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the earliest known reference to baseball as the “national” game, from an article generally about, and praising, cricket
| Date | Friday, October 21, 1853 |
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| Text | Much that we have said in praise of cricket may also be said in praise of base ball–the national out-of-door game of this country. It is to be regretted that it is not more encouraged here. And to encourage it and cricket, and to do away with pale faces, with emaciated frames, and hole and corner gambling, gauzling, [sic] smoking and premature demoralization and death, they should be made a part, and a very important part, of the education of our youth. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
| Tags | Cricket, Media, Newspaper, Gamble, Gambling, National game |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
the origin of the game
| Date | Saturday, October 24, 1857 |
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| Text | It would occupy much time, and perhaps uselessly, to go into any research on the origins of the game. ... We find that Cricket was played as early as, and perhaps before the sixteenth century–although many improvements and alterations have since been made in the game. Base Ball cannot date back so far as that; but the game has, no doubt, been played in this country for at least one century. Could we only invoke the spirit of some departed veteran in the game, how many items of interest might we be able to place before the reader. |
| Source | Porter's Spirit of the Times |
| Tags | Hambledon: The Men and the Myths, Cricket |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |