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|First Newspaper Mention=1877/08/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|First Newspaper Mention=1878/07/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|First Newspaper Mention=1869/05/17 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|Name=Club of Demopolis v A MS club in August 1875 |State=AL

|Name=Club of Jasper, AL |State=AL

|Name=in Montgomery in May 1865 |State=AL

|Headline=31st Iowa plays baseball in Alabama |State=AL

|Name=in Eufaula in January 1873 |State=AL

|First Newspaper Mention=1874/08/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|Title=Al Spink resigns as St. Louis official scorer ...hat Mr. Lucas could select. Al. will leave the city soon for a short trip in order to bring himself into the proper condition for the work he will have

|State=AL |City=Tuscumbia

|Name=Club of Huntsville, AL |State=AL

|State=AL |City=Troy

|First Newspaper Mention=1877/08/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|State=AL |City=Demopolis

|State=AL |City=Gadsden

|Name=Fayetteville, TN v Club of Meridianville in August 1874 |State=AL

|State=AL |City=Dadeville

|State=AL |City=Snowdoun

|City=Oakland ...p. 333, says that Oakland had a Live Oak BBC in 1866, and a Wide Awake BBC in 1867.</p>

|State=AL |City=Mobile

|State=AL |City=Prattville

...e. But there should be no mistake about it. There should be no Al Wright in it, and no Spering, or Concannon, or Porter, at the head of it. The players

|State=AL |City=Cherokee

|Location=New York City, NY ...es traditional Barn Ball. A pitcher bounces a spaldeen ball off a wall and a batter tries to hit it on the rebound. Rules for baserunning and scoring ar

|State=AL |City=Marion

|State=AL |City=Greenville

|State=AL |City=Tuskegee

|Headline=Opdycke's Tigers Play ball in AL |State=AL

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/07/25 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|City=Fredericksburg ...Fredericksburg, March 8, 1863: "Since coming off picket the only amusement in camp is ball playing, which serves to while away the lonely hours."</p>

|State=AL |City=Fort Deposit

|Title=Baseball in the Berkshires: A County's Common Bond |Author=Overmyer, Jim, et. al

|Name=in Jayapura in 1944 |City=Jayapura

|Headline=196th PA plays ball in Baltimore |City=Baltimore

|State=AL |City=Selma

...ball, going so far as to throw stones at him, one of which struck his cap in the eighth innings, luckily without doing any injury. Philadelphia Sunday <p>Al Reach past his peak?</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1876/07/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|State=AL |City=Birmingham

|Name=in Luxembourg in 1945 |City=

|Title=Al Wright organizing a club ...e Sunday Mercury, a professional base ball club will be established in the city this season. The team will probably play at Oakdale Park, and will be manag

|Name=In St. Louis in 1856 |City=St. Louis

|Title=Al Wright once worked for the City Item ...ill-feeling toward Mr. Wright–no desire to call him a blackguard, a toady, a New York renegade, or any thing of that sort: quite the contrary! Egad, we

|City=Oakland ...19-321, says that Oakland had a Live Oak BBC in 1866, and a Wide Awake BBC in 1867.</p>

|City=San Francisco ...the Independents, Liberty, Occidental, Eclipse and Broderick clubs existed in San Francisco.</p>

|City=Rochelle ...editors, "Base Ball Pioneers. 1850-1870" p. 225 mentions a BBC in Rochelle in 1866.</p>

|State=AL |City=Tuscaloosa

...cated such a plan, but is opposed to any such idea. He stands flat-footed in favor of the existence of the National League and the American Association, ...openly violated the League rule on this point—has had something to do with Al's change of base on the subject. The Sporting Life August 17, 1887</p>

|Name=in Guam in 1908 |City=

|Headline=55th IL Plays Baseball in Alabama |State=AL

|State=AL |City=Mobile

|Name=in Kenitra in 1943 |City=Kenitra

...e and catching is made wonderfully easy. The new owner, Al Reach, of this city, has taken steps to fully protect by patent this invention, which is valuab

