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Clerks Take on Clerks in Albany, Field 16-Player Teams

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Pre-modern Rules
Location NY State
City/State/Country: Albany, NY, United States
Age of Players Adult
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"An exciting match of Base Ball was played on the Washington Parade Ground, Albany, on Friday, 29th alt., between the State House Clerks and the Clerks of City Bank - sixteen on a side. The play resulted in favor of the State House boys, they making 86 runs in three innings, against 72 made by the Bank Clerks."

 

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Porter's Spirit of the Times, vol. 40 number 14 (June 6, 1857). 

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Sixteen players? Three innings? Does this sound like the NY game to you?

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