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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

fewer, not less...

I have about a dozen of 'em, and kinda like 'em.

Ewing standing tall taking up all of the front page... the Chicago team with Anson, Williamson, Clarkson, Kelly, and Billy Sunday. Some neat stuff...

But my favorite (probably because I so enjoyed "If I Never Get Back", almost the best baseball novel ever written) would be my page from the July 3, 1869 issue of Harper's. Across the top of page 421 is the woodcut of the "Red Stocking" Base-ball Club, Cincinnati. It the little article on the back, "On the 16th they beat the "Mutuals" and the next day the "Atlantics" of Brooklyn. The later 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!"

The team did 'hold their own'. Reckon this woodcut antedates the Peck and Snyder???