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Earliest Games in Chicago IL?
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | IllinoisIllinois |
| City/State/Country: | Chicago, IL, United States |
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| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Text | [1] "A match game was played yesterday [7/7/1858] 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." [2] The Excelsior Club downed Union, 8/29/1858. The score was Excelsior 17, Union 11. [3] Growth in Chicago was slow. Although its population was nearing 110,000 in 1860, it still had only four [with updated research, 18 (ba)] base ball clubs. |
| Sources | [1]"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]Chicago Daily Times and Tribune, September 1, 1858, page 1 column 4. Posted to 19CBB on 9/11/2007 by Craig Waff. [3] 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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| Submitted by | Craig Waff |
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1858.33 Earliest Games in Chicago IL?"
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