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[BASEBALL]. [EARLY CHICAGO BASEBALL]. The Chicago Daily Tribune. Volume XL. Chicago, IL, June 17, 1880 [and] Harper’s Weekly. Volume XXVI, No. 1347. [New York, NY, October 14, 1882]. An issue of a Chicago daily newspaper, as well as a page from Harper’s Weekly (pp. 651-652) with an engraved image of “The Chicago Base-Ball Club”. Newspaper is 12 folio pages on folded sheets. Each page is approximately 583 x 447 mm. Leaf from Harper’s Weekly is approximately 407 x 274 mm. General wear, toning, occasional chipping, a few marginal tears. The newspaper article on p. 5 has the headline: “Chicago Victorious in the First Encounter with the Worcester Team, / Winning the Game in the Tenth Inning by a Score of 7 to 6…” The Harper’s Weekly image has the following caption beneath the team members’ names: “The Chicago Base-Ball Club - From a Photograph by the Photo-Mechanical Printing Company…”