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|Year=1863
|Year=1863
|Headline=Championship Game for Army of the Potomac Held in VA
|Headline=In Virginia: Select Nine 29, 2nd NJ Brigade 15
|Text=<p>In April 1863, “the Third Corps and Sixth Corps baseball teams met near White Oak Church, Virginia, to play for the championship of the Army of the Potomac.” <b>Note:</b> this appears to be the only reference we have to an army corps having a base ball club; can we find corroboration, and/or other cases?</p><p><u>History. The First National Bank of Scranton, PA</u> (Scranton, 1906), page 37. This company history includes “A Scrap of Personal History” [page 36 ff] that describes how the 1906 bank President, James A. Linen, had enlisted in the 26<sup>th</sup> Regiment of the New Jersey Volunteers in 1862, having been the pitcher for the Eureka ballclub in Newark. Linen pitched for the [unidentified] winning side in the championship game. He became a teller at the bank in 1865. Accessed on Google Books 6/13/2009, via “linen scranton history” search. </p>
|Text=<p>“A match game of base ball was played near the banks of the Rappahannock on the 2<sup>nd</sup> inst., between selected nines of the 2d and 26<sup>th</sup> Regiments, and of the 2d New Jersey Brigade, resulting in favor of the former, 29 to 15. Among the players of the former were Lieuts. Linen [see file CW-65] and Neidisch [sic?] of the Eureka and Newark Clubs.”</p><p><u>Newark</u><u> Daily Advertiser</u>, June 6, 1863. Provided by John Zinn, March 10, 2009. </p>
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|Tags=Civil War
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“A match game of base ball was played near the banks of the Rappahannock on the 2nd inst., between selected nines of the 2d and 26th Regiments, and of the 2d New Jersey Brigade, resulting in favor of the former, 29 to 15. Among the players of the former were Lieuts. Linen [see file CW-65] and Neidisch [sic?] of the Eureka and Newark Clubs.”

Newark Daily Advertiser, June 6, 1863. Provided by John Zinn, March 10, 2009.

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