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|Headline=Base Ball Hits the Sports Pages? Sunday Mercury, Spirit of the Times Among First to Cover Game Regularly | |Headline=Base Ball Hits the Sports Pages? Sunday Mercury, Spirit of the Times Among First to Cover Game Regularly | ||
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|Tags=Newspaper Coverage, | |||
|Location=Greater New York City, | |||
|Country=USA | |||
|State=NY | |||
|City=NYC | |||
|Game=Base Ball | |Game=Base Ball | ||
|Age of Players=Adult | |Age of Players=Adult |
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Salience | Noteworthy |
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Tags | Newspaper CoverageNewspaper Coverage |
Location | Greater New York CityGreater New York City |
City/State/Country: | NYC, NY, USA |
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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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