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|Name=Base Ball Hits the Sports Pages? Sunday Mercury, Spirit of the Times Among First to Cover Game Regularly
|Type of Date=Year
|Date=1853/03/01
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|Country=United States
|State=NY
|City=NYC
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|Description=<p>&nbsp;[A] "The&nbsp;<em>Sunday Mercury</em>&nbsp;reportedly began coverage on May 1,of&nbsp;1853]"&nbsp;</p>
<p>[B] "On July 9, 1853,&nbsp;<em>The Spirit of the Times</em>&nbsp;mentioned baseball for the first time, printing a letter reporting a game between the Gotham and Knickerbocker Clubs."</p>
<p>&nbsp;[C]&nbsp;<em>Spirit of the Times</em>&nbsp;began to cover cricket in 1837 . . . .&nbsp; Not until July 9, 1853, however, did it give notice to a baseball match . . . the same one noted in the fledgling&nbsp;<em>[New York] Clipper</em>&nbsp;one week later."</p>
|Sources=<p>[A] Email from Bob Tholkes, 2/12/2010 and 2/18/2012.</p>
<p>[B]William Ryczek,&nbsp;<span>Baseball's First Inning</span>&nbsp;(McFarland, 2009), page 163.</p>
<p>[C] John Thorn,&nbsp;<span>Baseball in the Garden of Eden</span>&nbsp;(Simon and Shuster, 2011), page 104.</p>
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