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A history of city life and politics in 19th century New York.
It taught me that the most famous sport at the time was rat clubbing. Many of the bars in Five Points had fighting pits in them. A man would go into the pit armed with a club and they'd dump sacks of rats into the pit and they'd either time how long it took for him to kill a set amount or time him on how many he could kill in an allotted time.
There were also riots concerning the two major Shakespearean actors of the day and whether their performances of Macbeth were nativist or not. Actually, there was a riot for almost anything. My favorite was an infamous brawl between the city and municipal police forces. Hundreds of cops met in front of city hall to settle a dispute over jurisdiction. They settled it by beating each other for two hours.
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