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City/State/Country: | Chicago, IL, US |
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Text | [A] "A team called the Unions is said to have played in Chicago in 1856, but the earliest newspaper report of a game is found in the Chicago Daily Journal of August 17, 1858, which tells of a match game between the Unions and the Excelsiors to be playing on August 19. A few other games ere mentioned during the same year." [B] "Though baseball match games had been played in Illinois since the very early 1850's, the first Chicago Club, the Union, was not established until 1856."
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Sources | [A] Edwina Guilfoil, et. al., Baseball in Old Chicago (Federal Writers' Project of Works Project Administration, 1939), unpaginated page 4. [B] John R. Husman, "Ohio's First Baseball Game," Presented at the 34th SABR Convention, July 2004. |
Warning | Neither source gives a reference to evidence of the 1856 formation of the Union Club, so we here rely in the documented reference to a planned 1858 game. |
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Submitted by | John Thorn |
Submission Note | Email of 4/9/2013 |
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