Edit Ballgame: Club of Fort Egbert v Gandolfo Club of Dawson in July 1901

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Description:	<p>Little else about baseball appeared in Dawson’s newspapers until 1901. That July, the local Gandolfos [of Dawson] – along with many townspeople – journeyed down the Yukon River via steamboat to Eagle, Alaska. There a team from Fort Egbert, a recently-created U.S. Army headquarters, awaited them. The Dawson team, named after merchant Joseph Gandolfo, romped. A week later, on Friday, August 2, the Gandolfos hosted a re-match. The crowd of 1,000 favored the American soldiers. When their pitcher, “Spider” Long cleared the bases in the eighth with a triple, “an enthusiastic fellow countryman drew the long-legged sergeant to one side, pulled out a wad of bills half as thick as his thigh and skimming off a ‘twenty’ pushed it into the pitcher’s hand. ‘It was worth every d—n cent of it,’ he exclaimed, enthusiastically, when ‘Spider’ mildly protested.” Although the northern skies still held a couple hours of sunlight, the game was called as a 12-12 draw at 9 p.m. ..."</p> <p>There was a rematch in Dawson.</p>
Sources:	<p>Phil Williams, "Dawson City Baseball," May 2021 SABR Deadball Era Committee Newsletter</p>
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