First Post-Game Newspaper Interview?
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Date | Saturday, August 19, 1865 No later than 8/19/1865 |
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Location | Brooklyn, NY, United States |
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Description | "If that wasn't creeping out of a very small hole, with a tight squeeze at that, I don't know what is!" Atlantic Club player Peter O'Brien, after the champion Atlantic Club nearly lost a six-run lead in the ninth inning, beating the Eureka Club of Newark, 21-20.
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Sources | New York Sunday Mercury, August 20, 1865. Bob Tholkes (posting to 19CBB list-serve, 3/10/2013), points out that this is the first postgame interview he recalls seeing. He also notes that Henry Chadwick was likely writing for the Mercury in 1865.
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Submitted by | Bob Tholkes |
Submission Note | 19BCC posting, 3/10/2013 |
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