Buckeye Base-Ball Club/Live Oak of Cincinnati

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Nick Name	Buckeye Base-Ball Club/Live Oak
Earliest Known Date	1860 -- Fall
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Location	Cincinnati, OH, United States
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Description	"It us undoubtedly to college boys that the West owes its early indebtedness for the introduction of base-ball. In Cincinnati the first game was instituted by two young men from Rochester College in the fall of 1860. One of these was Theodore Frost, and the other is now a prominent druggist of Cincinnati. They worked hard to substitute the new game for town-ball, and in the fall succeeded in organizing the Buckeye Base-Ball Club. This was the first Base-ball Club gotten together in Cincinnati. The players were selected from the Woodward and Hughes High School scholars and young business men from of the city. From a 1879 Cleveland Press article found in the Chadwick Scrapbooks. As cited in Peter Morris, But Didn't We Have Fun (Ivan Dee, Chicago, 2008), page 42. Note: Ellard's Baseball describes an unnamed club, one that listed Frost as a player, that started play in 1860, mixing base ball and town ball through the Civil War years. This club was organized as the Live Oak Club in 1866, "which was really the first baseball club here [in Cincinnati]." Henry Ellard, Base Ball in Cincinnati (McFarland, 2004), pages 19-22. Cincinnati's population in 1860 was over 141,000. It was the 7th largest US city. Open Issue: it seems unclear whether Frost's club played by Association rules during the War. Can we learn more?
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Players

Player	Years	Roles	Edit Association with Club
William P. Wright	1868-1870

Playing Fields

Field	Years	Edit Association with Club
Orphan Asylum Lot, Cincinnati	1861

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