Clipping:First Intersection of Baseball and the Law?
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| Date | Wednesday, February 2, 1859 |
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| Text | Incorporating Ball Clubs--The latest most novel and extraordinary conception that has seized even the prolific brain of a Legislator, is manifested in the proposition made in the [NY] Assembly, to incorporate the "Eagle, Empire and Knickerbocker Base Ball Clubs of the City of New York." This idea certainly takes down anything in this line that we know of in the present century. Games of ball are hereafter to be played under the protective shield, the dignity and glory of an act of incorporation. It is not enough that men meet together to enjoy the wholesome and rational sport of batting a ball with a club. The thing must be done "according to law," and under the inspiration and influences of an act of the sovereign Legislature. What next my we not expect to see done or attempted to be done by that omnipotent body, which is sitting state at the Capitol, and holds the destinies of the commonwealth in the hollow of its hand? |
| Source | Utica Daily Observer, Feb. 2, 1859 |
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| Comment | The first of many such "intersections..." Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
| Origin | John Thorn |
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