trivial item in the REA grand scheme of things, but
I can report the successful addition of the Spalding Pocket Scorebook to my holdings, that includes scorebooks patented by Harry Wright and George Wright. Remember, in the beginning, a scorecard one bought at the park had an empty box and perhaps only a few brief instructions on how to score. Then Harry, George, Al and others undertook to educate us and make a profit at the same time.
I also won the Opening Day 1896 New York Baseball Team program.
1. because it features the Detroit Wolverines as the opponent, but mostly
2. the cover features a newsboy hawking a copy of "The Journal" I feel strongly that a very similar program might have been used for the Newsboy League that the New York Evening World sponsored. We know that the Newsies played their games at the Old Polo Grounds up at 110th Street when the Giants were out of town.
Does any viewer have any program from such a game?
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