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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1858 |Year Number=21 |Headline=<i>Times</i> Editorial: "We Hail the New Fashion With Delight" |Salience=1 |Tags=Newspaper Coverage, |Location=Greater New York City, |Country=United States |State=NY |City=NYC |Game=Base Ball, |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Adult |Text=<p>"We hail the new fashion [base ball fever] with delight. It promises, besides it host of other good works, to kill out the costly target excursions. We predict that it will spread from the City to the country, and revive there, where it was dying out, a love of the noble game; that it will bring pale faces and sallow complexions into contempt; that it will make sad times for the doctors, and insure our well-beloved country a generation of stalwart men, who will save her independence."</p> <p> </p> |Sources=<p>From the concluding paragraph of "Athletic Sports," <em>New York Times</em>, August 28, 1858, page 4. John Thorn believes that "costly target excursions refer to hunting fox, grouse and other game." </p> |Submitted by=John Thorn |Submission Note=[Email, 2/10/2008] |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No |Coordinates=40.7127837, -74.0059413 }}
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