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{{Chronology Entry
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|Year=1861
|Year=1861
|Headline=American Guard [71st NY Regt] 42, Nationals BB Club 13
|Year Number=23
|Text=<p>“The National Base Ball Club requests the pleasure of your company on their grounds at the intersection of Maryland Avenue and 6<sup>th</sup> Street, East, on Tuesday, July 2d [1861], at twelve o’clock, to witness a match game with the 71<sup>st</sup> Regiment Base Ball Club”</p><p>The 71<sup>st</sup> had the duty to protect the Nation’s Capital against rebel incursions, and fielded a picked nine to play a National BBC nine. After three innings, they led 12-2, and coasted to victory. A familiar name for the 71<sup>st</sup> was 3b Van Cott, and for the Nationals French played 3b. The regimental history later reported that the game “was witnessed by a large number of spectators.” The <i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i> announced the contest on July 1 under the headline “The New York Seventy-First Despairing of Work, Going to Play Ball.” <b>Note: </b>Frank Ceresi reports [19CBB posting of 2/28/2009] that the French collection of the Washington Historical Society includes a handwritten scoresheet for the match, which describes a 41-13 Army victory.</p><p>The two sides played again a year later. On August 7, 1862, the Nationals won a rematch, 28-13. The regimental history says that “the game was played on the parade ground; the result was not as satisfactory to the boys as the year before. There was quite a concourse of spectators on the occasion, including a number of ladies . . . . At the close the players were refreshed with sandwiches and lager.” On June 25<sup>th</sup>, 1862, and the regiment’s company K took on the rest of the regiment and lost 33-11.</p><p>Source: 71<sup>st</sup> Regiment Veterans Association, “History of the 71<sup>st</sup> Regiment, N.G., N.Y.,” (Eastman, New York, 1919), pages 157, 232, and 236-237. Accessed 5/30/2009 via Google Books search “71<sup>st</sup> regiment baseball.” </p>
|Headline=War Sinks Silver Balls
|Tags=Civil War
|Salience=2
|Tags=Championship Games
|Location=Greater New York City,
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=40.7127837, -74.0059413
|State=NY
|City=NYC
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Youth, Adult
|Text=<p>[A] "CONTESTS FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.-- Additional interest will be imparted to the ensuing base ball season by the playing of a series of contests between the senior, as well as between the junior clubs, for a silver champion ball (and)...will initiate a new system of general rivalry, which will, we hope, be attended with the happiest results to the further progress and popularity of the game of base ball.</p>
<p>[B] "We learn from Daniel Manson, chairman&nbsp;<em>pro tem</em>. of the Junior National Association, that the Committee on Championship have resolved to postpone the proposed match games for the championship...Among the reasons...is the fact that quite a number of the more advanced players, from the clubs selected for the championship, have enlisted for the war."</p>
<p>[C] The senior-club silver ball competition, offered not by the national association but by the Continental BBC, a non-contender, was also not held due to the war. In 1862, with the war then appearing to be of indefinite duration, the Continental offered it as a prize to the winner of the informal championship matches, with those games played as a benefit for the families of soldiers.</p>
|Sources=<p>[A]&nbsp;<em>New York Sunday Mercury,&nbsp;</em>April 7, 1861</p>
<p>[B]&nbsp;<em>New York Sunday Mercury,&nbsp;</em>May 12, 1861</p>
|Submitted by=Bob Tholkes
|Submission Note=3/10/2014
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Salience Noteworthy
Tags Championship Games
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Youth, Adult
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[A] "CONTESTS FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.-- Additional interest will be imparted to the ensuing base ball season by the playing of a series of contests between the senior, as well as between the junior clubs, for a silver champion ball (and)...will initiate a new system of general rivalry, which will, we hope, be attended with the happiest results to the further progress and popularity of the game of base ball.

[B] "We learn from Daniel Manson, chairman pro tem. of the Junior National Association, that the Committee on Championship have resolved to postpone the proposed match games for the championship...Among the reasons...is the fact that quite a number of the more advanced players, from the clubs selected for the championship, have enlisted for the war."

[C] The senior-club silver ball competition, offered not by the national association but by the Continental BBC, a non-contender, was also not held due to the war. In 1862, with the war then appearing to be of indefinite duration, the Continental offered it as a prize to the winner of the informal championship matches, with those games played as a benefit for the families of soldiers.

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[A] New York Sunday Mercury, April 7, 1861

[B] New York Sunday Mercury, May 12, 1861

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