Clipping:Fifty cents admission

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Date Thursday, September 10, 1868
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[Atlantics vs. Athletics 8/31/1868] The first contest this season between the Atlantic Club, of Brooklyn, and the Athletic Club, of Philadelphia, the two strongest representatives of their respective cities and states, took place on the Athletic grounds, on 15th Street and Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia, on Monday, Aug. 31st, in the presence of an immense assemblage of spectators, some three or four thousand people, including about a hundred ladies, being within the enclosure–the charge for admission being 50 cents–and double that number outside.

Source New England Base Ballist
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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