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1865 Harper’s with the Brooklyn Atlantics Championship Team.
Lot 521. 1865 Harper’s with the Brooklyn Atlantics Championship Team. The Atlantics were instrumental in the evolution of baseball from an amateur to professional sport and the development of the New York-Brooklyn rivalry. In the 1860s, teams from New York and Brooklyn met to determine a champion. Through 1866, the Atlantics won every championship, except in 1862 and 1863. This team participated in the first inter-city tournament attended by a U.S. President. In 1865, the Atlantics and Athletics competed against the Washington Nationals in the nation’s capital. President Andrew Johnson attended. This litho, titled “Champion Nine’ of the Atlantic Base-Ball Club of Brooklyn, L.I., 1865,” is about 10 ½” x 15 ½” and shows nine team members. With only a couple of minor wrinkles, it is one of the nicest Harper’s pages we have seen.
Winning Bid $102.
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