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Atlantics Become Base Ball Champs?

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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. Charlton, James, ed., The Baseball Chronology (Macmillan, 1991), page 14. No reference is given. 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.
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 |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>
 <p>Charlton, James, ed., <u>The Baseball Chronology</u> (Macmillan, 1991), page 14.  No reference is given.<b>  Note:</b>  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>
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