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First Admission Fees for Baseball?
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| City/State/Country: | Brooklyn, NY, US |
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| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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| Text | May 15, 1862: "The Union Baseball Grounds at March Avenue and Rutledge Street in Brooklyn is opened, the first enclosed ball field to charge an admission fee." |
| Sources | James Charlton, The Baseball Chronology (Macmillan, 1991), page 15. |
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| Query | is the claim here that there were no prior fees, or that such fees had not been assessed at closed fields? Edit with form to add a query |
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1862.9 First Admission Fees for Baseball?"
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