Canastota Club
| Nick Name | Canastota Club |
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| Earliest Known Date | Saturday, June 25, 1859 -- No later than August 1859 |
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| Location | Canastota, NY, United States |
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| Description | The Oneida Sachem, June 25, 1859 says Canastota organized a base ball club last Monday evening, adopting the rules of the Syracuse BBC and electing J. C. Irish as president/captain, Charles Grunow as VP. The Syracuse Courier, July 1, 1859, reports the organization of this bbc, and that the bbc had a practice game Saturday last. [ba] The first known reference to a Canastota Club match game was in a Syracuse newspaper account of its game against the visiting Syracuse BBC in August 1859. The game was played in a grassy field where "the very many little depressions of an ordinary meadow field rendered entirely uncertain the course of a bounding ball." SBBC won the game by 6 runs. This is one of two games, both against Syracuse clubs in 1859, that are found in the baseball clipping collection of the Onondaga Hist. Assn. An account of a "return game" against SBBC on September 15, 1859, includes a reference to the trophy ball being presented at the post-game dinner. See Oneida Sachem 590915 [rh] Canastota NY is about 20 miles east of Syracuse. Its population is now about 4000. |
| Sources | The Oneida Sachem, June 25, 1859. Syracuse Courier, July 1, 1859 Morris, "Base ball Pioneers," p. 72 |
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| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
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| First in Location | Canastota, NY |
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| Entry Origin | Sabrpedia |
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Win/Loss Records As Far As We Now Know
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| Year | Games | Wins | Losses | Ties |
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| 1859 | 1 Played | 1 Won | 0 Lost | 0 Tied |
| 1860 | 1 Played | 0 Won | 1 Lost | 0 Tied |
Ballgames
| Page | Date | City | Borough | State | Team 1 | Team 2 | Score | First in | Contributor |
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| Ballgame | 1859-09-08 | Canastota | NY | Canastota Club | Salt Point Club of Salina | 42 - 40 | Canastota, NY | Bob Tholkes | |
| Ballgame | 1860-08-09 | Utica | NY | Club of Utica | Canastota Club | 19 - 16 | Bob Tholkes |
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