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NABBP Meeting Sets Attendance Record

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Business of Baseball, Post-Knickerbocker Rule Changes
City/State/Country: GNYC, NY, United States
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Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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[A] "The ninth annual convention...proved to be most numerously attended...ever held...over ninety clubs were present."

[B] "...forty-eight clubs from New York State; fourteen from Pennsylvania; thirteen from New Jersey; four from Connecticut; four from Washington, D. C.; two from Massachusetts; and one each from Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Maine, making a grand total of 91 clubs represented..."

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[A] Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 15, 1865

[B] New York Clipper, December 23, 1865

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes,
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