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Text | "During the 1850s and early 1860s, coverage of cricket in the sporting press generally exceeded that of baseball." William Ryczek, Baseball's First Inning (McFarland, 2009), page 108. Bill would certainly know! Writing more specifically about the Spirit of the Times, Bill says: "There was little baseball reported in The Spirit until 1855, and what did appear was limited to terse accounts of games (with box scores) submitted by members of the competing clubs. The primary emphasis was on four-legged sport and cricket, which often received multiple columns of coverage . . . . As interest in baseball grew, The Spirit's coverage of the sport expanded. On May 12, 1855, the journal printed the rules of baseball for the first time and soon began to report more frequently on games that took place in New York and its vicinity (Baseball's First Inning, page 163)." |
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