|City=Pecatonica ...was so bad it was the butt of jokes nationwide. The Chicago Cubs were not in existence at this time to provide Pecatonica any competition for that honor

|City=San Francisco ...the Independents, Liberty, Occidental, Eclipse and Broderick clubs existed in San Francisco.</p>

|City=Bridgeport ...ption=<p>Peter Morris et al., editors, "Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870" has a section on the early Bridgeport teams. It mentions 1865 Bridgeport teams na

|City=Middletown ...park at the corner of Washington and Berlin Streets. In 1871 they moved to a park bounded by River, Eastern, Silver, and State Terrace Sts., where the 1

|City=Ottawa ...at 1st base. This "Al. Sapp" is Alvin Jennings Sapp (3-20-1850 1-20-1919), a printer, whose brother Francis Marion Sapp (born 5-30-1838) edited the Otta

|State=AL |City=Montgomery

|Name=In Mobile in 1855 |State=AL

|City=Bridgeport ...ption=<p>Peter Morris et al., editors, "Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870" has a section on the early Bridgeport teams. It mentions 1865 Bridgeport teams na

|City=Bridgeport ...ption=<p>Peter Morris et al., editors, "Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870" has a section on the early Bridgeport teams. It mentions 1865 Bridgeport teams na

|Title=awareness that first base is best suited of lefties ...he other positions in the in-field; still he has so ably acquitted himself in the position of second base as to make it his permanent post., quoting the

|City=Bridgeport ...ption=<p>Peter Morris et al., editors, "Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870" has a section on the early Bridgeport teams. It mentions 1865 Bridgeport teams na

|Name=Montgomery Club of Montgomery v Capitol City Club of Montgomery on 20 November 1868 |State=AL

|City=Oberlin ...0-22, says the Oberlin team had a black 1st baseman in 1865, making it the first multiracial team we know of.</p>

...nd so notified Al Johnson. He also sent a long telegram to Treasurer Howe in New York informing him of his intention. The Sporting Life February 5, 189 ...ss sum than the Players' League asked him to, will ever be allowed to play in the organization with my consent. The Sporting Life February 12, 1889</p>

...ential citizens and supporters of the national game, including the veteran Al Reach. Subscription-papers for the purpose of raising the requisite $5,000 ...give it its old-time prestige in base-ball by having one of the best clubs in the country. The Item Philadelphia October 2, 1881</p>

|City=Ottawa ...at 1st base. This "Al. Sapp" is Alvin Jennings Sapp (3-20-1850 1-20-1919), a printer, whose brother Francis Marion Sapp (born 5-30-1838) edited the Otta

|Name=Summit City Base Ball Club of Fort Wayne |Club Name=Summit City Base Ball Club

|State=AL |City=Montgomery

|Headline=Editor Sees Stoolball in Verse on Bachelorhood |City=

...aising such an objection! The umpire, however, very properly decided that a man should run for him.</p> |Source=Evening City Item

...ngular feature of this game was the number of balls required to finish it; Al. Reach knocking three over the fence, and Fisler one–all of which were st <p>a difficult slow pitcher</p>

|State=AL |City=Mobile

|City=Byron ...ors, "Base Ball Pioneers. 1850-1870" p. 222 says the Byron BBC was founded in 1866.</p>

|Headline=Newell Sees Baseball&#39;s Roots in MA |City=

|Title=umpiring in Philadelphia ...umpires. Truly are the professionals doing al they can to ruin themselves in the estimation of the patrons of the game. Brooklyn Union.</p>

|Title=a proposal for post-season interleague play ...er. I have no doubt whatever but what the eight series would generally be a great success, providing the weather was all right. This thought prompts t

|City=Freeport ...liating loss. According to the newspaper, the Atlantics had tried to bring in "ringers" to this game.</p>

|Name=in Cape Town in 1897 |City=Cape Town

...the true one, and the League will come to it in time. It will not be the first idea they have borrowed from the American Association.</p>

|Name=Forest City Base Ball Club of Cleveland |Club Name=Forest City

|Title=Fitzgerald denounces Al Reach ...and persistent attacks! This is the Sunday school teacher! Is Base Ball a game for gentlemen?</p>

