The 1866 Currier & Ives' lithograph "The American Game of Base Ball" depicts the 1865 championship game between the New York Mutuals and the Brooklyn Atlantics played at Elysian Field in Hoboken, New Jersey.[2]
SOURCE REFERENCES
01. Major League Baseball 2014 Official Rules; Major League Baseball (retrieved March 15, 2015)
02. Currier & Ives Print of Early Baseball Game; 19c Baseball (retrieved March 15, 2015)
03. Maverick, Relic of Fort Tejon (1957), Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
baseball
19th-century American bat-and-ball game of sport played between two teams of nine players each with a diamond-shaped field defined by four bases.[1]
Relic of Fort Tejon: In July of 1878, Bret Maverick climbed the stairs of Carl Jimson's Square Deal Saloon and passed a framed copy of Currier & Ives' "The American National Game of Base Ball."[3]
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