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Henry Chadwick's Cholera Scare May Have Doomed American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes
Salience | Peripheral |
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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 |
Holiday | |
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."
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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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