Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 300

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(SPORTS--BASEBALL.) New Haven Daily Palladium. Approximately 155 issues, each 4 pages, 27 x 20 inches. Folio, buckram; front hinge broken, front free endpaper detached, minor wear; library bookplate and release stamp on front pastedown. New Haven, CT, 1 July to 31 December 1875

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Features strong coverage of most of New Haven's only season of major league baseball. See the exuberant 3 July report of the Boston Red Stockings visit, which proved to be New Haven's only victory at home over a good team: "The crowd rushed into the diamond, lifted [pitcher] Nichols upon their shoulders, and carried him around in triumph."