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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Page 421, from the July 3, 1869 issue of Harper's Weekly. At the bottom of the page is that beautiful woodcut of the farewell dinner for AG Curtin, at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, June 12, 1869. Above it is a woodcut of... "The Redstocking Base-ball Club, Cincinnati. We give, on page 421, portraits of the picked nine of the Red Stocking Base-Ball Club of Cincinnati, Ohio. On the 16th day they beat the "Mutuals" and the next day the "Atlantics" of Brooklyn. The latter game was won 32 to 10. If the Red Stockings keep on and hold their own, they will be the champion club before the summer is ended. Hurrah for the Porkopolitans!"

At least that is what the paragraph on the other side says...