...eld hockey, in which players on two teams attempted to advance a ball with a club into the opposing team's goal.</p> ...NC banned the playing of bandy in the streets. In 1858 boys were arrested in DC for playing bandy on the streets (Washington Star, Nov. 27, 1858).</p>

|Location=Greater New York City |City=Hoboken

|Title=profanity in Boston .... Philadelphia]. It looked, in this game, as if their debut in Boston was a great success.</p>

...cBride at times quietly rebuke others for intemperate language, induced by a provocation that really affected him more than any one else. All honor to

|City=Middletown ...park at the corner of Washington and Berlin Streets. In 1871 they moved to a park bounded by River, Eastern, Silver, and State Terrace Sts., where the 1

|City=Centralia ...y, Secy. Same, Aug. 16, 1866, announces the "First nine" of the EBCC. "The first full game of none innings will be played on Friday, 3 p.m., by the Club, at

...ause the old club was so covered up with debt that, if any attempt to play a game under the same name had been made, the officers of the law would have ...and will use them about as they are, not caring to spend much if any money in fitting them up.</p>

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|State=AL |City=Mobile

|City=Canton ...ange, "played quite spiritedly in a game of old fashioned town ball" while in Canton.</p>

|City=St. Louis ...ll in dimension the ground was used almost solely for practice…” Al Spink, in The National Game, writes about early baseball games being played “on the

...e League and the American Association, and to make a number of alterations in the playing rules. Philadelphia Record August 31, 1883</p> ...Baltimore and Cincinnati out, and yet they are two of the best ball towns in the country. To sum up my opinion,” continued the Secretary, “I think

|First Newspaper Mention=1866/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Name=In MA in 1780 |City=

|Headline=Was Lewis Wadsworth the First Paid Player? |Location=Greater New York City,

|City=Shelbyville ...Callaway," p. 94 cites a letter from Shelbyvlle, TN, June 1863: "there is a big game of 'Town Ball' going on out there and they are all very jolly..."<

|City=New York ...eginning as a Junior Club in 1856, they transitioned to Senior competition in 1864.</p>

|City=Danby ...says a Chicago team beat the Rustics of Danby (modern Glen Ellyn) at Danby in 1867.</p>

|First Newspaper Mention=1866/06/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|City=Utica ...pril 1859, but this is the first game account that we know of. It is found in the baseball clippings collection at the Onondaga Hist Assn.</p>

|State=AL |City=Spring Hill

...Hurlbut has already received numerous propositions from ball players; but in view of the fact that the directors had previously promised that all commun ...other property at the ball park, and there are several hundreds of dollars in the hands of the treasurer.</p>

|State=AL |City=Spring Hill

|First Newspaper Mention=1875/08/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|Headline=Henry Chadwick Plays a "Scrub" Game of Baseball? |Location=Greater New York City,

...r the eastern party. ... The Athletics went in resolved to win and that by a big score. The friends of the Excelsiors wanted to see the Rockford Club t

|City=Mansfield |Description=<p>"[T]he Mansfield Base Ball Club [was] formed [in 1866]. The following year, the Mansfield Base Ball Club became the Independ

|City=Altoona ...1862, under the headline "A Base Ball Club" says a BBC has been organized in that town, and equipment purchased. Membership costs $1.00.</p>

|State=AL |City=Mobile

|Name=in Oro Bay in 1944 |City=Oro Bay

|Name=Ballgame in Lentner in 1869 |City=Lentner

|City=Fort Valley ...m>, July 25, 1868 gives the box score of a game played on the 16th between a Macon picked nine and the club of Fort Valley.</p>

|State=AL |City=Montgomery

|Title=a twelve-club combined League talked of ...ittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Columbus and Kansas City.</p>

|City=Oakland ...m>, June 30, 1870, reports on this team playing the Silver Stars of Carson City, Nevada.</p>

|City=Jackson ...The Daybreak Club of Jackson is the first club listed in Jackson County MI in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003).</p>

