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Henry Chadwick's Cholera Scare May Have Doomed American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Famous, Newspaper CoverageFamous, Newspaper Coverage
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City/State/Country:	NY, United States
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Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Notables	Henry Chadwick
Text	From Richard Hershberger: In the summer of 1867, Chadwick begins publication of the Ballplayer's Chronicle, later renamed the American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes.  It runs for about one year, the final issue being July 23, 1868, then halts publication without notice or explanation.  The obvious explanation is that it was losing money, the baseball community not yet able to support such a publication until 1883 when The Sporting Life is founded.  I have always taken this at face value as the explanation, but I just came across this in the Brooklyn Eagle of July 29, 1868, in the "Personal and Sundries" column: "We regret to learn of the serious illness of Mr. Chadwick, the well-known base ball writer. He is at his place in South Durham, confined to his bed with an acute attack of choler morbus.  We trust that he won't be "out" for many a year." This would explain the abruptness of the affair.  Presumably if it were making money some interim editor could have been arranged, so I'm not suggesting that the illness was the sole, or even primary, cause.  But it explains some of the timing of events.  The New England Base Ballist began publication at the beginning of August.  About two months later, Chadwick appears as its New York correspondent, having recovered from the cholera. -- Richard Hershberger
Sources	Brooklyn Eagle, July 29,1868
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Submission Note	19CBB Posting, 9/2/2017
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1868.4 Henry Chadwick's Cholera Scare May Have Doomed American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes"

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