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Ten Thousand Players!

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Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, United States
Game Base Ball
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At the annual meeting of the National Association, held on the 14th of last March, sixteen new clubs were admitted as members, and eighteen others were admitted at the meeting held on the 12th of December-- making in all eighty-eight senior clubs now represented in the National Association of Base Ball Players. As each of these clubs now average from thirty-five to forty members, the total number of ball-players so represented in the Association, may be safely estimated at three thousand. In addition to this large number, there are probably as many as one hundred senior clubs in this city and vicinity, and in the cities throughout the State, which have not yet joined the Association, and which have, perhaps, a membership of not less than three thousand. And if we add to these the not less than two hundred junior clubs of New York, Brooklyn, and vicinity-- comprising at least two thousand members-- it will be a safe calculation to say, that the game of base ball during the season of 1860 afforded amusement and invigorating exercise to at least TEN THOUSAND ACTIVE MEMBERS of base-ball clubs."

Sources

New York Sunday Mercury, Dec. 30, 1860

Comment

Not all club members played, but considering that Mercury editor William Cauldwell was only taking in Greater New York City, his figure is conservative.

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes
Submission Note 3/8/2014



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