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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1863
|Year=1863
|Year Number=2
|Year Number=62
|Headline=Cricketeers Forced to Switch to Base Ball
|Headline=The times Calls a Spade a Spade-- Base Ball is Obliterating Cricket
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Civil War, Famous
|Tags=Newspaper Coverage,  
|Location=Northern Virginia,
|Location=Greater New York City,  
|Game=Base Ball,
|Country=USA
|Immediacy of Report=on
|State=NY
|City=NYC
|Game=Base Ball, American Cricket,  
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Age of Players=Adult
|Notables=Nicholas Young, National League President, 1885-1902
|Text=<p>...cricket has been almost obliterated by base ball, which, but ten years since, was in its infancy...The main cause of this is, that a few cricketers...play pretty much all the matches for the few Clubs that exist only in name; while Bass Ball Clubs play their matches with their <em>b</em><em>ona fide&nbsp;</em>members, and consequently their medium players always have a prospect before them of being chosen to play..."</p>
|Text=<p>"In my regiment we had eleven cricketeeers that had all played together at home [in Central New York] and I was the leading spirit in getting up matches.&nbsp; We played a number of good matches but we were too strong for any combination that we could get to play against us, and we finally had to abandon cricket&nbsp;and take up the so called Hew York game.&nbsp; I remember well the first game that I played.&nbsp; It was against the 27th NY Inf. at White Oak Church near Frederickburg, Va. in the Spring of 1863.&nbsp; I played occasionally durng the remainder of the war . . . "&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p><em>New York Times</em>, Sep. 25, 1863</p>
|Sources=<p>Letter from Nicholas Young to A. G. Mills, December 2, 1904.&nbsp; From the Mills Commission file at the Baseball Hall of Fame.&nbsp; Young was responding to the Mills Commission's request for information of the origins of base ball.</p>
|Submitted by=Bob Tholkes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Submission Note=3/11/2014
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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The times Calls a Spade a Spade-- Base Ball is Obliterating Cricket

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Newspaper Coverage
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, USA
Game Base Ball, American Cricket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

...cricket has been almost obliterated by base ball, which, but ten years since, was in its infancy...The main cause of this is, that a few cricketers...play pretty much all the matches for the few Clubs that exist only in name; while Bass Ball Clubs play their matches with their bona fide members, and consequently their medium players always have a prospect before them of being chosen to play..."

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New York Times, Sep. 25, 1863

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes
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