Base Ball in BROOKLYN EAGLE (21 October 1845)

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   The first baseball game (new rules) was supposedly played at the Elysian
Fields in Hoboken on 19 June 1846.  These are the first citations in the
online, full-text BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE.


BASE BALL
   21 October 1845, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 2:
   A GREAT MATCH AT BASE BALL.--This afternoon at 2 o'clock, the New York
Base Ball Club play a match at ball with the Brooklyn Club at the Elysian
Fields, Hoboken.

BASEBALL
   27 October 1859, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 3.
(Used in a headline, but it could be that a space was intended.  If so, put
"baseball" in the 1860s here--ed.)

NATIONAL GAME
   3 August 1859, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 3:
   OUR NATIONAL GAME.

NATIONAL PASTIME
   19 April 1856, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 2:
   ...the national pastime of expectoration.
   9 September 1863, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 2:
   ...the thousands of admirers of our national pastime.

BASEBALL ORIGINS
   16 July 1873, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 4:
_SPORTING REMINISCENCES._
_The Old Cricket and Base Ball Clubs._
(...)
Thirty years ago the new national game of
   BASEBALL WAS UNKNOWN,
except in its old original form, as played by the school boys, when to put a
man out all you had to do was to throw the ball at him while he was running
from base to base.  This was half the fun of the game at that time.  It was
not until 1854 that baseball came into vogue in Brooklyn...