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|Headline=Base Ball Games Reach Really Modern Duration; Score is 52-38
|Headline=Base Ball Games Reach Really Modern Duration; Score is 52-38
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=Greater New York City,
|Country=US
|Country=US
|Game=Base Ball
|Game=Base Ball

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Base Ball Games Reach Really Modern Duration; Score is 52-38

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Location Greater New York City
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Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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[A] Having more energy, apparently,  than what it takes to score 21 runs, the [NJ] Pioneer Club's intramural game in September 1855 took 3 and a quarter hours, and eight innings. Final score: single men, 52, marrieds 38.

[B] In December, the Putnams undertook to play a game [intramurally]to 62 runs, and started at 9AM to give themselves ample time. But "they found it impossible to get through; they played twelve innings and made 31 and 36." 

[C] "At East Brooklyn a new club, the Continentals, of which H. C. Law is president, played from 9 till 5 o'clock."

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[A] Spirit of the Times, Volume 25, number 31 (Saturday, September 15, 1855), page 367, column 3.

[B and C] Spirit of the Times, (Saturday, December 8, 1855), page 511, column 3.

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Note: these results seems like deliberates exceptions to the 21-run rule; are there others?  Was the 21-run rule proving too short for practice games?

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Submitted by Craig Waff
Submission Note Facsimiles provided September 2008.



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