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"Champions of America"
Established in 1855, the Brooklyn Atlantics dominated New York baseball for more than a decade. Their greatest moment happened in Brooklyn on June 14, 1870, when, before a crowd of 20,000, they ended the Red Stockings' 2-year winning streak in what at the time was called the finest game ever played. The "Champions of America" image (shown here) was reproduced from what is considered the earliest extant dated collectible baseball "card." The Atlantics were predecessors of the Brooklyn Dodgers, now the Los Angeles Dodgers. |