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|Headline=In Chicago IL, Months-old Atlantic Club Claims Championship
|Headline=In Chicago IL, Months-old Atlantic Club Claims Championship
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=Illinois,
|Country=US
|Country=US
|State=IL
|State=IL
|City=Chicago
|City=Chicago
|Game=Base Ball,  
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Age of Players=Adult

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In Chicago IL, Months-old Atlantic Club Claims Championship

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Location Illinois
City/State/Country: Chicago, IL, US
Game Base Ball
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Age of Players Adult
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Atlantic 18, Excelsior 16. This "well-played match between the first nines of the Atlantic and Excelsior took place on the 15th ult., for the championship. . . . The victorious club only started this spring . . . . They have now beaten the Excelsiors two out of three games played, which entitles them to the championship.  

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" "Base Ball at Chicago," New York Clipper September 3, 1859, p. 160

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So . . . was this construed as the 1859 city crown, just a dyadic rivalry crown, an "until-we-lose-it crown, or what?

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Submitted by Craig Waff
Submission Note September 2008



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