...said that Messrs. Harry M. Disston and John Forepaugh are also interested in the new club, but the former denies the report. The new club will probably

|State=AL |City=Montgomery

|City=Yanghai ...n dated as a little over 3000 years ago.&nbsp; "The results were published in the open-access&nbsp;<em>Journal of Archeological Science: Reports</em>.</p

|Name=in Mobile in 1860 |State=AL

|Name=Flour City Club of Rochester v Niagara Club of Buffalo on 3 September 1858 |City=Rochester

|City=Bedford, Long Island ...e. in what was then Bedford. The Three Mile House of Charles B. Holder was a well known inn, situated on Fulton Ave,. around what is now New York and Br

|Title=the organizing of the Quaker City club ...presiding officer some respectable man, we shall give it al the aid we can in accordance with their deserts. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury February 24, 18

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=NYC

|City=Philadelphia <p><span>-- Comment by Richard Hershberger in 8/24/2022 FB posting.</span></p>

|City= ...was played very much like the modern game of baseball but was played with a soft rubber ball.&nbsp; The ball was thrown at the runner and if he was hit

|State=AL |City=Selma

|City=Lewiston ...e Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870" mentions the Androscoggins of Lewiston playing in 1866.</p>

...nutes from the City depot, and it presents a fine field for the purpose of a permanent inclosed ball ground. New York Sunday Mercury December 8, 1872</ <p>numbered reserved seats; a seating chart</p>

|State=AL |City=Mobile

|City=Chicago ...ominent one, and is one of the pioneer clubs, having been in existence for a year or more."</p>

|Title=the Atlantics backing out of a match ...erkenstock and Reach both played at great disadvantage from the same cause in Atlantic matches. Our boys refused to entertain the proposition to postpon

...for Johnson. These are the two organs of the Brotherhood. All the other city papers, which are non-partisan, scored it 14 and 3 and 3 and 7.”</p> ...rtisanship with a vengeance. There are no strong National League shouters in America than the base ball editors of the Star, Sun, Tribune, Journal, and

|City=West Meriden ...iption=<p>Peter Morris et al, editors, "Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870" has a section on this team.</p>

...id to be the most prominent in the movement. He is reporting as saying to a Record reporter:</p> ...us up, even if we were forced to pay everything, and the chances are that a part of the debts are outlawed. We shall do nothing until after the champi

|State=AL |City=Selma

|First Newspaper Mention=1894/05/27 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

...ure of which could not be ascertained. It is understood that it contained a demand for money for the favorable vote of the St. Louis club on the amendm ...I hereby withdraw my objections to the admission of the League club in the city of St. Louis. Very respectfully, Christ Von der Ahe.</p>

|City=GNYC |Text=<p><span>"I used to play shortstop, and I believe I was the first to occupy that place, as it had formerly been left uncovered."</span></p>

|City=West Point ..., and Montgomery Base Ball Clubs will contest with the Independents of our city for the premium offered to the best &ldquo;base ballists.&rdquo;&rdquo;</p>

|Title=a Massachusetts professional circuit? ...ract between a player in an association club and a manager of another club in the association before Nov. 1. Philadelphia Item April 2, 1876</p>

|Name=Central City Club of Selma |Club Name=Central City

|Name=Gate City BBC of Atlanta |Club Name=Gate City BBC

|City=Pensacola ...e Bonnie Blues of Montgomery beat the Sevilles 61-18 on the 21st, and beat a picked nine from the Sevilles and Westcotts of Pensacola on the 22nd.</p>

...enlisted, and the Boston Club’s stock was taken up by the home people with a rush. This ended Mr. Lucas’s labors so far as the whole organization was

|City=New York ...hteenth anniversary on August 25, which suggests that the club was founded in the summer of 1853."</p>

...by the Providence nine in 1881, because after he had agreed to go to theat city he withdrew from the profession and went into business, and Joseph Gerhardt

