1858.50

New York Game Reaches Philadelphia

Salience	Noteworthy
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Location
City/State/Country:	Philadelphia, PA, US
Modern Address
Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
Holiday
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Text	[A] "Although the Minerva Club was established in 1857, it members lived a quiet and largely unpublicized existence. The first report of the New York game of baseball in the city was an item noting an 1858 Thanksgiving Day match between two teams composed of members of the Pennsylvania Tigers Social Base Ball and Quoit Club." [B] Also: "PENN TIGERS BASE BALL CLUB. - The Two Nines of this club played their first match on Monday, 13^th inst, at Philadelphia, Boyce's party beating Broadhead's by only one run, the totals being 24 and 23."
Sources	Unidentified clipping in the Mears collection; by context it may have appeared in late spring of 1859. [A] William Ryczek, Baseball's First Inning (McFarland, 2009), page 115. His source for the 1858 game is the New York Clipper, November 27, 1858. [B] From Craig Waff's Games Tab 1.0.
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Comment	"The quoits part seems to have dropped out of usage pretty quickly, and they changed their name to the Winona BBC the following year. The Winonas disbanded in 1864, bequeathing their trophies to the Keystones." Edit with form to add a comment
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Submitted by	Craig Waff
Submission Note	September 2008; comment by Richard Hershberger 7/15/2013
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