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Colored Union Club Beats Unknowns, 33-24

Salience Noteworthy
Tags African Americans
City/State/Country: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"We, the members of the Colored Union Base Ball Club, return our sincere thanks to you for publishing the score of the game we played with the Unknown, of Weeksville (sic?) on the 28th ult. [September 28, 1860]).

"We go under the name the "Colored Union," for, if we mistake not, there is a white club called the Union in Williamsburg at the present time."

Trailing 21-11 after three innings and by 26-18 after five, the Colored Union club eventually won with 6 runs in the ninth. 

 

 

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New York Sunday Mercury, October 14, 1860, col. 5-6.

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Where was Weeksville?  Brooklyn?

How does this game relate to entry 1860.9 above?

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Submitted by Gregory Christiano
Submission Note from Bob Tholkes' collection of NYSM images



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