...r thousand dollars in arrears. So great was the demand for the stock, that a motion was unanimously passed at this meeting, to the effect, that one hund ...and those who wish to obtain the same should make immediate application to Al. Reach, as it is not likely that these few remaining shares of stock will b

|Headline=First Chicago Club Forms |City=Chicago

...mpires, and give the home club and the crowd of spectators full benefit of al the doubtful decisions. Cincinnati Commercial March 15, 1882</p> ...ng against the home club has done more than any one evil to hurt base ball in Cincinnati, and the present club does not propose to see one man called an

...eet a similar committee of the Players' League. Mr. Thurman also outlined a plan for combining the three present major leagues into two leagues, upon w ...ussion. Finally wiser counsels prevailed, and a big step was taken towards a solution of the base ball problem by the passage of the following resolutio

|State=AL |City=Decatur

|Name=in Salisbury in 1862 |City=Salisbury

|Headline=Ballplaying Frequently Played at Salisbury Prison in North Carolina |City=Salisbury

...Louisville Evening Post; Oliver Cromwell, Louisville Commercial; Joseph A. Altsheler, Courier-Journal; Frank H. Brunell, Cleveland Plain Dealer; J. ...The Sporting Life; G. A. Tomlinson, Tribune; thomas May, evening News; A. T. Cowell, Washington Evening Critic; J. W. O'Rourke, National Republican

...enables a researcher to locate and count team nicknames of the 3,700 clubs in the database. ...tar” denoted the lead performer (as in a play) as well as a heavenly body. A well-regarded early Brooklyn club also sported this nickname.

|City=New York ...o; offered <em>Spirit of the Times) </em>at Second Avenue and 105th Street in New York.</p>

|City=Brooklyn ...y. It is not believed, however, that either of the events will 'come off,' in consequence of some mal-arrangements of misunderstanding among the several

|Location=Greater New York City, |City=New York

|City=Springfield ...ent . . . playing billiard a little, town ball a little, and story-telling a little."</p>

|Title=baseball excitement in Philadelphia ...papers all the extended and well written reports they had frequently sent in, only to be excluded altogether, or so cut down as to take away the very pi

...e if Messrs. McKnight, Pratt, Caylor and Wright had not been there to form a quorum even Mr. Thorner’s enterprise would have counted for naught. So a

...s obliged to retire. If a man is temporarily disabled by running from say first to second, this should not prevent another player of the nine from taking h <p>Indianapolis joins the League; St. Louis and Kansas City out; dividing up the players; Washington threatens to resign the League</p>

...of Strike Four: The Evolution of Baseball (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). A frequent (and exacting) contributor to SABR's 19CCB list-serve, he is also ...into the field in a fog of idle curiosity. You seem to have arrived with a pre-fabricated mission of reading primary baseball material, year-by-year.

...f professional league baseball in 1871. This article will offer some items in that history. ...have been sold at sporting events since ancient Rome built its Colosseum. In early 19th Century America, horse-racing was the most popular spectator spo

|Headline=A Founder of the Gothams Remembers "First Ball Organization in the US" |City=New York

|Related Pages=Chronology:Civil_War, Chronology, Ballplaying in Civil War Camps ...the Civil War (Millen 2001; Kirsch 2003)<ref>George B. Kirsch, <u>Baseball in Blue and Gray</u> (Princeton U., 2003); Patricia Millen, <u>From Pastime to

...group, on EF's influence on how base ball evolved.&nbsp; It concludes with a range of 4 alternative speculative but plausible assessments.&nbsp; We seek ...e not restricted to EF itself, but might&nbsp;treat&nbsp;issues that arose in the EF postings -- like the availability of playable grounds, etc.<br></p>

...text-decoration: underline;">Finding Elysian Fields Data on Protoball.org (In preparation</span>)'''</p> ...="text-align: left;">[] ''Baseball at Hoboken's Elysian Fields, 1845-1865: A Visual History,''</p>

|Region=Greater New York City, 1861 - 1862 ! City/Town Playing Field

|Title=A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball ...fore another military man, one Abner Doubleday allegedly invented the game in the sleepy east central New York village of Cooperstown.</p>