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Base Ball Club Forms in Augusta GA: Town Ball Played Also/Instead
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | |
| Location | GeorgiaGeorgia |
| City/State/Country: | Augusta, GA, US |
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| Game | Town BallTown Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | "Baseball Club formed in Augusta in 1859," unidentified clipping at the Giamatti Research Center, Cooperstown, September 15, 1985. Per Millen note # 42. "Town Ball. - On the 24th ult., the young men of Augusta, Ga., met on the Parade Ground, and organized themselves in two parties for enjoying a friendly game at this hearty game." They played two innings, and "W.D.'s side scored 43, squeezing the peaches on P. B.'s, who managed only 19. Query: Is there any indication that Association rules were used by the reported club? From another source: The Daily Chronicle and Sentinal [Augusta?] in 1860 reported that the Base Ball Club of Augusta had formed the previous year. It reported on this "noble and manly game" as played on November 7, 1860" "There were 6 innings. Doughty's side made 32 rounds; Russell's side made 20 rounds."
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| Sources | The New York Clipper (date and page omitted; date inferred from scrapbook placement). Facsimile from page 25 (column 3, third story) of a Mears Collection scrapbook. From an unidentified clipping marked [in hand] "September 15, 1985 Augusta GA," in the Origins file at the Giamatti Center of the Hall of Fame. |
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| Submitted by | Craig Waff |
| Submission Note | September 2008 |
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1859.4 Base Ball Club Forms in Augusta GA: Town Ball Played Also/Instead"
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