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<p>Jeff Kittel has found the report of the match.  It turns out that a 17-run 2<sup>nd</sup> inning was decisive.  The article reports "a large number of spectators, among whom were several ladies."  New Yorker S. L. Putnam was the ump.  Source: <u>St. Louis</u> <u>Daily Bulletin</u>, Wednesday, July 11, 1860.  Text contributed by Jeff Kittel, April 9, 2009.</p>
<p>Jeff Kittel has found the report of the match.  It turns out that a 17-run 2<sup>nd</sup> inning was decisive.  The article reports "a large number of spectators, among whom were several ladies."  New Yorker S. L. Putnam was the ump.  Source: <u>St. Louis</u> <u>Daily Bulletin</u>, Wednesday, July 11, 1860.  Text contributed by Jeff Kittel, April 9, 2009.</p>
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"The historical record states that the St. Louis Republican newspaper announced on July 9, 1860 that the first regular game of baseball in St. Louis was to be played that day at a location of what we know today as Fair Grounds Park in St. Louis. The game was to be played between the 'Cyclone' and the 'Morning Star' Baseball Clubs."

Website of the Missouri Civil War Museum, http://www.mcwm.org/history_baseball.html, accessed April 10, 2009.

Jeff Kittel has found the report of the match. It turns out that a 17-run 2nd inning was decisive. The article reports "a large number of spectators, among whom were several ladies." New Yorker S. L. Putnam was the ump. Source: St. Louis Daily Bulletin, Wednesday, July 11, 1860. Text contributed by Jeff Kittel, April 9, 2009.

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