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PAGE ON A RAMPAGE! 6 HITS, 3 DOUBLES!

NEW YORK CITY, June 24 (1858) – Thursday afternoon’s game between Mutual B.B.C. and Gotham B.B.C. at Red House was a wild affair. 3-2 to Gotham after three innings, the final was 17-10 to Mutual in a game that went crazy over the middle innings – Mutual scoring ten runs and Gotham five. Every Mutual starter except for pitcher Ed Bush had at least one hit, and nobody on Mutual had a better day than first baseman Clarence Page.

Page slapped his first hit right away in the top of the first inning and never stopped, going 6/6 on the day:

• T 1ST: Single off H. Nilsson
• T 3RD: Single off H. Nilsson
• T 4TH: RBI Single off H. Nilsson
• T 6TH: Double off E. Jewell
• T 8TH: RBI Double off E. Jewell
• T 9TH: 2-RBI Double off F. Miller
• TOTAL: 6/6, 3 2B, 4 R, 5 RBI, 9 TB

Page’s six hits and trio of doubles both tied New York League records, while his four runs and five RBI were Mutual B.B.C. highs for 1858. Page was one of seven Mutual players to commit errors – they committed nine in total – but thankfully it came nowhere close to having an affect on the result of the contest.

For his efforts on the day, Page’s average rose from .333 to .381 and he drove in runs ten through fourteen on the season.