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Fifty Clubs Said Active in New York Area - Plus Sixty Junior Clubs

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That same spring, Porter's estimated that there were 30 to 40 base ball and cricket teams on Long Island [which then included Brooklyn] alone. 

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Seymour, Harold, Baseball: the Early Years [Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 24. [No ref given.]

Porter's Spirit of the Times, March 27, 1858, as cited in Ryczek, Baseball's First Inning (McFarland, 2009), page 75.

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