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|Headline=Chadwick's Beadle's Appears, and the Baseball Literature is Launched
|Headline=Chadwick's Beadle's Appears, and the Baseball Literature is Launched
|Salience=1
|Salience=1
|Location=Greater New York City,  
|Location=Greater New York City,
|Country=US
|Country=US
|State=NY
|State=NY
|City=NYC
|City=NYC
|Game=Rounders, Base Ball,
|Game=Rounders, Base Ball, Massachusetts Game
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Text=<p>&nbsp;The first annual baseball guide appears.&nbsp;It is emblematic, perhaps, of the transformation of base ball into a spectator sport. The 40-page guide includes rules for Knickerbocker ball, the new NABBP ("Association") rules, rules for the Massachusetts game, and for rounders. Chadwick includes a brief history of base ball, saying it is of "English origin" and "derived from rounders."</p>
|Text=<p>&nbsp;The first annual baseball guide appears.&nbsp;It is emblematic, perhaps, of the transformation of base ball into a spectator sport. The 40-page guide includes rules for Knickerbocker ball, the new NABBP ("Association") rules, rules for the Massachusetts game, and for rounders. Chadwick includes a brief history of base ball, saying it is of "English origin" and "derived from rounders."</p>

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Chadwick's Beadle's Appears, and the Baseball Literature is Launched

Salience Prominent
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, US
Game Rounders, Base Ball, Massachusetts Game
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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 The first annual baseball guide appears. It is emblematic, perhaps, of the transformation of base ball into a spectator sport. The 40-page guide includes rules for Knickerbocker ball, the new NABBP ("Association") rules, rules for the Massachusetts game, and for rounders. Chadwick includes a brief history of base ball, saying it is of "English origin" and "derived from rounders."

Block observes: "For twenty-five years his pronouncements remained the accepted definition of the game's origins. Then the controversy erupted. First John Montgomery Ward and then Albert Spalding attacked Chadwick's theory. Ultimately, their jingoistic efforts saddled the nation with the Doubleday Myth."

 

Sources

Chadwick, Henry, Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player: A Compendium of the Game, Comprising Elementary Instructions of the American Game of Base Ball [New York, Irwin P. Beadle].

Per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, (2005), page 221.

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