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|Year=1857 | |Year=1857 | ||
|Salience= | |Year Number=22 | ||
|Text=<p>"The Atlantic Club defeats the Eckford Club, both of Brooklyn [NY], to take the best-of-3-games match and claim the championship for 1857. | |Headline=Atlantic Club Becomes Base Ball Champ? | ||
<p>Charlton, James, ed., < | |Salience=1 | ||
|Location=Brooklyn | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>"The Atlantic Club defeats the Eckford Club, both of Brooklyn [NY], to take the best-of-3-games match and claim the championship for 1857. The baseball custom now is that the championship can only be won by a team beating the current titleholder 2 out of 3 games." A date of October 22, 1857 is given for this accomplishment.</p> | |||
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|Sources=<p>Charlton, James, ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Baseball Chronology</span> (Macmillan, 1991), page 14. No reference is given.</p> | |||
|Warning=<p>Note: Craig Waff asks whether clubs could formally claimed annual championships this early in base ball's evolution; email of 10/28/2008. He suggests that, under the informal conventions of the period, the Gothams [who had wrested the honor from the Knickerbockers in September 1856], held it throughout 1857.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>Note that within one year of the rules convention of 1856-7, on-field superiority may have already passed from Manhattan to Brooklyn.</p> | |||
|Query=<p>Do we now have better proof of any claims of base ball championships in 1857?</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | "The Atlantic Club defeats the Eckford Club, both of Brooklyn [NY], to take the best-of-3-games match and claim the championship for 1857. The baseball custom now is that the championship can only be won by a team beating the current titleholder 2 out of 3 games." A date of October 22, 1857 is given for this accomplishment.
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| Sources | Charlton, James, ed., The Baseball Chronology (Macmillan, 1991), page 14. No reference is given. |
| Warning | Note: Craig Waff asks whether clubs could formally claimed annual championships this early in base ball's evolution; email of 10/28/2008. He suggests that, under the informal conventions of the period, the Gothams [who had wrested the honor from the Knickerbockers in September 1856], held it throughout 1857. |
| Comment | Note that within one year of the rules convention of 1856-7, on-field superiority may have already passed from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Do we now have better proof of any claims of base ball championships in 1857? Edit with form to add a query |
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