The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run". Abraham Winning the Ball

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A pro-Lincoln satire, deposited for copyright weeks before the 1860 presidential election. The contest is portrayed as a baseball game in which Lincoln has defeated (left to right) John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas, and John C. Breckinridge. Lincoln (right) stands with his foot on "Home Base," advising the others, "Gentlemen, if any of you should ever take a hand in another match at this game, remember that you must have a good bat' and strike a fair ball' to make a clean score' & a home run.'" His "good bat" is actually a wooden rail labeled "Equal Rights and Free Territory." Lincoln wears a belt inscribed "Wide Awake Club."(See no. 1860-14 on the Wide-Awakes.) A skunk stands near the other candidates, signifying that they have been "skunk'd." Breckinridge (center), a Southern Democrat, holds his nose, saying, "I guess I'd better leave for Kentucky, for I smell something strong around here, and begin to think, that we are completely skunk'd.'" His bat is labeled "Slavery Extension" and his belt "Disunion Club." At far left John Bell of the Constitutional Union party observes, "It appears to me very singular that we three should strike foul' and be put out' while old Abe made such a good lick.' Bell's belt says "Union Club," and his bat "Fusion." Regular Democratic nominee Douglas replies, "That's because he had that confounded rail, to strike with, I thought our fusion would be a short stop' to his career." He grasps a bat labeled "Non Intervention." Summary from: Library of Congress Print & Photographs Collection.
Full Title
The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run". Abraham Winning the Ball
Contributor(s)
Publisher
Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St N. Y
Date Issued
1860
Language
English
Form
image/tiff
Date Captured
2016-11-28
Identifier
769.973 PR 0061
https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10764510
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Note
Phase One P40+
Alex Japha
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Record Origin
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Currier & Ives. (1860). The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run". Abraham Winning the Ball (1–). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/national-game-three-outs-one-run-abraham-winning
Currier & Ives. 1860. “The National Game. Three "Outs" and One ‘Run’. Abraham Winning the Ball”. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/national-game-three-outs-one-run-abraham-winning.
Currier & Ives. The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run". Abraham Winning the Ball. 1860, https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/photographs-prints/national-game-three-outs-one-run-abraham-winning.