1860.6

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

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Location	Greater New York CityGreater New York City
City/State/Country:	NYC, NY, US
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Game	Rounders, Base Ball, Massachusetts GameRounders, Base Ball, Massachusetts Game
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
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Text	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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