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Eureka! A press credential

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Antedated Firsts, Newspaper Coverage
Location US
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"The plan introduced by the Eureka Club of having tickets for the regular reporters of the press, none other to occupy seats near the scorer, should be adopted by all our clubs and public ground proprietors."

Sources

New York Sunday Mercury, June 23, 1867

Comment

As of March 2021, this appears to be the earliest reference to a right -- in the form of special tickets -- to exclusive seating being bestowed to reporters. 

Peter Morris discusses press coverage arrangements in Morris, A Game of Inches (Ivan Dee, 2006), section 14.5.3, pp 403 ff.  He cites  two Henry Chadwick sources of press areas in 1867 at the Brooklyn Union Grounds and later the Capitoline and Irvington grounds. 

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Query

Are earlier cases known?

Is it known whether these press accommodations were normally granted by a ball club, like the Eureka, or by the owner of the ballfield?

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes
Submission Note 3/11/2021



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