The Second Great Match Game for the Championship
date: label: date made
content: 1867
label: date of event depicted
content: 1866-10-22
name: label: maker
content: Magee, John L.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This colored print depicts a championship baseball game in progress between the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia and the Atlantics of Brooklyn. The game is being played on the grounds of the Philadelphia Athletics at Fifteenth & Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia on October 22nd 1866. The Philadelphia Athletics are at bat and the Brooklyn Atlantics are in the field. The players are identified by numbers corresponding to team lists below the image. There is a low stand on the left with spectators. The park is fenced and two men are seated at a table on the sidelines, beside them are three men in chairs and players relaxing in the grass. More spectators are depicted along the bottom edge of the print. one man engages in a fight while thwarting a pickpocket, while other men converse, keep score or gamble.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This was the final game of that year's 3 game World Series. The first game in Philadelphia on October 2, 1866 had to be called due to mob violence on the field at the bottom of the first inning, and Philly forfeited the game. They had sold 8, 000 tickets at 25 cents each but over 30,000 people showed up. The police could not handle the crowds. Because the teams split the win of the following 2 games with Philly beating Brooklyn 31-12 and Brooklyn beating Philly 27-17, the end result was that Brooklyn was able to reclaim the championship. During this championship, the Albany Bachelor Base Ball Clu challenged the Philadelphia Pythian Base Ball Club to have the first unoffical black baseballchampionship on the Parade Grounds at 11th and Wharton Streets.
label: Description (Brief)
content: John L. Magee was born in New York around 1820 and was employed by the lithographic firms of James Baillie and Nathaniel Currier. He started his own business in New York City in 1850, but moved to Philadelphia sometime shortly after 1852. He was known mainly for his political cartoons, which he produced until the 1860s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Carriages
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content: Architecture, Commercial Buildings
label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1860-1869
label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Uniforms, fraternal
label: Subject
content: Baseball
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Peters, Harry T.. America on Stone
label: Related Publication
content: Garvan, Anthony N. B. and Peter C. Welsh. Victorian American
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2809
label: catalog number
content: 60.2809
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 19 in x 27 1/4 in; 48.26 cm x 69.215 cm