Talk:Jim Creighton

Right now:
In an 1887 issue of early sports newspaper The Sporting Life, a letter-writer, who signed only as "Old Timer", sent in his account of the event. Others who consider assume that it was some already-present injury or disease, or that his appendix or spleen had burst after the game.

Regardless, baseball's first superstar was dead. Had he survived, he would have been thirty when baseball's first professional league, the National Association, was founded.

In an 1887 issue of early sports newspaper The Sporting Life, a letter-writer, who signed only as "Old Timer", sent in his account of the event.

&, he said, what??

Others who consider  this mystery [????]  assume that it was some already-present injury or disease, or that his appendix or spleen had burst after the game.

Thank You,

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Most popular sport?
I changed

to

(adding the word "team"). It is sourced to Ryczek page 14 (altho its quite possible that the source was only intended to reference the following sentence).

I don't have Ryczek's book, but it's an extraordinary claim, and it's possibly something the Ryczek said without really researching the matter deeply. It's a book so there was presumably no rigorous independent fact checking. I'd like to see a second source for this claim.

Boxing was very popular at this time, and so was horse racing. Our article on horse racing says it was the most attended sport of the 19th century. Wrestling was also popular, and of course hunting and fishing if you consider those sports. So I made the addition of "team" on this basis. Herostratus (talk) 13:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)