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Excelsior Base Ball Club Forms in Albany NY

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Pre-modern Rules
Location NY State
City/State/Country: Albany, NY, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

[A] "Albany Excelsior Base Ball Club This Club was organized May 12, 1856."

[B] "The match game of Base Ball between the Empire and Excelsior Clubs, came off yesterday on the Cricket Grounds...Excelsior winning by 3."

 

Sources

[A] Porter's Spirit of the Times, May 23, 1857. 

[B] Albany Evening Journal June 11, 1856

Comment

It appears that the Empire Club and the Athlete Club of Albany had already existed at that time. The Empire - Excelsior game cited was apparently not played according to the Knickerbocker rules.

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