First Game Bewteen Colored Cluubs

|Name=First Game Between Colored Clubs |Type of Date=Day |Date=1855/10/23 |Country=United States |State=NJ |City=Newark

|Description=

"BASE BALL - A match game of Base Ball was played between the St. John's and Union Clubs (colored) yesterday afternoon.  Two innings were played when it commenced to rain.  The St. John's Club made ten runs and the Union Club only two.  The game is to be played again on Friday at 2 o'clock, on the ground of the St. John's Club, foot of Chestnut Street." 

|Sources=

Newark Daily Mercury, Oct. 24, 1855, per 19cbb post by John Zinn, Sep. 6, 2011

|Has Source On Hand=No |Submitted by=Bob Tholkes |Submission Note=2/21/2015 }}