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|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club at its meeting of Dec. 6, 1856, issued a call for a convention of the base ball clubs and appointed a special committee chaired by D. L. (Doc) Adams to supervise same. The clubs were requested to "select three representatives to meet at No 462 Broome street, in the city of New York, on Thursday, the 22d day of January, 1857." The Knick's resolution did not specify a purpose for the convention.</p>
|Text=<p>The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club at its meeting of Dec. 6, 1856, issued a call for a convention of the base ball clubs and appointed a special committee chaired by D. L. (Doc) Adams to supervise same. The clubs were requested to "select three representatives to meet at No 462 Broome street, in the city of New York, on Thursday, the 22d day of January, 1857." The Knick's resolution did not specify a purpose for the convention.</p>
|Sources=<p><em>New York Herald,&nbsp;</em>December 22, 1856</p>
|Sources=<p><em>New York Herald,&nbsp;</em>December 22, 1856;&nbsp;<em>Spirit of the Times</em>, January 3, 1857</p>
|Submitted by=Robert Tholkes
|Submitted by=Robert Tholkes
|Submission Note=10/24/2013
|Submission Note=10/24/2013
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club at its meeting of Dec. 6, 1856, issued a call for a convention of the base ball clubs and appointed a special committee chaired by D. L. (Doc) Adams to supervise same. The clubs were requested to "select three representatives to meet at No 462 Broome street, in the city of New York, on Thursday, the 22d day of January, 1857." The Knick's resolution did not specify a purpose for the convention.

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New York Herald, December 22, 1856; Spirit of the Times, January 3, 1857

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