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Christmas Bash Includes "Good Old Fashioned Game of Baseball"
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Tags | HolidaysHolidays |
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City/State/Country: | NYC, NY, US |
Modern Address | |
Game | Base BallBase Ball |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | AdultAdult |
Holiday | Christmas |
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Text | "On Christmas day, the drivers, agents, and other employees of the various Express Companies in the City, had a turnout entirely in character. . . . There were between seventy-five and eighty men in the company . . . . They then went to the residence of A. M. C. Smith, in Franklin st., and thence to the Red House in Harlem, where the whole party has a good old fashioned game of base ball, and then a capital dinner at which A. M. C. Smith presided."
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Sources | New York Daily Tribune, December 29, 1851. |
Warning | |
Comment | Richard added: "Finally this is a very rare contemporary cite of baseball for this period. Between the baseball fad of the mid-1840s and its revival in the mid-1850s, baseball is rarely seen outside the pages of the Knickerbocker club books." John Thorn contributed a facsimile of the Tribune article. Edit with form to add a comment |
Query | Can we surmise that by using the term "old fashioned game," the newspaper is distinguishing it from the Knickerbocker game? Edit with form to add a query |
Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Submission Note | Posted to 19CBB on 11/11/2008 |
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