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Championship Game for Army of the Potomac Held in VA
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| Text | 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.” Note: 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? History. The First National Bank of Scranton, PA (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 26th 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. |
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1863. Championship Game for Army of the Potomac Held in VA"
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