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Excelsiors Conduct Undefeated Western NY Road Trip. . ."First Tour Ever? First $500 Player Ever?
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Tags | Baseball ProfessionalismBaseball Professionalism |
Location | Western New YorkWestern New York |
City/State/Country: | NY, US |
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Text | [A] "The Excelsiors of Brooklyn leave for Albany, starting the first tour ever taken by a baseball club. They will travel 1000 miles in 10 days and play games in Albany, Troy, Buffalo, Rochester, and Newburgh." [B] In announcing the tour, a Troy paper noted: "The Excelsior Club of Brooklyn, who have pretty well reduced base ball to a science, and who pay their pitcher [Jim Creighton] $500 a year, are making a crusade through the provinces for the purpose of winning laurels." [C] News of the triumphant return of the Excelsiors appeared in The item started: "The Excelsior , the crack club of Brooklyn, and one of the best in the United States, returned home of Thursday of last week, after a very pleasant tour to the Western part of the State. During their trip, they played games with several [unnamed] clubs, and we believe were successful on every occasion." |
Sources | [A] Baseballlibrary.com - chronology entry for 6/30/1860. [B] "Base Ball," Troy Daily Whig Volume 26, number 8013 (Tuesday, July 3, 1860), page 3, column 5. Facsimile provided by Craig Waff, September 2008. [C] "Base Ball," Spirit of the Times, Volume 30, number 24 (Saturday, July 21, 1860), page 292, column 1. Facsimile provided by Craig Waff, September 2008. Craig Waff, "The Great Excursion", Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), pp. 24-27 |
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Comment | The New York Sunday Mercury noted on April 29 that the Excelsior were organizing a tour, and announced on June 17 that arrangements had been completed. Edit with form to add a comment |
Query | Was it really the first tour? On whose authority? Edit with form to add a query |
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Submission Note | Comment by Robert Tholkes 11/11/2013 |
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