Baseball season starts today! Did you know that the game was already the national pastime by 1860?
Thank you to Mark Robak for sending in this Currier & Ives print, first published three days before Lincoln was elected President on November 6th, 1860. The candidates pictured left-to-right are John Bell, of the Constitutional Union Party; Steven Douglas, of the Democratic Party; John Breckinridge, of the Southern Democratic Party; and Abraham Lincoln, of the Republican Party.
