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|Year=1851 | |||
|Year Number=7 | |||
|Headline=Christmas Bash Includes "Good Old Fashioned Game of Baseball" | |Headline=Christmas Bash Includes "Good Old Fashioned Game of Baseball" | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Holidays, | |||
|Game=Base Ball | |Game=Base Ball | ||
| | |Age of Players=Adult | ||
|Holiday=Christmas | |||
|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> | ||
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|Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Daily Tribune,</span> 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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Tribune</span> article.</p> | |||
|Query=<p>Can we surmise that by using the term "old fashioned game," the newspaper is distinguishing it from the Knickerbocker game?</p> | |||
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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Text | "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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Sources | New York Daily 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. |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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