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The Beginning of Base Ball Trivia?

Salience Peripheral
Tags Newspaper Coverage, Statistics
Location Philadelphia
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"Sports and Pastimes.  Base Ball Matters. . . .  The Athletics made twenty-five clean home runs in a game with the Nationals, of Jersey City, New Jersey, on the 30th of September 1865."

Sources

Philadelphia Sunday Mercury, March 12, 1871.

Comment

Richard Hershberger, FB Posting '150 Years Ago',  3/21/2021:

"[B]aseball history trivia! Baseball had ample history by this time to support the endeavor. For those scoring at home, the final outcome of the game was Athletics 114, Nationals 2. But it wasn't as close as that makes it look."

Asked if such newspaper features were common, Richard replied, 3/12/2021: "This one is pretty typical. The big New York papers in earlier years had often had rules-related questions, but these were drying up by the 1870s."

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Query

Was this one of the first known uses of past base ball feats as fun trivia in base ball reportage?

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Submission Note FB Posting of 3/12/2021



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