First Game Image

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Date Saturday, September 12, 1857
Location NYC, NY, United States
Description

"On Saturday, September 12, 1857, 'Porter's Spirit of the Times,' a weekly newspaper devoted to sports and theater, featured a woodcut that, as best can be determined, was the first published image of a baseball game.?

 

Sources

Vintage Base Ball Association site, http://vbba.org/ed-interp/ 1857elysian fieldsgame.html



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