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State-wide Base Ball Association for California?
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | |
| City/State/Country: | San Francisco, CA, United States |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Notables | |
| Text | "The Pacific Base-Ball Convention held an adjourned meeting last night . . . on Merchant street, Col. Harry Linden presided. . . . "Messrs Gorman, Cashman, Linden were appointed a Committee to procure an elegant champion bat, regardless of cost, for future contests among Base-Ball Companies." "It being suggested that the Constitution and By-laws needed revision, Messrs Hooks, Glascock and Calvert were appointed a Committee for that Purpose. . . . Standing Committees for Judiciary, Credentials, Finance, Rules and Regulations, and Printing were named.
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| Sources | San Francisco Examiner, February 4, 1871 |
| Warning | |
| Comment | Richard Hershberger, 2/4/2021: 150 years ago in baseball: the Pacific baseball convention. This is much like the state conventions we see at this time, but more of an independent affair. California was still, even with the trans-continental railroad, the far end of beyond, so the baseball institutions tended to develop in parallel with but independent of those to the east. The Pacific convention was more of a free-standing affair than the state associations in the east, which mostly existed to appoint delegates to the national convention. It also seems comfortable with the idea of a formal championship, though I question empowering a committee to purchase the trophy bat "regardless of cost." |
| Query | Was the is first ever meeting of this group? Did it intend to represent base ball throughout California? Had other states established state-wide base ball associations by 1871? Edit with form to add a query |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Submission Note | FB Posting of 2/4/2021. |
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1871.9 State-wide Base Ball Association for California?"
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