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|Text=<p>"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."</p>
|Text=<p>"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."</p>
<p><u>New York</u><u>Daily Tribune,</u> December 29, 1851.  Posted to 19CBB on 11/11/2008 by Richard Hershberger. 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 virtually seen outside the pages of the Knickerbocker club books."  John Thorn contributed a facsimile of the <u>Tribune</u> article.  <b>Query:</b> Can we surmise that by using the term "old fashioned game," the newspaper is distinguishing it from the Knickerbocker game?</p>
<p><u>New York</u><u>Daily Tribune,</u> December 29, 1851.  Posted to 19CBB on 11/11/2008 by Richard Hershberger. 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 virtually seen outside the pages of the Knickerbocker club books."  John Thorn contributed a facsimile of the <u>Tribune</u> article.  <b>Query:</b> Can we surmise that by using the term "old fashioned game," the newspaper is distinguishing it from the Knickerbocker game?</p>
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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."

New YorkDaily Tribune, December 29, 1851. Posted to 19CBB on 11/11/2008 by Richard Hershberger. 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 virtually seen outside the pages of the Knickerbocker club books." John Thorn contributed a facsimile of the Tribune article. Query: Can we surmise that by using the term "old fashioned game," the newspaper is distinguishing it from the Knickerbocker game?

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