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- Judge's Spring + (<p>According to http://nashvillehistory.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html, Judge's Spring (or McNairy's Spring), was located at approximately 7th Ave. and Jackson St. in Nashville.</p>)
- Brilliant Stars Club of Elizabeth + (<p>According to the New Brunswick Daily Fredonian of 9/17/1869 - this was a "colored" club</p>)
- 1860.42 + (<p>According to the WSOT article, the Excelsior lineup included Creighton as pitching and third batter, Brainerd at 2B, and Leggett as catcher. Mr. Welling of the Knickerbockers served as umpire.</p>)
- Banana Ball + (<p>According to this article, "banana ball" debuted in 2021:</p> <p>https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/introducing-banana-ball-the-savannah-bananas-attempt-to-change-baseball/</p>)
- 1854.13 + (<p>Actually, Mr. Calthrop may have come along about 95 years too late to make that claim: see #[[1760s.1]] above.</p>)
- 1827.2 + (<p>Adams' use of a frame-within-a-fr … <p>Adams' use of a frame-within-a-frame device is interesting to baseball history buffs, but the authenticity of the recollected game is hard to judge in a work of fiction. Mumford's lot was in fact an early Rochester ballplaying venue, and Thurlow Weed (see entry #[[1825c.1]]) wrote of club play in that period. Priscilla Astifan has been looking into Adams' expertise on early Rochester baseball. See #[[1828c.3]] for another reference to Adams' interest in baseball about a decade before the modern game evolved in New York City.</p>re the modern game evolved in New York City.</p>)
- Club of Hamburg, Germany + (<p>Additional sources for same report, with some detail. The Maine club involved reported as the Gorham Base Ball Club.</p>)
- 1855.16 + (<p>Adelman bases his analysis on the … <p>Adelman bases his analysis on the premise that base ball's predecessor games were played mainly be juveniles. This premise can be questioned. Even discounting play by university youths up to 1845, adult play in the military and elsewhere was hardly rare before the Gothams and Knickerbockers formed in New York around 1840, as many entries in this chronology indicate. </p>dicate. </p>)
- 1853c.15 + (<p>Adelman does not mention that until 1854 there were few other known clubs for the KBBC to challenge to match games.</p> <p> </p>)
- 1862.9 + (<p>Admission had occasionally also been charged for "benefit" games for charities or to honor prominent players.</p>)
- Pythian Club of Philadelphia v Mutual Club of Washington on 18 June 1871 + (<p>African American Clubs</p>)
- Club of Columbus + (<p>African American ball club.</p>)
- Club of Madison + (<p>African American ball clubs.</p>)
- Unique Club of Brooklyn v Excelsior Club of Philadelphia on 3 October 1867 + (<p>African American base ball.</p>)
- Young Americas Club of Manhattan v Golden Stars Club of Manhattan in September 1871 + (<p>African American base ball.</p>)
- Club of Smyrna + (<p>African American club.</p>)
- Colored Union Club of Williamsburg + (<p>African American club.</p>)
- Pythian Club of Philadelphia v Mutual Club of Washington on 2 September 1871 + (<p>African American club.</p>)
- In Albany in 1882 + (<p>African American clubs.</p>)
- Unexpected Club of Rochester + (<p>African-American team. Frederick Douglass' son Charles played for them.</p>)
- Bachelors Club of Albany + (<p>African-American team</p>)