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{{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
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Tags=Music,
|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>
|Location=Greater New York City,
<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), 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>
|Country=United States
|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.</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>
<p>Reprinted in Henry Chadwick, <em>Th</em><em>e Game of Base Ball&nbsp;</em>(Munro, 1868, reprint Camden House, 1983), pp. 178-80.</p>
<p>Reprinted in "Ball Days, A Song of 1858",&nbsp;<em>Our Game</em>, Thorn,&nbsp;http://ourgame. mlblogs.com/?s=Ball+Days%2C+A+Song+of+1858. July 18, 2012</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Coordinates=40.7127837, -74.0059413
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Knicks Compose 17-Verse Song on Current Base Ball

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Music
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

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.

Sources

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.

Reprinted in Henry Chadwick, The Game of Base Ball (Munro, 1868, reprint Camden House, 1983), pp. 178-80.

Reprinted in "Ball Days, A Song of 1858", Our Game, Thorn, http://ourgame. mlblogs.com/?s=Ball+Days%2C+A+Song+of+1858. July 18, 2012

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