The Whites and Browns played their second championship game here to-day in the presence of about 3,000 people, of whom 500 were well-behaved ladies and gentlemen, and the rest a howling mob of ruffians.
The Chicago Tribune of Tuesday, May 9, 1876, describing a game in St. Louis between the Chicago White Stockings aka Cubs and the St. Louis Brown Stockings aka Cardinals.
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There’s also some stuff from the Tribune about the Cubs first game ever, played in Louisville about two weeks before this game.
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So at the 23rd Street Grounds
it sounds like 500 in the stands, and 2,500 in the bleachers, then?
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