1898 baseball footage

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Posted By: Brett

I thought you all would like to see this. I guess its the earliest known baseball footage or earliest surviving footage, although I could be wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEVbProsRo

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Posted By: John S

That was pretty cool...thanks for sharing.

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Posted By: barrysloate

It is in fact the earliest known baseball footage.

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Posted By: leon

Thanks for posting it...That is some wonderful footage...

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Posted By: Jimmy

detail is not that bad for being over 100 years old, great short film of early baseball

Thanks Jimmy

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Posted By: Brett

Kind of off topic, but some of you collect boxing cards. This is part of the 1897 fight bewtween Jim Cotbett and Bob Fitzimmons. I thought this was old, but the earliest surviving footage in general is from 1888. Just think, old judge cards were new back then !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37OcLWu1T_E

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Posted By: E, Daniel

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Posted By: Jimmy

boxing has a lot of great history as well, amazing these films survived

Thanks

Jimmy

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Posted By: judson hamlin

Does anyone know where Edison filmed that? The second runner in the film has "Newark" on his uniform. Given that Edison's lab complex was in West Orange, I will guess that it was filmed around Essex County, NJ. Any clues as to league?

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Posted By: Andrew

That was very cool! At the end there was a link to another Youtube video on early baseball.

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Posted By: Brett

Here is some hockey footage from 1898 !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmdx68MmSIg

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Posted By: Andrew

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Posted By: J Levine

According to a bunch of net searches...the teams portrayed in the Edison film were two local amateur teams from Newark.

Joshua