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|Year=1857 | |Year=1857 | ||
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|Text=<p>The editor of the < | |Headline=Calls for an American National Game | ||
<p>< | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Ball in the Culture, | |||
|Location=Greater New York City, | |||
|Country=United States | |||
|State=NY | |||
|City=NYC | |||
|Game=Base Ball, | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |||
|Text=<p>[A]The editor of the <span>Spirit of the Times</span>: There "should be some one game peculiar to the citizens of the United States," in that "the Germans have brought hither their Turnverein Association . . . and various other peculiarities have been naturalized."</p> | |||
<p>[B] <em>Spirit </em>also claimed that baseball "must be regarded as a national pastime"</p> | |||
<p> </p> | |||
|Sources=<p><span>[A]Porter's Spirit of the Times</span>, January 31, 1857, quoted in Willke, <span>Base Ball in its Adolescence</span>, page 121, Per Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809.</p> | |||
<p>[B] Adelman, Melvin L., <em>New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70</em> (1986), p. 135.</p> | |||
|Warning=<p>[B] Adelman regarded <em>Spirit</em>'s claim as "premature" because New York Rules baseball had not spread beyond the immediate area in 1857, but a more likely perspective is that such claims for baseball at this time stemmed from its presence nationwide in various forms since the colonial era.</p> | |||
|Submission Note=warning by Robert Tholkes 12/13/2013 | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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| Text | [A]The editor of the Spirit of the Times: There "should be some one game peculiar to the citizens of the United States," in that "the Germans have brought hither their Turnverein Association . . . and various other peculiarities have been naturalized." [B] Spirit also claimed that baseball "must be regarded as a national pastime"
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| Sources | [A]Porter's Spirit of the Times, January 31, 1857, quoted in Willke, Base Ball in its Adolescence, page 121, Per Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809. [B] Adelman, Melvin L., New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-70 (1986), p. 135. |
| Warning | [B] Adelman regarded Spirit's claim as "premature" because New York Rules baseball had not spread beyond the immediate area in 1857, but a more likely perspective is that such claims for baseball at this time stemmed from its presence nationwide in various forms since the colonial era. |
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