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|Year=1859 | |Year=1859 | ||
|Salience= | |Year Number=2 | ||
|Tags=College | |Headline=Elusive Intercollegiate Game [the first pPayed by NY Rules] Pits Xavier and Fordham | ||
|Text=<p>Per | |Salience=1 | ||
<p>Craig Waff [email of May 21, 2009] reported that he has not been able to confirm this game, and that press material from Fordham does not document the game. | |Tags=College, | ||
|Location=NYC | |||
|Age of Players=Youth | |||
|Text=<p>Fordham College reportedly played a game against Xavier College in 1859, using the new Association rules.</p> | |||
<p> </p> | |||
|Sources=<p>Per Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908</span> [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], p. 32. Sullivan dates the game November 3, 1859, but does not give a source.</p> | |||
|Warning=<p>Craig Waff [email of May 21, 2009] reported that he has not been able to confirm this game, and that press material from Fordham does not document the game.</p> | |||
<p>SABR's Baseball Index [TBI] cites a Fordham game in the June 16 1860 <em>Clipper</em>.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>The Xavier College in this story is presumably College of St. Francis Xavier, a Mahattan institution that closed in 1913.</p> | |||
|Query=<p><strong>Query:</strong> Does this 1860 <em>Clipper </em>account, once located, report on the 1859 game?</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | Fordham College reportedly played a game against Xavier College in 1859, using the new Association rules.
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| Sources | Per Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], p. 32. Sullivan dates the game November 3, 1859, but does not give a source. |
| Warning | Craig Waff [email of May 21, 2009] reported that he has not been able to confirm this game, and that press material from Fordham does not document the game. SABR's Baseball Index [TBI] cites a Fordham game in the June 16 1860 Clipper. |
| Comment | The Xavier College in this story is presumably College of St. Francis Xavier, a Mahattan institution that closed in 1913. Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Query: Does this 1860 Clipper account, once located, report on the 1859 game? Edit with form to add a query |
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1859.2 Elusive Intercollegiate Game [the first pPayed by NY Rules] Pits Xavier and Fordham"
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