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Base Ball Games Reach Really Modern Duration; Score is 52-38
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | Greater New York CityGreater New York City |
| City/State/Country: | US |
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| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | [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." |
| Sources | [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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| Query | 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? Edit with form to add a query |
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| Submitted by | Craig Waff |
| Submission Note | Facsimiles provided September 2008. |
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1855.20 Base Ball Games Reach Really Modern Duration; Score is 52-38"
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