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"Cricket vs. Base Ball:  A match game was played on the 21st inst., between the first nine of the Detroit Base Ball Club and nine of the first eleven of the Detroit Cricket Club. . . . No return game will be played, as the cricketers find base ball too much like hard work."  New York Clipper ("June 1860" noted in hand on the clipping).  Provided from the Mears Collection clippings by Craig Waff, September 2008.
"Cricket vs. Base Ball:  A match game was played on the 21st inst., between the first nine of the Detroit Base Ball Club and nine of the first eleven of the Detroit Cricket Club. . . . No return game will be played, as the cricketers find base ball too much like hard work."  New York Clipper ("June 1860" noted in hand on the clipping).  Provided from the Mears Collection clippings by Craig Waff, September 2008.
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Protoball entry 1860.36 at http://protoball.org/Chronology:_1840_-_1870. 
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Detroit's population in 1860 was about 45,500, and it was the 19th largest city in the US.
 
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|Sources=Protoball entry 1860.36 at http://protoball.org/Chronology:_1840_-_1870.
 
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