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First Baseball Attendance of a Thousand or More

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Ball in the Culture, Business of Baseball
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: Hoboken, NJ, US
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"There were thousands of ladies and gentlemen on the ground to witness this game."

Sources

New York Times, July 10, 1857, about Eagles - Gotham game at the Elysian Fields. Post be Craig Waff on 19cBB, 4/23/2010

Warning

Lacking enclosed fields, turnstiles or ticket stubs, attendances are only visual estimates.

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Waff counted 39 attendance estimates of one thousand or more in the NYC area prior to the Civil War.

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