the week now these games we get just little snippets there through the knoxville whig this is parson brown those paper he's more interested in political baseball is a novelty is interesting and my gosh who are these guys who want to be idle lazy on the weekends when they should be in church playing baseball and so little information but what we do get is during that first game in 1867, it was attended by hundreds of spectator ers, both men and women. and women play a part as spectators in this game. and it was believed by women being on the ball field that they would calm the men and that they would not get out of hand, not get competitive. and remember that they are gentlemen, first and foremost during that game, a brass band led the procession of these two teams, the knoxville knoxville's and the holsteins, to the knoxville baseball grounds. and it is said by dow that they won that first game by 17. i can't confirm it from another source, but it does hold true that the knoxville prevailed in that first game and immediately was issued the next week for a game and that game the hosts won t