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Atlantic 52, Mutual 27, 6 Innings: Reporter is Wowed by 26-Run 3rd

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City/State/Country: Brooklyn, NY, United States
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Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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Going into the 3rd inning, the Brooklyn club trailed 8-7. Three outs later, the Atlantic led 33-8. Ball game! The article put it this way: "The Atlantics have always had a reputation for superior batting; but never have they before displayed, nor, in fact, had there ever been witnessed on any field, in all our base ball experience - which covers a period of ten years - such a grand exhibition of splendid batting. . . . Altogether, the game exhibited the tallest batting, and more of it, than has ever before been witnessed." He goes on to chronicle every at-bat of the Atlantic's thumping third. As for the crowd: "The best of order was preserved on the ground by an extensive police force, and everything passed off well."

 

 

Sources

"A Grand Exhibition," New York Sunday Mercury (October 20, 1861).

The full article and box score of the 10/26/1861 game is found at http://www.covehurst.net/ddyte/brooklyn/favorite%207.html

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Submitted by Craig Waff
Submission Note 11/14/2008



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