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|Headline=Rare press notice
|Headline=Knicks Begin the Year's Play Days at Hoboken, Cricket Club Chooses Manhattan.
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Newspaper Coverage,  
|Location=Elysian Fields, Hoboken NJ
|Location=New York City
|Country=United States
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|Coordinates=40.7439905, -74.0323626
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|State=NJ
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|City=Hoboken
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|Modern Address=
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|Game=Base Ball,
|Game=Base Ball
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Age of Players=Adult
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|Notables=Knickerbocker Base Ball Club
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|Text=<p>"The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club opened the season last Thursday, on its ground in the Elysian Fields, Hoboken. Its plays days have been changed from Tuesday and Friday to Monday and Thursday of each week."</p>
|Text=<p>"The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club opened the season last Thursday, at its ground in the Elysian Fields in Hoboken last Thursday.&nbsp; Its play days have been changed from Tuesday and Friday to Monday and Thursday of each week.</p>
|Sources=<p>New York Sunday Mercury, April 9, 1848</p>
<p>The St. George's Cricket Club will open the season on the 28th, with a day's play, on its ground at the Red House, on Third Avenue [Manhattan]."</p>
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|Sources=<p><em>New York Sunday Mercury</em>, April 9, 1848.</p>
|Warning=
|Warning=
|Comment=<p>Notice in the newspapers of the doings of the Knickerbocker Club was rare at this time. Five years later, the Sunday Mercury would become the first to cover the new game on a regular basis.</p>
|Comment=<p><span>"This is actually quite interesting, as any notice from the press is very rare at that time."&nbsp; --Richard Hershberger, 4/12/2021.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></p>
|Query=
|Query=<p>1848 was the year (see&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball in the Garden of Eden</span>, p. 35)&nbsp;that the Knickerbockers set out to re-consider their rules.&nbsp; Did they address playing rules, or just operational ones? Do we know what changes emanated?</p>
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|Submitted by=Bob Tholkes
|Submitted by=John Thorn
|Submission Note=April 12, 2021
|Submission Note=Email of 4/12/2021
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Knicks Begin the Year's Play Days at Hoboken, Cricket Club Chooses Manhattan.

Salience Noteworthy
Location Elysian Fields, Hoboken NJ
City/State/Country: Hoboken, NJ, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club opened the season last Thursday, at its ground in the Elysian Fields in Hoboken last Thursday.  Its play days have been changed from Tuesday and Friday to Monday and Thursday of each week.

The St. George's Cricket Club will open the season on the 28th, with a day's play, on its ground at the Red House, on Third Avenue [Manhattan]."

 

Sources

New York Sunday Mercury, April 9, 1848.

Comment

"This is actually quite interesting, as any notice from the press is very rare at that time."  --Richard Hershberger, 4/12/2021.

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Query

1848 was the year (see  Baseball in the Garden of Eden, p. 35) that the Knickerbockers set out to re-consider their rules.  Did they address playing rules, or just operational ones? Do we know what changes emanated?

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Submitted by John Thorn
Submission Note Email of 4/12/2021



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