Clipping:Excitement about the Atlantics-Athletics match
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| Date | Tuesday, November 7, 1865 |
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| Text | [Atlantics vs. Athletics 11/6/1865] It would appear that the wintry winds of November have no more effect in deterring people from witnessing an exciting game of base ball than the sultry heat of a July sun, though yesterday was tolerably pleasant for the season for those engaged in active movements. For a crowd of spectators standing exposed to a cold northwest breeze it was anything but agreeable, and yet from twelve to fifteen thousand people, by actual count, faced the chilly breeze on the open field of the Capitoline Ball Grounds yesterday to witness the return match between the above named rival clubs of Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Any one visiting Brooklyn yesterday between the hours of twelve and two would have known that something unusual was on foot in the way of exciting events, by the rushing of crowds to the ferryboat to the Fulton avenue cars during those hours, and had the observer gone with the crowd and entered the grounds in question he would have witnessed s sight new even to the out-door-sport-loving masses of the metropolis. Never before, in the history of the game, had such a vast assemblage been seen at a match. The field is nearly a mile round, and on three sides of it the crowd stood eight and ten deep in a perfect mass. New York Herald November 7, 1865 tension between the Athletics and the Atlantics [Atlantics vs. Athletics 10/30/1865] Nothing occurred to mar the harmony of the occasion, though, of course, there was but little of that kindly feeling exhibited which should mark all games of ball, the manner in which the game had been brought about very naturally preventing any special demonstrations of this kind. New York Leader November 11, 1865 |
| Source | New York Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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