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The Beginning of Match Play Between Organized Clubs
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Location | Greater New York CityGreater New York City |
City/State/Country: | NYC, NY, United States |
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Text | "Some baseball games are historic even thought few details of the contest survive. A case in point is the June 3, 1851 Knickerbocker-Washington game. Although the only surviving information is the line score, the match is remembered because it marked the beginning of ongoing match play."
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Sources | John Zinn, "Match Play: Knickerbockers of New York vs. Washington of New York," in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), pages 8-9. |
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Comment | This is game #4 of the SABR 19th Century Committee's top 100 games of the 1800s.The Knickerbockers won the June 3 game, 21-11, in 8 innings. Two weeks later, the two clubs met again and the Knickerbockers prevailed again, 22-20, in 10 innings. The era of repetitive match play among organized base ball clubs had begun. Edit with form to add a comment |
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