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{{Predecessor Game
|Name=Honey Run Town Ball Club v Marion Town Ball Club in November 1859undefined
|Coordinates=40.028521, -75.1749671
|NY Rules=No - Predecessor
|Type of Date=Month
|Date=1859/11/01
|Country=United States
|State=PA
|City=Germantown
|Game=Town Ball
|Home Team=Honey Run Town Ball Club
|Away Team=Marion Town Ball Club
|Description=<p>"The games of base ball and town ball by many are preferred to cricket. In the way of town ball, the people of Germantown profess an ability to beat any other players that can be produced. To give color to their pretensions, the Germantowners are getting up a grand match of town ball, to take place on the afternoon of Thanksgiving day, at the corner of Queen street and plank road. The Marion and Honey Run Ball Clubs, of Germantown, are the contestants. Each club will consist of twenty practical players. The National Band is engaged for the occasion, and should the weather prove favorable, many ladies will probably be present. The match will be interesting. First ball to be given at 1 &frac12; o&rsquo;clock. Umpires and a referee have been appointed, and there will doubtless be a good time among the lovers of this invigorating sport."</p>
<p>[North American and United States Gazette (Philadelphia), November 21, 1859]</p>
<p>Taken from protoball article, "What was town ball?"</p>
<p>For more on town ball in Philadelphia and vicinity (Germantown is today a part of Philadelphia), see Richard Hershberger article in "Base Ball" and on ourgame.mlblogs.com. Hershberger adds the Balsch and Charter Oak TBCs of Germantown to the Honey Run and Marion.&nbsp;</p>
<p>For an early town ball game in Germantown, see the New York Clipper, Sept. 19, 1857, a nine-a-side game in which Keyser's side outscored Schaeffer's 99-78.</p>
|Sources=<p>Richard Hershberger article at ourgame.mlblogs.com</p>
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Reviewed=Yes
}}