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Trade Games Proliferate

Salience Peripheral
Tags Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, USA
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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Games between teams of employees from "commercial establishments" proliferated in 1860, to not everyone's enjoyment:

"A SUGGESTION.-- We observe that matches at base ball are being put up by business establishments. The World and Times newspapers had a match...We presume we shall next have a contest between Spaulding's Prepared Glue and the Retired Physician, or a Standish's Pills nine vs. Townsend's Sarsparilla. Why not? A little gratuitous advertsiing may, perhaps, be got in this way. But, for goodness' sake, gentlemen, don't run the thing into the ground."

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New York Sunday Mercury, Oct. 7, 1860

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