Base Ball Hits the Sports Pages? Sunday Mercury, Spirit of the Times Among First to Cover Game Regularly
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Date | 1853 |
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Location | NYC, NY, United States |
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Description | [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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