First Crowd Count

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Waff's Game Tabulation
Bob Tholkes RIM Tabulation

Awaiting Review
Date September 1855
Location NYC, NY, United States
Description

Craig Waff notes that a 9/22/1855 Spirit article on a Knickerbocker-Gotham game includes the first numerical estimate of crowd size (about 1,000).  Previous assemblies had only been reported as "large."

Sources

See Chronology entry #1855.21



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