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Recollections of a Jersey City Boy

Salience	Noteworthy
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Location	Jersey CityJersey City
City/State/Country:	Jersey City, NJ, United States
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Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
Age of Players	YouthYouth
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Text	From John Thorne, July 28, 2015: "This just in from Ben Zimmer, a Facebook friend who writes for the Wall  Street Journal. Important, I think. You might be interested in another early baseball example -- it's from  the Jersey Journal from Jersey City (where I live!), written in 1871 but  recalling a protoball club of the 1830s: Jersey Journal, Dec. 13, 1871, p. 1, col. 3 "Recollections of a Jersey City Boy, No. 3." While here let me say to the Champion Base Ball Club, for their  information, that in eighteen hundred and thirty-six and seven we had a  base ball club that could not be beaten. It was composed of such men as  Jerry O'Meara, Peter Bentley, J.C. Morgan, Jos. G. Edge, &c.... I would rather get hit by any member of the club than by Bentley, for he  was a south-paw or left-hander, and he used to strike and throw an  unmerciful ball." Bentley later became the town's mayor.
Sources	Jersey Journal, Dec. 13, 1871, p. 1, col. 3
Warning	John Zinn: It feels to me that the author is conflating a number of different things (his role, for example) into a club that played in the late 1830's.  However even if he is off by 10 years, a club of some kind in the late 1840's would be something new and, as John suggests, important.
Comment	John Zinn: The article in question is the third in a series that appeared in the Evening (Jersey) Journal late in 1871.  I've been able to find the first two (it's not clear if there were any more) and this is the only reference to base ball.   John Zinn: Found two more articles by our anonymous author, but with a lot of biographical information suggesting very strongly that he is John W. Pangborn who happened to be the brother of the editor and founder of the Evening Journal.   Edit with form to add a comment
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Submitted by	Bruce Allardice
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