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Originally Posted by RUKen
Sporting Life also covered it as a League game in the September 27th issue of 1890 (page 2, column 1):
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Those quotes I have above about it being an exhibition game are from the Sporting Life. That boxscore you posted there might be the reason it was identified as a regulation game, even though the previous issue ran the one quote and the subsequent issue ran the other.
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