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Earliest Games in Chicago IL?

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Text	[1] Downer's Grove downs Union, 7/7/1858. "A match game was played yesterday afternoon between the Union Base Ball Club, of this city, and the Downer's grove Base Ball Club. . . . A spacious tent was erected on the Club's grounds, corner of West Harrison and Halstead Streets. The Downer's Grove Club came of [sic] victorious, the 'country boys' being excellent players." "Base Ball Match," Chicago Daily Press and Tribune, vol. 12 number 6 (Thursday, July 8, 1858), page 1 column 4. Posted to 19CBB on 9/11/2007 by Craig Waff. [2] Excelsior downs Union, 8/29/1858. The score was Excelsior 17, Union 11. Chicago Daily Times and Tribune, September 1, 1858, page 1 column 4. Posted to 19CBB on 9/11/2007 by Craig Waff. Growth in Chicago was slow. Although its population was nearing 110,000 in 1860, it still had only four base ball clubs. [Steven Freedman, "The Baseball Fad in Chicago, 1865-1870," Journal of Sport History, Volume 5 number 2 (Summer 1978), page 42.
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 <p>Growth in Chicago was slow.  Although its population was nearing 110,000 in 1860, it still had only four base ball clubs.  [Steven Freedman, "The Baseball Fad in Chicago, 1865-1870," <u>Journal of Sport History</u>, Volume 5 number 2 (Summer 1978), page 42.</p>
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