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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1859 |Year Number=6 |Headline=African-American Game is Played by "Henson Club" July 4 and/or November 15 |Salience=1 |Tags=African Americans, |Location=Greater New York City, |Country=United States |State=NY |City=Brooklyn |Game=Base Ball, |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Adult |Text=<p>[A] Report of July 4 game between Henson and Unknown Clubs</p> <p>[B] "November 15, 1859 - The first recorded game between two black teams occurred between the Unknowns of Weeksville and the Henson Club of Jamaica (Queens) in Brooklyn, NY."</p> <p> </p> |Sources=<p>[A] <em>New York Anglo-African</em>, July 30, 1859. Per Dean Sullivan, pages 34-36.</p> <p>[B] Email from Larry Lester; taken from his chronology of African American baseball, 8/17/2007.</p> |Comment=<p>Chris Hauser, in an email on 9/26/2007, estimates that this notice appeared in the <em>New York Anglo-African</em>, and was referenced in Leslie Heaphy's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Negro League Baseball.</span></p> |Query=<p><strong>Note:</strong> Can we get text from the sourced citation [A] , and a source for the text citation [B] ? Was this one game or two? How can we find out more about the "Henson club" and the Unknowns?</p> |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No |Coordinates=40.6781784, -73.9441579 }}
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