Official score card : Score card, 1893, August 25 : Brooklyn Base Ball Club : Eastern Park. 1893.

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Official score card : Score card, 1893, August 25 : Brooklyn Base Ball Club : Eastern Park. 1893.

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Score card, August 25, 1893, between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs. The Dodgers beat the Cubs 8 to 4 on this day. The cover of the scorecard is in color and has images of a ball, base, catchers' mask, glove and bat. The inside contains a number of advertisements. The card is scored in pencil. There is a notation on the cover which says, "Virginia Gould Blue from Frank Russell Baker". Inside there is a notation that say, "Baseball as she ought to be scored". The person scoring the game used a method different than the modern version. There is also a note saying "I left the last half of the 8th inning as we had such a lead pipe cinch". The scorer has made notes about changes in the line-up and the umpire. The Brooklyn team was made up of: Griffin, Keeler, Foutz, Hatfield, Burns, Daly, Kinslow, Shoch, and Kennedy; the Chicago team was made up of: Dungan, Dahlen, Wilmot, Anson, Lange, Kittridge, Camp, Parrott, and Abbey.

1 score card ; 24 x 16 cm.

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