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Text | “Nicholas E. Young, later a president of the National League, was a cricketer from a town in upstate New York who played is favorite sport in the army near White Oak Church, Virginia, in the early spring of 1863. In that year, he switched his allegiance to baseball after the 27th New York Regiment organized a club.” Kirsch, Baseball in Blue and Gray (Princeton U, 2003), page 37. Kirsch does not give the original source. From online sources we do learn that Young was born in Amsterdam NY, was picked for an all-upstate NY cricket team to play an all-NYC team in 1858, and that he joined the 32nd NY Regiment. The history of 27th NY Regiment, which sprang from the general area of Binghamton, does not mention ballplaying. Zoss and Bowman’s Diamonds in the Rough says that the 32nd had a cricket team and that Young played on it [p. 81]. A copy of the letter was made from the Giamatti Center “Origins” folder at Cooperstown in June 2009. |
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