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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1862
|Year Number=22
|Headline=Crowd of 40,000 Said to Watch Christmas Day Game on SC Coast
|Headline=Crowd of 40,000 Said to Watch Christmas Day Game on SC Coast
|Year=1862
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Holidays
|Tags=Civil War, Holidays, Military,
|Text=<p>"In Hilton Head, South Carolina, on Christmas Day in 1862, recalled Colonel A. G. Mills in 1923, his regiment, the 165<sup>th</sup> New York Infantry, Second Duryea's Zouaves, [engaged a?] ''picked nine from the other New York regiments in that vicinity.' Supposedly, the game was cheered on by a congregation of 40,000!" Mills eventually served as President of the National League and chair of the Mills Commission on the origins of baseball.</p>
|Country=US
<p>Patricia Millen, <u>From Pastime to Passion: Baseball and the Civil War</u> (Heritage Books, 2001), pp 21-22. Millen cites A. G. Mills, "The Evening World's Baseball Panorama." Mills Papers, Giamatti Center, Baseball HOF. The account also appears in A. Spalding, <u>Americas' National</u> Game (American Sports Publishing, 1911), pp 95.96. <b>Note:</b> Is this crowd estimate reasonable? Are other contemporary or reflective accounts available? PBall file -- CW-30</p>
|State=SC
|City=Hilton Head
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
|Text=<p>"In Hilton Head, South Carolina, on Christmas Day in 1862, recalled Colonel A. G. Mills in 1923, his regiment, the 165<sup>th</sup> New York Infantry, Second Duryea's Zouaves, [engaged a?] ''picked nine from the other New York regiments in that vicinity.' Supposedly, the game was cheered on by a congregation of 40,000!" Mills eventually served as President of the National League and chair of the Mills Commission on the origins of baseball.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p>Patricia Millen,&nbsp;<span>From Pastime to Passion: Baseball and the Civil War</span>&nbsp;(Heritage Books, 2001), pp 21-22. Millen cites A. G. Mills, "The Evening World's Baseball Panorama." Mills Papers, Giamatti Center, Baseball HOF. The account also appears in A. Spalding,&nbsp;<span>Americas' National</span>&nbsp;Game (American Sports Publishing, 1911), pp 95.96.&nbsp;&nbsp;PBall file -- CW-30</p>
|Query=<p>Is this crowd estimate reasonable? Are other contemporary or reflective accounts available?</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=22
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Crowd of 40,000 Said to Watch Christmas Day Game on SC Coast

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Holidays, Military
City/State/Country: Hilton Head, SC, US
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
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"In Hilton Head, South Carolina, on Christmas Day in 1862, recalled Colonel A. G. Mills in 1923, his regiment, the 165th New York Infantry, Second Duryea's Zouaves, [engaged a?] picked nine from the other New York regiments in that vicinity.' Supposedly, the game was cheered on by a congregation of 40,000!" Mills eventually served as President of the National League and chair of the Mills Commission on the origins of baseball.

 

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Patricia Millen, From Pastime to Passion: Baseball and the Civil War (Heritage Books, 2001), pp 21-22. Millen cites A. G. Mills, "The Evening World's Baseball Panorama." Mills Papers, Giamatti Center, Baseball HOF. The account also appears in A. Spalding, Americas' National Game (American Sports Publishing, 1911), pp 95.96.  PBall file -- CW-30

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