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Lipman Emanuel "Lip" Pike, nicknamed "the Iron Batter", was an American star of 19th-century baseball in the United States. His brother, Israel Pike, played briefly for the Hartford Dark Blues during
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1876 St. Louis Brown Stockings, with Lip Pike in the second row, 4th from the left
Brooklyn Atlantics
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The Atlantic Base Ball Club of Brooklyn was baseball's first champion and its first dynasty. The team was also the first baseball club to visit the White House in 1865 at the invitation of President A
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…later in 1867 to the New York Mutuals, always a leading team, where he returned for 1868, having caught the eye of Boss Tweed. In 1869 he moved to the Brooklyn Atlantics, another perennial leader, where he hit .610. In 1870, the Atlantics, with Pike manning second base, finally ended Cincinnati's 93-game winning streak…
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Grand base ball match for the championship, between the Excelsior and Atlantic clubs, of Brooklyn, at the Excelsior Grounds, South Brooklyn, on Thursday, July 19, 1860
Atlantic defeats Athletic 21-15 on October 30, 1865 in Philadelphia in front of 12,000 spectators.