1851.7

Christmas Bash Includes "Good Old Fashioned Game of Baseball"

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	HolidaysHolidays
Location	Greater New York CityGreater New York City
City/State/Country:	NYC, NY, United States
Modern Address
Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
Holiday	Christmas
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Text	"On Christmas day, the drivers, agents, and other employees of the various Express Companies in the City, had a turnout entirely in character. . . . There were between seventy-five and eighty men in the company . . . . They then went to the residence of A. M. C. Smith, in Franklin st., and thence to the Red House in Harlem, where the whole party has a good old fashioned game of base ball, and then a capital dinner at which A. M. C. Smith presided."
Sources	New York Daily Tribune, December 29, 1851.
Warning
Comment	Richard added: "Finally this is a very rare contemporary cite of baseball for this period. Between the baseball fad of the mid-1840s and its revival in the mid-1850s, baseball is rarely seen outside the pages of the Knickerbocker club books." John Thorn contributed a facsimile of the Tribune article. Edit with form to add a comment
Query	Can we surmise that by using the term "old fashioned game," the newspaper is distinguishing it from the Knickerbocker game? Edit with form to add a query
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Submission Note	Posted to 19CBB on 11/11/2008
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