Quote:
Originally Posted by doug.goodman
I have the Sept 6, 1956 first issue of Porter's Spirit of the Times, but I don't have it scanned.
I think my oldest scanned item is this Oct 15 1859 Harper's two page woodcut with a cricket match on the top and "A Base-Ball Match at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken" on the bottom
Edited to add the scans I found of the baseball content in that first issue of Porters.
|
That is a great newspaper, Doug. And the one from 1856 has to rank up there with oldest known baseball items. I know there are some earlier but that is really early.
A lot of great items shown. For me, personally, it has to be 1860s, or earlier (of which I have none) to be really old....This is circa 1865..