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Date	Sunday, August 24, 1862
Text	[Mutual vs. Eureka of Newark 8/21/1862] [Brown at first base, bottom of the tenth inning] Brown, by a passed ball...reached his second, and ran for his third, when he... narrowly escaped being put out; so close was this, that the crowd began to dictate and act as umpires, calling “out,” “out,” hearing which, Gavigan [the batter] gave them warning, and so did Brown, that further such remarks would elicit coercive measures of a pugilistic character, whereupon the Eurekas stepped forward to expostulate with their Newark friends, seeing which Brown, who, as we have before remarked, is up to all kinds of snuff, ran in for home, and got in before the ball could be used to put him out, thus winning the game...
Source	New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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