1871.13
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The Beginning of Base Ball Trivia?
| Salience | Peripheral |
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| Tags | Newspaper Coverage, StatisticsNewspaper Coverage, Statistics |
| Location | PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia |
| City/State/Country: | Philadelphia, PA, [[]] |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | "Sports and Pastimes. Base Ball Matters. . . . The Athletics made twenty-five clean home runs in a game with the Nationals, of Jersey City, New Jersey, on the 30th of September 1865." |
| Sources | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury, March 12, 1871. |
| Warning | |
| Comment | Richard Hershberger, FB Posting '150 Years Ago', 3/21/2021: "[B]aseball history trivia! Baseball had ample history by this time to support the endeavor. For those scoring at home, the final outcome of the game was Athletics 114, Nationals 2. But it wasn't as close as that makes it look." Asked if such newspaper features were common, Richard replied, 3/12/2021: "This one is pretty typical. The big New York papers in earlier years had often had rules-related questions, but these were drying up by the 1870s." Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Was this one of the first known uses of past base ball feats as fun trivia in base ball reportage? Edit with form to add a query |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Submission Note | FB Posting of 3/12/2021 |
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1871.13 The Beginning of Base Ball Trivia?"
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