1857.48
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First Known Appearance of Term "New York Game"
| Salience | Noteworthy |
|---|---|
| Tags | Antedated Firsts, Newspaper CoverageAntedated Firsts, Newspaper Coverage |
| Location | |
| City/State/Country: | Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
| Holiday | |
| Notables | |
| Text | "The Tri-Mountain Base Ball Club has been organized... This Club has decided to play the "New York Game," which consists in pitching instead of throwing the ball." |
| Sources | Boston Herald, June 15, 1857 |
| Warning | |
| Comment | Richard Hershberger notes: "The earliest citation in Dickson's Baseball Dictionary is from 1859. It is interesting that the first use seems to come from the Boston side of things, and predates the Dedham convention (which laid out the rules of the Massachusetts Game). The point is the same as it would be over the next few years, to conveniently distinguish versions of baseball." So this find antedates a baseball first. John Thorn notes: "The phrase "New York Game" may have owed something to the fact that the https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/early-baseball-in-boston-d86107fb8560 Bob Tholkes notes: "'New York' instead of 'national:' in what turned out to be a shrewd marketing move, was referring to a "national" pastime, implicitly sweeping aside regional variations, and in March 1858 called their organization the National Association, which the New York Clipper (April 3, 1858)considered a howl."
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Submission Note | Posting to 19CBB, 9/19/2018 |
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1857.48 First Known Appearance of Term "New York Game""
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