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Sporting Press Notices Base Ball, Regularizes Reporting

Salience	Prominent
Tags	Newspaper CoverageNewspaper Coverage
Location	Greater New York CityGreater New York City
City/State/Country:	NYC, NY, United States
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Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	"There was little baseball reported in Spirit [of the Times] until 1855, and what did appear was limited to terse accounts of games (with box scores) submitted by members of the competing clubs.  The primary [sports-page] emphasis was on four-legged sport and  cricket, which often received multiple columns of coverage.  Apparently, editor William Porter felt that baseball was less interesting than articles such as "The World's Ugliest Man."  As interest in baseball grew, The Spirit's coverage of the sport expanded.  On May 12, 1855, the journal printed the rules of baseball for the first time and soon began to report more frequently on games that took place in New York and its vicinity."
Sources	William Ryczek, Baseball's First Inning (McFarland, 2009), page 163.
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Comment	In its issue of November 11, 1854, Spirit of the Times complained that base ball game reports were not being received. Edit with form to add a comment
Query	[A] Was this turn to base ball more conspicuous in other papers earlier? [B] Has anyone tried to measure the relative coverage of base ball and cricket over time in these crossover years? Edit with form to add a query
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Submission Note	Comment by Robert Tholkes 9/24/2013
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1855.34 Sporting Press Notices Base Ball, Regularizes Reporting"

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