1866.11

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California Clubs Hold Conventions, View Championship Games

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Tags Championship Games
City/State/Country: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"In 1866 . . . about a half dozen California baseball clubs sent representatives to first Pacific Base Ball Convention in san Francisco.  This was primarily a San Francisco affair; only one team, the Live Oaks from Oakland, came from outside the city. This gathering of baseball tribes sought to standardize rules and organize a local championship."

A second SF convention was held the following year, and "twenty-five clubs from as far away as San Jose attended the meeting.  One account claims that one hundred clubs" attended.     

Sources

P. Zingg and M. Medeiros, Runs, Hits, and an Era: The Pacific Coast League, 1903-1958 (University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 1994), page 2.  Cited in Kevin Nelson, The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball (California Historical Society Press, San Francisco, 2004), page 12.

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Is there an indication of what standardization was needed, and whether rules were discussed or adopted that wee at variance with New York rules?

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Can we determine what original sources Zingg and Medeiros used?

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