Title
Porter’s Spirit of the Times: A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage
Coverage
New York
Publisher
W. T. Porter
Date
September 1857–February 1858
Subject
Volume 3, numbers 1–26
Description
Shown here is the issue for September 12, 1857 (number 2), which features an original copperplate engraving of a baseball game at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey - the first image of the sport in an American periodical.