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1920 Newspaper Aware of '25 Or So' American Base Ball Clubs by 1858 [We Now List Ten Times More]
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| City/State/Country: | United States |
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| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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| Text | A Boston paper on baseball history suggested that by 1858 there were 25 or so base ball clubs in he United States. |
| Sources | Boston Post, July 24, 1920 |
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| Comment | As of July 2022, Protoball lists over 260 base ball clubs from that era. Bruce Allardice adds, 7/30/2022: "the [Boston Post's] 25 number seems to come from the number of clubs that attended the 1858 convention." Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
| Submission Note | Emails of 7/29/2022 and 7/30/2022 |
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1858.73 1920 Newspaper Aware of '25 Or So' American Base Ball Clubs by 1858 [We Now List Ten Times More]"
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