-presidents-ec1617be6413 (accessed Feb 2018).
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Comment	"For President Buchanan in 1857, a new reverse to the (latest "Indian Peace") Medal was commissioned from engraver Joseph Wilson . . . . [The medal showed] in the distance, a simple home with a woman standing in the doorway -- and a baseball game being playing in the foreground. . . . "No matter what some gentlemen were saying in New York at the "national" conventions of area clubs, the frontier game of baseball, in all its variety, was already perceived as the national game." -- John Thorn, "Our Baseball Presidents," Our Game posting, February 2018. Edit with form to add a comment
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