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|Headline=In Chicago IL, Months-old Atlantic Club Claims Championship
|Headline=In Chicago IL, Months-old Atlantic Club Claims Championship
|Year=1859
|Year=1859
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|Text=<p>Atlantic 18, Excelsior 16.  This "well-played match between the first nines of the Atlantic and Excelsior took place on the 15<sup>th</sup> ult., for the championship. . . .  The victorious club only started this spring . . . . They have now beaten the Excelsiors two out of three games played, which entitles them to the championship."  "Base Ball at Chicago," <u>New York Clipper</u> (date omitted; year inferred from scrapbook placement).  Facsimile from the Mears Collection provided by Craig Waff, September 2008.  <b>Note:</b>  So . . . was this construed as the 1859 city crown, just a dyadic rivalry crown, an "until-we-lose-it crown, or what?</p>
|Text=<p>Atlantic 18, Excelsior 16.  This "well-played match between the first nines of the Atlantic and Excelsior took place on the 15<sup>th</sup> ult., for the championship. . . .  The victorious club only started this spring . . . . They have now beaten the Excelsiors two out of three games played, which entitles them to the championship."  "Base Ball at Chicago," <u>New York Clipper</u> (date omitted; year inferred from scrapbook placement).  Facsimile from the Mears Collection provided by Craig Waff, September 2008.  <b>Note:</b>  So . . . was this construed as the 1859 city crown, just a dyadic rivalry crown, an "until-we-lose-it crown, or what?</p>
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Atlantic 18, Excelsior 16. This "well-played match between the first nines of the Atlantic and Excelsior took place on the 15th ult., for the championship. . . . The victorious club only started this spring . . . . They have now beaten the Excelsiors two out of three games played, which entitles them to the championship." "Base Ball at Chicago," New York Clipper (date omitted; year inferred from scrapbook placement). Facsimile from the Mears Collection provided by Craig Waff, September 2008. Note: So . . . was this construed as the 1859 city crown, just a dyadic rivalry crown, an "until-we-lose-it crown, or what?

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