Item #325615 To The President, Directors & Members of the L.F.B.C. We the members of the "Mohican Base Ball Club" beg lief [i.e. leave] to return our most sincere thanks for your kind and gentlemanly conduct shown to us during the game of Base Ball played at City Point on the 17th of June 1864 ... [manuscript]. Baseball.

To The President, Directors & Members of the L.F.B.C. We the members of the "Mohican Base Ball Club" beg lief [i.e. leave] to return our most sincere thanks for your kind and gentlemanly conduct shown to us during the game of Base Ball played at City Point on the 17th of June 1864 ... [manuscript].

[Boston]: June 20, 1864.
Price: $3,500.00
Manuscript letter, written and signed by C. James Conley "for the Club", bifolium on blue lined paper, with the original envelope addressed to the "President of the Lightfoot B.B. Club". 4to. Old folds.

Item #325615

An intriguing document from the early days of baseball, revealing that a game was played at City Point [i.e. South Boston, not Virginia] on June 17, 1864 between the Mohicans and the Lightfoots. A wonderful document from the earliest years of the game.

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