1860.61

Colored Union Club Beats Unknowns, 33-24, in Brooklyn

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	African AmericansAfrican Americans
Location
City/State/Country:	Brooklyn, NY, USA
Modern Address
Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
Holiday
Notables
Text	"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 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." The letter goes on to report a game against the Unknown Club on October 5, 1860. The Colored Union club eventually won with 6 runs in the ninth.
Sources	New York Sunday Mercury, October 14, 1860, col. 5-6.
Warning
Comment	Weeksville was a town founded by freedmen. Its population in the 1850s was about 500. Edit with form to add a comment
Query	How does this game relate to entry 1860.9 above? Edit with form to add a query
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External Number
Submitted by	Gregory Christiano
Submission Note	from Bob Tholkes' collection of NYSM images
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