1858.25
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Your Base Ball Stringer, Mr. W. Whitman
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| City/State/Country: | Brooklyn, NY, US |
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| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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| Notables | Walt Whitman |
| Text | Reporter Whitman wrote a workmanlike [all-prose] account of a game [Atlantic 17, Putnam 13] for the Brooklyn Daily Times in June 1858.
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| Sources | Walt Whitman, "On Baseball, 1858," in John Thorn, ed., The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball [Galahad Books, New York, 1997; originally published 1985 and 1987] pp 815-816. |
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1858.25 Your Base Ball Stringer, Mr. W. Whitman"
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