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|Headline=Lithograph Shows Ballplaying in City Hall Park, NY
|Headline=Lithograph Shows Ballplaying in City Hall Park, NY
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Pre-Knicks,  
|Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC,  
|Text=<p>John Thorn (emails of 9/1/2009) has unearthed an engraving of City Hall Park that depicts a ball game in progress in the distance. My best squint shows me pitcher, batsman, a close-in catcher, two distant fielders and three spectators (two seated). Old cat? Single-wicket cricket? Scrub base ball?</p>
|Text=<p>John Thorn (emails of 9/1/2009) has unearthed an engraving of City Hall Park that depicts a ball game in progress in the distance. My best squint shows me pitcher, batsman, a close-in catcher, two distant fielders and three spectators (two seated). Old cat? Single-wicket cricket? Scrub base ball?</p>
<p>The lithograph, titled "The Park, 1827," is published as the frontispiece <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Valentine's Manual for the Corporation of the City of New York</span> (1855). For a wee image, try a Google Web search of &lt;"the park, 1827/McSpedon"&gt;.</p>
<p>The lithograph, titled "The Park, 1827," is published as the frontispiece <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Valentine's Manual for the Corporation of the City of New York</span> (1855). For a wee image, try a Google Web search of &lt;"the park, 1827/McSpedon"&gt;.</p>

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John Thorn (emails of 9/1/2009) has unearthed an engraving of City Hall Park that depicts a ball game in progress in the distance. My best squint shows me pitcher, batsman, a close-in catcher, two distant fielders and three spectators (two seated). Old cat? Single-wicket cricket? Scrub base ball?

The lithograph, titled "The Park, 1827," is published as the frontispiece Valentine's Manual for the Corporation of the City of New York (1855). For a wee image, try a Google Web search of <"the park, 1827/McSpedon">.

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