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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1858
|Year Number=20
|Headline=Knicks Compose 17-Verse Song on Current Base Ball
|Headline=Knicks Compose 17-Verse Song on Current Base Ball
|Year=1858
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>Chorus: Then shout, shout for joy, and let the welkin ring,/ In praises of our noble game, for health is sure to bring;/ Come, my brave Yankee boys, there's room enough for all,/ So join in Uncle Samuel's sport - the pastime of base ball."</p>
|Tags=Music,
<p>The song was sung in honor of the Excelsiors at a dinner in August 1858, and recaptured in Henry Chadwick, <u>The Game of Base Ball</u> [1868; reprint, Camden House, 1983]
|Country=US
, pp. 178-180, per Dean Sullivan. Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, <u>Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908</u> [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 30-32.</p>
|State=NY
|City=NYC
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>Chorus: Then shout, shout for joy, and let the welkin ring,/ In praises of our noble game, for health is sure to bring;/ Come, my brave Yankee boys, there's room enough for all,/ So join in Uncle Samuel's sport - the pastime of base ball."</p>
<p>The song was sung in honor of the Excelsiors at a dinner in August 1858, and recaptured in Henry Chadwick, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Game of Base Ball</span> [1868; reprint, Camden House, 1983] , pp. 178-180.&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p>Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor,&nbsp;<span>Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908</span>&nbsp;[University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 30-32.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=20
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Chorus: Then shout, shout for joy, and let the welkin ring,/ In praises of our noble game, for health is sure to bring;/ Come, my brave Yankee boys, there's room enough for all,/ So join in Uncle Samuel's sport - the pastime of base ball."

The song was sung in honor of the Excelsiors at a dinner in August 1858, and recaptured in Henry Chadwick, The Game of Base Ball [1868; reprint, Camden House, 1983] , pp. 178-180. 

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Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 30-32.

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