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Lot # 1417: The First 11 Issues of 1877 The Baseball News

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Item was in Auction "December 2003",
which ran from 11/5/2003 12:00 AM to
12/4/2003 9:00 PM



One of the first baseball newspapers ever produced, this predated The Sporting News and Baseball Magazine by decades. Fabulous baseball content from “The Battle of the Pennant” to “The First Professional Champions,” the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings. Published by Howard H. Goshen of Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, these issues of this weekly newspaper runs from May 3, 1877 to July 12, 1877. The last two issues are both #10 and may have been the last ever (trying to trick subscribers?). 8x10” and 4-pages each, overall Good. Only specimens known.

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