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|Tags=Holidays,  
|Tags=Holidays,  
|Location=Harlem, New York City
|Location=Harlem, New York City
|Country=us
|State=ny
|City=nyc
|Game=Base Ball
|Game=Base Ball
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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Christmas Bash Includes "Good Old Fashioned Game of Baseball"

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Holidays
Location Harlem, New York City
City/State/Country: nyc, ny, us
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Holiday Christmas
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"On Christmas day, the drivers, agents, and other employees of the various Express Companies in the City, had a turnout entirely in character. . . . There were between seventy-five and eighty men in the company . . . . They then went to the residence of A. M. C. Smith, in Franklin st., and thence to the Red House in Harlem, where the whole party has a good old fashioned game of base ball, and then a capital dinner at which A. M. C. Smith presided."

 

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New York Daily Tribune, December 29, 1851. 

Comment

Richard added: "Finally this is a very rare contemporary cite of baseball for this period. Between the baseball fad of the mid-1840s and its revival in the mid-1850s, baseball is rarely seen outside the pages of the Knickerbocker club books." John Thorn contributed a facsimile of the Tribune article.

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Can we surmise that by using the term "old fashioned game," the newspaper is distinguishing it from the Knickerbocker game?

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Submission Note Posted to 19CBB on 11/11/2008



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