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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1859
|Year Number=42
|Headline=In Chicago IL, Months-old Atlantic Club Claims Championship
|Headline=In Chicago IL, Months-old Atlantic Club Claims Championship
|Year=1859
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>Atlantic 18, Excelsior 16. This "well-played match between the first nines of the Atlantic and Excelsior took place on the 15<sup>th</sup> ult., for the championship. . . . The victorious club only started this spring . . . . They have now beaten the Excelsiors two out of three games played, which entitles them to the championship." "Base Ball at Chicago," <u>New York Clipper</u> (date omitted; year inferred from scrapbook placement).  Facsimile from the Mears Collection provided by Craig Waff, September 2008. <b>Note:</b> So . . . was this construed as the 1859 city crown, just a dyadic rivalry crown, an "until-we-lose-it crown, or what?</p>
|Location=Illinois,
|Country=United States
|State=IL
|City=Chicago
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>Atlantic 18, Excelsior 16. This "well-played match between the first nines of the Atlantic and Excelsior took place on the 15<sup>th</sup> ult., for the championship. . . . The victorious club only started this spring . . . . They have now beaten the Excelsiors two out of three games played, which entitles them to the championship.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p>" "Base Ball at Chicago,"&nbsp;<span>New York Clipper</span>&nbsp;September 3, 1859, p. 160</p>
|Query=<p>So . . . was this construed as the 1859 city crown, just a dyadic rivalry crown, an "until-we-lose-it crown, or what?</p>
|Submitted by=Craig Waff
|Submission Note=September 2008
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=42
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Coordinates=41.8781136, -87.6297982
}}
}}

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In Chicago IL, Months-old Atlantic Club Claims Championship

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Atlantic 18, Excelsior 16. This "well-played match between the first nines of the Atlantic and Excelsior took place on the 15th ult., for the championship. . . . The victorious club only started this spring . . . . They have now beaten the Excelsiors two out of three games played, which entitles them to the championship.  

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" "Base Ball at Chicago," New York Clipper September 3, 1859, p. 160

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So . . . was this construed as the 1859 city crown, just a dyadic rivalry crown, an "until-we-lose-it crown, or what?

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Submitted by Craig Waff
Submission Note September 2008



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